Platform: Xbox 360
Time played: 130 minutes
Session fun rating: 9/10
The Queen crashed the party in Char and attacked the residents while we were bringing the fuel back in the cable car. We had to go help Dizzy and Griffin that were pinned down. Once we saved them, Griffin was an ass, didn't give us fuel and flipped Marcus the bird. That's Ice-T all right!
We then headed to the ship yards to find us a submarine. We had to find a rotor which I moved with another one of those mechanical exoskeletons. Then we found fuel nearby and moved it to the submarine. There was a lot of fighting and two new enemy types. One is a giant worm that crawls on the ground and has a weak point in it's tail. It's cool fighting them because it looses "parts" of it's tail as we shot it. Then the other enemy is an armored type that requires explosives to kill. At first, I was shooting them with the boomshot and the torque bow but I soon figured out the best way to beat them was to wait for an opening, run up to them and stick a frag grenade on them. It's risky but it saves a lot of ammo.
The submarine was now functional and ready to go! I was surprised to see I would man a turret on the submarine on our way to Azura, the super secret facility where Adam Fenix was holed up. The sub ride was one of the most awe-inspiring scenes I've played in a video game, simply because of the beautiful graphics. Really, the 360 seems to pull power out of it's ass, at 6 years old, it shouldn't be able to do this! The lighting effects were simply stunning. Oh yeah, I also shot a bunch of sea creatures and we fled from a gigantic Leviathan type creature.
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| Azura brings back some of the doom and gloom atmosphere from the first two games |
At last, we reached Azura! We talked to Marcus's dad on the radio and he helped us by opening doors and giving us directions. Our objective was to disable the Maelstrom, a huge electromagnetic field, to allow the other Gears to join us with their helicopters and boats and such. We fought hordes of Locust, sometimes using a Silverback. We then found the generator for the Maelstrom and disabled it. It caused a massive explosion and turned the sky from gloomy to "sunny beachy". The other Gears joined us and we are ready to storm the complex and rescue Adam Fenix!
I'm close to the ending, I can't wait to see how this story wraps up!
