Gears of War coming to the PC - w/ editor & DX10 support

[Salvator]

Gears of War - Announcement: Gears for Windows

Gears of War®, a Games for Windows title slated for release in the 2007 holiday season, features the amazing tactical action and multiplayer excitement found in the critically acclaimed Gears of War for Xbox 360™ that has sold more than 3.5 million units. In addition, gamers will enjoy a variety of all-new content, including three new multiplayer maps, a new multiplayer game type, game editor, five new campaign chapters, and DirectX 10 support.

[HawkMan]

Released for both XP and Vista, but Live only on Vista.

[Nayslayer]

They better release those campaign chapters for the xbox version or im gonna be seriously pissed.

[Alec Trevelyan]

Yeah, they'd better! I knew there had to be more content somewhere, because there were too many unresolved plot threads, not to mention things that came up that it seemed you were supposed to know about already, like, I dunno, General RAAM, who isn't mentioned at all until you run into him, and the female baddie after the final battle.

[HawkMan]

you run into Raam earlier in the story than the end.

Anyway they are under no obligation to release the chapters for the 360 version, but I'm guessing they will.

As for knowing of Raam before, well the first time you meet him Phoenix obviusly have seen him before. But I doubt this will e covered in those chapters. this is probably more related to his fathers death. And Epic has allready said that one of the "possible" sequels would be a prequel showing who phoenix is and why he became what he is. as they said, there's a lot of story in the Gears universe.

[Nutsy]

So the multiplayer is only on windows Live? witch you have to pay a monthly subsciption on?

Die microsoft... Just DIE

[HawkMan]

no multiplayer isn't only one live.

and besides you don't have to pay to play multiplayer on Live for windows, but you have to pay to use the live matchmaking instead of regular server browsing like classic windows games.

you pay to get the excelent mathamking service and other live features as on the xbox360.

[jay-mo]

Do you know if they ae going to drop the price of the 360. It was rumored that they would since the ps3 is reducing thier price, but I don't recall actually hearing it. Now that gow will be released for the pc, it's making it harder to decide wether to buy one. I saw a lot of good titles coming out, and I'm sick of using my brother's profile to play gow. If they reduce the price, it makes it more enticing. One thing I saw was that they are launching the xbox 360 elite in Europe, but I haven't seen any in the US. Have they already released the "elite" in the US?

[HawkMan]

As it is for MS there's no huge incentive for a price reduction is, So far I believe the PS3 price cut is a 1 month thing, and either way they'll most likely phace out the 60 GB version and just sell the 80 GB package (wich still costs the same as the old package) instead. Most expensive 20 GB ever, not like motorstorm is worth anything.

Despite the more common responce that the 360 Halo 3 edition looks "bleh", I actually like it, don't mind the green, and the halo SciFi pattern makes it look prety cool. and except for the 20GB HDD, it's the same as an elite. But then I allready have a 360

And with all the games coming out from now on throughout the year, it's definately the time to buy a 360.

You allready have Forza2, GoW, Shadowrun, RB6:Las Vegas and classics like DoA4

And coming now there's Mass Effect, PGR4, Lost Oddysey, Halo 3, Too Human, Blue Dragon, GTA4, and so much more. I'm goign to find some way to get huge income and almost exlcusively free time 24/7 too get through this fall, it's truly a good time to be a game, partuclarly a 360 gamer

[HawkMan]

ah yeah, the elite has been released int he US a while. But they're somewhat hard to get, few rproduced and high demand.