Gears of War Discussion Thread

[Kevin26385]

http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3148968&did=1

This game should definitly be interesting, i read it will be playable to consumers at E3 ( i know it should but we havent seen alot on this game)

[chknwang321]

Re: Gears of War preview

This game looks amazing, and you know it will be great.

[Misfit]

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Because it looks amazing, it will be great. There's a logical fallacy if I ever heard one.

[Beantown]

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Because it looks amazing, it will be great. There's a logical fallacy if I ever heard one.

He said "and you'll know it'll be great" not "so you know it'll be great" so he -could- have been saying we'll know it'll be good from the previews, not looks.

Of course, I can't actually speask for him.

[Cyros]

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Of course, I can't actually speask for him.

Looks like you're having trouble speaking for your own self.

[Flawless]

Re: Gears of War preview

Info from the new OXM.

Source - http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=437947


*In GOW, if you hit the reload button as soon as you run out of bullets, you'll reload quicker and get back into the action faster, and your bullets will have a small damage amplifier on them. If you miss the timing on the reload, your gun will jam momentarily.

*Some cover can be shredded by bullets, as we'd expect. They also said all the animations have been re-done with new motion capture animations. I say thank God for that!

*If you press A you go into cover, then press A to jump over the cover or swat roll to more cover. Press A while you're running to dive roll, and hold A while running to duck your head and "roadie-run"

*You're never alone, there's always one or three other guys with you in a level, and they are the avatars for your buddies in co-op. There's seperate paths in the level you will have to take, for instance one player gets up to a spotlight to shine on the other player so he's in the light and protected from the locust horde, and he must keep the light on you while you cross a dangerous open area. Then you get to another spotlight and do the same for him.

*You can give commands in certain situations. CliffyB says that they will make the AI good so that it doesn't turn into "how can i babysit these guys who don't know how to stay alive." He says something I like. "that's not a feature; that's a job!"

*LB brings up commands. You can have them:

cease fire
fire on a targe
move to location
regroup

*Pretty standard stuff. It will work in co-op and multiplay too and your comrades will see the command in their HUD. In team deathmatch though, I'm sure no one will pay attention. But in co-op it will make things easier, like when someone on PDZ says "kill this guy" and you have no idea what he's talking about. Now you will have him marked on your hud.

*He talks about sneaking up and laying it to an enemy with a chainsaw, which is particularly gruesome. CliffyB also talks about "the Hammer of Dawn" which is a devastating two-player weapon. In single player, you have a laser that you can paint targets with and artillery will completely destroy anything around it. (sounds like entire buildings the way they're talking.) In co-op, you both steer the beam somehow and there's an ultra big rain of fire.
The hammer of down is used sparingly because the laser is in orbit, but when it lines up, you can use it as many times as you want."

*Keeping teammates alive is a lot like GRAW, where they go down and you can heal them. This should work in co-op as well, like the revive kits in PDZ.

*The game MAY use the headset to give commands.

*The chainsaw bit sounds heavily influenced by the chainsaw guy in RE4. Yummy.

*There's a crossbow weapon called the torque bow. you control how far it shoots by how long you hold it down. You can shoot a locust in the arm, watch them go behind cover, then detonate the arrow and see the strings of gore and bodyparts go flying.

*There's a stickgrenade also. You can swing it on a chain and throw it. You can melee and enter a God of War-style minigame where you shove the grenade in the enemy's mouth. And you can close holes that locusts are coming out of with them.

*The story sounds deeper than we thought. You'll get to see the main characters' birthplace, and there's more characters also, and a girl named Anya.

*Achievements: The achievements in this game sound a LOT like condemned's. There's a graffiti symbol called the "crimson omen" and there's three in each level. Find one for a bronze medal, two for a silver, and all three for a gold medal achievement. Should add that much more to the replay value.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: Gears of War preview

Info from the new OXM.

Source - http://forum.teamxbox.com/showthread.php?t=437947


*In GOW, if you hit the reload button as soon as you run out of bullets, you'll reload quicker and get back into the action faster, and your bullets will have a small damage amplifier on them. If you miss the timing on the reload, your gun will jam momentarily.

*Some cover can be shredded by bullets, as we'd expect. They also said all the animations have been re-done with new motion capture animations. I say thank God for that!

*If you press A you go into cover, then press A to jump over the cover or swat roll to more cover. Press A while you're running to dive roll, and hold A while running to duck your head and "roadie-run"

*You're never alone, there's always one or three other guys with you in a level, and they are the avatars for your buddies in co-op. There's seperate paths in the level you will have to take, for instance one player gets up to a spotlight to shine on the other player so he's in the light and protected from the locust horde, and he must keep the light on you while you cross a dangerous open area. Then you get to another spotlight and do the same for him.

*You can give commands in certain situations. CliffyB says that they will make the AI good so that it doesn't turn into "how can i babysit these guys who don't know how to stay alive." He says something I like. "that's not a feature; that's a job!"

*LB brings up commands. You can have them:

cease fire
fire on a targe
move to location
regroup

*Pretty standard stuff. It will work in co-op and multiplay too and your comrades will see the command in their HUD. In team deathmatch though, I'm sure no one will pay attention. But in co-op it will make things easier, like when someone on PDZ says "kill this guy" and you have no idea what he's talking about. Now you will have him marked on your hud.

*He talks about sneaking up and laying it to an enemy with a chainsaw, which is particularly gruesome. CliffyB also talks about "the Hammer of Dawn" which is a devastating two-player weapon. In single player, you have a laser that you can paint targets with and artillery will completely destroy anything around it. (sounds like entire buildings the way they're talking.) In co-op, you both steer the beam somehow and there's an ultra big rain of fire.
The hammer of down is used sparingly because the laser is in orbit, but when it lines up, you can use it as many times as you want."

*Keeping teammates alive is a lot like GRAW, where they go down and you can heal them. This should work in co-op as well, like the revive kits in PDZ.

*The game MAY use the headset to give commands.

*The chainsaw bit sounds heavily influenced by the chainsaw guy in RE4. Yummy.

*There's a crossbow weapon called the torque bow. you control how far it shoots by how long you hold it down. You can shoot a locust in the arm, watch them go behind cover, then detonate the arrow and see the strings of gore and bodyparts go flying.

*There's a stickgrenade also. You can swing it on a chain and throw it. You can melee and enter a God of War-style minigame where you shove the grenade in the enemy's mouth. And you can close holes that locusts are coming out of with them.

*The story sounds deeper than we thought. You'll get to see the main characters' birthplace, and there's more characters also, and a girl named Anya.

*Achievements: The achievements in this game sound a LOT like condemned's. There's a graffiti symbol called the "crimson omen" and there's three in each level. Find one for a bronze medal, two for a silver, and all three for a gold medal achievement. Should add that much more to the replay value.

I can't wait.

[dave360]

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This is a November title now right? If it's great(and I'm sure it will be) then I'm glad Halo 3 is moving to March of next year.

[Flawless]

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This is a November title now right? If it's great(and I'm sure it will be) then I'm glad Halo 3 is moving to March of next year.

Gears still doesn't have an official date. It's just "Emergence Day 2006". EB and Gamespot have it listed for November 1st though.

[Admiral50]

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I really wasn't hyped for this game, but the info from Flawless sounds bloody awesome!!

[Flawless]

Re: Gears of War preview

Gears of War: Road to E3

We get a brief behind-the-scenes look at the MTV Special on Gears of War. New details revealed.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/709/709307p1.html

This post from CliffyB on SA is awesome.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1878585

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[Klocker]

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Thanks Flawless

you're like an information machine

[dave360]

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After seeing all the footage for this and having ready Cliffy's blog for quite some time, I'm glad this one is out this year and Halo doesn't come out for a while afterwards. I want to have plenty of time on this one for sure.

[Flawless]

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The MTV 2 special on Gears of War is available for stream.

The Race to E3 chronicles the personal sacrifices and sleepless nights by the team at Epic Games as they create a demo for E3 2006.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/player.jhtml?id=1532170

I can't believe Microsoft was pushing so hard to get the chainsaw removed.


Interview with CliffyB

http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/specials/special.pl?spec=cliffyb2&pagenum=1

[spankdatazz22]

Re: Gears of War preview

This post from CliffyB on SA is awesome.

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1878585

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Indeed