luckily my new pc is ready for gears, but its harder to get my hands on the game in germany... its too bloody to get an age-rating and so the xbox version wasnt released officially in germany - same for the pc version. bothers me a lot couldnt download the MP mappacks in germany for the xbox luckily i found ONE shop in germany whos got the german version of the game from austria
yeah i think it was overrated. its multiplayer is really fun if your good, but if your just playing it at your friends house or something you get sick of being killed by the pros, like me.
because here in germany, games which dont get an age-rating can be "banned". banned means that it can only be sold under the table at a shop, may not be visible open to all (you have to ask teh shop if they got it... mostly they dont have the games then) and there may be no commercials or anything promoting the games... Gears, Condemned, Crackdown and another game were not released by MS because they would be banned because of the missing age-rating. and thats what they call "youth protection" ( dont know the exact english word hehe). I hate this kind of stuff... but thats how it goes here in germany. doom 3 resurrection of evil was never released here either though the original DOOM 3 was... and often the games are censored, which means missing blood - or green blood! - and no gore effects. in Soldier of Fortune II, they even replaced the skins of the characters with some sort of a metal-plate like texture - to make em look like robots! luckily there is still a place called eBay US if you want to get an US-Version of a game hehe. (btw, there are no articles in ebay Germany which are rated 18+ because they dont check the age...)
