Gears of War Preview – Part II: The Multiplayer Experience
Gears of War Preview
Part II: The Multiplayer Experience
Multiplayer Gameplay Setup
So far the multiplayer gameplay is very similar to other war shooter games where it’s squad based, single respawn deathmatch. It’s the human Cog team versus the invading Locust drones, and once you die you are dead for that round unless you are lucky enough to get revived by a teammate. Your entire team spawns at once, and then all have to race to get to your desired spot as quick as possible. Your race also doesn’t seem to make any difference as far as game play, just your character obviously looks different. This is good because balance is preserved.
Once the game is completed, I’m pretty sure you’ll see your classic all for one deathmatch along with team deathmatch classics like capture the flag and various objective games. What we saw was just a small fragment of the possibilities in the final game.
The Rocket Launcher In Use
The Sniper Rifle In Use
The game only had one level, but it was perfectly sized for the eight total players in each game. It was a street scene, with abandoned cars in the middle of the map on the street and open buildings on both sides of the street. There were only a few extra weapons in the map, a sniper rifle and a rocket launcher, which were scattered around in the center of the map. This placement of weapons created quite a few early firefights to gain control of the center area and get the weapons. But I found the weapons were not ones that would lead your team to an easy victory. The weapons were balanced out fairly well and only offset the game play slightly once someone had one in their hand. Actually in most cases, an Epic employee would announce to the other players when the weapon was picked up by someone, and this would cause the rest of us to start playing more cautious and stick to cover.
The map area from above
Closeup shot of the wrecked cars in the street
Taking cover in a higher building.
Now that I’ve described how the game plays, I’ll attempt to tell you how it is to actually play it. I say attempt because the game is so fun that it is hard to capture in words. I found myself not only just playing it but cheering on my teammates and shouting out when big events happened to either me or my teammates I was spectating.
Watching the game from Spectator Mode.
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Where’s the whole video of the session? I have a fifteen-second clip, but I need the whole thing… so bad.
Sadly we don’t have any video of this. They were not allowing video, so we only have screenshots taken with our camera.
Yeah I’d like to know about the chainsaw myself. Is there going to be any other cool melee style kills?:???:
I LOVE GEARS OF WAR! its awsome, and i think its going to b one of the greatest games of all time, and i am not dissing halo 3, but i think gears will b better but i’ll get both
Ya i can’;t wait for this game it’s gonna ROCK… whats sad is we still haven’t seen any indoor fights … i saw a screenshot in OXM with them rittling through a couch … i can only imagine how wicked those parts of the game are gonna be… and the laser platform is gonna be awesome i sooooooo can’t wait to get a look and my hands on with it.
Thanks for this great preview guys! I was wondering if you could like put something up that we can ask questions because believe me, we have lots
zack: you can chainsaw someone from any direction. Sneaking up behind is hard unless they aren’t paying attention to their surroundings because the chainsaw is not quiet.
Rexx: I’m not 100% sure myself, I’ll keep in mind to find out.
Kokos: You can ask questions here in the comments or better yet you can ask them at our new Realm Media Network forums, http://forums.realmmedia.com, where we have a Gears of War sections setup just for those purposes.
thnx man, ive been curious about that for months and i’ve been in the official forums discussing this with every1 but we wern’t sure
hey patrick, i was wondering wen u chainsaw them from the back or the side what kind of animation is it, like different from when you chainsaw them from the front
This seriously is THE GAME that’s gonna take over 360 owners lives!!! I can see it now…..people getting fired from their jobs, getting divorce’s, losing hours and hours of sleep..etc! Gears of War is gonna be nutz! Can’t wait for this game, and thnx for the cool article write up and pics!
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we need a new gears of war the first one is a big hit so i cant wait for the next 1:evil::shock::smile::mrgreen::sad::mad::eek:
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