Gears of War

[Chris]

http://files.xboxic.com/xbox-360/gears-of-war/thumbs/banner.png

I want it more than I want to live.
Is that possible?


What about you?

[Cage]

Dito. Next to dead rising(see my thread;)), this is the other title responsible for me spending a load of money on a console back in december. I'm counting the days like it's christmas and I'm a little boy again, hoping Santa will bring me the new He-Man Action Figure \o/

[Curry]

Gears :9~

Definitely got me psyched :)

[Nino]

I think I want Dead Rising even more then I want Gears. But still, looks like it's going to be an awesome game.

[MrMoen]

I dont know if I want it more than I want you to live. But I sure want this game

[TRIGGER M4N]

This game has a lot of hype to live up to, I really hope it can.

[Shiverzz]

Any speculations on a possible release date?

I'm guessing somewhere near the PS3 launch in november, though I hope sooner cause I'm counting the days as well...

[Nino]

Any speculations on a possible release date?

I'm guessing somewhere near the PS3 launch in november, though I hope sooner cause I'm counting the days as well...
Emergence day ;)

[TRIGGER M4N]

For the UK, I have a pretty reliable guess-timate.


Released: 03 November 2006
Category: Third Person Shooter
Age: 18 Years and above
Publisher: Microsoft
Time Until Release:123 Days Till Release

www.gameplay.co.uk

[Curry]

Play.com also mentions Nov. 3rd after several changes over the last few months.

[Rival24]

Play.com also mentions Nov. 3rd after several changes over the last few months.
Whooptiedoo, Play.com is as reliable as Ken Kutaragi

[Shiverzz]

Emergence day ;)
Uuhm yeah, whenever that may be :?

Guess I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the hype (since I truly believe Cliffy B and the guys can live up to it)

Go Cliffy Go !!\o/

[Curry]

Whooptiedoo, Play.com is as reliable as Ken KutaragiIf Ken says "Xbox 360 rocks" he'd be confirming the same thing from a lot of other locations too, hence making it slightly more reliable perhaps :+

As for Gears, that voice command and lip sync stuff sounds like it'll rock the game. Gimme :9~

[TRIGGER M4N]

What is this suprise announcement that Epic are hyping?

[Cage]

What is this suprise announcement that Epic are hyping?
I heard from a friend of a friend whos cousin is related to a friend of CliffyB's grandma that the 'BIG' anouncement will be that all the footage they've showed us is actually a pre-rendered movie and the actual game will look like a combination of My Little Pony and Care Bears with a pinch of Duke Nukem..

[TRIGGER M4N]

The f--k drug you on?

[geekinabox]

... the actual game will look like a combination of My Little Pony and Care Bears with a pinch of Duke Nukem ...

So we get to chainsaw ponies and Care Bears? Where do I send my money?

[Curry]

So we get to chainsaw ponies and Care Bears? Where do I send my money?
/me preorders too.

[Cage]

@Curry. Does my rumor qualify for entry in the "join the club" contest? :+

[Messiah]

The latest screenshots i saw, did get me wet :+

[Curry]

@Curry. Does my rumor qualify for entry in the "join the club" contest? :+Close, but not quite :+

[TRIGGER M4N]

Oh deary me, I just had this dark shivver feeling that Gears of War will be another Brute Force.:'(

[The M.A.R.T.]

WANT IT... NEED IT... CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT IT...

Cliffy Biffy B. You're Killing me

For real if Emergence day sucks, I will produce my own chainsaw gun and come hunting you down. Hiding won't help I'll track you down. And next week better be a BIG announcement too. Now if you don't react on my post I guess you're working your butt off to get it done properly and if you do react I guess you'll be anouncing GoW will be Gold next week ;)

[TRIGGER M4N]

http://files.xboxic.com/xbox-360/gears-of-war/zomgmarkusfenixonlive2.jpg

My guess: Achievement list revealed (gp)

[Cage]

I've got a message too.. From C@reBe@r. He said the same kind of thing about not able to talk right now. Could it be?? :D

[Yonix]

My guess? It has to be something regarding certain dates, maybe it's the release date for the actual game or the date for the Gears of War demo to show up on Xbox Live Marketplace.

I know Mark Rein clearly said that the ''BIG Announcement'' has nothing to do with any release dates, but it's a fact that when someone from the game developing industry makes a statement, they usually mean the opposite.
So, that's why I think it has something to do with a release date of Gears of War or the demo.

Oh, and I was looking at one of the sentences of the messages from Marcus Felix: ''We're working on a code.''

The only thing we Gamers can do is wait, and guess. :)

[Shiverzz]

And yet again....a Collector's Edition will probably be released as well \o/ (although EPIC hasn't made an official ("BIG" ;)) announcement of it afaik....).

According to EBgames (http://www.ebgames.com/product.asp?product%5Fid=200184) the CE will include the following:
- An exclusive hard-bound art book titled “Destroyed Beauty”.
- Lots of exclusive behind-the-scenes content, including an inside look at the making of Gears of War.

Come on Mr.Reign.....stop the hurting !!

[Nineset]

My prediction for the record...
A "BIG" announcment...Big...Gigantic..Gigantour...gears playable at gigantour...that would be my guess.

[kidkit]

Code = Cool Online Demo Experience?

HAR. More than half the time these big announcments are more frustrating that enjoyable. We'll get stressed up about Customizable boots or something.

[The M.A.R.T.]

People that got both the GoW names on their friendlist will receive a free copy of the game is my guess... How pissed will the rest be

[TRIGGER M4N]

Some very nice guy has cleared up everything up untill right of now. This is for people that have no idea what is going on. Please, no credit goes to me, I DID NOT WRITE THIS, I JUST CLEARED IT UP FOR CLARIFICATION!

Yesterday at 4:41 PM, Gears of War official forums member El Hatton made a thread titled "Anyone Else Get A Gears-Releated XBL Message?"

In this thread he claimed to have received an Xbox Live message from 'MFenix' (Marcus Fenix is the name of the main character of Gears of War) he had no gamerscore, was in the underground zone, and his motto was 'Locusts Suck!' the message stated:

We need your help.Can't talk now. Don't know who to trust. Will send more tommorow.

As a side note both Mark Rein and CliffyB have posted in the MFenix thread.
Cliffyb said: Not really sure what this is about... :P
Mark said: I got other reports of this same thing happening today. I think you should wait until tomorrow and see if this MFenix character, whoever it is, sends you another post. If he does please come back here and let us know what he says as soon as possible.

Last night, 'MFenix' changed his motto to 'Stand By ...' and kept signing on and off, and when he was on, he'd appear offline...

'MFenix' finally stop signing on and off at about 1:30 a.m.

This Morning, many people woke up to another message sent by MFenix at about 11:17 p.m. Said Message follows:

Thank you for your help. Don't trust messages from anyone but myself and Dom. He's using the covert name of LocustHordeH8r. They are everywhere, and even classified information sent here could be compromised. We're working on a code. More tommorow.

Following this message many people sent 'LocustHordeH8r' a friend request, but has yet to respond, although he has been spotted online for short amounts of time.

People also realized that 'MFenix' had changed his motto, to 'Transmitting...'

'LocustHordeH8's motto was conspicous as well, said motto follows 'There is no I in team'

At about 2:00 PM (7/27) 'LocustHordeH8r' starting accepting people friend requests.

Around 2:20 PM (7/27) 'MFenix' has changed his motto yet again, said motto follows: Next Orders 072806

Today (7/27) in an mIRC chat with Mark Rein, he denied that Epic was involved with this 'MFenix' character. And if it was EPIC, he didn't know about it.

Today (7/27) at 5:31 PM, I [person who wrote this] received a message from 'MFenix'. Said message follows:

Relyt9 and El Hatton - You are two that I can trust. Thank you for keeping order and informing the rest of the members of our squads, along with other inhabitants. Do not trust posers. Dom and I will only communicate through this medium. More tommorow.

Nobody else received this message, except me, and I'm thinking El Hatton got one too.

At about 5:00 PM (7/27) 'LocustHordeH8r's motto changed to 'Squad is full!'.

At 11:00 PM 'LocustHordeH8r' sent out a message to everyone on his friends list. Said message follows: Ok squad...I need to set the record straight. The imposter who is using my alias on your crude message board is simply that... a poser. If you lemmings can fall for that crap, maybe you aren't worthy to be a party of this squad. Stay focused!

That is the current situation up until now (11:45 PM 7/27/06)

Expect more soon...

[kidkit]

and their forum is down today (http://gearsforums.epicgames.com/)

Bastards :P

[The M.A.R.T.]

Well, maybe their campaign was'nt that Viral after all ;)

What if it all was fake and they thought it was going waaaaaayyyy offline?

And what a joke it would be that the BIG announcement would be that the forum would be offline for some days haha

[kidkit]

Hehe, well the forum is up again but slow as hell... I'll see if there is any new useful info. Might still be too early.

[TRIGGER M4N]

There is, this is the message.

Dom will reach out to you today. Remember, only friends of the COG can be trusted -- and only using this communcation medium. We will need to spread this information more broadly. But only when the time is right.

[Yonix]

There is, this is the message.

[Dom will reach out to you today. Remember, only friends of the COG can be trusted -- and only using this communcation medium. We will need to spread this information more broadly. But only when the time is right.

If I observe that, almost cryptic sentence, could it be that....perhaps...there will be a demo? Today - Tomorrow - Next week?
Since I do not know how else Dom would, and could, reach out to you, or us.

Let's just hope! _o_

* Deep thought:

And maybe the Forum was down so MS could prepare there servers for the release of the Demo, and the huge amounts of downloads it will get?

[TRIGGER M4N]

Dom has also got a gamertag.

[TRIGGER M4N]

Another message from Dom:

Those filthy scumbags will pay for what they've done. We're working on the code and hope to deliver it next week to all squad members. It will be a challenge to crack. Are you up for it?

[Yonix]

Another message from Dom:

Those filthy scumbags will pay for what they've done. We're working on the code and hope to deliver it next week to all squad members. It will be a challenge to crack. Are you up for it?

So, the link between the BIG Announcement and the recent Xbox Live Messages is clearly becomming vissible.

Mark Rein said that he has nothing to do with the messages being send to Gamers, but as I said before:''When someone denies something, they usually confirm it''.

But until next week, keep us updated TRIGGER M4N ;)

[The M.A.R.T.]

So any BIG new announcements yet?

I hope it really is a BIG announcement and not a BIG dissapointment. Curious what it will be though, as they state over and over again it will not be what everyone thinks it is.

Anyone with some updates on anything, more strange messages on XBL flying around or in fora around somewhere?

[TRIGGER M4N]

None yet.

[The M.A.R.T.]

Still nothing? ;)

I am getting restless by now, man Gears of War is killing me
I need to kill some Locusts damn need it fast

[Zerodisorder]

And the announcement is... the people at epic have been messing with you via xbox live messaging...

[xboxguy]

And the announcement is... the people at epic have been messing with you via xbox live messaging...
haha...like "i love bees 2"...i had RMORROW on my friends list for about a week...booted his dumb ass. i hate ARG's. that one had no prizes or anything either. who's to say this GOW ARG isn't fake?

[The M.A.R.T.]

haha...like "i love bees 2"...i had RMORROW on my friends list for about a week...booted his dumb ass. i hate ARG's. that one had no prizes or anything either. who's to say this GOW ARG isn't fake?

Well I guess this thing isn't fake because: on their forum were some guys playing the whole story and got people to believe they were Marcus or Dom. Then others forum members believed that story. The next thing that happened was a reaction through XBL and the fake Marcus and Tom got kicked off the forum.

If it ALL was fake, they wouldn't kill that part, because buzz is buzz. People talking about your game and visiting your forum is good. So I guess their viral campaign got a bit disturbed at that point.

So analyzed the other way around, the XBL story seems to be real, originated @ Epic or a specialized company in creating buzz from viral campaigns

[Curry]

I'm still expecting a summer release date..... (which would be September 20th at latest ;) )

[The M.A.R.T.]

I'm still expecting a summer release date..... (which would be September 20th at latest ;) )

With their viral marketing campaign just started it's clear that they won't hold the big buzz going untill november. They are going to come up with a sort of 'secret code' to crack for all people that were lucky enough to get accepted by MFenix and LocustHordeH8r on XBL.

When someone cracks the code (first or everyone) my bet isn't even a downloadable demo on XBL for them or for all of us, my bet is that the announcement will be that GoW went Gold and the winners will get the game for free.

A sort of competition like that cannot be any longer then a couple of weeks, after that people start finding it boring and the buzz will start to get lame. So I will do even a more daring prediction: I would say next week the code to crack, the week after it maybe a sort of follow up to get the hype a bit more or maybe already the announcing of GoW gone gold and latest in three weeks maximum. So I guess it'll all be done at the beginning of september. Maybe the shops hit a bit later with copies to sell indeed Curry

[Curry]

Big Q is ofcourse how the viral stuff ties in with this week's BIG announcement :) I'm really curious as to what that'll turn out to be :)

Some peepz at Sony are going to cry if it's something like "we're code complete and now off to certification" ;)

[Xhale89]

i just cant wait for gears of war. i was amazed when they head cliffy b on there present the game an play it i was shocked on how great it looked. i just cant wait till i have my own copy :P

[Curry]

Only 3 more months and a few days away O+

[Rival24]

Dead Rising in the meantime!

[The M.A.R.T.]

Actually this BIG announcement was pretty dull. I hope that they really, really fast will get some amazing ingame video footage on MP exclusive, not seen before on internet to make it up to me :)

Damn still have to wait to November. One good thing. I will be laughing my ass off when I see demopods in the shops, 360 running Gears of War and some Forza 2 and beside it the PSZero with Genji 2 on it with it's giant enemy crab

[Zerodisorder]

For me the big announcement wasnt that good lol, YAY I get to wait longer than I thought for it\o/

[Xhale89]

ya u said like around ur b-day right lol

[Zerodisorder]

well my bday is in october and thats when i thought it was comin but now its coming in nov. so ill jsut get a preorder lol

[Xhale89]

lol ya i am gonna try that

[TRIGGER M4N]

http://www.madfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gow_head_pop.gif


New screenshots at Xboxyde, look now!

[VerbalKint27]

Bit laggy isn't it... :)

[The M.A.R.T.]

http://www.madfish.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gow_head_pop.gif


New screenshots at Xboxyde, look now!


Xboxic started as a newssite where news was brought as one of the first on the net, but overtime it has been getting slower and slower on news as far as I noticed. Guys, what's up overtime? Spending too much time with babes for the game conventions?

First it got me over to here, but now it's almost driven me away because other newssites bring it almost directly... Get it up guys I like this site too much to leave for another

AND OMG those Gears of War screens... And has anyone even read the subline on Xboxyde?

"Update: 720p versions and extra images added. The images are obviously captured with an analog HD capture system, so the fine details are a bit lost."

Imagine that. Fine details will be better then this, the game will look better even is that possible. Pfew

[Nino]

The M.A.R.T.; I agree that we've been a bit slow over the last couple of weeks but this isn't a good example. Screenshots were never our priority and it's a fscking weekend so it's not easy to get someone to make time to post. But all the holidays are coming to an end and I've started posting more actively as you might've noticed. I sincerely hope the rest follows my example but that's out of my control.

[VerbalKint27]

You also have to remember that we do this in our free-time.

I'm not available during the day, otherwise i'd be posting double what I do now. My offline life takes priorty as does my job, hence i tend to miss most of the juicy newsposts during the day, and until Curry decides he wants to pay me £20,000 year, thats the way it'll stay... :p

We have been a bit slower recently, but the point is, Curry needs to pay me £20,000 a year... :D

[Chris]

Go look at Gamerandy and how much they update their site.

5 times a week? at Max? And they also have the luxury of posting ALL gaming news, not just Xbox news. IGN is even slower than that. (on the Xbox 360 area of the site)

We sometimes pull 10-15 articles a day. But yes, like clit said..we do it in our free time.

[TRIGGER M4N]

I think that THE T.W.A.T, oops, I mean, THE M.A.R.T is angry at the fact he can't copy and paste all the info onto his blog or onto news4gamers.com and get credit ;)

Ok, back ontopic now?

[Chris]

I think that THE T.W.A.T, oops, I mean, THE M.A.R.T is angry at the fact he can't copy and paste all the info onto his blog or onto news4gamers.com and get credit ;)

Ok, back ontopic now?

Oh no he didn't!!!!!111! :X

[Zerodisorder]

I think you guys do a fine job of updating new regulary. and it can't be expected that you guys devote all your time to bring news.

[The M.A.R.T.]

I think that THE T.W.A.T, oops, I mean, THE M.A.R.T is angry at the fact he can't copy and paste all the info onto his blog or onto news4gamers.com and get credit ;)

Ok, back ontopic now?

Well well well. I guess I hit a weak point if you came out like this? It just surprised me it wasn't here already. Furthermore, ofcourse I see posters are doing it in their free-time which isn't full work. But still, many posters in their free time should be able to cover it quickly it's not nescessary to be online with 20 of them at the same time I guess.

For the rest nothing more then to say this is a great site. I just noticed lately things weren't going as fast as they did in the beginning that's all. Ofcourse there are slower sites, with days to wait.

And well maybe it would be a thing for Xboxic to have pending stories to watch as with News4gamers, because articles that are waiting for approval are still watchable directly after they are posted. That takes away that problem. And Trigger Man, I don't really care for credits, I do think it's nice that newsites collect news from everywhere to have some central points to get all the news. Besides Xboxic, there is more like Xboxyde to get the pics and movie stuff especially etc.

But well I see GoW is online now on Xboxic also and more stuff, so I'll take a read!

I hope to see more of Gears on X06 and TGS but that will be one thing thats 100% sure. Will Curry be on both to cover the story? I liked the Down Under stories back then

[TRIGGER M4N]

It was the fact you changed the subject quite badly, and I used the ;) smiley, I was kinda messing round.

[Curry]

But still, many posters in their free time should be able to cover it quickly it's not nescessary to be online with 20 of them at the same time I guess.
Which is why we got 2 new posters at the end of the summer ;)
For the rest nothing more then to say this is a great site. I just noticed lately things weren't going as fast as they did in the beginning that's all. Ofcourse there are slower sites, with days to wait.
Thanks :) We've just been having some trouble in the end of the summer holidays with getting enough poster coverage, and I myself being too busy with other stuff for a while to post frequently. Should be remedied again now ;)
And well maybe it would be a thing for Xboxic to have pending stories to watch as with News4gamers, because articles that are waiting for approval are still watchable directly after they are posted.
We don't employ such a system that requires every written article to get full approval, which is exactly why we are so fast :)
I hope to see more of Gears on X06 and TGS but that will be one thing thats 100% sure. Will Curry be on both to cover the story? I liked the Down Under stories back then
Regrettably our X06 invitation got messed up, and TGS is way outside our reach for the time being.

[Zerodisorder]

I think its good that you guys have soem newsposters in North America, because different times zones means the free time is at different times.

[Lotus 111s]

I dont think i've seen this trailer (no.4) before damn htis game is looking good.

http://dl.qj.net/Gears-of-War-Official-Trailer-4-Game-Trailers-Xbox-360-Videos-Trailers/pg/12/fid/10148/catid/212

[Rival24]

Yeah that one looks great but it's a very early trailer of the game and it has some framedrops. If I'm not mistaken you can get a more recent and also fancy trailer from the Marketplace.

[westie420uk]

Got someone claiming to have an xtreme copy of gears of war!
Is he talking crap, cos he wants a tenner for it.

[Rival24]

Let him take a picture of it ;) 10 bucks isn't much for Gears of War :P

fake...

[TRIGGER M4N]

I just heard from an amzingly reliable source, that GoW will be 10+ hours long. Is this enough?

[Rival24]

Well that's singleplayer and if it's 10 great hours, yeah that's long enough.

[HellFire]

you guys got questions for Cliffy B btw? I have an interview with him @ X06. :)

[Rival24]

Ask him why he's such a homo :+

[TRIGGER M4N]

you guys got questions for Cliffy B btw? I have an interview with him @ X06. :)

Say TRIGGER M4N said "will there be DLC?"

[Cage]

Ask him if he likes the smurfs and which one is his favorite...

[Nino]

Say TRIGGER M4N said "will there be DLC?"

There won't, Microsoft and Epic both hate money.

[TRIGGER M4N]

Touché.

[Rival24]

A better question what be what kind of DLC they'll be releasing.

[geekinabox]

Anything about multiplayer:

-- how many maps ?
-- what gametypes ?
-- any potential to (eventually) go beyond 8 players in one match to ultimately facilitate larger epic clan battles ?
-- how will matchmaking/lobby system work (like Halo2, like GRAW, or what??)

[kidkit]

Tell him to grow the f*ck up and date women his own age :)

But that's not a question, so are there any demo plans for Gears? Of course not..

Actually.. I'd like to hear is point of view on DVD9 media size and if he believes it might be a limiting factor on the 360 two or three years down the road.

[Phantom]

Hmmmm. I'm still utterly failing to feel any thrill about GoW and yet everybody else seems to be wetting their pants in excitement over the arrival of this game.

It is a FPS, isn't it? Am I missing something?

[Chris]

Third Person.

[HellFire]

I asked about DLC, it will be there. Lots of versus maps I believe.

Cliffy ain't gay, he's just dressed hip and trendy! ;)

Cliffy prefers Jazz above the Smurfs I think. ;) Even got my Jazz 1 cd signed.

Date women his own age? I think he had a girlfriend at X06 working there with him. Pretty nice girl, bit chubby but good looking nonetheless.

And yes Gears of War rocks! Played it for about 1 hour now in total. Damn addicticting!!!! :D

post #100!

Too bad I missed your post btw, kidkit. Would loved to hear his opinion about DVD9.

[kidkit]

I asked about DLC, it will be there. Lots of versus maps I believe.

Cliffy ain't gay, he's just dressed hip and trendy! ;)

Cliffy prefers Jazz above the Smurfs I think. ;) Even got my Jazz 1 cd signed.

Date women his own age? I think he had a girlfriend at X06 working there with him. Pretty nice girl, bit chubby but good looking nonetheless.

And yes Gears of War rocks! Played it for about 1 hour now in total. Damn addicticting!!!! :D

post #100!

Too bad I missed your post btw, kidkit. Would loved to hear his opinion about DVD9.

hehe.. the 'own' age slander comment was based on one of his previous girlfriends (19, he's 30 or so) that was mentioned in a behind the scenes 'making of' trailer during e3 I believe.

[Zerodisorder]

Yea I thought I had heard that also.

[xboxguy]

I asked about DLC, it will be there. Lots of versus maps I believe.

Cliffy ain't gay, he's just dressed hip and trendy! ;)

Cliffy prefers Jazz above the Smurfs I think. ;) Even got my Jazz 1 cd signed.

Date women his own age? I think he had a girlfriend at X06 working there with him. Pretty nice girl, bit chubby but good looking nonetheless.

And yes Gears of War rocks! Played it for about 1 hour now in total. Damn addicticting!!!! :D

post #100!

Too bad I missed your post btw, kidkit. Would loved to hear his opinion about DVD9.

it says 99.

i hope the game is addicting, the only games i am planning on buying over the next year are halo 3, GOW, and lost planet.

[kidkit]

it says 99.

i hope the game is addicting, the only games i am planning on buying over the next year are halo 3, GOW, and lost planet.

Do you like Co-Op modes? It sounds like Epic has made some very logical and great solutions for co-op. You can now invite someone to join you in Story Mode In Realtime, your friend will just take over one of your teamates _o_ . Also, you can unlock the Story Mode Achievements in co-op together.

If not 'ground breaking'...

It looks fun
It looks polished
It looks graphically amazing
and editor impressions thus far have been solid

It's a tough month of waiting now isnt it :)

[Zerodisorder]

I think Gears looks great, but to be honest, I'm more excited to get my hands on Assassin's Creed.

[HellFire]

Someone delled it I think

Well, I want GOW!!

[Parm]

I'm really looking forward to Gears of War, it looks like it'll be the most solid FPS on the 360 to date. It does look visually stunning, I can't wait to fire it up on the plasma. I'll have my bucket ready to catch the drool. :)

[TRIGGER M4N]

FPS?! We looking at the same games?

[kidkit]

yep but with different levels of brain activity :)

[Nino]

Helly, Luke Smith and others bitched about the stop-and-pop thingie not working as intuitive as it should, they said sometimes the game didn't respond as you press A to take cover and sometimes you had to break away from cover to actually shoot. Did you notice any of these problems at all?

[Parm]

FPS?! We looking at the same games?
Gah! ok ok :P

I always class FPS and third person games the same, you run around with an arsenal of weapons fragging people. It's like classing racing games differently for having a bonnet view and a behind the car view. 8)7

[kidkit]

Gah! ok ok :P

I always class FPS and third person games the same, you run around with an arsenal of weapons fragging people. It's like classing racing games differently for having a bonnet view and a behind the car view. 8)7

Nice point but i don't exactly agree. Moving the camera in a car game does not affect how you drive the car (maybe how well you drive the car). But you can't have decent dodge moves, shooting round corners etc in a FPS. FPS games definetly have the advantage in accurate shooting though.

Might as well call them by their proper names O-)

[Lotus 111s]

Don't know if this is new or not but just bumped into this quite interesting video at Gamevideos.com

http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/6688

It's a interview with Cliffy B 12mins long.

[Chris]

http://www.aeropause.com/archives/2nd-place.jpg

[Fanappy]

lol ur pictures are always classic!!!! i want this game soooooooooo bad its almost wrong

[Nino]

:D :D :D

[Rival24]

Daddy doesn't look scared.

[MrMoen]

That is so cool :D

[Lotus 111s]

Gears of War cost Microsoft 1 Billion dollars!. Bumped into this bit of lighted hearted news at Eurogamer.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=69050

Most expensive game development ever :D ???? you have to laugh.

[Fanappy]

yeah well im glad they put the money 2 it so we get the most pretty game possible

[Lotus 111s]

Better hope the game lives upto the expectations at that price. I would love to see the 256mb picture to see the difference.

[Chris]

Gears of War cost Microsoft 1 Billion dollars!. Bumped into this bit of lighted hearted news at Eurogamer.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=69050

Most expensive game development ever :D ???? you have to laugh.

This was going to be a news article but then my editor informed me that it's already been known since the Xbox Insider book was released.

[Lotus 111s]

Xbox Insider book? sounds incredibly dull.

[Curry]

Xbox Insider book? sounds incredibly dull.

If we're to believe Nino: it is :+

[Balloonenstein]

Just got back from the Gears of War event in Chapel Hill, NC. Will post a review of the multiplayer tomorrow when I sober up. Curse Epic and their open bar.

[Thugboy4]

U lucky as hell bro they never sent me the information.

[TRIGGER M4N]

Quick, impressions?

[Curry]

Well I'm kinda sober already, so the wait is on you now man :P

[Balloonenstein]

Wow, where to begin?

First off, I was informed by one of the developers at the event that we were playing an earlier version of the game. This is due to the fact that they only wanted us playing the multiplayer, and this version did not have the single player game on the disc,

I guess I'll start with the easy part, the graphics. They're simply amazing. The screens we've all seen, and the new video on Xbox Live are pretty much exactly how it looks. The water effects in this game are the best that I've ever seen. The sheer level of gore is awesome. There are few things as satisfying as gibbing someone in High Definition. I was also pleased with the range and complexity of gib animations. The most common cause is the shotgun. Most of the time it just turns them into basketball sized hunks, but in one instance I definately shot a guy in the waist and watched his torso separate from his legs. The chainsaw usually leaves people in two distinct pieces, accurate to how you were cutting them. The sniper rifle also has some gore potential, I was watching my friend play as he got shot in the neck and his head was knocked clean off his shoulders. Theres also a lot of little graphical touches that really put it over the top. Things like being able to see the heat coming off of the barrel of your assualt rifle after you fire a full clip really help to immerse you into the game.

Now the multiplayer, I'll start off by noting that I loved Halo 2. If it wasn't for the rampancy of modding and lag issues with playing it on a 360, I would still be playing it daily. Since it's release, it's been the basis for how I've judged all other console shooters. I now have a new game to judge all others by. The multiplayer was evrything that I was hoping it would be. With that said I think I'm going to break up each aspect of the game into separate paragraphs.

Controls
The controls for the game felt very smooth, and I never found myself wanting to remap any of the buttons. It's your standard shooter with the RT firing your weapon. The LT shoulders your weapon and without shouldering you do not get a targeting reticle. The RB is your reload button, and the importance of the reload minigame became apparent immediately. It can very easily mean the difference between life and death. Holding the LB superimposes a circle on your screen for each of your living teamates, and the what direction they are in. I think the Y button allows you to look at your closest teamate, but I'm not sure I never really used it. The X button is your generic action button, covering everything from picking up weapons and ammo, to reviving teamates and laying down a strangely satisfying curb stomp. The B button is your melee button. The A button is responsible for taking cover as well as sprinting. For those of you that have played Kill Switch, I found the cover system to be very similar, that is to say very good. It takes a few tries to get used to the nuances of using it, but when you get it down its very nice. You also have to be careful what you take cover behind, as I found that a couch isn't very good cover as it shattered around me under fire. The Dpad is used to switch between the 4 weapons that you're currently carrying.

Gameplay
The gameplay is much more about teamwork than a lot of other shooters. In Halo it was perfectly feasible that you could go off on your own and do well even if your ran into more than one opponent. This game is not the case, the vast majority of times that I saw someone go off on their own, they ended up getting ruined by a couple of guys, and at best managing to take down one of them before they died. The games seems like its really about the close in combat, with very few weapons being accurate at long range. The sniper rifle is the exception to this, but with its difficulty of use I don't think its going to make a huge difference. I'll go into more detail in the weapons breakdown. The revival/execution style of death in this game is really cool. Seeing people mashing the A button while waiting for a teamate to revive them was a common sight. Unfortunately, so was your teamate running up to you, looking at you and then running away. Bastards. The only gametype we got to play was a kind of team deathmatch, similar to that of the original SOCOM. It basically works by round, you play each round until all the members of one team are dead, there is no respawn. There are also time limits to each round. The spectator mode is really cool, with the option of following a teamate or cycling through a series of preset "security" cameras around the map. One of the odd things I noticed about the game is a kind of paradox in gameplay. You can take a lot of punishment before going down, but the game still seems to play very quickly. The only time things get really deadly is when you're fighting close up and people are getting sawed in half or gibbed from the shotgun. All in all, the multiplayer was fantastic, and it was good enough to make me change the shipping on my preorder from 2Day to overnight.

Weapons
You can only hold 4 weapoins at a time, 2 full sized weapons, a pistol, and greandes. Every map w started with the same 4 weapons, the first being the assualt rifle. Its a good generic weapon, being effective at medium range, and an excellent weapons for laying down cover fire. Add a chainsaw on the end for close range action and you've got the whole package. Now, I should mention that the chainsaw is not the end all be all in close range combat. You have to be careful when you charge someone because if you take enough damage, you'll stagger and usually get taken down. The other full sized weapon you start with is the shotgun, my personal favorite. It's basically your usual shotgun, sucky at range, devastating up close. I never used a pistol so I can't comment on their use. I have some issues with the grenades. I'm still not sure whether they're supposed to cause damage or just generate smoke. As of now I'm thinking smoke, but this could be due to not knowing how to use them. The only other weapon that I can comment on in length is the sniper rifle, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to get pissed when they read this. The sniper rifle is REALLY hard to use, kind of like a real sniper rifle. It only has a one round clip, and the relod time ranges from 2 seconds at the least to 5 seconds at the most. Combine this with the fact that it takes 2-3 shots to the chest to bring someone down and it really ups the difficulty of use. The sniper rifle is capable of a one shot kill, but it has to be a head shot. I saw a few other weapons being used but didn't get to use them extensively. The Nuge was one of the funniest weapons I saw, because there were a few times where people were running around with a dynamite arrow sticking in them before they exploded. There was a grenade launcher that was nifty, but the one weapon that really caught my eye was this gun called something to the effect of "The Hammer of God". It's basically a targeting laser for an orbital weapons satellite. You point it at the ground, then 4 laser beams close in on the spot and anything that was there is no longer a problem. It's a lot like SOL from Akira for those of you that have seen it.

Flaws
While there weren't many issues with the game, there were a few that I felt needed to be addressed. There were some minor networking issues, like having to switch hosts to a different Xbox because another Xbox refused to connect to the host. I wouldn't consider this a problem, but we were on a LAN and I can only see the problem being more detrimental over Live. There were some issues with dead bodies. Sometimes they would disappear immediately, sometimes they would stick around for several rounds. There was one instance I saw where a headless body got stuck on a player's assault rifle and he was carrying around a ragdoll body for a few minutes. A few times I saw players get stuck for no reason. They'd be running and then get stuck in place, not being able to move for the rest of the round. There was also an odd bug where sometimes you would start a round firing your weapon, the only way to make it stop was to tap the right trigger. These were all pretty minor and didn't show up very often, and the developers I talked to assured me that they had been addressed in the final release version.

Thats it, I'm done now. I'll be happy to answer questions to the best of my ability.

[TRIGGER M4N]

Seems a silly question, but if I shot you, and blood sprayed (presuming it does) will it splatter on the wall, if so, for how long.

Really, really nice review, well played.

[Lotus 111s]

Good preview 'review' Ballonenstein, still toooooo many days to wait. :7

[Balloonenstein]

Seems a silly question, but if I shot you, and blood sprayed (presuming it does) will it splatter on the wall, if so, for how long.

Really, really nice review, well played.
I don't remeber seeing any blood splatter on the walls specifically, but I wasn't really looking for it so it could have very well have been there. And yes blood does spray when you hit somone, which is really nice when you're firing from a distance.

[Jasovanooo]

Dont suppose anybody knows wether or not GOW is co-op or not "ala halo"

[TRIGGER M4N]

100% co-op.

[Balloonenstein]

Not to mention you can Co-Op over a split screen or over Live.

[TRIGGER M4N]

Balloon, one last question. You said you liked Halo 2 online (I love it, but don't say Halo too loud in this forum) could GoW possibly be the "Halo 2 online beater" in your opinion.

[Balloonenstein]

Balloon, one last question. You said you liked Halo 2 online (I love it, but don't say Halo too loud in this forum) could GoW possibly be the "Halo 2 online beater" in your opinion.
This is a tough comparison to make since the games do play rather differently. I'm also a little worried about how the game is going to play over Xbox live. With the sheer depth of the game, they need some really good networking code to prevent lag issues and having only played it over LAN I really can't address that. At the purest level, I think Gears is the better game. Theres a lot more to the game, and the cover system and the basic game design make playing with a team a lot more fun than in Halo. You're going to be able to see a lot more tactical play in Gears, making it more like one of the Tom Clancy games like GRAW. Personally, I'm not big fan of those games due to the ease in which you can die. Gears addresses this by making you pretty hard to kill save for a few weapons that require a good bit of skill to use. I think for me, the reason this game surpasses Halo 2 and other console shooters is because it finds the middle ground. You can still execute tactical maneuvers, but theres still some elements of run and gun style games to keep the pace up.

[Fanappy]

Damn good review balloonenstein makes me wanna play it even more!!!

Good work ;)

[xboxguy]

yay

gow

i get 15% off at circuit city!! i have a coupon!!!

[kidkit]

yay

gow

i get 15% off at circuit city!! i have a coupon!!!

That almost puts it in the First Party Game Price Range =] >:)

[Curry]

Great preview man, thanks :)

[Lotus 111s]

Found this preview at Eurogamer today.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=69501

Sounding better the more i read about it.

[Chris]

Four more days. :D

[Lotus 111s]

Four more days. :D

Not for us second class citizens here in Europe we have got to wait 11 days:'(

[Fanappy]

i am expecting a review from you Chris to tide me over those extra 7days :P

[Lotus 111s]

i am expecting a review from you Chris to tide me over those extra 7days :P

Ain't they gona be 7 SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW days. ;(

[Fanappy]

As glovey would say these days will make PES look fast :( and its already been a fairly crappy week for me and were only 2days in :'(

[TwoXist]

Woot Gears. Me think im gonna take a day off

[Fanappy]

10 days 10 hrs ;) i am temping and this should be my last week so i should have next friday off :D

[TwoXist]

10 days 10 hrs ;) i am temping and this should be my last week so i should have next friday off :D


Ten days thats sad :'( Tomorrow Emergence Day for me.

[Fanappy]

yes it is sad and im not looking 4ward 2 the wait but what can i do :P

[TwoXist]

yes it is sad and im not looking 4ward 2 the wait but what can i do :P

Get a US 360 a friend in the US and lots of money for express shipping. Maybe? lol

[Fanappy]

well i did ask my friend but i dont think either of us can afford it hes in college and I've just come back from traveling so a bit poor

[TwoXist]

well i did ask my friend but i dont think either of us can afford it hes in college and I've just come back from traveling so a bit poor

I see

[Chris]

Units might've been shipped already within in this last week or so I heard. So I may be getting my copy tomorrow.

[Lotus 111s]

Jeez i'm going to into 'Don't go near Xboxic' mode for next 11 days all these Americans with GoW are just going make time slow down to something resembling Bullet Time for me.

*sits down and meditates*

Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic

8)7 8)7 8)7 8)7 8)7

[Balloonenstein]

I've already got it lined up so I have nothing to do from when it gets here on Wednesday, and when I have to go to work on Saturday.

[Fanappy]

yeah just laugh it up.... just remeber us poor europeans who have to wait 5 days after you to play it :'(

[Lotus 111s]

First reviews are starting to appear

Teamxbox 9.6/10
http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1247/Gears-of-War/p1/

1Up 10/10
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3154958

Gamespot 9.6/10
http://uk.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/gearsofwar/review.html

[Shiverzz]

I'm kinda relieved to see the game CAN actually live up to it's hype :) .

Way to go Cliffmeister!! \o/

[Lotus 111s]

I'm kinda relieved to see the game CAN actually live up to it's hype :) .

Way to go Cliffmeister!! \o/

Likewise i have had high hopes for this game for along time and was dreading it being a let down. Reading those reviews though is confirming this is going to be a benchmark on the Xbox360.

[vandenbond]

has anyone on this forum actually played it yet???

[Fanappy]

peroxwhysm00 has apparently but it doesnt show on his gamercard and says he's been offline for 16hrs

[TwoXist]

Jeez i'm going to into 'Don't go near Xboxic' mode for next 11 days all these Americans with GoW are just going make time slow down to something resembling Bullet Time for me.

*sits down and meditates*

Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic
Don't go near Xboxic

8)7 8)7 8)7 8)7 8)7


Yes damn us Americans and are Gears of War ways.. Dont worry i wont forget about you people.

[vandenbond]

thw reviews I am reading today are amazing...everywhere...even EGM, which loves the PS3 and the Wii....they say it is frickin' incredible

[max2663]

i dont want it more than i want to live because if i was dead i wouldnt be able to play it

[Curry]

Another Dutch site got their review copy today... I'm praying for ours to arrive tomorrow. Bitching Americans and their early releases.

[xboxguy]

yet another gears of war demo typo? or is it coming?
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j192/trj156/gearsofwardemomagazine.jpg

[Chris]

I brought this up to our editor Nino, he beat me down with his harsh words because he's a Sony fanboy and told me to keep quiet or else he'd take my posting powers away and kick my ass. ;(

[xboxguy]

I brought this up to our editor Nino, he beat me down with his harsh words because he's a Sony fanboy and told me to keep quiet or else he'd take my posting powers away and kick my ass. ;(

what do you mean? when i sent it to the news submit? im confused.

[Chris]

what do you mean? when i sent it to the news submit? im confused.

I found this last week in the last issue of OXM, and he said what I said he said:

I brought this up to our editor Nino, he beat me down with his harsh words because he's a Sony fanboy and told me to keep quiet or else he'd take my posting powers away and kick my ass.

[xboxguy]

I found this last week in the last issue of OXM, and he said what I said he said:

i guess its just a hard knock life.
yeah right - that's news right there.

[Chris]

I found this last week in the last issue of OXM, and he said what I said he said:

I just realized that was one of the most confusing comments I've made ever.

[xboxguy]

I just realized that was one of the most confusing comments I've made ever.

It really was the one you made that was most confusingest.

[Chris]

:+

[xboxguy]

:+

sooo....im about to get this game for $51!!! ahh the wonders of OXM coupons.

i wonder who is fooled by my avatar and thinks this is myspace...

http://www.gamespot.com/features/6161208/index.html?tag=topslot;action;3&om_act=convert&click=topslot

for those who just cant wait for more info!

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/gearsofwar/review.html
REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!1

[Chris]

Many reviews Trj.

Check this (http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/gearsofwar) out. Metacritic gives it an average of 94! (Average of 17 Reviews, 9 of which were 95-100)

[xboxguy]

Many reviews Trj.

Check this (http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/gearsofwar) out. Metacritic gives it an average of 94! (Average of 17 Reviews, 9 of which were 95-100)

oh.8)7
i haven't actually been looking. i should be getting this game sometime this week. it looks awesome although i wont have any time to play it, much like condemned and ghost recon. ive had both since august and neither are beaten. i 've probably played each about 5 or 6 hours since i got them. pretty sad.

[Chris]

If everything goes as planned, I'll be getting mine tomorrow.

[BruNasty]

Viva Elian!!!!!!!!

Patience and the waiting game are all I'm looking forward to. well, at least I got F.E.A.R. to keep my mind off of GoW but I can see many of my friends playing GoW and I just want to reach through Xbox LIVE and strangle them, then cut them in half with my chainsaw gun

[Maximus]

That do sounds friendly :P

I'm still waiting with al my European friends for the release. I do hope that my local gamesstore releases the game as soon as they have their copies of the game. After al my exams and other stuff I need a good relaxation :)

Also the release for Viva Pinata is 12/1 and I also want to play that :P At certain points owning an Xbox360 with too many good games is a bad thing :+

[Fanappy]

being from england is bad when ur fat american "friend "on live is taunting u cos he is playing GoW and ur not :'(

[Lotus 111s]

being from england is bad when ur fat american "friend "on live is taunting u cos he is playing GoW and ur not :'(

Now thats like Chinese water torture.

[Fanappy]

yeah its horrible i hate it i wish they did universal releases would make MS more money 2

and i wouldnt have 2 deal with taunting

[Lotus 111s]

I could maybe understand a few months delay for language reasons or something but 5 Days(or whatever it is) just seems stupid to me whats the point?

[Fanappy]

meh americans are all stupid and need the practice before we destroy them ;)
I'm Joking

[Lotus 111s]

meh americans are all stupid and need the practice before we destroy them ;)
I'm Joking

Never a more truthful statement said. 8)

[toyota4x4]

well this game is awesome. the graphics are great and the gameplay is too. i tried some online play last night and didnt run in to any lag issues... need to practice though cause im not too good at the game online. :+

[The_Glovner]

meh americans are all stupid and need the practice before we destroy them ;)
I'm Joking

I'm not.

They need the extra time to practice pressing the buttons with their big fat burger eating swollen fingers.

[Fanappy]

well this game is awesome. the graphics are great and the gameplay is too. i tried some online play last night and didnt run in to any lag issues... need to practice though cause im not too good at the game online. :+

*cough* proved my point *cough* :+

[vandenbond]

Never a more truthful statement said. 8)

come on now...you have a bunch of Americans who support this site...be nice. We could start talking about your teeth.

[toyota4x4]

there pissed cause were gettin to play it long before they do ;)

[Fanappy]

Yes... Yes i am i have had the special edition on preorder the day it was avaliable which means i am paying £39.99 instead of the dicounted £44.99 for it and i have 2 wait another 8days 9 hours

[The_Glovner]

come on now...you have a bunch of Americans who support this site...be nice. We could start talking about your teeth.

Well you could but I would counteract it by the fact there is nothing wrong with my teeth and every americans has dead meat stuck in them from the last burger they stuffed their fat mouth with.

Anyway, why you wasting time talking to us away and sit on your fat american supersized ass and enjoy GoW.

Bastards.

[Lotus 111s]

come on now...you have a bunch of Americans who support this site...be nice. We could start talking about your teeth.

Don't take things so seriously dude, we are just passing the time until GoW comes out here by having a laugh with a light hearted dig at your country.

[Fanappy]

well most of us are... the scottish dont do just light hearted digs ;)

[Chris]

Don't take things so seriously dude, we are just passing the time until GoW comes out here by having a laugh with a light hearted dig at your country.

Lotus, don't take things so seriously dude, we're just passing the time between Gears of War matches. :P

[JRPC]

So what say you america? Is it really that good?

[Lotus 111s]

Lotus, don't take things so seriously dude, we're just passing the time between Gears of War matches. :P

HmmmmpphhhhGGGRrrrmmmppppphhhhh :D

[Chris]

Haha.

[Fanappy]

u dont have it chris why are u laughing ????

[Chris]

Sure I have it. It's just at the store right now waiting for me to put pants on. :(

[Fanappy]

HmmmmpphhhhGGGRrrrmmmppppphhhhh :D

i agree full heartedly

[Lotus 111s]

Sure I have it. It's just at the store right now waiting for me to put pants on. :(

I wouldn't worry about clothes dude, get your arse down that shop NOW!!!!!!! >:) and report back on the online part btw.

[AugustusBot]

I played the game in HD on my roomates 37" LCD for about 6 hours... and it was an experience - truly able to experience and appreciate every last HD pixel on the screen.

I then moved it to my room and played on a 27" wega for about 2-3 hours... and it was an awesome next gen game.

Oh and I'll beat it on easymode tonight. It only has about a 10 hour story, if that.

But then theres hard / super hard modes for all you euro pros.

oh. and doctor who is awesome. so don't flame me. I <3 teh brits.

[Lotus 111s]

I played the game in HD on my roomates 37" LCD for about 6 hours... and it was an experience - truly able to experience and appreciate every last HD pixel on the screen.

I then moved it to my room and played on a 27" wega for about 2-3 hours... and it was an awesome next gen game.

Oh and I'll beat it on easymode tonight. It only has about a 10 hour story, if that.

But then theres hard / super hard modes for all you euro pros.

oh. and doctor who is awesome. so don't flame me. I <3 teh brits.

From what i've read i think i'll play through on the Hardcore setting, i hate easy games they do my noodle in. I just hope the Insane level lives upto it's name.

[Fanappy]

yeah i read if u do the hardcore level u get both sets of achievements and one of the only ways to complete insane is via co-op fancy some of that Lotus when we get through the game on hardcore

[AugustusBot]

In my defense! ... i started it on the middle difficulty (you're unable to select the hardest initially), but then my roomate kept dying so we restarted it. I saw when i moved from hd to standard tv that when i restarted game from last checkpoint, i could have reupped the difficulty.

that one i'll take the blame for.

I've played World of Warcraft for 2 years. I need to warm up ;).

[Fanappy]

i love the whole tributes to people in the titles of achievements like for 100 kills by the Tourque Bow The Nuge "She's only 17" ;)

I want this game badly

[Lotus 111s]

yeah i read if u do the hardcore level u get both sets of achievements and one of the only ways to complete insane is via co-op fancy some of that Lotus when we get through the game on hardcore

Absolutely, i have NEVER played a game on co-op, i know i know, and i am really looking forward to playing with someone instead of against.

[kobejonez]

Ok so whats the definitive word on GoW? America can you stop playing for long enough to tell us Europeans if its worth the hype, wait, cover charge etc....
In detail. I'm looking mostly at u Chris¬_¬

[Chris]

It's. Fucking. Amazing.

I think I came twice the first time I saw'd a bitch.

[kobejonez]

It's. Fucking. Amazing.

I think I came twice the first time I saw'd a bitch.

Ok tho not detailed I. NOW. WANT. IT. MORE. BTW WTF is a Bitch?

[Chris]

There's an update for Gears of War when you first pop it in, I'm not sure what it fixes.

[kobejonez]

What about the lock on feature, apparently its really annoying.

[AugustusBot]

the 'lock on' feature?

[kobejonez]

the 'lock on' feature?

Well there is one button control and this apparently causes grief, when you want to lock on you take cover and vice versa. BTW for us Europeans their is a video review up at Gametrailers.com, I'll try and youtube it.
Edit:Upping it to YT now will post url when its up.

[Thugboy4]

There's an update for Gears of War when you first pop it in, I'm not sure what it fixes.

Yea i was wondering the same thing.

[Balloonenstein]

I know that they've got the playtesters working til late December ttrying to get all the little bugs they couldn't fix before the release date. This is probably the first in a series of patches

[AugustusBot]

I have no complaints with the lock on system.

Sure, theres been a few times where I go to do a barrel roll and end up locked on a wall, but those small annoyances are worth the gameplay enhancement that attaching to a wall provides.

You notice a huge difference in your performance when comparing the two methods: run up near a wall and hide behind it without attaching, trying to kill enemies in front of you; run up near a wall and hide behind it by attaching, and killing the enemies in front of you.

It feels like you're playing Time Crisis at the arcade, only you get to pick each location to duck behind. Your LT then becomes the pedal, allowing you to attack.

I liked that something so easy to use added so much depth (I already wish Call of Duty 3 had it...). When I read about it the other day I thought, "hah. one button? how will skill be involved when they make it so easy" Ducking behind a wall is the easy part, as it should be, it's the three boomers behind the wall that require skill.

[kobejonez]

Well it was mentioned on the video review just wanted to get some more info from someone else who had played it. What about in MP in a frantic situation? Does it become a problem then?

[quasimoto]

Like with any other game, it just take practice and practice. I came across this issue early on in the first few hours of the game, but after that, it never became an issue with me. I mastered the almighty "A" button! Love the game! I'll see you guys in Europe being curbstomped by me very soon.

[kobejonez]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2z1PkUI6Y heres the YouTube link for y'all don't forget to rate it and feel free to checkout my others vids :)

[AugustusBot]

So I was just chatting w/ a guy here at work... and it turns out if you hold down the A button, you run. Who knew. 8 hours of gaming and I didn't figure out this extremely basic operation.

He claims there were a few annoying times where he was running, and auto attached to a wall.

[xboxguy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw2z1PkUI6Y heres the YouTube link for y'all don't forget to rate it and feel free to checkout my others vids :)

AWESOME. getting it this week! cant wait!!!

[Fanappy]

nice video Kobe i cannot wait till next week :D

Lotus i havent played any co-op since Halo played with my mate on holiday spent most of our time on it and completed the game so yeah looking 4ward 2 some live co-op with a full screen

[Rival24]

Nice vid indeed, too bad my Xbox just died :D

[xboxguy]

Nice vid indeed, too bad my Xbox just died :D

was it chainsawed? or did it die like a bitch?

[Chris]

It sure would be nice to play with those Europeans, I wonder why none of them are on Xbox Live playing Gears of War?...OH wait I remember; they can't yet........... ;)

[kidkit]

It sure would be nice to play with those Europeans, I wonder why none of them are on Xbox Live playing Gears of War?...OH wait I remember; they can't yet........... ;)

What a scum bag thing to say :D
I'm stuck at work but I have it out of the plastic at home! :P

[Chris]

I did notice something sucky, unlike in Halo where you can melee while you're reloading....you can't here. I'm sitting here mashing 'B' to melee while these fuckers are after me, but no...Marcus assbag has to finish reloading so he dies faster.

In Halo, you can melee, and when you're done it finishes reloading by itself. Seems like a stupid thing that you wouldn't care about, but it's a bigger deal than you think.

[Lotus 111s]

Lotus i havent played any co-op since Halo played with my mate on holiday spent most of our time on it and completed the game so yeah looking 4ward 2 some live co-op with a full screen

Cool, just send me a friends request.

[Schalkie]

The question that's keeping me and some mates busy, can or can you not join ranked team matches with a group of your own? And by that I mean both 1 team vs random team and 1 team vs another team of mates. :)

[Curry]

No (http://www.xboxic.com/news/1752).

[Schalkie]

Thanks for the answer know I should've looked through the news section some more. I still just can't get my head around it. How would it allow cheating if you can online select 3 mates on your own damn team and play against another RANDOM team. I must be missing something otherwise microsoft is pretty damn retarded. Well at least we'll still have non ranked online teams. *sigh*

[Fanappy]

I must be missing something otherwise microsoft is pretty damn retarded. Well at least we'll still have non ranked online teams. *sigh*

yeah they are :? would make it a lot more fluid and fair all they need to do is make sure the other team is of a similar rank and no problem

[Schalkie]

Yep if trueskill is possible, how come you won't be able to make a locked team which would have a teamrating.

[Curry]

Thing is that TrueSkill is an individual ranking system. If you are rank 30 out of 40, and bring 2 friends that are rank 0, which 3 opponents would it be fair to bring in? 3 times rank 14? They'd shred you to pieces. Wait for another team of about rank 40 and 2 guys of 0 to come in? That'd take ages probably.

There's more practical problems than you can think of at first.

A separate "ladder" for teams would be an option, but they don't have that. Yet. We'll see what Halo 3 brings in that respect :)

[Fanappy]

Halo will do what ever it wants and MS will agree esp charging $100 for one edition :P i just wanna get my hand on GoW and chainsaw someone in half >:) })

[Chris]

The chainsawing needs some tweaking imo. It gets wonky when you're in close quarters with multiple enemies.

[Fanappy]

i saw an awesome video of the chainsaw yday on gamesradar where 4 ppl in a row were chainsawed it looked incredible i cannot wait. wonky how???

[Chris]

It just isn't consistent 10-15% of the time. One time you'll hold B to rev it up and saw someone in half, the next time you do it it won't catch on. It could (and probably is) just me.

I'll tell you more if it's just the learning curve.

[AugustusBot]

speaking of learning curve, it took me the entire single player game on casual to learn2play.

You know theres this little 'quick reload' system when your weapon is reloading? You have a little slider underneath your ammo, and when you reload, it's like you're playing computer golf: theres a 'sweet spot' to hit, and if you click reload again while in that sweet spot, you reload A LOT quicker. If you hit the even sweeter spot, you get a damage boost.

I also didn't really use run (hold down A) until the last boss. Lol. I guess I'm glad I played on casual first time through.

[Lotus 111s]

Always RTFM, can help immensely. ;)

[AugustusBot]

game manuals are for 10 year olds 8)

[Fanappy]

or when u need some reading material for toilet time ;)

[Rival24]

Reading a manual takes up too much of valuable playtime.

[Chris]

Not if you're shitting. Unless of course you play with your shit.

[Rival24]

Told ya to play with your DS while shitting.. :P

[Fanappy]

and then u really shouldnt be playing computer games cos u may get ideas and go mental with a chainsaw

[Chris]

DS Shitting? Sounds like another first party 'Touch Generation' Nintendo Title. :+

-now style your poop with the new and improved ass poker
-interactive poop at its greatest!

[Lotus 111s]

Useful to have the manual in the toilet, incase you run out of arse paper. :D

[Fanappy]

:( you've sold it 2 me

Bad papercuts if u move 2 quick tho

[AugustusBot]

I used to take the DS in there ... but then i started to think about it...

I was taking a lot more time in the bathroom than usual...
And ... eww... it's not like you can wash off your entire DS.

maybe if you put your ds inside a plastic baggy and played it that way, with protection..

[Fanappy]

ok ur supposed 2 use the paper 2 wipe and play the ds, not the other way round ;)

7 days 6 hours 2 go :P

[Lotus 111s]

7 days 6 hours 2 go :P

Not that your counting hey Fanappy. :)

[toyota4x4]

guys i need some help...in the first few levels of the single player game theres a tomb your in with two other friendlys. there is also one of those big creatures thats blind but can smell you and feel you and you have to lure it outside to kill it. whats the best way to get past that part??

[AugustusBot]

Theres two places ike that, iirc:
edit: actually, i may be confusing the giant hulking guys that charge at you with the blind thing, tho i think they're one and the same.

On the first berserker part, you have him run through one of the golden brown wall/doors, which opens a door to outside where you can use that satellite weapon. i stand in front of the doorway, shoot him a few times, then when he's running towards me, do a barrel roll to either side with a double tap of A.

on the second berserker part, you have him run at you / dodge, and knock out the pillars in the greenhouse type room. then when he stands where a pillar used to be, he's exposed to the sky and you can use your satellite weapon.

[toyota4x4]

how do you do that spoiler thing in your text?

[AugustusBot]

[.spoiler.] [./spoiler.] w/o the periods.

As for the spoiler, is that the part you meant? the charging brutes?

[toyota4x4]

yep thats the part i ment
when i get the brute past the first door... is the next room the one i can kill it in? bec. i see other doors that can be knocked down. btw this is during the first time you see one of the brutes...you know after it bust through the wall in that cinematic shot.
look i got the spoiler thing right first try :)

[AugustusBot]

Keep knocking down doors until you knock one down that takes you outside. At this point you can use the little laser target gun that you used to kill the giant bug. You aim that at him, and the satellite warms up and zap. Hold down the attack and the sattellite beam goes through it's full charge.

[toyota4x4]

cool deal man...thanks for the help. ill try and beat that damn thing 2night then. do you know if you can play the same single player missions online in co-op mode like you could graw, or are they diffrent missions??