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Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Epic Games has officially unveiled Gears of War 2 and says it will be released exclusively on Xbox 360 in November 2008.
Cliff Bleszinski revealed the news after ripping through the side of the stage with a replica chainsaw bayonet at the Microsoft GDC keynote just moments ago.
"Gears 2 is going to be bigger, better and far more badass than the first one," promised Bleszinski, hair swaying as if it were out of a shampoo advert.
He went on to say Gears of War 1 was a "total set-up" and "designed to make Gears of War 2 amazing". Then he went off to "kill some Locust".
All we saw of Gears of War 2 was a rendered trailer showing Marcus Fenix clash chainsaw bayonets with a Locust before pulling-off a deft manoeuvre and chopping his enemy into pieces.
Marketing blurb confirms it will be Marcus Phoenix and the Delta Squad returning to face increasingly desperate odds using just their steroid-injected arms, swollen monster feet and manly grunts to prevail.
However, Epic Games technology-wizard Tim Sweeney swaggered onto the stage earlier in the show to talk about the significant improvements to Unreal Engine 3; indirectly giving us an idea of what to expect.
In layman terms this means better dynamic shadows, much more definition, more advanced character lighting and lots more things on-screen - he showed a Gears of War demo with 100 Locust enemies running around.
There will be better splashes (of blood, hopefully), better sound effects, integrated cinematic creation software, and Ageia soft body physics technology that allows objects to appear gelatinous and sticky when touched, or fluid balls to have viscosity and so forth.
And last but not least, scenery is now destructible - demonstrated by a Torque Bow arrow sticking into a wooden fence then blowing it to pieces.
Which all sounds very exciting indeed.
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captainrentboy
20/02/08 @ 20:20
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HoriZon actually there is, along with GTA 4 and MGS 4 this will probably be the biggest release of the year, whether or not you like it is neither here nor there, millions do, and it'll certainly help shift a few more 360s this Chrimbo.
My unbelievable powers of psychisness say that you'll be able to get an Elite with GOW2 for around £200-220 this winter. Mark my words dammit. |
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GamesConnoisseur
20/02/08 @ 20:31
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Didnt think I would look forward that much to GOW 2 as somehow expected more of the same, though I did really enjoy the first instalment. However after tonight I am keen due to efforts to improve the engine with extra features and the apparent ability to have 100 locusts running round at a time.
People knew that GOW was pushing X360 hardware and there were obvious limited numbers of locusts at most times, average of six or so for most part of game as I recall, so if they truly enhanced the engine so that would potentially change the dynamic of game enough so that we can look forward to something more than just the same. Destrutible scenery, better physics and other icings on the cake! So now added this to most wanted. |
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captainrentboy
20/02/08 @ 20:31
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How long before someone posts ''I don't know if I'm the only one, but GOW wasn't all that great?''
Sure, have your own opinion on something, but please don't think you're the only one who doesn't like this or another massive franchise. It annoyed the feck out of me when 500 people would write something along those lines on a Halo 3 comments section last year. Yes I'm easily irritated. @ HoriZon, that's cool, personally I can't stand the GTA or the MGS series of games, but I can't pretend that they're not massively popular titles whether I like them or not.
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captainrentboy
20/02/08 @ 20:47
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Haha!
... I'll kill you. Crofto, the original only got an 8 on here :/
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captainrentboy -- I wasn't saying it in reference to this site. I was pleased to see Eurogamer remained completely non-moronic on the game and gave it a score and review which was accurate.
I meant, pretty much, 99.9% of all other gaming media. E.g. that fat git on Gamespot: "OMG IT HAS GRAPHICZ AND EXPLOSIONS AND GUNS BUT ZELDA LOOKS GAY". |
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captainrentboy
20/02/08 @ 20:55
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Yeah I suppose. On reflection it wasn't the be all and end all of 3rd person action games, but I had a good time with it, especially on Co-Op. I'd have given it an 8 too.
Ohh I hope there's 4 player CoOp on the new one, although I'm guessing that's pretty much guaranteed. |
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penguin_overlord
20/02/08 @ 21:16
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Oh, yes. A new FPS for the 360. How original. And it's a sequel to an over-hyped that only sold well the first time because there were no other good next-gen FPS games at the time. Move over GOW2, Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 are coming.
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captainrentboy
20/02/08 @ 22:44
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Resev1L, good find, water effects were rather swish, and the destructable scenery looks great, although I can't see it being quite THAT destructive in all areas when the game ships.
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WillyWanka
20/02/08 @ 23:38
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Yeah bayonets were fun for a while but it got samey quickly as there was only one animation. Give us control of the thing to slice as we see fit please
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MightyMouse
21/02/08 @ 01:55
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Well I'm glad everyone's ignored fanboism in favour of balanced discussion. Shame there hasn't actualy been enough unveiled to debate over.
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phantom516
21/02/08 @ 08:14
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The single player game in the first one was very short, but multiplayer was good, but could have been much better. More players in matches, more larger and varied maps and get rid of the bloody glitches. Let's hope this improvement to the engine sorts out these problems.
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farticusmaximus
21/02/08 @ 08:51
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Awesome! Wasnt expecting Gears 2 this year so that's great news.
Gears is still the best third person shooter by a country mile, colour me pre-ordered. |
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mechamonkey
21/02/08 @ 09:00
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I finally finished GoW 1 the other day, I'm so cutting edge :)
Co-op is where its at at GDC this year it seems \o/ |
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WickedDeeJ
21/02/08 @ 09:51
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Lovely. I'll wait until the November 2009 PC release and get the full game. Fool me once; shame on you, fool me twice...
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monkie_king
21/02/08 @ 10:01
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Arbiter, what the hell does that have to do with anything? If Gears Of War 2 turns out to be a good game, then it's a good game and that's the end of it.
If banging on about financial analysts' hardware sales predictions makes you feel better about missing out on it, then good for you, I guess. Besides, "more of the same" doesn't seem to be damping anyone's enthusiasm for PSS3 with MSG4, GT5, and whatever Final Fantasy they've counted up to now. |
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