I only made it about halfway through Act 4 in Gears of War tonight because the difficulty level is really starting to annoy me. It took me numerous deaths and a lot of time just to make it through the first handful of fights of the act, thanks to cheap instant deaths from snipers and torque bows from out of nowhere, and sparser checkpoints that made me redo multiple fights in a row just to get back to the spot where I kept dying.

There isn’t really anything interesting or different so far this act, it’s just a lot harder.

Of course, I did choose the Hardcore level, but the description at the difficulty selection screen made it sound more like it was a ‘medium’ level.