NEWS: Xbox360 Fans React to "Gears of War" Footage with Fainting, Near Riot

GEEK: Xbox360 Fans React to "Gears of War" Footage with Fainting, Near Riot

We obviously didn't come to see this shitty movie



Gears of War, easily the most anticipated Xbox360 game this side of Halo 3 was shown to lucky gamers last week at "The Match Made in Hell", a four-city Gears preview held after a showing of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Beginning". The preview and game play are drawing almost unanimously rave reviews from the fanboy faithful in attendance. No, not fainting or a riot, but pretty damn close.







Gears of War is first person shooter with heavy horror and team game play elements. The game's lush graphics and the recent announcement that it would support multiplayer game play brought Gears of War's anticipation level to a fever pitch.



The game means much more to Microsoft's Xbox360 platform than your average holiday season title. When the Xbox360 launched in November of last year, it drew criticism for not being a large enough step graphically from the original Xbox to warrant the "Next Generation" moniker. By default, Gears has inherited the responsibility of being the first "true" Xbox360 next generation title, the first to really use the 360's full processing horsepower. With November's release of Nintendo's groundbreaking Wii console, and Sony's controversy-plagued PS3, the need for the 360 to shine has never been more vital for Microsoft.



Will Gears cement the 360's strong lead on competitors Sony and Nintendo in the current phase of the console wars, or will it end up being just another FPS death orgy? We'll know soon enough; Gears of War goes on sale November 7th.



here's a look:

Looks pretty "bleh" to me.

Graphics look pretty good, but we all now graphics don't make a game.

I've been looking for another game besides Dead Rising to make me feel like buying a 360 was more worth it, but I don't think this will be it.

oblivion. I could waste eternity playing that game. besides its always a year or so before good games start coming out for new consoles.

Oh, I dunno if you ever played system shock 1 or 2 but the creators are coming out with bioshock. Id pay $600 just to play that game. system shock 2 made me almost piss my pants i was so scared and the lights were on! So bioshock should be incredible (and non linear too)

I hate how people can only get hyped up about the next GTA or war game. I miss the cartoony, off the wall stuff. If I get a system, I guess I'll get a Wii.

you should get Sam and Max..if you haven't already

and this does look good, but will probably have the same failing as most fps games.....not long enough!!

Yawns.

I am assuming by strong lead you mean North America? Which in overall terms of market is still much smaller than Asia where the console wars are truly decided and where the 360 is currently selling worse than the original xbox did. If the xbox is not able to pick up sales in Asia as they said they would need to they have already stated there may not be another xbox console made as they will never be able to compete without an Asain market base.

um, console wars are decided in the us and europe. asia has become an incredibly distant third in number of sales. i don't know what they you're talking about, but microsoft hasn't shown any signs of leaving the console business. they've never said they need asia; they've said asia is important, which they need to say to woo japanese developers to make games that sell more copies in north america than anywhere else on the planet.

I have been excited by the game. It looks like a great title to come out this year. Will it beat out Oblivion? Probably not, but I am sure Epic knows what they are doing with this game.

If I can find you the Quote where they explicitley stated that if they could not get a market in Asia and get better sales there they may not make another console I will post it for you. I read it awhile ago so will do some seluthing to see if I can find it again.

I always assumed that NA was the bigger market, but from the tone of the past few articles I have read about both Xbox and PS3, Asia while lower in sales seems to be where the bigger war is going on and where people are trying to gain the more sales thus why I mentioned the fight right now is for Asia.

Just noticed I mistyped what I meant to say in my original post Meant not to say it was a bigger market but where the battle for the market is right now.

By "Lead", the writer was probably referring to the fact that the 360 was the first of the three systems to be released. Microsoft therefore has the lead as neither of its competitors have even entered the race yet.

Steve does, after all, refer to one specific phase rather than overall sales including the PS2, Gamecube, and XBOX generation.

i'm pretty sure Gears of War is not a First Person Shooter.

oh, and sony themselves have essentially conceded the point that japan is no longer the primary market for their console: there are 400,000 consoles for the american launch, and 100,000 for japan. the war for asia is a mindshare war, and a mindshare war that's being marginalized further by japanese developer's desire to sell more units to western audiences.

the game looks pretty whack, just like a bad cliche of every tom clancy game, 'just cause' is the only thing i got worth playing really saints row was good for like half an hour same as with dead rising. only really looking forward to marvel 'ultimate alliance' and 'pro evo 6' now

Ever since the last generation of consoles I haven't been much of a gamer. I'm a PC Gamer and since then there haven't been many good PC titles. The franchises we used to have, they've mostly left for the consoles, and as a result become different types of games or just rehash after rehash. I'd love to get excited over Bioshock or something, but even that is going to be an X360 title as well. Past experience has taught me not to get too excited over certain games that also come out on consoles. (like Deus Ex 2, Theif 3, etc...)

Games just generally aren't that much fun for me anymore. Maybe I've just gotten older.

That said, there have been a few ports I've loved, and I still have a soft spot for a lot of Nintendo things.

it's not...it's 3rd person

here here, i play my snes emulator daily, when we didnt rely on graphics games were way more fun now its just a big fashion show with drops of sweat and chaos engins that emulate real cloud physics, it kind of ruins it and just creates a lot of useless jobs in the industry

It has nothing on Galaga 360.

People were passing out.

It reminds me of those stuipd bitches who freak out and cry over Celebs.

Thats fucking sad

Yes yes and yes.

Agreed - it truly is 3rd person, but I took a liberty... It's an odd situation, becuase I just never hear the term "3rd person shooter..."

I think you are right tho - next time, I'll just refer to It as a "shooter" or just champion the "3rd person shooter" term.

doesn't look half as pretty as any of the ps3 previews I've seen. but I'm still not buying a ps3!

I'll buy all the next gen consoles soon enough. I've never regretted a purchase when it comes to videogames. Each console has that handful of games I play for hundreds of hours.

Halo II.

Animal Crossing.

Super Smash Brothers Melee.

Monster Rancher.

Katamari Damacy.

Aaaaaaand so forth...

Gears of War looks absolutely incredible in motion, and it plays beautifully. It's the equal of PS3's flagship launch, Resistance: Fall of Man, and more interesting in design and concept.*

It's absolutely fun as hell, and if the single player/co-op campaign is half as entertaining as the multiplayer is, then it will sell roughly 8 bazillion copies.


*Not to take anything away from R: FoM, which is also fun as hell, and looks wonderful on a 1080p big screen (thank you, Sony).

it's one of the two 360 games that i'm really looking forward to, the other one being lost planet.