This Gears of War vid is just bad@ss

[OC Noob]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=wmv&id=10494

This game is going to rock. It looks sort of like a combo of GRAW and Halo. Check out how the bad guy splatters when he turns the riffle on him up close (the melee where he blasts the aliens head).

I just got about 5 times more excited about this game.

Lost Planet, Saints Row, Crackdown, Spore, Forza II, Fable II, Zelda Wii, oh my!!!

ps that Marvel game could totally rock if its multiplayer like BF.

[z0n3]

I need more buckets for my drool. E3 is really good this year. Last year nothing was announced. This year there is a ton of stuff. I guess that's what happens when three new consoles roll out.

[OC Noob]

I need more buckets for my drool. E3 is really good this year. Last year nothing was announced. This year there is a ton of stuff. I guess that's what happens when three new consoles roll out.


It seems like the Unreal 3 Engine is starting to see a lot of action and there is all they hype surrounding PS3 and Wii.

It is a kick butt E3. There are quite a few really good lookng PC titles too.

[RedDragonXXX]

This game is on top of my list!!!!!

How can Wii compete with this :shrug: Haha just jk'in :p

Any word on when the demo is hitting the marketplace?

[OC Noob]

This game is on top of my list!!!!!

How can Wii compete with this :shrug: Haha just jk'in :p

Any word on when the demo is hitting the marketplace?

We are looking at august, right? Maybe in a couple of months.


You guys heard of Too Human?

I just read a write up on it. Silicon Knights is making it and it sounds really cool and it is due in November, but there is nothing from E3 that I've seen. Just curious if you guys have seen anything.

[RedDragonXXX]

We are looking at august, right? Maybe in a couple of months.


You guys heard of Too Human?

I just read a write up on it. Silicon Knights is making it and it sounds really cool and it is due in November, but there is nothing from E3 that I've seen. Just curious if you guys have seen anything.

Yea they have short footage of gameplay at gametrailers.com, nothing impressive but looks decent.

[Fireside85281]

That game will rock if it's like the trailer! Is that DX10? I just can't see a game like that on current hardware.

I never heard of this game before, but now I'm definitely looking forware to it!

[RedDragonXXX]

That game will rock if it's like the trailer! Is that DX10? I just can't see a game like that on current hardware.

I never heard of this game before, but now I'm definitely looking forware to it!

Have you been living under the rock, LOL

I hope you realize that this game is Xbox360 exclusive so that should answer your question about DX10.

[Oni]

It's a very pretty game, I'll give it that. The first thing that really stuck me, however, was the A.I.. That's what looks most impressive to me, the fact that the computer AI will regroup and fall back and try to flank you. Take cover while taking fire etc. That's what impressed me most.

Beyond that, it looked to me like a cross of Doom III / Quake VI / F.E.A.R.

[OC Noob]

It's a very pretty game, I'll give it that. The first thing that really stuck me, however, was the A.I.. That's what looks most impressive to me, the fact that the computer AI will regroup and fall back and try to flank you. Take cover while taking fire etc. That's what impressed me most.

Beyond that, it looked to me like a cross of Doom III / Quake VI / F.E.A.R.


Have you played GRAW? The movement, point of view and shoting from cover are a lot like GoW looks.

GRAW is very good, so hopefully GoW has take some of that goodness to mix in with the Quake/Doom/FEAR stuff.


ps it looks really cool when you are halling butt to get to cover and they go into a more cinimatic point of view. You guys think thats a real game element and if so will it make it into the final build?

[Banyan]

looks average to me... nothing that hasn't been done gameplay-wise and the novelty of pretty graphics wears off rather quick. it is cool how you can fire from cover though. and ill give them credit for the vid not being pre-rendered.

[OC Noob]

looks average to me... nothing that hasn't been done gameplay-wise and the novelty of pretty graphics wears off rather quick. it is cool how you can fire from cover though. and ill give them credit for the vid not being pre-rendered.

The firing from cover has been done too, but gameplay is where its at. All the inovation in the world is worthless if gameplay stinks;)

Hopefully we will know which side of the fence this falls on (gameplay waise) in the next few months.

Oh yeah, story is pretty important too. I can forgive a lot if the story is very, very good.

[Sjaak]

If you ask me, the aiming and damage system is lame, i don't wanna have to hit the bad guys 5 times in the head. And the crosshair was ugly too. Graphics remind me of Far Cry.

[Apo11o]

Im so glad i preordered that game at my gamestop before this vid came out, because this will make people want this game.

[OC Noob]

If you ask me, the aiming and damage system is lame, i don't wanna have to hit the bad guys 5 times in the head. And the crosshair was ugly too. Graphics remind me of Far Cry.

Good thing nobody asked you, lol.

j/k

What reminds you of Far Cry, other then the fact that there are guns and mutants? And what don't you like about the aiming system? It seems pretty standard.

The other stuff I understand.

[Sjaak]

The crosshair was ugly compared to the one you have in GRAW and raven shield, those give a 'feeling' of accuracy that this one surely doesnt.

And the indoor scene at the start (fallen rocks, bad guys hiding behind em) was the same as the temple scene in far cry at about 80% of the game.

[OC Noob]

The crosshair was ugly compared to the one you have in GRAW and raven shield, those give a 'feeling' of accuracy that this one surely doesnt.

And the indoor scene at the start (fallen rocks, bad guys hiding behind em) was the same as the temple scene in far cry at about 80% of the game.

I see. I need to play through Far Cry again, its been too long.

[]-[itman]

There's one actual gameplay footage floating around that looks pretty sweet. At one point the player pulls out what appears to be a chain saw and goes to town on one mutant(don't think Doom3, think more RE4, only this time you have the chain saw). The hauling to cover was in the gameplay video, though it looked kinda funny when they were running for a chopper and still bending down. It appears there's no regular run function, lol.

[Michael Warren]

Have you been living under the rock, LOL

I hope you realize that this game is Xbox360 exclusive so that should answer your question about DX10.
The XBOX 360 does not support full DX10.

[]-[itman]

The XBOX 360 does not support full DX10.

The Xbox360 gpu is essentially a tweaked x1900, so no DX10 support.

[Vance S]

This game certainly looks awesome. So it's exclusively a 360 title, huh? That's a shame because I was hoping it would come out for the PC since I don't want to buy a 360.

[]-[itman]

This game certainly looks awesome. So it's exclusively a 360 title, huh? That's a shame because I was hoping it would come out for the PC since I don't want to buy a 360.

There's rumors that a PC version might happen, but I wouldn't look forward to it.

[zexmarquies01]

wow, that looks great! looks like fun too. that is a definite need on the 360.

only grip i have is the player. whomever was the one playing that game SUCKS. jesus, he can't aim to save his life. he'd always do the SAME mistakes too. Like when ducking, then popping up and shooting enemy's at the wall, instead of taking a brief second to move the cross-airs ABOVE the wall, he'd shoot the wall, and move the cross-airs WHILE shooting, wasting a TON of ammo, and doing no damage to the bad guys.

that and when he was waiting for the enemy's to come through the hole they cut out in that wall...who in their right mind aims their gun at the feet of whatever may be comming out? ALWAYS aim in the center, because you KNOW you will hit it. If you know what it is, then you can aim higher, for head-shots.

Good thing that guy had infinite health on :D or he would have been D-E-A-D.

[swimomatic]

Yes! this and forza motorsport 2 are going to be THE games I will buy a 360 for.. that is.. once the PS3 *coughs crap* comes out the and 360 comes down in price and woops its' a$$

[OC Noob]

The XBOX 360 does not support full DX10.


I think that was the point he was trying to make.

The 360 version of DX is a hybrid/custom anyway isn't it. Not really DX9 either?

[Yuriman]

I'm with Sjaak here, not really impressed. I guess I've just played too many FPS's, saw nothing new or interesting. Also, I saw just 1 type of enemy... and they only did 1 thing.

But, the game still might be good. That movie didn't really show much.

[shard]

I am more after the gameplay experience, how fun it is to shoot the gun, amposphere, sound, and premise. Not just graphics for me.

[RedDragonXXX]

-[itman']The Xbox360 gpu is essentially a tweaked x1900, so no DX10 support.

Xbox360 GPU is based on ATI's R600 core so it's beyond x1900.

[]-[itman]

Xbox360 GPU is based on ATI's R600 core so it's beyond x1900.

Are you sure about that? Do you have a link? I just haven't seen this before and am interested.

[OC Noob]

I'm with Sjaak here, not really impressed. I guess I've just played too many FPS's, saw nothing new or interesting. Also, I saw just 1 type of enemy... and they only did 1 thing.

But, the game still might be good. That movie didn't really show much.

Yeah, there are many more. Those are just the lowest level grunts.

[boris_37]

*yawn* another fps... another borefest. sigh :shrug:

[Prodigious]

The funny thing is that it's not even an FPS.:rolleyes:

[SuperFarStucker]

-[itman']The Xbox360 gpu is essentially a tweaked x1900, so no DX10 support.

You're dead wrong. Xenos is a ground up solution for a console. It supports unified shaders and partial WGF 2, i.e. partial DX10 support, the x360 api is somewhere between dx9 & dx10. Unified shaders is one of the 'huge' dx10 features. Unreal 3 engine is bona fide dx10.

ATI are probably fairly keen not to use the R500 name as this draws parallels with their upcoming series of PC graphics processors starting with R520, however R520 and Xenos are very distinct parts. R520's aim is obviously designed to meet the needs of the PC space and have Shader Model 3.0 capabilities as this is currently the highest DirectX API specification available on the PC, and as such these new parts still have their lineage derived from the R300 core, with discrete Vertex and Pixel Shaders; Xenos, on the other hand, is a custom design specifically built to address the needs and unique characteristics of the game console. ATI had a clean slate with which to design on and no specified API to target. These factors have led to the Unified Shader design, something which ATI have prototyped and tested prior to its eventual implementation


i.e. the x360 gpu steals the x1k's lunch.

Also, if it walks like a duck...
(it is a FPS even if the acronym disagrees)
In no way is that a bad thing though.

[OC Noob]

It is impossible for a thrid person game to be a FPSer. They may share a lot, but it moo's like a cow and it ain't a duck.

Not that it matters though, since theres a population of people that associate any shooter with negative cliches because they don't like the genre. As if puppies and mushrooms are somehow superior. Sure the shooter genre hasn't changed much, but no genre really has. The 10th Mario game is just like the first SMB only with better gfx and 3d so I don't see what is so "fresh" and inovative about that compared to Wolfenstien vs. HL2. Heck, the story in Mario and Zelda are always pretty much the same just like sci-fi game stories. And the same can be said about RTS, RPG and all other genres. There are a lot of parallels and I don't see where the game snob attitude is coming from, from the Nintendo fans.

You would think that everyone else should just stop making games now that the new remote is... well 6 months away still. Whats the point, since every genre and game, except for Nintendo games was perfected back in the mid to late 80's.