Gears of War Comments by Martin Davies

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

same as Half LIfe then :P

"I foresee a spike in the number of headsets purchased/on Live."

oooh god to smack talk after you get chainsawed by some American, its bad enough getting face squatted

/ Wets Self \

Can't wait.

Glad you guys dug the article. I should mention that we were playing on system link only, so I have no experience of how it performs online or what the matching system is like.

Martin: Tearing? CLipping? Framerate issues?

lol at el_meurko - fight the feelings son

BEST GAME EVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!! ;)

Ok, a bit pre-emptive and fanboyish... however, this game is sounding and looking better each day. I love the thought that they have made a co-hesive and polished game rather than loose ends through innovation. There is nothing wrong with attempting to do what has been done before but polishing every last bit of gameplay and graphics.

Sony Hold-Outs are going to have a hell of a time explaining the £400+ and no gears of war on their system.

there is destructible scenery, guys, I've watched videos of it

Morriss - I didn't notice any tearing or framerate issues, though I don't know what kind of xboxen we were using (could have been dev kits), or how that would change that experience. As for clipping: interaction with the environment is pretty smooth once you get used to the context sensitive cover commands. I didn't find myself getting stuck on scenery unless it was the result of my own cack-handedness - with one exception: jumping down off tall ledges requires you to walk towards the edge face on. Trying to strafe or jump off it don't work. I think this is a game design decision rather than a clipping problem, however. Either way, it's rarely an issue.

@ Pob, re: profiles

yup that profile earnt him an insta-ignore all from one meh.

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

So why have it there!?!

Why have something I could put my foot thru sitting on a staircase with giant space marines with explodatrons hiding behind it as giant aliens throw other explodifying things at it and its not even phased.

Its stupid, you cant help but pick it out, I'm not saying 'i demand total realism' but a bit of give and take would be nice like 'two foot think concrete bolard indestructible', 'wood furniture blows up when hit' would that not be a good thing.

Making you look at cover and decide 'no wait that shopping trolloy wont survive an orbital bombardment, it will however fly a good way if a nade goes off near it.

In this regard raimbow six vegas with its exploding slot machines is far more effective at pulling you in, at making you look at and think about rather than "start to ignore the staggering beauty and fidelity of the game-world".

Yossarian - I think I'm right in saying that most of the scenery is NOT destructible in multiplayer. One level, set in a mansion allows you to destroy a fair amount of kibble - couches and stuff - but the actual geography isn't really deformable, except in scripted circumstances; there's one level where you can target a gas station with the Hammer of God... Pop!

@EL_MUERKO

"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"

What a ridiculous sweeping statement..a bit like this one:

You're an ill-informed physics-card addicted over hardware spending knob

P.S. Look at Portal
P.P.S Considering the 360 gets most of the decent PC FPSs anyways, what exactly are you saying about PC games?
P.P.P.S The best (by far) AI routines seen on a shooter in recent years are in Halo. A console game.

Planet Xen ftw!

Ummm... changing the subject a little. What profile are you going on about?

@ wellsie

You mean this

I have been playing Multi Player games since me and a mate connected our 286 dx66 PCs together with a copy of DOOM he had hacked and turned into a pretty good Death Matching Game.

I love the whole idea of DM games and I am addicted to COD2 and have been since last December.

Really looking forward to GoW for the MP aspect and the SP game/story...

Give this game to me NOW..!!!

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

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

Remind me not to play online with MUERKO on my team...

"WTF are you doing man? Shoot the damn Locust!"
"Just one more clip... it has to explode sooner or later."


PS: It's a long way to Tipperary... but unfortunately they have broadband access...

Isnt the indestructable wardrobe from an old E3 presentation anyway? I seem to remember the developer saying then that destructible scenery hadnt been implemented at that point, so it could well be that the wardrobe had been made destructible by now.
Its hardly a dealbreaker in any case.

"Yossarian - I think I'm right in saying that most of the scenery is NOT destructible in multiplayer. One level, set in a mansion allows you to destroy a fair amount of kibble - couches and stuff"
correct

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.

I doubt it as it is included with every 360. Yes folks, designed for online out of the box. Btw, when is the new wireless headset out? Checked the stores the other day and they said something like the 24th but I find that hard to believe...

Gears of War is the new Halo. In terms of people's instant hatred (read jealousy?) of it.

F.E.A.R at play asia for £21......go get it

I don't kno whow to turn this in to a proper post but it needs to be said.


Context sensitivity is the way forward.

/scratches head

Yes, when IS the wireless headset coming?

Fast charger? Don't need.
Wireless Wheel? Wheels are pants.
Faceplate? Shmasheplate!
Memory Card? So last gen.
LiveCam? Give me a break I want to grind american teens into the dirt not look at their faces.
Something that means I don't have to fek around with crappy cables when I want a quick chat to my mates or have to wrap up carefuly when I put it away only to find it tangled when I come back anyway? GET YER FOOKIN ARSE IN GEAR AND RELEASE IT PRONTO!!!

/scratches arse

/picks nose

/picks Rambaldi's nose

/draws the line at picking Xerx3s' arse

()o()

^^^^^^

Talk about false advertising, I heard that Xerx3s hole is a lot bigger than he's making out above.

S.J.Rogers - our 286 dx66 PCs together

Come on Rogers ya must have made that up? a 286 labelled dx66

Was it not a 486 Dx2 66?

loved my 486 66 dx2. played doom, command and conquer, duke nukem......hell the 66 dx2 days were almost as good as the snes days.

I remember the time well wen I got my first 486-66mhz. Ah! A secondhand tower PC (and then I mean TOWER) and it hand all kinds of games such as Doom, Dangerous Dave, Biomenace, etc. installed... When I first saw those games I was sold. \0/

Later on the likes of Heretic, Hexen, Doom II, Dark Forces, RotT, etc.... Now THAT was t3h REAL next gen. :D

I hope MS releases those games again, they where just brilliant and I think that Doom Arcade proved that those graphics still sell.

Instead of making up some some faux insightful comment i'll just sit back and YAWN.

@ BadBoyBonner

Your probably correct.

My mate was the computer geek, I just kicked his ass at DOOM...!

Also when will we see the next version of Decent..?

This game and COD 3 and others! I don't have that kind of money!! :( I will get Gears of War but will have to eat ramen noodles...oh I hate doing that!

Also when will we see the next version of Decent..?

Didn't the story more or less end in D3?

Personally I'm wondering when will we see the next version of Descent.. from what I remember, it was pretty decent!

You can't blow up the random chest of drawers' dotted around?Fuck that then,I'm cancelling my preorder tomorrow.

Blowing up furniture = t3h real next gen! :D

/starts to trash his house

That So Macho song is stuck in my head now. Thanks.

Looks like one of the best 360 games.

Hype with a side order of shiny. This game just radiates macho out of every pore.

You can Donnie Darko up all the trailers all you want, but no sale here!

Well, I always felt if the single player game turned out to be as generic and repetitive as appeareances suggested, MP could save the day, and it looks set to do so. Now if the Single Player is good too, there could be a lot of 360s shifted this Christmas.

Hype with a side order of shiny. This game just radiates macho out of every pore.

And why would that perce be a bad thing? Or would you prefer yet another spiky hair transsexual clichéd standardised anime character type of game?

You can Donnie Darko up all the trailers all you want, but no sale here!

Now there is a surprise... ¬_¬ Bet that if it was a PS3 game, it would have been an instant buy.

Indeed

So Bates, how does this differ from Resistance?

Oh yeah, this doesn't come in a Sony box. No wait, it's not on BluRay!! No wait, it's a western game!!

>"You can Donnie Darko up all the trailers all you want, but no sale here!"

I'm sure bill gates is crying himself to sleep.

I can't wait for this game.. I pre-ordered the CE last week..

Resistance is a western game