
If there would be a list of the bloodiest and grimiest and yourasonofabitchiest games in human gaming history, Gears of War would be among the top entries. Yes, indeed, how could one forget that unequalled atmosphere composed of blood spurts, alien gore and verbal harshness? But, wait! Gears of War 2 won’t be like that anymore?!... No! Be reasonable, Epic Games! You can’t do this to us!! Noooo!...
Well, actually, they’re almost doing that to us. The sequel of nasty GOW will come with a parental control thingy which will magically replace blood with sparks and mean words with some sort of grunting or gurgling or some other f*****g s**t. Oh, thank you so much, Magical Pink Parental Fairy!
Yes. Well. Anyway... at least, this is just optional; although, knowing parents, the optional is not f******’ optional at all. (Hey! I was just gonna say “friggin’”! Sheeeesh...)
The interesting thing is that, while in co-op mode, you can play on Hardcore whilst your noobish partner can dabble only in Casual mode (as we are told by CVG.) So, this way, you can play with your girlfriend. Or yourself. (Sorry, I just couldn’t resist that evil comment.)
In conclusion, it seems that casual gaming has really impressed the non-casual game makers and they’re trying to find an adequate response. Well, what can I say? Gamers live in a world dictated by the shifts of marketing tectonic plates and they must weather it as best they can. After all, they can always swear out loud.




