Was this a good game? I sometimes hear it had really fun gameplay

It was very fun, the online was heavily weighted toward the host because the netcode was so bad.

Basically, it had gratuitous violence and 14 year old me loved it a lot.
The series managed to look worse with each sequel, I don't know how you fuck up blood, but they started rendering blood with the engine instead of splattering it on the camera.

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Gears 1 was a groundbreaking game. People say it's "generic" now, but that's because people having been copying it since its release. The only part of Gears 1 that felt bad at release is its online system, it was server browser only which felt dated after Halo 2's matchmaking.

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It's a great game OP, I played it for the first time in November (well the ultimate edition on windows 10) and beat it in one day.

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I'd take server browser or matchmaking any day.

Replaying it, I was surprised at how many genuinely fun little gimmicks a lot of the fights had. Really varied polished game

The first trilogy is pretty fun. The campaign in the second was ridiculously awesome. I didn't play much of 3rd.

Yeah it's fun. The MP was best on 3rd though, don't listen to glitchfaggots and netcoding apologists of 1 and 2.