# Gears of War: Judgment for PC: an Xbox 360 static recompilation

> Gears of War: Judgment for PC translates the Xbox 360 game's PowerPC program to C++ ahead of time and compiles it as a native Windows application on ReXGlue. The port adds keyboard and mouse input, graphics options and save support; the author reports that early single-player campaign play works.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/gears-judgement-recomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/gears-judgement-recomp/blob/e56c475a75b1b703aee0e3422ffc18a27a05f66a/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gears-of-war-judgment-pc-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/gears-of-war-judgment-pc-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/gears-of-war-judgment-pc-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, with a DirectX 12 graphics card.
- **Prerequisites:** The user's retail Xbox 360 game files, including default.xex and GearGame; building requires ReXGlue SDK 0.10.0.9-dev.
- **Limits:** Multiplayer and online features are unsupported; testing has mainly covered the early campaign.
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause license for repository source.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/gears-judgement-recomp/blob/e56c475a75b1b703aee0e3422ffc18a27a05f66a/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/OverkillLabs3/gears-judgement-recomp/blob/e56c475a75b1b703aee0e3422ffc18a27a05f66a/BUILDING.md>

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