Gears of War high-def trailer

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 August, 2005

War-di-war-di-war.

A high-definition video of the Xbox 360 game that everybody remembers from this year's E3, Gears of War, has been circulating the internet in the last few days, and now everyone can get hold of it.

So go ahead and download it. As well you know already, GoW is set on a planet ravaged by... well, not by knitting, basically. Originally quite a happy and prosperous place, it descended into anarchy when the populous ran out of fuel and realised that impressive reserves of a new substance called "imulsion" were located under just a few cities. Cue lots of in-fighting. 79 years of that later, it got even worse when a race called The Locusts swarmed up through the surface and wiped out a quarter of the remaining population.

At which point you come in - with a big gun and your fellow "Gears". And what you see in the demo happens. Rather spectacularly. It looks stunning, of course - indeed, it's little surprise that developer Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 toolset is highly coveted by both sides in the next-generation console war. It's a taste of the future, and it tastes like WAR.

For war on War, war this war. War.

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Comments (20) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • The-Bodybuilder #1 7 years ago

    >"Be the first to write a comment!"

    But what do I say?

  • prettyboytim #2 7 years ago

    Gosh, this looks smashing.

  • onyxbox #3 7 years ago

    I thought it looked a bit like Doom 3 on the PC

  • phAge #4 7 years ago

    Is this still the same trailer that crasher 2/3's of the way through?

  • Wash #5 7 years ago

    "I thought it looked a bit like Doom 3 on the PC"

    weird :S I thought it looked completely different. Quake 4... now theres a game that looks like doom 3

  • Tomo #6 7 years ago

    Yeh, mine crashed about 2/3s the way through. It certainly looks good tho, even if the Unreal 3.0 engine doesn't look as shiny in motion. Still, I'm being a whiny bitch.

  • asphaltcowboy #7 7 years ago

    Is this the one that was broken before? Is it fixed?

  • L0cky #8 7 years ago

    'I thought it looked a bit like Doom 3 on the PC'

    Should have gone to specsavers!

  • onyxbox #9 7 years ago

    Should have gone to specsavers!

    ah... what do I know eh? I guess I also didn't notice the texture popin (similar to Halo 2) :-)

    Don't get me wrong it looks fantastic but IMO not a 'giant' leap from today's top end PC stuff is it really ?

  • The-Bodybuilder #10 7 years ago

    >"Don't get me wrong it looks fantastic but IMO not a 'giant' leap from today's top end PC stuff is it really ?"

    Also, remember that this game is a year away and is running on beta kits.

  • ecureuil #11 7 years ago

    I don't think it looks that great. I'm still interested in it, but I just seems so.. average, from what I've seen.

  • admir #12 7 years ago

    i hope it not going to be like all other FPS if this game comes out on xbox360 at lunch then i might buy it

    P.S. did u guy play FEAR looks and plays good

  • ReanimateD #13 7 years ago

    Do you need special hardware to be able to watch HD videos? I open it up in media player and its choppy (but the sound is smooth). I use BSplayer, and the sound is choppy, but the video is smooth. Any ideas?

  • phAge #14 7 years ago

    HD videos require pretty high-end HW, thats all. Mine stutters too.

  • kangarootoo #15 7 years ago

    @admir
    "i hope it not going to be like all other FPS if this game comes out on xbox360 at lunch then i might buy it".

    Now I've watched the trailer I'm kind of torn. I was going to have a nice cheese sandwich but I might have to buy this instead. Maybe I'll still have enough change left for a Curly Wurly and some Vimto.

  • admir #16 7 years ago

    i wached it too kangerootoo
    well i dont juge games until they come out but you guys have to play FEAR it plays and looks good there is a demo cant stop playing

  • asphaltcowboy #17 7 years ago

    Just for the record - I don't think this is actually an FPS... I heard it was over-the-shoulder RE4 style... am I wrong?

  • phAge #18 7 years ago

    Think it changes perspective from 3rd person movement, to 1st person shooting.

  • Wash #19 7 years ago

    The guys who make it like to say you play the game in 2nd person... as in inbetween 3rd and 1st person perpectives.

    Also this game has a while to go and along with other unreal 3 engine powered next gen games is visually the benchmark for next gen, cgi videos aside (killzone etc...) you'll be hardpushed to be playing anything better looking than this within then next year.

  • admir #20 7 years ago

    I STILL THINK THAT PEOPLE ARE STUPID IF THEY THINK IF THE GAMES LOOKS GOOD THAT IT WILL PLAY GOOD