Games: GEARS OF WAR 3 Beta

This week I've been playing the Gears of War 3 Beta on the Xbox 360 and so far it's coming along great for being only in beta :D

Gears of War 3 takes place in a fictional universe at the final chapter of the war between the COGs and Locust but soon matters begin to become worsen as a new infection turns Locust into a threatening new race called Lambent.

The beta doesn't offer any campaign what's so ever and only a multiplayer online game service for all beta participants to play for a month's worth of action-packed, face smashing content!

The game types that are currently offered to play are Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill and Capture the Leader, and the 3 maps that can be chosen from are Mercy, "a large open-air map that should remind veterans of a heavily-tweaked and re-themed Gridlock"; Old Town, "a weird medieval village set-up filled with chickens and wooden barrels to hunker down behind"; Overpass, a "nicely balanced map with a fancy - and largely cosmetic - gimmick that sees it flooding and falling apart as the battle progresses"; and Trenches, which "throws players out into the dusty Locust badlands in a kind of mining-settlement-meets-construction-site".[1] 

It also offers a new ranking system where the player can unlock ribbons, medals, skins, characters by completing requirements that it asks, for example, in order to unlock Cole's football costume as a playable character, one must play at least 70 matches in the beta no matter what type, and in order to unlock it in retail when it comes out you must play 10 matches as that costume.


The beta so far has been really fun as its on the 2nd week since it started, those who managed to get a copy of Bulletstorm: Epic Edition got an early invitation to the beta a week earlier then those who pre-ordered Gears of War 3 like I did, its only going to get better so if you haven't starting playing your missing out! Hurry and join the fun, kick some major ass and make players cry, because this is only the beginning!