it looks overcontrasted.... and too bright in some parts the render kinda looks stuck-on-thar .. needs blending maybe. and its flat-ish. sry not digginit
looks pretty sweet to me, just yea, marcus looks kinda pasted, text looks nice, and the explosion looks good to me, kinda like a bloom effect. 8/10 IMO
Nice concept I will say.. But text is too distracting. Could just do with the "Gears of War", rest has to go. And I notice the the text in this one is too similar with the two in your sig space. Seems you use rectangles near your text in aall three, which kinda gets old when you see it used more than once. Work with various styling of text. Add some definition or detailing into the flames in the BG. Parts of it looks like a yellow blob. So you can fix that up by adding in some flame textures and playing with the modes or opacity, or brushing in some red/orange and smudging it around and playing with that mode as well.
Thanks for the tips miss pink . I redid it, and I forgot to sharpen the sig before. I was really tired last night. I did that at 3 am.