Gears of War preview ( kickass )

pogonip · Jul 2005

Shacknews has posted up some stuff from Gears of War that pretty much totally kicks ass and maybe will give you some insperation for the day . Im ready for this game now and I can't wait to make a MOD character for it

http://www.shacknews.com/extras/destroyedbeauty/070505_destroyedbeauty_01.x

Badname · Jul 2005

That rox so much. I love the part were you see how the design of the soldier evolved.

Gmanx · Jul 2005

Very very cool. But then Epic are past masters at cool. By the numbers, but still mightily impressive.

Prs-Phil · Jul 2005

gotta love hawkprey

MoP · Jul 2005

Hehe, yeah, looks nice. Is it just an XBox2 title, or will it be on PC as well?

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2005

According to Microsoft, it's coming to PC's as well. Accoding to Epic, it's a x360 exlusive.

Mark Dygert · Jul 2005

/me watches as the Earth grows too small to support CliffyB's Massive head...
I am sure he is a down to earth guy and not the rockstar he pretends to be on his site, relax, unbunch your panties CliffyB fan boi's, shesh!

I've been watching this one for a while, it looks great. EGM had a feature on Gears, in the august issue. I hope it comes to the PC since I won't be buying a ps3 or 360 on launch unless by some miricle they start shipping with strippers.

rawkstar · Jul 2005

i wonder how well it'll tansfer between 360 and the PC, assuming there will be a PC version, I think there will be, i mean it is a shooter by epic... should be on the PC. Oh well, my only complaint with console/PC shooters is that they seem to feel slightly... wonky and chuggy when moving around, not smooth and precise like with straight up PC shooters, might have something to do with porting the controls over from the console version. but I'm no coder, so I wouldn't really know, all i care about is good games and this looks like one of them.

pogonip · Jul 2005

I think that it might be 360 exclusive because they are also making Unreal 2007 at the same time for the PC so I would imagine they don't want to have products competing with each other ? Maybe down the line they will have someone do a PC port. I hope so anyways !

Mongrelman · Jul 2005

According to here http://www.igniq.com/2005/05/epic-no-pc-version-of-gears-of-war-in.html there might be one, but epic don't have plans for it.

I really hope we do get it for the PC.

Dio · Jul 2005

I think Epic learned their lesson in regards to console/pc ports with Unreal Awakening. That fact is evidenced in the Liandri Conflict being an console exclusive. Ports tend to lack the visiral experience of the original.

This line caught my eye as Ive been anticapating it for the next gen shooters; "As a result of dwelling in perpetual darkness, they have an aversion to light... one of our few advantages." Light will not just be an effect but an element of gameplay like in Splinter Cell only in a FPS tempo. Light guns, flash grenades, and helicopter spot lights abound.

Joshua Stubbles · Jul 2005

If it's a 360 exclusive that's fine, as I'll be getting that console anyways. It's a damn impressive engine, and I'm trying to convince our own studio to pick it up. It's quite spendy, but certainly worth it.

Daz · Jul 2005

Beautiful. Am I seeing things, or is that some faked realtime SSS I see there?

http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/xbox360/Gears+of+War/1/gearsofwar/20_conclusion.jpg

Ror? Mal? Anyone?

pogonip · Jul 2005

Ehhh I don't see why volumetric rendering would have to be a faked effect in that shot. I remember seeing the Sony Pre e3 press confrence and they had that real-time on these creatures with Big Hands it was pretty damn cool ...

KDR_11k · Jul 2005

Daz: It probably is, some polycounter here confirmed that UE3 can fake SSS.

Foehammer · Jul 2005

very cool! I heard that the story is being penned by Eric Nylund, one of my favorite authors, he wrote the 2 Halo books that take place before and after the original Halo, his original works are great also, I highly recommend Signal to Noise.

_Shimmer · Jul 2005

Daz, it is definitly. Its a very tricky shader effect. You can see the SSS on the UT2006/7 shots too (The ears of melcom for example)

However, gears of war looks awesome, really like the style. Though I cant stand this lately more and more upcoming blooming overkill....and purple blooming argh!

doc rob · Jul 2005

I think by 'faked' Daz meant that they shader was not doing the types of calculations that an off-line renderer does, but instead something cheaper that yields a similar effect to SSS.

I think they're calling them 'transmission masks,' and the shader was primarily a translucency effect (self illuminate if nearby pixels in 3d space are being illuminated, using the mask and it's colors as a factor). Or something like that. . .

lkraan · Jul 2005

Holy crap that looks cool!
If it will really be an x360 exlusive then that would push me over the edge of buying that conbsole right away. I usually wait until the first or second price cut but with goodies like this I wouldn't be able to wait.

moose · Jul 2005

doc's got it.

[cookie] !

Eric Chadwick · Jul 2005

Fake SSS is pretty simple. We talked about this awhile back.
http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~polycount/ubb/Forum8/HTML/004130.html#30
Not sure what UE3 is doing, but it could be this way.

Can't wait to play in this world, looks great.

PaK · Jul 2005

/claps for mike Buck and ror

Good job guys. the detail is astounding, the design and lighting equally so.

You guys have really done a fab job.

-R

peanut · Jul 2005

For a second it looked like something ripped out of UT, but after reading a bit more i discovered that its a creation of Epic.

Kevin Johnstone · Jul 2005

Not me Pak, I'm on UT7.

r.

ryan77 · Jul 2005

Looks pretty damn awesome, I love games with large open environments like half-life 2 and this is looking something like that. I don't get what all the fuss about Cliffy B is, I met him at Unreal University and talked with him, great fucking guy in my opinion.

pogonip · Jul 2005

Ehh probebly only people like ROR who work with him know his true personality. I seen him hosting the G4 awards and he seemed like a tool but im sure that was an act and was probebly feeling like a rockstar at the moment.

Kevin Johnstone · Jul 2005

While I can't claim to be very close to Cliff, I know theres a big difference between Cliff and 'Cliffy B'.
I sure couldn't handle getting up under the spotlight as much as he has to and the only way to be good at something is to enjoy it so go figure.

r.

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