Gears of War Comments by Martin Davies

absolutely awesome, the hype machine is gonna hit bigtime over the next few days and I can wait!

MP impressions only? So graphics in SP will look even better, no!?

This is gonna be huge on Live.

This article actually gives a decent impression of the MP-game. :)
Sounds like there might not be too much overlap between Rainbow Six:Vegas and this...
Cheers!

nice gfx, does it have clipping?

Sounding fantastic so far! Let's hope the single payer portion is equally enticing, as that's what I'm most probable to be playing.

I'm still undecided on getting this or Splinter Cell this month... crap, if I had to get all the interesting games coming lately I would have to eat bread and water in a cold house til the end of the month... this, Splinter Cell, Bully, Guitar Hero II, Dawn of War:DC, Medieval 2, NBA 2K7, Neverwinter Nights 2, GTR2/RACE... good that December has nothing interesting coming... oh damn, I forgot the WIIIIII!

/me starts buying bread for lunch :D

"Frag grenades, too, can be stuck to an enemy"

Yay! Much of the fun of Halo was going "Oops!" and then watching your friend explode several seconds later...

The preview has reassured me a great deal though to be honest the only mutliplayer I'm interested in is the Co-Op campaign.

First ever post on Eurogamer so be nice.

I was over at EPIC last week and although I was not allowed to play the single player I got a brief glimpse and the game was stunning

I was one of the 'create a nightmare' competition winners over at xbox.com.
The entry can be seen here...
http://www.iradx.com/kre8uk/images/s...h...
or in the sketchbook section item 2 at http://www.kre8uk.net

We did however play the MP

All that hype about the game - it doesn't come close!
The game was great

We played all 10 maps I believe (at least all 10 were available). They were pretty mixed between symetrical and asymetrical from my memory. There was one that was fought up or down a hill (steps) and either side took turns at starting at the top or bottom with different tactical advantages and disadvantages. That was very cool.

The map sizes varied a little but all were of a good size for the number of players. Fairly mid sized so you were allways assured of some action and not too big so that if only one player from each side was remaining they wouldn't lose each other.

It only took a few plays to start recognising the maps and navigating well. However there were knooks and crannies that became more obvious over time and helped to formulate tactics on the field.

I've never been a serious multiplayer gamer but this experience completely changed my view. The game was great - tactical without all the gadget clutter. Don't get me wrong GRAW is a great game I'm just not that good at it. But GOW was all instinct and intuition - you charge out guns blazing you'll go down and end up with a Boot or a chainsaw in your head

Awesome stuff

I hope this isn't going to be one of those games where the single player campaign is 'tacked on'. I'm not hearing a great deal about it...

"so macho"

Big and strong? Enough to turn you on?

Anyway yes special thanks to Eurogamer for confirming this as a must have therefore causing a "I could have got you that for Christmas, can't you wait? How old are you anyway [1] that you can't wait a few weeks? HOW MUCH? You only just got that zombie game and that football one and we need to buy stuff for the kids for Christmas" argument.

Gits.

[1] Old enough to quote Sinitta songs on Eurogamer.

Sounds superb, can't wait for this one.

Good.

And I think this will be the last item I read on the game until I play it myself now. Looking forward to discovering Gears personally.

"I hope this isn't going to be one of those games where the single player campaign is 'tacked on'. I'm not hearing a great deal about it..."

Thats because they have been very careful to keep the SP under wraps, apparently we have only seen about 5% of the game according to cliffy b. and they want to keep it that way, the inferrence that I read was that the game isnt all set in "rainy apocalyptic city" and they wanted to maintain an element of discovery when you actually buy the game.

As far as the hype machine goes, for all the advance stuff I have read, there hasnt been anyone that has said "this game isnt worth the hype". I sincerely hope it is.

Maybe EG will give it an 8 after all :) I kind of expected a 7.
Anyway me?I can't fooking wait to get my hands on this,only two weeks to go.Yeeeay!

sweet ! just bring it

I hope this isn't going to be one of those games where the single player campaign is 'tacked on'. I'm not hearing a great deal about it...

Epic aren't exactly the best at the single player experience, but who knows, they might surprise.

/tries not to bring up the terrible Voice Acting.

D'oh!!

/gets all exciteable again.

Peej

A tiny bit of wii just leaked out

Any self respecting graphics whore will be buying this regardless! I can not wait!

told you

@Steroyd

With the production values and support M$ is giving this i think we do not have to worry about things like that.

For the ppl wondering if the single player is any good, ms send in a battalion of writers during the process to work on the story line, one of them being Eric Nylund.

I'd reckon that the storyline isn't going to be stellar but good enough.

In response to all the "wah wah wah it's all a load of hype it's MS 360 crap wah wah wah" crew:

Swivel and wait four months to join the bandwagon :)

Sounds like a classic is dawning.

Looking forward to this one greatly :):)

Rambaldi, they invented the ignore button you know? That nice big pulsating, throbbing button on the lower right? ;)

/pants in anticipation

I had been really looking forward to this - but after watching the gameplay vid on EGTV the other day I was very underwhelmed... I'm hoping that it's significantly better to play than to watch.

@Xerx3s

I'm touched that you haven't used it yet ;) I'll be expecting a Xmass card and everything!

/promises to be more restrained...

"the impression of the game is that it is not one of great innovation, but one in which the features are implemented with brilliant cohesion."

I'd much rather have a brilliantly coherent game than a novel but incoherent one, personally speaking. Having both is ideal, but how often does that happen?

Up until now I'd not been that interested in GoW, but I am now. Also, looks like this and R6 Vegas are going to be far apart gameplay-wise. Good for fun, bad for wallet.

I love the sound of those levels, Epic knows what they are doing concerning the construction of multiplayer maps. The level with the train running through it sounds like a recipie for hilarity.
Reviving teammates is a damn good idea too, I especially like how the downed player has to hammer the A button to ("Dont die on me! Youre goin' home man!") stay alive.

14 days to go!!! \o/

@ Rambaldi: I wasn't talking about you, but if you like, I could give you some h0t man huggs. Depends on how much you pay though. ;p

Meh

There's always one...

Edit:Hmm, profile inspections can be quite revealing!

i played halo for the first time ever last night im still on that ship though cos the dragon came round and complained that im always on the xbox 360 - well duh stupid bint!!

So im gonna see how i get on with Halo b4 i try gow i have only ever completed one fps which was cod 2 about 3 weeks ago!!

The eurogamer review could convince me into buying it though cos i loved multiplayer on cod 2 on live its wicked!!

Edit:Hmm, profile inspections can be quite revealing!

I know what you mean... DAYUM!! o_O

Sounds fantastic! Knew it! This is preordered and it's gonna be SWEET!

/notes the surprising lack of naysayers :P

So Macho
He's got to be
So Macho
He's got to be big and strong enough
to turn me on
He's got to have, big blue eyes
Be able to satisfy
He's got to be big and strong enough
to turn me on

Fabulous!

Anyway, yeah in agreement with many others - what's the skinny on the SP??

We ain't all MP whores you know.

\Goes back to singing So Macho

Sounds rather spiffing. After the X06 videos underwhelmed me somewhat I let my hype for this slip and transfer over to Lost Planet and Assassin's Creed. GoW has once more returned to my NEED list.

"it takes only a short few rounds before you start to ignore the staggering beauty and fidelity of the game-world, and instead see only opportunities for cover, defensible positions and ambush points"

I saw a video of gears of war multiplayer on game trailers, what stood out for me was an antique chest of drawers its abiltity withstand heavy machinegun and rocket fire.

It wouldnt be so rediculus if it wasnt for the incredible detail of the furniture, Epic have shot themselves in the foot by creating a stunningly believable decaying world and then making in largely indestructible, you dont feel a part of it.

Gameplay is still the most important aspect of a gaming experience for me, the visuals can be as stunning as you like but if there is no substance then their is no replayability.

This is not the next gen I'd hoped for. The more I read about this generation of consoles the more the PC appeals, the overwhelming focus on graphics to the neglect of physics and AI seems to be creating prettier xbox/ps2 games instead of new experiences.

GEARS OF WAR

GAME OF 2006

STANDARD

The furniture is made out of a titanium oak composite. Nuff said. =)

It's the recent HD multiplayer footage on GameTrailers which has finally piqued my interest for this game - the environments do look fantastic, and the gameplay looks really polished and fluid... They're keeping the single-player under their hats, but even if it just features the same gameplay in some more great looking locations, it'll be worth price of admission.

Oh, and Virgin are doing the Limited Edition for £40 online... :)

the inferrence that I read was that the game isnt all set in "rainy apocalyptic city" and they wanted to maintain an element of discovery when you actually buy the game

You know what this means, though, don't you?

YOU GO TO THE ALIEN PLANET, AND IT'S NOT AS GOOD AS THE BITS SET ON EARTH.

"This is not the next gen I'd hoped for. The more I read about this generation of consoles the more the PC appeals, the overwhelming focus on graphics to the neglect of physics and AI seems to be creating prettier xbox/ps2 games instead of new experiences. "

Yes and no. I agree only partly, as a games designer you have to make choices and destructible scenery is cool but you will end with no cover after a few minutes and a totally barren playfield (especially with these uber SF weapons) so I guess in this case the scenery is not destructible because of gameplay considerations. Designing games is not always about creating a realistic environment... in fact usually you do NOT want a realistic environment because in most cases they are NOT fun ;) I guess if you want real world physics, you better stop playing computer games and start playing some paintball.

"YOU GO TO THE ALIEN PLANET, AND IT'S NOT AS GOOD AS THE BITS SET ON EARTH. "

ROFL ;)

ACtually the Locus horde *are* native to your planet and live underground so I expect you to go down and explore alien underground locations and maybe a few missions in space to "fix" orbital laser guns?

@ Pob, re: profiles

Blimey - you're not wrong!

Have you played the game El_Mueriko? You seem to know a surprising amount about it.

A chest a drawers doesn't asplode...SFW?

I foresee a spike in the number of headsets purchased/on Live. Tactics are more difficult to achieve if you can't converse with your team. It'll indeed be massive on Xbox Live.