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selnor on 13 May 2008
PooperScooper said:
ToastyJaguar said:

"The gameplay shown doesn’t make use of features shown off in Unreal 3.5, be it ambient occlusions, or meat cubes, the realistic water effects. The level of detail was sort of bland"

OK this guy is abit confused i think, where in that level are you going to show off water effects, and a cube of meat.

exactly. You would show that off in a tech demo. Not game play footage.

selnor is speculating speculation

Well you said i am so i ust be. If you played GOW1 you wuld know the size of Fenix scar. Explain why it's not there in this trailer. Even tho Cliffy stated this is directly after events at the end of GOW1. That alone says it's quite a bit not finished. 

 



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konnichiwa on 13 May 2008
BenKenobi88 said:
I'm sorry, I don't get it. The main complaint I see here is that Gears 2 doesn't look as good as in the magazine scans, and the reason for that is because they used Unreal Engine 3 instead of 3.5.

That doesn't make sense. I saw the swarms of Locust on the ground...that wasn't possible before...so therefore it's 3.5.

 Good point.


I liked the gameplay vid aswell.  It looks a lot more interesting than GEOW 1.






SaviorX on 13 May 2008

The game is tough, but those screenshots still show a lot of gray. It is sharp, but sharp gray, with small instances of color.



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dante on 13 May 2008

@ben

actually when he put his target on them it didn't light up red and u never saw more than 3 or 4 enemies shooting at once



PooperScooper on 14 May 2008
selnor said:
PooperScooper said:
ToastyJaguar said:

"The gameplay shown doesn’t make use of features shown off in Unreal 3.5, be it ambient occlusions, or meat cubes, the realistic water effects. The level of detail was sort of bland"

OK this guy is abit confused i think, where in that level are you going to show off water effects, and a cube of meat.

exactly. You would show that off in a tech demo. Not game play footage.

selnor is speculating speculation

Well you said i am so i ust be. If you played GOW1 you wuld know the size of Fenix scar. Explain why it's not there in this trailer. Even tho Cliffy stated this is directly after events at the end of GOW1. That alone says it's quite a bit not finished. 

 


You mean this hardly noticeable scar under his right eye?

http://img.hexus.net/v2/gaming/screenshots_xbox360/gears/gow1_large.jpg

Anyways did this guy play the demo? Was he in charge of the camera? Did he turn the camera towards Marcus face so he can get a good look at it?

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http://livewire360.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/windowslivewritergearsofwarmovieintheworks-110e1marcus-fenix23.jpg

Even zoomed in on his face its not so intrusive. Watching a fast paced action scene wont give you the best angle to be able to examine the face for a scar.

http://www.futurelooks.com/uploads/395/RESIZE%20marcus.JPG

http://palgn.com.au/media/pics_inside/art_7234_id_71_mw_520.jpeg (Even for this one that scar can look like dirt while it is moving)



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Rock_on_2008 on 14 May 2008

The Gears of War 2 game looks impressive.
When will the Unreal 4 Engine be out? I assume Gears of War 3 will use Unreal 4 Engine. So my guess is 2 years away so a possible New XBox launch title Gears of War 3 maybe a 360 port of Gears of War 3 too.
So Gears of War 1 used Unreal 3 Engine. Gears of War 2 uses Unreal Engine 3.5.



PS360ForTheWin on 14 May 2008

Unreal engine 4 will probably be out for Gears of War 3 and the nexy Unreal Tournament, both will be amazing.



Euphoria14 on 14 May 2008
Dallinor said:
king_of_the_castle said:
Dallinor said:
"I found an essential component of Marcus Fenix missing all throughout the video - his vicious scar, which has been quite evident in almost all versions of Gears of war, is somehow… missing."

This is very odd. Why is a vital piece of the main characters appearance absent?

In general though, I thought the graphics in the trailer looked great.

It's possible the new version of the Unreal Engine wasn't complete before Gears 2 went into production, so some of the new effects may be missing.

Although I'm sure Epic could probably add them at a later date.

Maybe part or all of Gears 2 is a prequel to Gears 1 and explains how he got the scar.

Anyways, I wasn't disapointed at all with the gameplay trailer, it looked like fun to me, but then again, I've never been one to count pixels or polygons or whatever.


That thought did occur to me.

However, If you listen to the start of the trailer on GT, Cliffy B states that the scene on show takes place directly after the events of the first game.

(Something about trucks with drills etc.)

So it's not a flashback or a prequel.


 Prequel wouldn't make any sense anyways. In Gears 2 they say the locusts have the ability to make entire cities crumble. Similar to the holes they made before except even larger to the point where cities will collapse into the ground.

Now if this happens in a "prequel", then why can't they do it anymore in Gears 1? Considering they didn't have any good way to counterattack the Locusts until the end of the game. It just wouldn't make any sense.

In my opinion Gears 3 would be the "prequel" if they had one. Gears 2 I also believe is considered their "Last Stand" against the Locusts.



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Hawk on 14 May 2008

Hmmmm, not sure whats a disappointment. Game is looking great to me



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marcusz on 15 May 2008

MGS4 is the Biggest disappointment I have seen in a trailor take away the 90% CVG and watch the last bit that shows the actual game play!!! UGH looks as good s COD at best and NOWHERE near as good as what GEARS2 is doing in that demo..