HEXUS preview Gears Of War

most of the early shots with the huge amounts of AA was before the game was even running on x360 hardware most of the media that came out after it was running on the 360 have been honest

but the bullshots just look downscaled and not as if they had any post processing on them, or if they did they have met or surpassed the effects

 

So wait, your a person who obviously have no technical knowledge about games (seeing how you cant figure out that anything shown for consoles with more than 4x aa isnt "real"), and this game got to you? Why not Killzone? Why not the amazing Killing Day?

If i had no particular clue about a games, consoles and what they are able to do or not, i would certainly be more exited for Killzone (and just about every other PS3 CGI movie that was shown at E3 05 ) than a game that didnt begin to get any hype before this year.

Im just curious, because it seems so unlikely

 

Isn't it funny how the same person can talk a lot about the not so obvious quality increases in another game's PS3 version, but fail to see how Gears has advanced through the year?

 

To bad you only saw those (very few) images and not the rest of the 99,9% of the images as well as all the videos released from various events, those would be the best indicator of what the game looks like, trying t say that CliffyB tried to cheat you feels a bit strange to say the least, as they in no occation have tried to hide the looks of the game. You might remember all the complaints on slow downs, how the game was sterle, without dusts and stuff flying around and bad animation. And how can someone be dissapointed when come releaseday this game will look, arguably, better than anything out there...

 

FINALYY a game where I can live out my dream of being a balding, scarred space marine!!! i'm buyiong my xstation poop3 RIGHT NOW!

j/k... looks great! it's not for me, but, these games are usually about graphics. Though, will there be mods? without mods, there are no FPS's I would play. Well, there have been some. But this is not one of them. XD Awesome graphics tho!

 

The new EGM mag preview contains some new information and photos, including an awesome half-bat enemy, the Kryl, that hasn't been seen in any videos yet. It looks quiet eery, sub-human and incredible. Seems to do a lot of leaping at you as well.

They also have photos of the curb stomp, which is also really cool. Basically when people are in that "revivable" state down on the ground, the curb stomp is one way to finish them off for good. It seems more of a nasty mid-air stomp than anything. Cooler than I thought.

Also mentions a level, which we have seen parts of, where you have to continually blow up a series of propane tanks, burning cars etc, to stay in the light and avoid the teeming Kryll.

CliffyB has outdone himself. Yet still managed to ship a game in a reasonable time frame.

Lastly the article also shows the larger, almost Goro-like Locust enemy, and a nice poto that stands out to me for the ragdoll animation (a hand and fingers thrown up in the air) as you gun someone down, something I also noticed for a split second at the very beginning in one of the new videos at gametrailers
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More EGM preview notes:

There's a tank.

The Kryll wil eat weaker locust enemies as well as you (that's how badass they are).

They describe a moonlit level featuring going through a dilapidated mansion, of which shoe says he sees something out of the corner of his eye that "is still blowing his mind" although he ends there and doesn't divulge what it is. But says something like "Oh yes, this game will definitly pass the mom test" (reffered to below)

Cliffy says the graphics are so good to pass the "Mom test". Aka the visual fidelity leap must be so obvious that Mom will buy timmy a 299 game machine because she can see the difference.

Shoe says you wont want to touch your original Xbox again after playing this game because it looks so good.

Shoe says though Epic was apparantly concerned about bugs during their session, he felt the game was already polished and basically ready to go, good framerate etc.

Cliffy says multiplayer wont be like deathmatch. "You must have fear of dying, otherwise you just end up running at each other and it devolves into Qauke, that's great but it's not our game"
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CliffyB said they didn't do bullshots, and I believed him. Quite frankly, those shots I now know to be bullshots do indeed look better than what we have right now at least when it comes to the character models. To me, it's obvious that those bullshots had enhanced character models in addition to the extra antialiasing. The truth is he misled others and myself.

Let me also say that I have not spoken about Killzone because except for what we saw at E3 of 2005 we have seen NOTHING. If they downgrade Killzone you can be CERTAIN I will complain. I'm not loyal to any one console or company. I'm loyal to graphics.

 

Then I suggest you try "playing" this game first before you judge the graphics. I can understand your doubt, trust me, but the game looks very good when played.

 

you cant possibly be serious.. and if you're I guess you havent bought a game in 10 yrs.

 

Well, the "bullshots" might not be ingame graphics, but they still can be extracted from cuscenes. Besides, some of those shots remind me of the UE3 demo.
Honestly, I was amazed at how cool gears looked at E3 2005, remember, the shaky andcam video which shown a game with a really poor framerate. And now, I'm totally stunned by the latest gameplay video.

 

I wouldn't say GOW looks less right now. In that 2005 video the textures looked a little sharper with no visible jaggies. The final version has improved art and jaggies aren't that visible from everything I seen. Only many of those IGN pictures were deceiving, because many people used them to 'pimp' this game back then. Game right now looks great so..that's all that matters.

 

Let me rephrase this for you. You are saying that professional developers toiling away for years have no chance of making something that would interest you more that what a bunch of hobbyists can do over their evenings and weekends in a couple of months?

You must be one of those people who watch reality TV, then?

 

Babcat, I respect your opinion, though mine is the exact opposite.
Ingame is not as good as trailers, but we both know that one must never trust a trailer, even if it's done with the game engine.
If you look at the gameplay vids on the ign link, Gears looked great, but i feel like it looks even better now. The main caracter animations were not as good as they are now. Thanks for posting the link, it was a great pleasure for me to watch those videos again.

 

More from EGM (some of this may be well known, I dont keep up)

Multiplayer modes are War Zone: 4 on 4 elimination where when you die you go chat with other dead in the "dead channel" to watch your teammates finish up. Assassination, where your team must kill the designated enemy leader, and Execution, where you have to do one of the execution moves (curb stomp, etc) to finish your opponent. The modes even have cool names. Cliffy specifically says he did not want your standard deathmatch and capture the flag modes in the game. Which I think is another great Cliffy touch.

I think this has already been mentioned but they actually got legal permission from Ted Nugent to name an achievement for killing people with the torque bow as "The Nuge".

I'm totally psyched on this game by now. CliffyB must be a games genius.

AThey show another enemy called the locust wretch, and a big tank thing that shoots a thick laser light beam, which is basically to fry Kryll in mid air like a spot light. There will definitly be decapitations as well (I had read that before). And the description of the Mansion multi-player level sounds impressive "like a big budget haunted house movie but you feel like you're actually there".

Apparantly this little EGM trip will be on a upcoming episode of the 1up show, I dont know when, hopefully tomorrow. Hopefully they will have some of this new footage as well.

Here is a little something bad: Apparantly by Shoe the "Boom shot" a grenade launcher/rocket launcher hybrid, is pretty unbalanced on one of the multi-player levels, it devolves it "run for the Boom Shot first". But it's not bad on another level apparantly due to the design.

Overall Shoe loved it though.
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Heh, nice try... you're understanding correctly about the first part and mistaken about the second. To paraphrase, the professional developers at Epic have never designed a game I really liked. They are damn good at graphics, though. Have fun with this title, I'm not saying I'm disappointed. But it's not my style; I'm not into the arcade game gameplay very often. The mod community, yes, is, in fact at least two or three times better at creating games I want to play (from modkits, of course -- can't live entriely without engine designers and most of the artists).

 

First look from 360Monster

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Oh, hey, Gears of War only uses 40% of the 360's.... er, wait a minute.... Here's a knife. Somebody, I beg you, stab me in the face. Right Now. What's that? Oh, they still haven't put that invention into manufacturing, so you can't stab people through the internet yet? How unfortunate, perhaps I'll just bang my head on something jagged for a few minutes instead.

 

I find this kinda ironic. How come they're only using 40% of 360's power when MS said they've made it really easy to develop for?



BTW - Game sounds very good, and a richer experience then at first it seemed to me.