Gears of War - Gameplay

This just does absolutely nothing for me.

Same old game mechanics, shoddy environment interaction (old school rules) with tarted up graphics. Oh, lets not forget the truly awful script and voice acting ))

I suspect it'll sell well though, so what do I know :P

+1

'from Cliffy B's life story' -lol

True, from what I saw it doesn't really add that much. The AI doesn't blow me away either and the whole testosterone marine scenario has grown stale.

The script merits a mention for its dismalness

I have Pre-ordered it from Game Station...

Can't wait.

lol

Cliffy talks fast. Really fast.

If this is the best that the next-gen has to offer in the near future, I despair.

This Killzone 2 trailer doesn't look as good as it used to.

This looks mundane.

What part of Cliffy B's skater dude life is this from?

And the best bit £50! LOL!

Is the whole game going to be shooting backwards at the tops of enemy heads? Also, was that helicopter chick wearing a skirt? Who wears a skirt into combat?

The AI looked pretty poor and not too impressed with the number of hits he took without even dying, hopefully it was on easy mode.

Ace - no one should be paying £50 for a 360 game, this can be picked up for £38 online.

Looks incredibly generic.

The constant camera movement seems as though it would give you motion sickness, and the less said about the marine stylings and script, the better.

This will not make me buy a 360.

Their $10m budget didn't stretch to a professional writer then? Noone is expecting high art but that dialogue sounds like it was written by the first 10 year old they found wandering the streets.

Why does it feel like every in-game video demo is played by a retarded monkey...

Looks like could be alot of fun, but only in the same way as every other third person shooter out there..... not seeing much new ground here..... and what it is about hellicopters and 360 shooters GRAW Gears of War and far cry all have cut scenes with the main character chatting in the back of a chopper.

Wow the hate parade is out in force today.

I think i might reserve judgement till i actualy play the game, as CRAZY as that might sound.

The second funniest part of EG behind the fanboy bun fights is the sheer apathy of the posters. This game looks amazing the Helicopter chick can wear a skirt if she wishes and it will sell many 360's.

I've pre-orded it. Can't wait. I suggest those complaining should get a PS3 and STFU! :)

god how boring was that. the environment's and visuals are boring. it has no interaction. hide behind a rock and shoot lol this game will sell only because of hype. i will wait for something better

So you lot wasted 12 mins of your life watching something, i'm pretty sure, most of you knew you weren't going to like anyway before the vid even started. god you know you were on the internet for 12 mins you could have just had a wank ( they have porn on the internet now you know) you'd have felt better and at least the only your parents would be forced to hear you moan.

Can't wait for this. Sure it might not be that original, but the gameplay looks rock solid, the visuals are astounding and (most of all) it looks like great fun! Pre-ordered mine from sendit.

I had the chance to play this at the recent World Cyber Games in Italy and although it wasn't the ideal game testing scenario with all the background noise etc I can say that I enjoyed every bit of the demo and can't wait to get my copy. It's a pure action title in every sense. If you don't like those, look elsewhere.

Looks depressingly average.

Profound.

Oh and it's £39.98 for the Collectors Edition on sendit btw!

Technically very nice, artistically very poor. And what's up with the chainsaws on the guns!? That makes no sense whatsoever. But then again, you can hardly expect Americans to deliver something stylish...

Jeez is that what all the hype was about?

The voice Acting and dialogue looked like they were mugged from Mortal Kombat, the only thing going for it is Graphics, everything else just goes downhill from there.

This vid just re-confirms to me that this is a generic title with purty graphics.

Not enough to differentiate from the norm for my liking.

"Not enough to differentiate from the norm for my liking."

I guess making convincing AI and still keep the game fun to play is too much of a challenge for game designers. I predict the only next-gen thing about next-gen games for the comming year or two will be the graphics. They are relatively easy to produce (require no new skills) and very easy to sell.

Made by americans, for americans.

Overhyped. The american way, obviously.

Stunning graphics aside, the game looks very intense, a pure action game with nice environment interaction, kinda turning it in a GRAW-lite game... the pace of the action looks perfect, and while it's hard to be thrilled while watching somebody play this, I guess I would pretty exhausted and adrenaline-pumped after confronting so many enemies...
AI looked standard, surely not at F.E.A.R. level, but then even Half Life 2 didn't have an higher than standard, and the game was fun whatsoever.

I guess the biggest question about the game is if it manages to keep an high quality level all over the game, or if the level design fails somehow and you find yourself with a game that is 50% great and 50% standard (GRAW anyone?), and if it manages to find various ways to entertain you (shouldn't stealth sections be included, IIRC?) or if it stays the same from beginning to the end.

I wasn't hyped about this, but the more I see of it, the more I like it.

Er, thats it? Macho american balls, nothing new, just marketing hype.
What an odd world, seemed to consist of nothing but low walls. Slow pace too, it was like quake 2 on mogadon.
Pre-order cancelled. EGTV says you money! :)

Gotta say this looked pretty mundane. It may still live up to the hype though, who knows. I'm certainly waiting for the reviews before I hand over my readies though...

I was curious to see this video, heard a lot about it and apart from being very pretty it looks like an extremely generic console title.

Story is awful, characters awful, voices awful, CG movement of charcters is awful.

Gameplay wise, I can see the point of a previous poster that this may be better to play than watch but I never had such problems watching trailers for other games I really like. I actually skipped through parts of this video looking for something interesting happening.

I see the big sites giving this 90% reviews with the more discerning sites giving credit for graphics but not much else.

>"forets not forget the truly awful script"

So you've played it then?

The amount of people who hate this game, but yet feel compelled to watch it and even comment on it amazes me.

>"Technically very nice, artistically very poor. And what's up with the chainsaws on the guns!? That makes no sense whatsoever. But then again, you can hardly expect Americans to deliver something stylish..."

You remind me of two friends of mine.
They were mocking the godzilla movie, the scene where all the helicopters attacked godzilla.
They mocked and laughed at how "realistic" is it for all those copters to be flying about in the small skies of the city, seemingly forgetting the fact that THERE WAS A 60FT FREAKIN LIZARD ABOUT.

The idea of how a gun with chainsaw can be illogical, whilst they go about shooting mutant lizard-men from under the ground, seems rather.......

...fine?

I've never understood this inability displayed by people like you to grasp the idea of realism in a fictional scenario. Take the two following situations for an example:

Godzilla, angered, yea, created by man's reckless use of improbably destructive and highly unhealthy explosive technology, rises from the sea to smash flat the fleshy menace of humanity as Nature's punishment for its unthinkable crimes. Humanity responds with force, sending in tanks and helicopters to fight the lizard. Wave upon wave of spiky ordnance rains upon on Godzilla's hide, but lo! The giant lizard is unharmed! A single swipe of its tail swats aside the irritants as if they were flies.

Alternatively:

Godzilla, angered, yea, created by man's reckless use of improbably destructive and highly unhealthy explosive technology, rises from the sea to smash flat the fleshy menace of humanity as Nature's punishment for its unthinkable crimes. Humanity responds with force, sending in a single tank to fight the lizard. Wave after wave of solitary shells slam into Godzilla's eyes, but lo! The giant lizard is unharmed! A single swipe of its tail skewers it irreplaceably on the gun barrel.

It's commonly known as suspension of disbelief. If you're well aware that helicopers are unable to manoeuvre in tight spaces such as city streets, and you see it occur in a film which is asking you to use your imagination to believe the perils of a city beset by a giant lizard, you will be wrenched rudely from the atmosphere of the film. Now imagine that those were not helicopters in Godzilla but some near-future helicopter-based vehicle - the viewer would not have to, and indeed would be unable to equate the movements of the vehicle with what they know helicopters are capable of.

The idea is that if you are going to play with something that people know about, you play with it in the way the people expect you to play with it. Of course, the usual response to this is "oh get over it, it's just a film, it's just a bit of fun". Well you tell that to the people of New York when they try fighting Godzilla at street level with helicopters. We need to prepare for these sorts of things and film-makers have a responsibility to ensure that when the time comes, we're all ready. Take "Dr. Stragelove" for example - now, there's a film. Totally believeable and what's more, prepares us for the worst. I've been setting up my bunker for a good few years now and have a collection of 18 women, which I estimate might nearly be enough.

In summary: Near-futuristic chainsaws, whilst resembling in every way the chainsaws of 21st century America, are clearly powerful enough to cut through the chitin of eight-foot-tall insectoid menace. Suspend your disbelief - it's clearly worth the effort to hear more of that unbelievable script!

Hehe, sorry. The game's starting to look non-terrible in a God of War way if I'm honest, but I do love winding up you hypesuckers.

"The idea of how a gun with chainsaw can be illogical, whilst they go about shooting mutant lizard-men from under the ground, seems rather......."

haowan said it all. It's just that a chainsaw is a very poor combat weapon (did you see texas chainsaw massacre?). A bayonet made of diamond or some future incredibly strong steel alloy would have made much more sense but would of course have led to less blood on the camera...

obviosly...blood is what you need and ive seen the chainsaw in gow in action, at the metro center, and belive me it makes the game for me.....
hehe gore and blood

Man, I was bored last night.

The amount of people who hate this game, but yet feel compelled to watch it and even comment on it amazes me.

I think we're constantly hoping to be proved wrong, but are left consistently disapointed.

Well, if this plays as good as it looks I'm in for it...
Ok, the voice acting isn't the best but it's strikes me how many of you think this looks average o not up to the hype... what have you been playing lately that looks any better?! As for the gameplay wait to try it...
Spotty 14 year old fanboys always seem to be around...

"what have you been playing lately that looks any better?"

What does how a game looks have to do with how good it is?

"Spotty 14 year old fanboys always seem to be around..."

Yeah, but we'll try not to hold that against you :)

"What does how a game looks have to do with how good it is?"

Absolutely nothing but that's the point, wait until you play it and then decide if it's good or not... I'd also prefer good voice acting but hey, as long as it plays well I can't really complain... at least not in advance, before even trying the game.

In the end it's perfectly OK for people to make the games they want to make and nobody can rightfully say anything against it. In addition, doing so makes the perpetrator look like a dick. (of course, I don't mind being in the wrong and it's pretty hard for me not to look like a dick, so I get off scot free)

However, I think for me it's the weird blindness of the people who're hyped up by this game that really amazes me, as it's clearly a testostergroan yawnathon dressed up in some "frickin' sweet ass" visuals. People taken in by that mad world advert recently are top of the list there. Scares me.

"wait until you play it and then decide if it's good or not"

Too true, especially in this case as the game's main interest and challenge is clearly in fighting against the AI, just like in Halo. You can't really show that very well in gameplay movies like this, especially if they're set to easy as they usually are.

"However, I think for me it's the weird blindness of the people who're hyped up by this game that really amazes me, as it's clearly a testostergroan yawnathon dressed up in some "frickin' sweet ass" visuals. People taken in by that mad world advert recently are top of the list there. Scares me."

"Made by americans, for americans.
Overhyped. The american way, obviously."

I agree with both these comments, this truely is an american product, for the americans. Not sure about the yawnathon, might still be fun. Depends a lot on the AI and on many other factors that can't be summed up on a EGTV video. Having said that I'm still looking forward to picking it up as soon as it's out.

>"In summary: Near-futuristic chainsaws, whilst resembling in every way the chainsaws of 21st century America, are clearly powerful enough to cut through the chitin of eight-foot-tall insectoid menace. Suspend your disbelief - it's clearly worth the effort to hear more of that unbelievable script!"

So please, explain to us what a futuristic chainsaw is supposed to look like?

ANd I'm not a hype-maniac over this game. It's the very point that GOW channels my annoyance at those who disregard certain games in particular, purely on hype and/or big main characters.
Call me stupid. But I'm the kinda guy thta likes to judge games AFTER I've played it (or read reviews atleast).

Go Figue.

>"haowan said it all. It's just that a chainsaw is a very poor combat weapon (did you see texas chainsaw massacre?). A bayonet made of diamond or some future incredibly strong steel alloy would have made much more sense but would of course have led to less blood on the camera..."

So let me get this straight....

In the future (not too sure how far), a bayonet made of "diamond or some future increadibly strong steel alloy" makes more sense than a chainsaw?

Why stop there? Wouldn't a transporter made of some kind of super strong but super light alloy, and uses dark/exotic energy to travel in the other 11 or so dimensions (string theory) make more sense than using helicopters in the game?

>"Too true, especially in this case as the game's main interest and challenge is clearly in fighting against the AI, just like in Halo"

I'm baffed. You (haowan) say this after saying this?

"as it's clearly a testostergroan yawnathon dressed up in some "frickin' sweet ass" visuals. People taken in by that mad world advert recently are top of the list there. Scares me."

Got Hypocrisy?

Like I said, my argument isn't even about the game really. I find it odd how one game involved taking cover, fighting AI, and amazing graphics can be fully appriciated for what it is (R6: Vegas). Yet a game with the same principles gets this thread (GOW).

This has nothing to do with GOW (entirely). I find it baffling how people can condemn a game they haven't played, a script they haven't read, and a charater that's testosterine-filled (not enough estrogen?). I find it odd how people hate the main charatcer, simply because he's the typical american hero (xenophobia much).

If you're gonna hate a game, atleast come out with some good reason (such as I don't like this game because I've played it and it's crap, or it simply isn't my type of game).

OK - it looks really boring. From the gameplay movies. However, it could be saved by some good AI. Even then, I don't think I would connect with the game as everything else to do with the game is so incredibly shallow. I find it incredible that people can get so excited about such a product, but that's kind of irrelevant and pointless anyway so let's just leave it there.

I don't think you're right that people should play games before dismissing them, though. It's just the act of doing so in public (on the internet) that is a little socially unacceptable. When you say "a game they haven't played, a script they haven't read", that's what these gameplay trailers are about. They give you a sense of what the script is going to be like, what the gameplay will be like. The comments threads are for commenting on it, and lots of peopl ehere besides myself though that the game's script and what they could see of the gameplay was so unimpressive that it was worth commenting on. The only thing more dull than that is people going "well why watch it then if you don't like it" and "oh lol just wait til you play it before commenting lewser".