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SteveIsaacs

SteveIsaacs

Los Angeles, CA
August 2002

OCT 08, 2006 01:48 AM



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:

thrash242

thrash242

Pearland, TX
September 2004

OCT 08, 2006 01:15 PM

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.

Soyjuice

Soyjuice

Menlo Park, CA
August 2005

OCT 08, 2006 01:46 PM

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)

Hooraydiation

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA
October 2005

OCT 08, 2006 01:58 PM

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.

Itachi

Itachi

United Kingdom
June 2006

OCT 08, 2006 02:14 PM

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!!

Ferretbite

Ferretbite

Mexico
September 2006

OCT 08, 2006 02:29 PM

Yawns.

AnalogPussy

AnalogPussy

Burnaby, BC
August 2004

OCT 08, 2006 02:48 PM



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.



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.

aegies

aegies

Oakland, CA
June 2004

OCT 08, 2006 03:08 PM

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.

RuneLateralus

RuneLateralus

Chicago, IL
December 2002

OCT 08, 2006 03:11 PM

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.

AnalogPussy

AnalogPussy

Burnaby, BC
August 2004

OCT 08, 2006 03:19 PM

aegies said:
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.



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 tongue Meant not to say it was a bigger market but where the battle for the market is right now.

Hooraydiation

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA
October 2005

OCT 08, 2006 03:38 PM

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.

TyC

TyC

Brighton, MA
August 2004

OCT 08, 2006 03:38 PM

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

aegies

aegies

Oakland, CA
June 2004

OCT 08, 2006 04:00 PM

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.

aden_b

aden_b

United Kingdom
September 2006

OCT 08, 2006 04:36 PM

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

ardour

ardour

Ottawa, ON
March 2006

OCT 08, 2006 04:59 PM

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.

Megalomatthew

Megalomatthew

San Francisco, CA
September 2005

OCT 08, 2006 05:00 PM

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



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

aden_b

aden_b

United Kingdom
September 2006

OCT 08, 2006 05:09 PM

ardour said:
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.


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

ortho7117

ortho7117

Charlotte, NC
April 2004

OCT 08, 2006 05:52 PM

It has nothing on Galaga 360.

Skism

Skism

I'm lost
September 2005

OCT 08, 2006 06:08 PM

People were passing out.

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

Thats fucking sad

jonzes

jonzes

Madison, WI
July 2003

OCT 08, 2006 08:00 PM

Soyjuice said:
oblivion.



Yes yes and yes.



SteveIsaacs

SteveIsaacs

Los Angeles, CA
August 2002

OCT 08, 2006 08:08 PM

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.

turin

turin

Denver, CO
October 2003

OCT 08, 2006 08:15 PM

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

SonOfAPunk

SonOfAPunk

Maple Ridge, BC
January 2006

OCT 08, 2006 08:52 PM

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...

PatrickY

PatrickY

Vancouver, WA
December 2003

OCT 08, 2006 09:48 PM

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



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).

MrCrisp

MrCrisp

Charleston, SC
August 2004

OCT 08, 2006 10:09 PM

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

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