The original Gears of War made a virtue of linearity.
Playing the opening prison-breakout sequence of Gears of War for the first time back in 2007, my initial thoughts were that they'd overcooked the recoil—the aiming reticule was bobbing all over the place. Then I realised that my modestly specced off-the-shelf PC might be struggling, and the images on the screen were playing catch-up. Resolution and graphics settings adjusted, I hopped back into the action. It looked like cack but, nevertheless, a love affair was born.
Having left his squad to search for his father following the cataclysmic events of Emergence Day, our tightly coiled spring of a hero Marcus Fenix is four years into a 40-stretch he got for desertion. Then he's 'pardoned' by hard-ass Colonel Victor Hoffman and released to help fight the Locust Horde. I'm guessing that even before he was sent down, Marcus was a somewhat feral, uncommunicative type; clearly, here is a man who never had a puppy when he was a child.
Gears of War breaks up the corridor shooting with spectacular setpieces. Despite knowing all the visual and sound cues off by heart, I still feel genuinely tense when dealing with the blind but acute-of-hearing berserkers. The first encounter is a wonderfully contrived sequence in the Tomb of the Unknowns where your progress is barred by a series of three consecutive doors and a berserker who has just burst through a wall.
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