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Posted by John JCal Callaham on Thursday July 12, 2007 - 12:01 AM

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» E3 2007: Gears Of War PC Impressions

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You just knew they would do it but you just didn't know when. Now we know that developer Epic Games and publisher Micorosoft will release a port of their multi-million selling Xbox 360 third person shooter Gears of War for the PC platform (or the Games For Windows platform as Microsoft now labels it).

During a Microsoft E3 press event last night we got to play some multiplayer matches in one of the new exclusive PC levels that will be included with the new version of Gears of War. The industrial looking level (lots of rusty looking pipes and such) was perfectly made for this game with lots of cover points that exploit Gears of War cover fire mentality when it comes to multiplayer shooters. There will be about four or five new multiplayer levels in the game along with a new single player/co-op mini-campaign. As you might have read last night one mission will have you facing the huge monster brute that was featured in lots of the pre-release trailers for the game but was never actually fought by the player itself in the Xbox 360 version.

The game looked pretty fantastic in the high-res glory of 1900x1200 screen size for the PC demo. The game's art and textures will be tweaked to make the PC port truly take advantage of a high end PC set-up. While the version we got to play was based on DirectX9 you can also expect a Vista/DirectX10 version as well. While PC players will not be able to play against their Xbox 360 counter-parts, the PC version of Gears of War will have some new achievements to unlock. Finally the full Unreal Engine 3 mod tools will be provided for folks itching to make new Gears of War mods.

Based on what we saw last night, the PC version of Gears of War will not be the disaster that the PC version of Halo 2 turned out to be. In other words, expect a great looking (if bloody) shooter experience with some new stuff to keep you occupied. Look for more info on Gears of War PC in the coming months before its release late in 2007.

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Click to view Soldier37's User Page Soldier37 (134)  Click to view Soldier37's User Profile Talk to Soldier37 in the Shout! Box Jul 14, 2007 - 09:06 pm
So far Direct x 10 content has been for performance enhancement over visual eye candy, only minor things like smoother smoke and deformable terrain. Crysis will actually see a direct X10 visual improvement to date when it does release. Looking forward to playing GOW on my high end PC at 1920 x 1200 maxed out settings!

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Click to view WallShadows's User Page WallShadows (2361)  My XFire username is: Wallshadows Click to view WallShadows's User Profile Talk to WallShadows in the Shout! Box Jul 12, 2007 - 06:58 am
I can honestly see that DX9 is far to inferior to be used to power next gen games as compared to DX10.

/sarcasm

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Click to view DeathBooger's User Page DeathBooger (172)  Talk to DeathBooger in the Shout! Box Jul 12, 2007 - 06:35 pm
Well, Epic just knows how to code a damn good engine. They're using DX10 mainly as a performance increaser and not much of a eye candy increaser. Though there are a few DX10 advancements in visuals as well.

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Click to view asdfqwerty's User Page asdfqwerty (969)  My XFire username is: FiringSquadCEO Talk to asdfqwerty in the Shout! Box Jul 12, 2007 - 06:41 am
There is something very worrying however: GoW PC will come out under the "Games for Windows" label, which so far has been synonymous for "crappy".
I for one certainly hop they won't be using any Live! features for its online component, but stick with the true and tried UT game browsers.

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Click to view Terrak's User Page Terrak (585)  Click to view Terrak's User Profile Talk to Terrak in the Shout! Box Jul 12, 2007 - 05:48 pm | Edited on Jul 12, 2007 - 05:50 pm
Company of Heroes was under the Games for Windows 'brand' and that game didn't suck, its one of the best PC RTS games available.

BTW i'm glad this is going to PC (where it belongs ;P) i felt this is the one game i would buy a 360 for, and now i don't have to.

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Click to view asdfqwerty's User Page asdfqwerty (969)  My XFire username is: FiringSquadCEO Talk to asdfqwerty in the Shout! Box Jul 16, 2007 - 05:54 am
Hmm, funny, I didn't think CoH was particularly impressive TBH, more like boring same old same old gameplay with cookie-cutter "story". A very forgettable title.

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 Anonymous (-) I am an AMD Agent Jul 12, 2007 - 05:28 am
well i hope its more than 4 vs 4 mp

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