We’re back from our brief hiatus with the testosterone soaked conclusion to the Gears of War trilogy. Gears 3 mixes things up by introducing new characters, new baddies, and a post-apocalypse tone, which is odd because Gears World has always been a bit of a hell-scape.

After the previous game’s finale only served to make things worse, Marcus and the gang struggle to survive against the new threat of the Lambent, and the ever present Locust horde. To further complicate this three-way war, Marcus’s past is returning to haunt him. Also, Dom has a beard.

Gears 3 is really uneven tonally, and a bit of a mess in general. But it’s still a pretty good time. If nothing else, there is loads of explosions!