As I wrote few months ago, I really like first person shooters, because sometimes I like to relax and don’t think about anything else. And I’m not only casual player and sometimes I must play something “bigger”. And that’s why I’m writing about it - my idea is to show casual gamers, that there are many good big games too!

Well, yesterday I found myself a new favourite in this genre - about the midnight I finished PC version of Gears of war. OK, it’s third person shooter, but who cares;oD It’s almost the same…

It took me about three, four days. A little short maybe (for gamers with no time perfect), but I have to say, that I’ve never played such an intensive game! It didn’t let me stop even for a second. The game is very well designed and it has exactly the “one more checkpoint pleeease”effect. Most times I don’t really like the checkpoint system, but here it worked OK, I think. Maybe because there are many places, where’s nothing to do and then a big gunfight. And between these big ones there’s always a checkpoint, so you don’t need to worry about losing your progress. Difficulty is greatly balanced. You can even choose the “casual” difficulty. I played the hardcore one and I got stuck only in the last fight. And trust me - there were MANY nasty words all around:oD

The main thing - gunfights - are absolutelly perfect. In many games you can play Rambo style - stay in the middle of a street and shoot at everything what’s alive. But not here - if you don’t cover yourself well, there’s a big probability, that you’ll see “Game over” sign pretty soon. That’s why you can find many cover places in every level and you must still run between them and look for the best one. Enemies are pretty inteligent and of course they can cooperate very well. Fortunatelly you’ve got team-mates too. Unfortenatelly sometimes they act dumb, but you can take a friend and play cooperate play. I didn’t found anyone to play with me yet, but I’m really looking forward to play this game again with some friend of mine.

Of course graphics is fantastic. What to say more about it? I’m sure you’ve seen some videos and I think it’ll tell you more, then thousands of words. And the other fantastic thing is music - I really hope that I can find it somewhere in MP3 and listen to it in my iPod. Actually I can’t remember any game where I was listening to soundtrack and I really liked it in few last months.

So if you want to experience some action in your living room (I don’t think, that there are many differences between PC and original Xbox360 version) , try Gears of war and I’m sure, you’ll be amazed as I am.