Review: Gears 3 RAAM's Shadow DLC

G'day everybody!

Arguably the most anticipated DLC of the year, General RAAM makes a return to the Gears francise, along with some new and old faces, in the second DLC from Epic entitled RAAM's Shadow.

***WARNING! SPOILERS AHEAD***

The game sets you on E-Day, the day that Iilima City fell under Locust control. You play as a member of Zeta-Six, Michael Barrak, alongside Alica Valera and two old faces, Tai Keliso and Minh Young Kim. While evacuating the last civilians out of the city, you and your squad are attacked by a surge of Lucust, leading you to aid other trapped squads and civillians. All the while, flashbacks change allow you to control RAAM, as he storms through the city, killing all the stand in his way with either his Kryll, a stab of his sword or even placing a large hand atop the victims head, dangling him helplessly and slicing his head off, throwing it away in disgust.

Gameplay is in classic Gears style, with a few twists. While you still have all the weaponry of Gears 3 available to you (The exception being The Digger, Mounted Retro Lancer Turrets ect) your health is fairly the same back in the original Gears game. Be fairly careful with your charging into battle, as it may just your last!

Playing as RAAM is a complete gamechanger, a brand new experience to the series. The controls are slightly like a Boomer, the only difference being the giant, jaggered knife and the use of Kryll to explode any COG into a giant red mist, the mush of the bodies on the ground.

The musical score is quite excellent, both modern style Gears while still having a classic style of musical uproar of the original title. Sound effects are quite gruesome with audio being quite excellent, especially the voice acting being quite sublime.

This is definitely a DLC not to miss, especially for fans of the series. Even for fans who aren't much into the Campaign, along with more Weapon skins and the new characters for Multiplayer, this DLC can please all tastes for any person with any preference.

Out of 10, I gave RAAM's Shadow an 9/10

Good points: Play as RAAM? Im IN!

                    More backstory of the COG

                    Return of TAI!

Bad points:   Not enough RAAM playtime...

                    Season Pass Download issues

RAAM's Shadow is out now for 1200 Microsoft Points (Season Pass get it free!)