I bought Gears of War 3 about a month ago. I hadn't played GOW or GOW2, but it came highly recommended, so I decided to pick it up. I have yet to play very much of the campaign, but I got sucked into the Horde Mode pretty quickly.
Horde mode is a survival type mode in which you fight waves upon waves of enemies. Each wave is a little harder than the last.
This mode consists of 50 waves of enemies, with basically 5 sections consisting of 9 waves then a boss wave. After you beat the first boss (wave 10) the enemies get a boost of 2x health. After the second boss (wave 20) they get a boost of 2x accuracy, in addition to the 2x health. After the third boss (wave 30 (get the pattern?)) your party begins to take 2x damage, in addition to the other handicaps. After the fourth boss, all three of those handicaps bump up to 2.5x.
Once you start the game, you have to decide where to build your command post. The great thing about this game is that there are different fortifications that you can build, and later upgrade. At first you can only build caltrops (little spikes that slow enemies down and hurt them as they pass through), but eventually you can build auto-sentries, manned turrets, decoys, and finally buy the coveted Silverback (which we've found to not be worth the amount of money you spend on it; it's better to buy other fortifications and leave the Silverback alone). You can eventually upgrade all of these fortifications to be stronger, more accurate, etc.
After working on "normal" difficulty for a couple weeks, me and 3 others finally beat wave 50. We started on Hardcore difficulty tonight, but only made it to wave 10 after about 2 hours of play. We'll continue trying tomorrow. I hope to get another player, as you can have a total of five people playing cooperatively on this mode.
- Woody
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