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Gears of War Heading To PC Someday
Mark Rein, of Epic Studios, told the folks over at Team Xbox that sooner or later Gears of War will be heading for the PC. With Microsoft's 'ownership' of both the 360 and PC platforms, it's a no-brainer that Epic's epic will make its way there eventually; the question is one of keeping quality high and satisfying fans of the franchise. They also discuss the hopeful-looking future for the game, as a part of the Marketplace download ecology and in future games. Rein states: "The big challenge is to make a game that was designed solely for the console, to take advantage of every last little corner of that console, to fill every little crack and run as many threads as we could and do as much to exploit the power of that machine, and make it run well on enough PCs to be worth releasing. That's a challenge." For another look back and forward on the game, 1up has a chat with CliffyB up on their site.
Gears of War is UE3 based, so I would imagine that since Epic has UE3 running on the PC already (UT2k7) a Gears port would be trivial and capable of better-than-360 performance.
No its very much a third person game.
You mad
I worked at a Gamestop as an Assistant Manager for the holiday season .. (and both the Wii and PS3 launches), this is what people bought:
... with shipments of more than 2 million copies in six weeks leading Microsoft to proclaim it the "fast-selling next-generation console game" to date"
.. I can see your point. Really.
1. Wiis, if we had them (tended to run out about an hour after the UPS guy arrived, sometimes less)
2. PS3s, until the Wii released.
3. Xbox 360s by the TON (average 3-4 a day), and out of those, 75% went out the door with a copy of Gears.
"around 2m Xbox 360s were sold between the start of November 2006 and Christmas Day." and Gears of War,
Yea
GoW would not translate well to kb/m. Considering the map layout and movement speeds involved in this game, being able to use mouse precision would drastically change the gameplay. It'd be like playing counter-strike with everybody's walk button taped down.
Right now melee combat is a very significant equalizer in this game since disparity in armament becomes irrelevant once you get up close, which happens fairly regularly since controllers just aren't as precise as mice. If kb/m is used, ranged weapons vastly increase in their deadliness, particularly the one-shot stoppers like the sniper rifle, boomshot, and bow.
It can be moved to PC, but it will require adjustments to core gameplay and renovation of map layouts, because a direct port would not play out anything like the current Gears of War.