Gears of War

Spanish Guitar

Alright lads,

I just happened across this Gears' site and thought it was pretty good (lots of photos and stuff). I hadn't seen most of them before so I thought I'd post the link.

Most of you probably know of it already though.

http://gearsrealm.com/

Lemlin

I've been watching it a while. It got best 360 game and best action game at E3. Hopefully it'll be out before Christmas.

Monument had a game of it at E3. You can find his report on www.gamestoaster.com.

fifth

Going to be a great shooter, cannot wait for this.

danbhala

hell yeah! definately gonna get a copy of this...

does it have multiplayer too?

Lemlin

Yep, including a cop-op mode where two people can play both on and offline.

ZygOte

any ideas when this game is actually going to appear, im so tired of waiting

Spanish Guitar

Nobody knows for definite but it'll most likely be November acording to most sites.

I think it'll be worth it though.

evad_lhorg

they say theyll have it out in "the fall" which means sptember more than likely

grizzly

****, I'm really jonesing for another good 360 game – don't want to wait til sept.

Lemlin

Most sites are listing the release date as Fall/Winter. You can be sure of one thing though, it'll be out before mid-November, Microsoft will definitely have this in stores at least a week or two before the PS3 launch.

Ciaran500

Lemlin wrote:

Sega will definitely have this in stores at least a week or two before the PS3 launch.

Sega??

Dooom

Brother of mine has played it, just a quick playtest, and he said although it looked amazing and had a few cool features - it's basically just a "you, go over there and shoot that. I'll shoot this thing and then it'll blow up, then we all go to there."

But then again he sucks at games so I wouldn't hold it to him..

Lemlin

Ciaran500 wrote:

Sega??

Oops, meant Microsoft. In my defence it was late and I guess my head is still stuck in the retro days of Sega vs. Sony.

koneko

The retro days were Nintendo vs Sega

Looking forward to Gears of War, seen some veeery nice screenshots recently aswell.

Alnilam

Commodore vs Spectrum. Bleedin kids today

Lemlin

koneko wrote:

The retro days were Nintendo vs Sega

Looking forward to Gears of War, seen some veeery nice screenshots recently aswell.

Jesus, people would nitpick anything ya say on here Anything less than five years ago is retro in my mind, I've a tough time remembering what I was doing five minutes ago after all.

corblimey

Spike wrote:

Brother of mine has played it, just a quick playtest, and he said although it looked amazing and had a few cool features - it's basically just a "you, go over there and shoot that. I'll shoot this thing and then it'll blow up, then we all go to there."

But then again he sucks at games so I wouldn't hold it to him..

Er, didn't he just describe every single FPS ever?

Dooom

Yeah, that's the point. Aside from looking pretty, it's nothing new.

mcgovern

What exactly was he expecting?

Dooom

Eh? I don't know, it's just what I was told.

ThaMasta

grizzly wrote:

****, I'm really jonesing for another good 360 game – don't want to wait til sept.

Prey?...released in July.

projectmayhem

there's a bit of a blurb about gears in the new issue of edge (Wii on the cover)... but it has lots of e3 stuff including an interview with peter moore

just a heads up

Lemlin

projectmayhem wrote:

there's a bit of a blurb about gears in the new issue of edge (Wii on the cover)... but it has lots of e3 stuff including an interview with peter moore

just a heads up

It's in pretty much every magazine at the minute.

monument

corblimey wrote:

Er, didn't he just describe every single FPS ever?

Spike wrote:

Yeah, that's the point. Aside from looking pretty, it's nothing new.

For starters, it is not a first person shooter.

For seconds, is this perhaps the first game with a chain saw on the bottom of an assault rifle?

It has got to do with a collective of things, from the polish to all the small stuff joining up... for example, the atmosphere way you run, then once you hit a wall you automatically duck and cover (not just this happening, but how it happens). From the small bits I’ve seen and the small bit I’ve played, it’s hard to know exactly how this is going to turn out – but it looks like a hit, maybe even a consoler seller (disclaimer: I’ve probably cursed the game and myself by saying this).

Spanish Guitar

This is the first hi-res gameplay shot I've seen in a while.

http://www.xboxyde.com/news_3069_en.html

Lemlin

An interview with the lead designer, Cliff Bleszinski, will be online at Irishgamer in the morning. I'll post a link then.

Sorry for pimping the site but I thought it would be of interest to people looking forward to the game.

Edit: Its online now, http://www.irishgamer.ie/features.php?id=3&page=1

JuncoPartner

Alnilam wrote:

Commodore vs Spectrum. Bleedin kids today

Vectrex vs ......
Hmm Vectrex versus something I guess, I just had a Vectrex tho.
Bleedin kids today :P

Spanish Guitar

I enjoyed reading that interview. Some Pretty cool questions to ask.

Thanks for the heads up.

Lemlin

Spanish Guitar wrote:

I enjoyed reading that interview. Some Pretty cool questions to ask.

Thanks for the heads up.

Cheers, took a while to get that interview but it was worth it. We're going to have more like that, next up is the Head of Sony Ireland and then we're going to be talking to the developers of Assassin's Creed.

Ciaran500

Lemlin wrote:

next up is the Head of Sony Ireland

Give em hell, all the interviews with Sony I've read so far seem to be a bit to accepting.:D

fifth

Now _that_ ^^ will be interesting.

Lemlin

I fully plan to. One question I'm definitely going to ask is will a PS3 last the pace? I paid good money for my PSone only for it to pack in after two years and to have to turn it upside down to get it to read discs.

Then my PS2, which I bought on launch day, wouldn't read discs at all after two and a half years. Kept getting "disc read errors". Luckily I was working in an electrics shop and could exchange it.

If a PS3 is 600 euro, it better last a good while longer!

projectmayhem

Lemlin wrote:

I fully plan to. One question I'm definitely going to ask is will a PS3 last the pace? I paid good money for my PSone only for it to pack in after two years and to have to turn it upside down to get it to read discs.

Then my PS2, which I bought on launch day, wouldn't read discs at all after two and a half years. Kept getting "disc read errors". Luckily I was working in an electrics shop and could exchange it.

If a PS3 is 600 euro, it better last a good while longer!

not sure what happened to your ps1, mine still works today!

the ps2 had an issue with the tray loader, so to fix it, sony are using a disc loader (i.e. you push the disc in a-la VHS or car cd stereo)... apparently it works a charm, but they haven't been using it for 2 years everyday straight

jesus_thats_gre

Lemlin wrote:

I fully plan to. One question I'm definitely going to ask is will a PS3 last the pace? I paid good money for my PSone only for it to pack in after two years and to have to turn it upside down to get it to read discs.

Then my PS2, which I bought on launch day, wouldn't read discs at all after two and a half years. Kept getting "disc read errors". Luckily I was working in an electrics shop and could exchange it.

If a PS3 is 600 euro, it better last a good while longer!

Grill the bastard over it too.. I worked in Tesco while in college for 5 or so years in one of their biggest toy shops. 2 or 3 Christmas' running, I think I had something like 40 PS1's to send back to Sony because of hardware faults. The first Christmas with the PS2 was nearly as bad considering that fook all sold yet we had at least 10 to send back.