Gears of War coming to PC

[Queasy]

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A gameplay montage video of Epic Games' Gears Of War?specifically listed as PC footage?found its way to the internet earlier today, confirming the long-running rumors of a PC port of the million-selling Xbox 360 third-person shooter. That video was quickly pulled, with copies of the clip making their way to YouTube, Google Video and the other usual suspects.

The clip showed some of the PC port's visual improvements and additional content, including new boss fights and new maps. In addition, achievements for the PC version made an appearance, indicating that the game will take advantage of Games For Windows Live service.

Gears of War for the PC was one of Microsoft's worst-kept secrets, with Epic staffer Mark Rein admitting that a Windows port was coming "eventually." That "eventually" looks like it might happening, I'm guessing, next Tuesday night, when Microsoft's E3 press conference goes down.

Let's all hope that Rein stands behind his commitment to keep supporting Windows XP users and that this doesn't become one of those Windows Vista exclusives. Oh, and let's also hope that Xbox 360 owners will see these PC-only additions offered as downloadable content in the near future.

 

[lupi]

Let's hope it ports better than halo and doesn't require vista.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: lupi
Let's hope it ports better than halo and doesn't require vista.

assuming those two, i'd pick it up.

 

[Heller]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: lupi
Let's hope it ports better than halo and doesn't require vista.

assuming those two, i'd pick it up.

and the new content. i simply love GoW and play it everynight, this is very exciting news for me!

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: Heller

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: lupi
Let's hope it ports better than halo and doesn't require vista.

assuming those two, i'd pick it up.

and the new content. i simply love GoW and play it everynight, this is very exciting news for me!

i played it on 360 and it was great, although i thought the enemy hit points (on normal) were a bit ridiculous. i seriously unloaded on a regular locust grunt guy, headshotting at least 1/3 of my clip from the assault rifle, and the bastard still didn't die.

i also think i'd be much more comfortable with mouse/keyboard. i can't get over holding down the thumbstick.

if they port it right, and hey - it's the U3 engine, so i can't be that bad, right? i'd definitely consider it.

 

[Bateluer]

Knowing MS, it will be a Vista only title and also a crappy port. Granted, it won't be hard to best the Halo 2 port, but MS wants to sell more copies of Vista and more Xbox 360s. Guess they aren't selling enough replacements with their 30% failure rate.

 

[Regs]

Yeaaaaah!!!! (excited)

And I agree with you guys that if it's not Vista or bug-ridden then I'll be picking it up at release.

I'd figure by the time most games will require only Vista, Vista will have SP1 out or DX10 will be a little better tuned.

 

[gregor7777]

Originally posted by: lupi
Let's hope it ports better than halo and doesn't require vista.

It's Epic, I think they'll do a proper job of it.

 

[tigersty1e]

Who owns Epic?

If Microsoft, it'll only come out for Vista.

 

[Kromis]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
Who owns Epic?

If Microsoft, it'll only come out for Vista.

If Microsoft owned Epic, there wouldn't be a UT3 for the PS3!

 

[Noema]

This is going to be Vista-only for sure. What better game to boost sales? At least it's finally something worth playing. And well...you can't blame MS for trying to spike sales of their OS.

Anyway, I hope they manage to allow co-op through the single player campaign with X-box 360 players. That would rock.

EDIT: Just saw the video. Looks awesome, actually seems to run smoother than the 360 version. I wonder what kind of HW they are running it with?

 

[shortylickens]

I agree with Fenixgoon, great game, but would be much better with a keyboard and mouse.

So far its the only Xbox360 title I played that really impressed me.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i played it a bit on my friends xbox, but i just couldn't get a hang of the controls...i'm sure it'll be awesome with k&m

 

[FreedomGUNDAM]

I personally can't wait.

 

[tigersty1e]

Halo 2 is Vista only because Microsoft owns Bungie.

 

[KaOTiK]

GoW will be Vista only cause MS is the publisher so Epic doesn't have a say in the matter.

Don't worry about the port, Gears has run great on the PC nearly a year ago. At work we played it with a C2D (can't remember speed) and 7900's SLI with everything cranked up and it ran smooth.

Kao

 

[tuteja1986]

Actually Epic owes Microsoft big time for spending over $$$ 100million on promoting the crap out of gears of war the game didn't become famous by its own otherwise people would have bought games like riddick: escape from butcher bay , Okami... ect. Also Live anywhere has a new boss and are changing the services by listening to developers. Gears of War is bigger franchise than UT and is the most profitable epic franchise upto date. Epic don't want to screw up the relationship with Microsoft like some developers like to do because if you can work with Microsoft and reason with them sensibly then its much better than talking loud at how stupid Microsoft reps are. One thing is for sure that Gears of War will never come out with in PS3. Also i played Halo 2 single player on Vista and i found the update to be rather nice but still they should have sold it at $20. Problem with Halo 2 was that it wasn't tweaked properly to run on low end machines so you need a pretty decent rig to run the game on high res with everything up, but other than that it was a decent port.

Also from the Video Gears of War on PC looks much better and looks better than almost every FPS single player coming out this year except for crysis if that even comes out this year.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i played it a bit on my friends xbox, but i just couldn't get a hang of the controls...i'm sure it'll be awesome with k&m

Actually the control system will not work on PC :! they will have too change it to for PC user. Third person shooters always have a problem working on PC right.

 

[ixelion]

The controls will probably play like the Resident Evil 4 Port. Developers no longer bother to properly port game to the PC ala R6 Vegas, Lost Planet etc.

We have no reason to think they will port this game properly.

Expect: poor k&m support, poor performance, unchanged console menu layout etc...

 

[BZeto]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i played it a bit on my friends xbox, but i just couldn't get a hang of the controls...i'm sure it'll be awesome with k&m

Actually the control system will not work on PC :! they will have too change it to for PC user. Third person shooters always have a problem working on PC right.

I dont play many third person shooters, but Max Payne (1 and 2) had great controls on PC.

 

[KMFJD]

Did not like Gears of War for the 360...

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: BZeto

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
i played it a bit on my friends xbox, but i just couldn't get a hang of the controls...i'm sure it'll be awesome with k&m

Actually the control system will not work on PC :! they will have too change it to for PC user. Third person shooters always have a problem working on PC right.

I dont play many third person shooters, but Max Payne (1 and 2) had great controls on PC.

This is not like Max Payne its more about cover system.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: ixelion
The controls will probably play like the Resident Evil 4 Port. Developers no longer bother to properly port game to the PC ala R6 Vegas, Lost Planet etc.

We have no reason to think they will port this game properly.

Expect: poor k&m support, poor performance, unchanged console menu layout etc...

Don't blame Epic for Capcom screw ups. Res 4 and lost planet both capcom game and R6 Vegas has total different gameplay than the console version.

 

[KaOTiK]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
Actually Epic owes Microsoft big time for spending over $$$ 100million on promoting the crap out of gears of war the game didn't become famous by its own otherwise people would have bought games like riddick: escape from butcher bay , Okami... ect. Also Live anywhere has a new boss and are changing the services by listening to developers. Gears of War is bigger franchise than UT and is the most profitable epic franchise upto date. Epic don't want to screw up the relationship with Microsoft like some developers like to do because if you can work with Microsoft and reason with them sensibly then its much better than talking loud at how stupid Microsoft reps are. One thing is for sure that Gears of War will never come out with in PS3. .

Epic doesn't owe MS anything. This is a MS published game, meaning MS provided all the funding to get it developed. Also Epic and MS have butt heads over Gears already with downloadable content. Epic said they wanted to give it away for free like they do for the UT series but MS wanted to charge, after some debate Epic got MS to at least make it free after like 2 months but Epic still wasn't very happy with the whole situation.

Kao

 

[Oyeve]

Had I known it was gonna come out for the PC I wouldnt have wasted 60 bucks for the xbox 360 version. I cant get used to playing shooter games without my trackball and keyboard.