It's always up for debate which is the current holder of the first-person shooter crown between Call of Duty, Battlefield or Halo, yet the reigning heavyweight champion of third-person combat is Gears of War in all its forms bar the spin-off-sequel Judgment. As Sergeant Marcus Fenix - voiced by Futurama's Bender voice-actor John DiMaggio, Gears 2 remains the most replayable in the series in terms of a campaign that provides the best value, with enough character-moments to carry you into subsequent titles if you decide to invest in the first or final part of the trilogy. Pioneering a 'stop n' pop' cover system that sees you hunkering down behind everything from slabs of concrete to husks of burnt-out cars across the dilapidated cityscapes of the planet you're fighting to take back, Gears is a macho-man shooter that depresses the balls-out pedal all the way through the floor. With barely a moment for respite Epic Games created an action experience that encourages you to dump entire clips of hefty machine gun ammo into enemy Locust chests, all the while trading Swarzenegger-level one-liners with your team of four as you head up the front-lines of the alien rebellion.
