I found Gears’ gameplay to be good and somewhat addictive, but not perfect and sometimes I found the levels to be a bit too repetitive. So unfortunately I won’t be giving my originality award to Crescent Moon Games this time, sorry. While not exactly the same, I couldnt help but see some little similarities with 1337 Game Design’s Dark Nebula series, which is another fantastic franchise in the same genre. This game requires a good deal of control and patience, so if you are a little sloppy with your hands well…you have being advised! Choose carefully young Padawans, because Gears is an easy to play, hard to master kind of game. Players also have their choice of difficulty levels: “Easy”, “Normal”, “Hard” or “Brutal”. Playing with the tilt controls is more difficult, so you receive an extra bonus in your score if you choose to play the game with this setup. The game supports two different control schemes, swipe, which offers an adjustable speed for your gaming ability, or tilt, which can easily be calibrated with a touch of a button when you start the game. Each world has their own theme and nine levels to play through, unlocking each of them as you advance through the game. Gears is divided into three worlds: “The brass menagerie”, “Rivers of magma” and “The cavern of omens”. Mercifully there are several save points during your journey on each level, so if you fall you will respawn at the previous automatic save point that you reached. Your overall score for each level is calculated using any remaining time as ‘time bonuses’. Did I forget to mention you have a time limit for this? Well don’t be afraid, some levels have time limit others do not, simply because some of them are very hard. While doing all of this, you also must collect the tokens left in often precarious positions throughout each level. In your quest, you’ll have to move around thin ledges, jump over moving gears, avoid electric fences, you name it. You must control a little ball and move it around beautiful 3D sceneries with precision and patience as you will find many obstacles in your way, preventing you from reaching the goal. I was fortunate enough to get an early copy of the game for review, so I’ve had plenty of time to test the waters in this interesting and well executed game before today’s official release. Gears, a 3D ball rolling platformer, is the latest release from the California-based developer Crescent Moon Games whose previous efforts include Ravensword and Rimelands.
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