This is awsome. I would reccommend this to anyone with a 360. So much fun. It is at least as good as halo and halo 2. You can kill the monsters in loads of different gory ways. Shotgun, they get broken up. Torque, crossbow which fires an arrow with explosives in, hit them watch them take cover and then explode. Chainsaw, cut them up. Curb stomp, when they fall down, watch their head explode. The gameplay is great. Ive completed it on every level of difficulty, with Joe in co op over the internet, that was fun. You can't just shoot, you need to think strategically, and take cover. One of the best games Ive played for a while.

I've heard a lot about this game. I've also heard there may be a PC port of it soonish, in which case I may consider getting it.

Uh. . .

>runs<

Yeah, lots of random carnage...

And quotes require " around the person's name...

it has some awsome gore, so lush to play, makes you jump first time you play it through

Is it basically just a gore fest?

It's based on Unreal Engine 3. Therefore it is good.

LOL, typical Aaron. Good only cos of the engine.

And saying that, I thought the graphics look UT3ey.

yeh, like my bro, he always talked bout the engine when I played it. And yeh quite a lot like a gore fest, and dont let that put you off, because the game as a whole is good, you take away the gore and still have an awsome game. It has loads of varied levels and really keeps your interest right up to the end of the campaign and then the multiplayer is also good. Theyve designed the cover feature really well (with the odd glitch (basically Joe and I were playin co op on xbox live, he takes cover behind a moveable car, the car gets blown into the air, he flys with it. And spins round stuck to the car until he jumps off.)) Its quite entertaining.

Yeah, the engine is important, but you can take a great engine and make a crap game, and vice versa.

That covering sounds funny...

Hopefully, when the PC version is released (I'm pretty sure there is one) it will be compatible with the XBox version without needing sucky Vista, which would make it very good for all gamers.

Just got my latest issue of PCZone. Gears of War will be coming out forVista AND XP! MS weren't stupid!

Gears of War uses Havok, therefore it is rubbish.

I thought it used UE3? But Havok is the physics engine... what's so rubbish about it?

Havok offloads physics instructions to the GPU as SM3 commands and processes gameplay affecting physics on the CPU. UE3 works better with PhysX.

Basically you don't like Havok cos it doesn't use Physx?

No, I don't like it because it's a recipe for some extreme bottlenecking.

Half Life 2 always ran fine for me, even on my old Athlon XP 1400+/GeForce 3 system.. I'm pretty sure that was Havok.

I played Gears of War a while ago. It was pretty cool. But once you run out of ways to blow up or rip the enemies apart there is little left to do..

Hmm, it will be interesting to see what it's like on PC. Released in November this year, I think.

It might quite realisticly set out. Like if you didn't get behind cover you were dead before you could do anything. And you have to keep moving up and around to take pot shots at the enemies.

Sounds like an interesting game, I am definitely going to have to give it a try.

Pretty cool for the story mode. I imagine a multiplayer might be rather lame though..

It has co-op, though, which should be good. Apparently the multiplayer is manic and funny.

Yeah sounds about right lol. It would basically be all down to who can clank the other over the head with his fat gun first..

That sounds like what I've read about 360 games - fun at them and mash the melee button as the aiming is really hard, lol.

However, on PC, that will probs be different. I was reading about a king of the hill mode, which was apparently lots and lots of deaths very quickly as everyone runs for the centre.