User blog comment:Drkdragonz66/Modern Warfare 3 DLC - Coming in January/@comment-92.85.176.159-20111221185056/@comment-3967954-20111221220942

Judging by the Singleplayer and the Horde mainly, actually. Barely touched the Multiplayer (it's never been Gear's strong point) but I played through the Singleplayer in both Co-Op mode and Solo and found it an awful experience in both. The new Lambent enemies just feel cheap and overpowered, the atmosphere isn't as lively as Gears 2, and the storyline just about ruined it for me. They didn't put much effort into the story, IMO, which is a shame because the storyline has always been Gear's strong point. And I couldn't give a damn about the new characters, either. Now, onto the Horde. It's alright. It was the only thing that kept me playing. But I couldn't help but feel that it just wasn't as enjoyable as Gears 2's Horde, and I think this is down to the crappy new maps. The new map design is terrible, and it makes it harder to survive in Horde. I liked Gears 2's Horde mode because there where plenty of camping spots, and some maps even had interactive features to help you. In Gears 3 there's far less. You have to buy the good stuff, which is understandable, but the really good stuff is far too expensive and gets destroyed every boss round. There's far less interaction, too, if any at all. The map design just feels sloppy and built for Multiplayer, with no Horde features in mind at all. It's not as if the Multiplayer is even good... And finally, onto the Private Matches. Decent, if not enjoyable, but very repetetive. There's only so much I can take of shooting dumb AI in the face with a shotgun or sniper rifle. Again, the map design doesn't help, each arena is bland, dull and uninspiring. Gears 2's maps where genuinely interesting, fun and well laid-out. The new weapons suck too, so I'm always grounded to using the same old Lancer or Gnasher rather than the newer guns, which is a shame because they're quite interesting to use, it's just that they're simply not as good as the old ones. Well, that's my opinion of Gears 3, I guess in hindsight I wrote far, far too much but what's done is done.