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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.
Sorry Epic but the bullshit you pulled with Gears on the 360 ain't gonna fly in the hyper-competitive pc gaming market.
None of us are fooled by your bullshit marketing shots. We all know about cranking up the normal map resolution on objects, huge amounts of AA not possible in games, and all the other crap you did with those pathetic Gears 'in game screenshots' the Net is filled with.
None of us give a shit about a game that can only handle 4 vs 4 online matches. It's 2007 - wake up!
None of us give a shit about a game that can't get it's networking code to work - we all know about the pathetic lag and disconnect problems that plague Gears.
Whatever you spent of pulled to get those bogus reviews for the game aren't going to do shit in the pc world.
In other words, don't waste your time with a port. Unlike the Xbox, we pc gamers actually have other games worth buying.
So we are getting a port of an old 360 game that has broken/retarded online play and a mind numbingly boring 8-10 hour single player campaign.
Gears of War is what I imagine a game that some interns at Epic Studios would throw together from their free time after work each day. The only thing Gears has been good for has been to show just how badly Microsoft fucked up designing the 360 hardware. Gears is basically just a Doom 3 engine(very low poly, heavy use of normal maps, tiny constrained areas) with the unified lighting model stripped out because the 360 couldn't handle it. gg MS!
'drove'? The Xbox 360 is selling at worse rate than the first Xbox. The same people who bought the first Xbox for Halo are buying the Xbox 360 for Gears of War. The combined Nov/Dec sales for the system are at best mediocre considering the massive amount of bundling and other incentives Microsoft paid retailers to try to move systems. Anyone who wanted to could effectively get an Xbox 360 for 100 dollars off during the holidays and the system still didn't come close to reaching half the sales of last gen's top console the PS2 - which didn't have any of the huge bundling type deals at a similar point in the console's lifetime.