Mon, Mar 18, 2013 | 09:07 GMT
Gears of War: Judgment reviews – People CAN Fly
Gears of Wars: Judgments reviews have begun trickling in, and although we only have a few scores so far, initial results are favourable.

Although the prequel is pulling in some very high scores, it’s also been saddled with a crop of sevens. Criticism seems to be focused on the fact that the new entry doesn’t do much to advance the franchise – “more of the same” is either a positive or negative, depending on your point of view. Multiplayer is apparently having some birthing troubles; GameInformer has chosen to delay its review until it can conduct more live testing.
The full list of scores so far is below; we’ll update as more information comes in.
- IGN – 9.2/10
- Destructoid – 9/10
- GodisaGeek – 9/10
- Eurogamer Italy – 9/10
- XboxLife.dk – 9/10
- Joystiq – 4.5/5
- Xbox360Achievements – 8.9/10
- NZ Gamers – 8.8/10
- CheatCodeCentral – 4.8/5
- InsideGamingDaily – 8.5/10
- Strategy Informer – 8.5/10
- GameTrailers – 81/100
- OXM UK 8/10
- OXM US – 8/10
- Eurogamer – 8/10
- Gamesradar – 4/5
- The Escapist – 4/5
- El33tOnline – 4/5
- InsideGames – 79/100
- NewGameNetwork – 77/100
- Digital Trends – 7/10
- The Sixth Axis – 7/10
- VentureBeat – 7/10
- GameReactor – 7/10
- Eurogamer Sweden – 7/10
- VideoGamer – 7/10
- GiantBomb – 3/5
- DigitalSpy – 3/5
- Rev3Games – 3/5
- Kotaku – “not yet”
- Gamestalker.nl – “ok”
- Gamespot – pending
Dave also has some thoughts to share on the prequel shooter, if you’d like a personal account. Gears of War: Judgment was co-developed by People Can Fly and Epic Games, exclusively for Xbox 360. It arrives on March 19 in the US and Australia, and March 22 in the Uk and Europe.


30 comments
#1
jamesmilner2
18/03/13, 4:32 am
New Game Network – 77/100
Videogamer – 7/10
#2
Muetsch
18/03/13, 4:44 am
insidegames.ch 79/100 – http://www.insidegames.ch/gears-of-war-judgment-overrun-modus-im-test-review/
#3
ahmadkb
18/03/13, 4:50 am
Game Informer -pending
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/03/17/gears-judgment-note.aspx
#4
mreko3230
18/03/13, 4:58 am
Funny, the main point of the IGN review was how different the game felt from others Gears Of War games and how it didn’t feel like “more of the same”. That’s why reviews are interesting, but rarely the reason I do or don’t buy a game.
#5
woe
18/03/13, 4:59 am
Cheat Code Central 4.8/5
http://www.cheatcc.com/xbox360/rev/gearsofwarjudgmentreview2.html#.UUaedhdA2dc
Eurogamer Italy 9/10
http://www.eurogamer.it/articles/2013-03-18-videogiochi-gears-of-war-judgment-review-recensione_7
#6
woe
18/03/13, 5:00 am
The lack of multiplayer maps is whats bringing down the score.
#7
OliverKO
18/03/13, 5:20 am
Hi there, you can add El33tonline’s review if you like – 4/5:
http://www.el33tonline.com/past_article/2013/3/18/gears_of_war_judgment_review/
Thanks!
#8
G1GAHURTZ
18/03/13, 5:21 am
Cool! I’m happy about the average reviews, because this game was tempting me to start gaming again.
At least I shouldn’t feel like I’m missing something, now…
#9
mreko3230
18/03/13, 5:24 am
REV3GAMES (Adam Sessler) review 3/5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh8ZXpKrNZs
#10
PrideDK
18/03/13, 5:28 am
Xboxlife.dk (danish) – 9,0/10
http://www.xboxlife.dk/review/756/gears-of-war-judgment.html
#11
delarian
18/03/13, 5:37 am
Gamestalker.nl (Dutch) – “OK”
http://www.gamestalker.nl/gears-of-war-judgement-review/
#12
CaptainCoincoin
18/03/13, 6:00 am
Gamers.fr (French) – 7/10
http://www.gamers.fr/tests/xbox-360/gears-of-war-judgment
#13
Cyrano De Ballsack
18/03/13, 6:24 am
Lazygamer.net – 7.9
http://www.lazygamer.net/xbox-360/gears-of-war-judgment-review-halvo-goodbye/
#14
KAP
18/03/13, 7:30 am
IGN: “God of war ascension felt the same. 7.8.”
IGN: “Gears of war judgement felt different. 9.2.”
Smfh. I saw this coming miles away.
#15
Joe Anderson
18/03/13, 7:37 am
Here’s our review
http://www.shopto.net/news/42202/Gears-of-War-Judgement-Review – ShopToNews – No Score
Ta
#16
mreko3230
18/03/13, 7:42 am
@14 I feel like both are good scores. I mean, they basically gave God of War an 8 and Gears of War a 9. Plus, that’s the problem with treating a magazine, website or blog as a single entity. Those games were reviewed by two separate people with different view points. I kind of wish more sites would have more than one review from a single staff member, but that’s just kind of the way they do things.
#17
Toby Lee - Eurogamer.se
18/03/13, 7:42 am
Eurogamer Sweden: 7/10
The game mechanics are even better than the third game, but it still lacks quality in the story and this time even in the AI. Play this with your friends or get ready for gears of frustration.
http://www.eurogamer.se/articles/2013-03-18-recension-gears-of-war-judgment
#18
JebusF
18/03/13, 8:30 am
GodisaGeek.com: 9/10
http://www.godisageek.com/2013/03/gears-war-judgment-review/
Thanks.
#19
Gajda
18/03/13, 9:10 am
Hej PrideDK!
#20
Mike W
18/03/13, 9:49 am
Yea I just read giantbomb’s review (3 out of 5) it’s more of the same and the story is not that great.
@4
Yea it sure is interesting, different reviewers, different opinions. IGN nowadays is a joke.
#21
Mike W
18/03/13, 10:08 am
@6
Yea that and a weak story, it seems.
#22
Dave Cook
18/03/13, 10:25 am
@21 very weak. Everything else is fine, if a bit over-familiar. I likened it to a ‘best-of’ collection of ideas and mechanics in my article on the homepage now.
#23
djhsecondnature
18/03/13, 10:30 am
One Hit Pixel – ‘B+’
http://onehitpixel.com/review/gears-of-war-judgment
#24
Mike W
18/03/13, 10:40 am
@22
Yea I kind of figured that. Gears of War 3′s story was pretty weak as well. Oh well, I’ll wait a couple of weeks, before getting this one.
#25
karma
18/03/13, 10:47 am
Tried 3 times to like the Gears games, but they just flat out don’t appeal to me. I very much doubt this fourth one will change that, even though its supposed to be the most different, it still looks and sounds the same. Probably just going to ignore this entirely, cos i’m way more interested in BioShock Infinite, right now. I’d rather play more games like Dishonored and Fallout: NV at the mo. Guess i’m a bit jaded on the old straight up shooting.
#26
Marcel
18/03/13, 12:54 pm
Here is an another review for gears of war: judgment
http://www.insidegames.ch/review/gears-of-war-judgment-test-review/
score 80/100
#27
Da Man
18/03/13, 1:22 pm
I really don’t like Gears of War.
It ‘s just another cover based shooter, if only SONY® was in charge of producing it now that would be an artistic masterpiece for mature hardcore gamers.
It’s just so slow and violent, God of War or Quantum Theory are easily better.
#28
thisisxbox
18/03/13, 2:09 pm
Here’s thisisxbox review: <Gears of War: Judgment Review 9.5/10
Lack of maps is the only reason I didn’t give this a 10, but the campaign is amazing. The Smart Spawn, the DeClassify Missions, the new control layout – it’s really, really good to play.
I also like the new MP Modes because it (maybe upsets the hardcore Gears players) but it brings the game in line with Halo and CoD. Free for All, Domination is excellent, but yeah – lack of King of the Hill, Horde anything that signature to Gears has been re-written!
I loved it.
#29
LisaViolet
18/03/13, 2:22 pm
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http://goo.gl/RLoAe
#30
Nick0602
18/03/13, 5:08 pm
Spaziogames.it – 8/10