


It looked like cack but, nevertheless, a love affair was born. Resolution and graphics settings adjusted, I hopped back into the action.

Then I realised that my modestly spec’d, off-the-shelf PC might be struggling, and that the images on the screen were playing catch-up. Playing the opening, prison-breakout sequence of Gears of War for the first time back in 2007, my initial thoughts were that they’d overcooked the recoil-the aiming reticule was bobbing all over the place.
