This game impressed da*n near everyone that saw it we had people compairing gameplay footage of Gears Of War to CG graphics of “the other guy”. Mouths just instinctively drop when you see this game in actual gameplay, even if in the end it shapes up to be half of what we see so far it would be an awesome game! The game has what i can only say to be just enough gore to be majorly fun! I mean who doesn’t want to run up to a friend on XBL and cut through them with a saw attached to the end of our big gun and see the blood and guts fly out?
One thing that i think was the nicest addition was the most suddle, the game is meant for realism and the small thing i’m talking about is going into cover, in most games they flip into cover like a graceful bird or something, hate to say this when your in war and going crazy no one is like that you slam into the wall flip around and start blind fireing. In Gears of War this is exactly how it goes, you slam into cover with an Umph and can immediately start blind fireing if you want or hop or roll over to a new cover destination.
It’s already been deamed a new style of fighter, it’s not quite strategy like rainbox six, and it’s not a shoot and run like halo, which are both emensely fun. Gears of war is something new to itself, its a cover and pop, the game relys heavily on cover, and moving from cover to cover and shooting from cover. But it still requires a great deal of teamwork in multiplayers as they had a closed session match of 4×4 and the team that stuck together always won.
Another interesting concept is how death works in Gears of War if you get shot and hurt really bad you dont “die” you basically get knee capped or hurt bad enough to hit the ground. At this point if your on a decent team they can come over and try to help you up and get you back into the game.. god for matches that don’t allow for respawn. But if a enemy is clsoer than a friend he can basically stomp you to death or shoot you in the ehad to finish you off! Talk about bad a$$.
No new news on when the game is going to be released but from what we hear a holiday release of 2006 is most likely. As for the game developers itself they just keep saying “Emergence Day” lol as if that tells us anything.
PS: I forgot to let you know, in multiplayer you get to play as either the good human guys or the evil ones hehe so partys on!
Source: Inhouse, IGN, TeamXbox Hands On and GearsOfWar.com
