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Gears of War 12min Xboxyde
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From the previews (there have been many) that I've read, the gameplay is very fun and good. Not one review have I read has said that the gameplay is lacking or otherwise so I am hoping for the best. I think the only disdain about the game is the voice acting? I think I can look past that though when the game is as gorgeous as this. :smile:
How many weapons will GeOW feature? Will it have same set of weapons across the game or different weapons will be available as the game progresses? Bec'se the gameplay video didn't feature many weapons and those weapons didn't feel distinctively different from each other.
scooby_dooby
Legend
I mean, what the heck? What is the big deal on "emergence day"?? I thought it was the release date as wellTalk about your poor marketing...
They don't want people going to the stores and not being able to find the game, so the 12th is the gauranteed date, and the date they'll push in their ads.
Since I saw that new video...
Gameplay seems lacking, I'll wait for reviews and personal testing to see how good (or bad) it is, but I'm not that excited about it anymore
it's all about multiplayer IMO
with only 8 players online? I'd put my money on Singleplayer offering more than multiplayer. Perhaps I'm just too used to huge multiplayer matches on PC though.
8 players? Microsoft really should sort something out, like an addon box specifically for people who wan't to run dedicated servers or something like that. They'd get more money for the server box and it could integrate with live. Of course they could just release something that could allow people to do it on their PC's but that would be too simple.
More players does not necessarily mean a superior mutiplayer. For one thing, you have to factor in that with more players, the less likely they're going to work together and more likely they're just going to run of and do there own thing. This is fine and dandy for some games (TFC comes to mind), but for others it doesn't work. As we all know, GOW is a cover based game with a heavy reliance on team work, and by adding more players, it's basically going to abadon all these mechanics and turn into a chainsaw and run and gun fest.
Theres other factors too, like map design and size. Obivously with less players you want to make the maps smaller so that its more tense, but you don't want to make it so you're just running into each other as soon as the map starts.
Well, I can name a few weapons for you from videos I've seen. The lancer (chainsaw gun), shotgun, sniper, boomshot (rocket launcher), grenades, that Locust version of the lancer, Torquebow (but without the chainsaw). CliffyB stated theres a few different pistols.Probably a few more we havent seen.
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GoW 8 player has nothing to do with that... it is a design decision based on the type of game and the maps etc.
Also XBL does allow for companies (EA for example) to run their games through their own servers, which they currently do.
read some of the hands on MP reviews, or better yet, buy the game in 2 weeks and I think you may be surprised.
It is a design decision based on the cover style gameplay and teamwork/flanking and up close death moves in a smaller map area that fits this type of game that Ciffy envisioned.
oh and what El Leone said
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showpost.php?p=859175&postcount=29
DuckThor Evil
Legend
I don't think the game will work on his PS2
Anyways it's clear that more is not always the better, and I believe this is especially true for Gears of War, even if there are technical reasons for making more players impossible. El Leone said it well.
Ack, is that pop ins I see? I thought they would have sorted stuff like that by now :\
Gameplay seems like itll get quite tedious. Reminds me of Doom 3's "Oh crap, some guys respawned in a room and now you gotta kill em, repeat 999 times". However the graphics look pretty nice (from what I can tell on that video) and I like the camera angles.
Never really was much for console multiplayer, especially FPS but hopefully the singleplayer campaign will be good.
Gameplay seems like itll get quite tedious. Reminds me of Doom 3's "Oh crap, some guys respawned in a room and now you gotta kill em, repeat 999 times". However the graphics look pretty nice (from what I can tell on that video) and I like the camera angles.
Never really was much for console multiplayer, especially FPS but hopefully the singleplayer campaign will be good.
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Well even if we are talking about the tactical advantages 8 players online would give, make it atleast 10. 5on5, more players without sacrifing the tactical outlook, just like for example in Counter-Strike. When I played that game, 3on3 was so boring that I never really wanted to play it. 4on4 was starting to warm things up, but still 5on5 was simply the best. I have no doubt in my mind that they could make it 5on5 but I guess it was theyr decision to make it 4vs4. Give me your impressions on the MP when it launches.
hm... looks like it's pistol, plasma pistol, shotgun, autorifle+chainsaw, plasma rifle, sniper. And then one grenade. I'd hope they have more than that.
archangelmorph
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How come everytime I see the game the graphics appear to have gotten worse?
I hope its the image quality of the 640x480 video from xboxyde but I really don't see where all the texture resolution has dissappeared to?
This vid looks worse than the TGS and E3 06 ones!?!?
granted I love the DOF (however the video doesn't show it off very well to be honest) but after taking a closer look at the character models i'm thinking that it seems to be moving off in the wrong direction IQ-wise with the texture res getting lower and lack of normal maps on most of the environment geometry..
Heck the female in the chopper looked straight out of a PS2 game..
I really hope they release some HD footage to put my worries to rest..
I hope its the image quality of the 640x480 video from xboxyde but I really don't see where all the texture resolution has dissappeared to?
This vid looks worse than the TGS and E3 06 ones!?!?
granted I love the DOF (however the video doesn't show it off very well to be honest) but after taking a closer look at the character models i'm thinking that it seems to be moving off in the wrong direction IQ-wise with the texture res getting lower and lack of normal maps on most of the environment geometry..
Heck the female in the chopper looked straight out of a PS2 game..
I really hope they release some HD footage to put my worries to rest..
or better yet.... buy it, take it home in two weeks, play it on an HDTV and let your jaw drop to the floor... (by all 1st hand accounts)
archangelmorph
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I'd seriously love to, I really would but:
I don't have a HDTV..
I don't have an Xbox360..
I don't even have a job.. (yet)
not commenting about the lack of gears of war graphic quality for a change
anyways i believe the lack of weapons is due to camera angle
u can see it plainly even though the camera is nearly a 3rd person (over the shoulder), the actual aim + shooting is done from first person ( i can supply graphic evidence if u wish )
now this works with fast weapons where u dont see the projectiles eg machinegun, pistol etc
but with rocketlaunches (which usually leave a trail) it will look wrong, the only way around it is to do like they do with the handgrenade (draw dotted lines onscreen showing u where u are aiming) or move the player into the center of the screen
For everybody that thas an Xbox 360, they they just put a new trailer up on marketplace. It's not gameplay, it's actually a little cinematic sequence (music video, kinda) with an old Tears for Fears song. (It's seriously bad ass.)
"Exclusive "Gears of War" commercial that will run in cinema and on TV. This gripping ad was produced entirely in game engine. Emergence day is imminent!"
Anyway, if Gears looks like that, any worries I might have had are history.
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