Gears of War 3

Date played: October 4th
Platform: Xbox 360
Time played: 90 minutes
Session fun rating: 9/10

I finished Gears of War 3.  I think this was the best third person shooter I've ever played honestly...  Everything came together perfectly, my only gripe being the part with zombie enemies which was thankfully pretty short.

The last chapters of the game has the Gears rushing the Locust that occupy Azura, complete with air support, Silverbacks and lots and lots of big dudes with giant guns and chainsaws.  There was a cool scene where the Gears had to defend an area while Jack (He's back, fixed and helpful!) opened the door to some elevators.  Then, the Queen.

While trying to reach the top of a very luxurious building, the Locust Queen decided to crash the party with her giant beetle mount.  To my surprise, I didn't have to shoot her, at least not yet.  All we had to do was run away from her while climbing stairs.  The kicker is that her mount has a destructive and amazing looking attack where it basically screams fiery light and burns everything in it's path.  I had to take cover while running away.  Needless to say, it was fucking awesome.  We then cut down some support cables and dropped a giant ornament on her and the mount.  She was gone for now but would come back.

The Gears then rescued Adam Fenix, killing dozens of Locust along the way.  I won't spoil any details but let's just say that Adam has been hiding some very important details....  We then headed out to activate a weapon Fenix senior had built that would destroy all Lambent and hurt the Locust very badly.

Queen Myrrah was a worthy and formidable opponent

This was the scene of the last fight of the game where the Queen comes back and tries to stop Adam from using the weapon.  We had to shoot the mount in the face, then shoot it multiple times with the Hammer of Dawn while hiding from the fire screaming, protecting the weapon and fighting off more motherfucking Locust!  It was awesome, it was kind of difficult and most importantly, it was fun.

Adam manages to fire the weapon after we killed the Queen and wiped out all Lambent and many Locust.  Without spoiling everything, Marcus ends up with the rest of the Gears on a beach where there is a heartfelt scene with Anya.  The best part of the ending?  Marcus took off his doo-rag and I saw his cute little fluffy black hair.