I know Gears 1 isn’t exactly new but I’m not one to jump into a franchise half way through. OK I did with Halo but I would have preferred to have played the previous games before sticking in Halo 3. With Gears I’ve doing it my way, 1 comes first and here are my first impressions of it.

I’m a down to earth sorta guy and thats how I prefer my gaming, so figting aliens isn’t exactly my ideal game but I’ll give anything a go. A few checkpoints into Gears probably isn’t enough to give it a justified review so I’ll just stick to what I know or have seen so far.

The aiming was the first thing I noticed. Its fast and frantic. Other games I’ve played recently including GTA and CoD both have a slow scrolling type aiming control where it takes you a while to go from one side of the screen to the next, Gears is quite the opposite and while I am totally no good with the faster paced aiming at the minute it does add to the franticness of trying to fight off aliens or whatever they are.

The graphics are by no means awesome but from an older game I wouldn’t expect total HD in my face sorta stuff.

I like a story and so far I have been given very little, I’ve been taken out of a cell so many days after something day. Whether I skipped the intro by getting button happy I’m not sure but as long as the story is filled in as we go a long that will be good enough for me.

So, I guess Gears 1 could lead to the purchase of Gears 2. We’ll have to see how it goes??.