Gears Annex mode goes Live

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 April, 2007

Various weapon tweaks too.

The promised Gears of War patch introducing the Annex multiplayer mode has been set loose, and can be had now by starting the game while connected to Xbox Live. It took us less than a minute to download.

Annex is about capturing control points long enough to collect a winning number of points. Each map has between two and five objectives to capture, with one active at a time, and the idea is to take them over as a team and hang onto them until you've absorbed the up-to-60 points each offers. When the points for a particular objective have been exhausted, the next one lights up, and the winning team is the one to hit the target points-total first, with kills a secondary consideration.

Other changes in the Gears patch include support for 720p for VGA cable users running the same at 1280x1024 resolution, and a few other adjustments: Assassination mode's leader no longer has to unlock weapons and now has to be executed to die; the Boomshot's splash damage is better at rendering targets down-but-not-out; the Hammer of Dawn is "more forgiving of moving targets"; the Roadie Run move hopefully won't accidentally snag cover so much while running; the Kill Message Ticker can now be seen while down-but-not-out and spectating; and various possible multiplayer exploits have been cleaned up.

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  • thefilthandthefury #1 5 years ago

    So is it a bit like Battlefield? If so, nice one! Will be good.

  • The_Inquisitor #2 5 years ago

    I played it last night, it's good fun and for someone like me who hasn't played GOW for a while (in favour of RSV), it's the perfect opportunity to get back into it. The respawn means you get plenty of playtime and the game type means there's plenty of action.

  • Skooch #3 5 years ago

    Cannot wait to play this at lunch - the weapon tweaks sound good and thank the lord some of the glitches have been fixed. The getting-snagged-whilst-running could be frustrating and this is also a welcome improvement. As is the Hammer tweak (I still need my hammer achievement).

  • Yossarian #4 5 years ago

    I grabbed this and fiddled around with it locally before going to work, looks cool

  • DUFFKING #5 5 years ago

    Wow, I'm impressed. The name 'total fucking carnage' would be more accurate though.

  • J0YCIE #6 5 years ago

    Oh its good. But they must lie when they say they've sorted out:
    1. the wall grabbing and
    2. the various multiplayer exploits.

    i grabbed the wall more times than a straight man in a gay bar the second time i played the gametype.
    and...HOSTING f**kers. its still there. shotguns from a mile away. oh its still there.