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Epicurus.com - Gears of War
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List Price: $29.99
Our Price: $27.99
Your Save: $ 2.00 ( 7% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Microsoft
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Amazon Maximum Age: 20
Amazon Minimum Age: 204
Batteries Included: 0
Binding: Video Game
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224531900
ESRB Age Rating: Mature
Feature: Gears of War's story plays out like a Hollywood blockbuster
Is Autographed: 0
Is Memorabilia: 0
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Platform: Windows XP
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Date: 2007-11-06
Special Features: nv:Software Type^Games
Studio: Microsoft
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Features
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Gears of War's story plays out like a Hollywood blockbuster
Unreal Engine 3 technology brings out the smallest details in the largest of battles
To survive you must suppress your enemy, take cover, and use weapons and teammates to outlast the Locust Horde
Gears of War for Windows features original content and all-new achievements to unlock
LIVE supports online matchmaking for Gold members
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Editorial Reviews:
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Gears of War, a third-person tactical action/horror game, puts you in the boots of Marcus Fenix as you fight a war against the immense Locust Horde, which not only out powers but outnumbers you, your squad, and the entire force of the Coalition of Ordered Governments. Gears of War is the only game to blend a deep and disturbing story of human survival against an endless mass of nightmarish creatures, a next-generation tactical combat system, and unsurpassed visuals and special effects. The story unfolds as a ragtag group of soldiers use every last ounce of strength to survive the onslaught from the forces of evil, which begins on the historic Emergence Day. Multiplayer capability - gamers around the globe to connect via their PCs via Windows LIVE All-new content, including three new multiplayer maps, a new multiplayer game type, five new campaign chapters, DirectX 10 support and a game editor for unlimited user-created content ESRB Rated M for Mature
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Awesome game
Comment: This is a great game. Some what challenging and fun to play. Multiplayer games are not too fun though. You have to be really good, but overall a good game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Fun but Ruined by Windows Live!
Comment: I have a VERY fast system with lots of video processing power. LOTS.
The game is a blast! The controls take a little getting used to but the learning curve is short.
Graphics on highest settings are smooth, beautiful and gory, like a FPS should be.
Storyline seems to refer to a past game in spots but is not bad.
Windows Live! account required to play. Game saves disappear at random requiring you to start from the beginning some days.
If you have the hardware and will put up with Windows Live! spying on you while you play single player, it is worth it.
If not, look at older games without the spyware, or independent publishers.
core i7 @ 3.0 Ghz
Gigabyte GA-ex58-ud5
6Gb GSkill RAM
2X eVga geforce 9800 GTs in SLI
ASUS 21.5" LCD 1080p DVI
Customer Rating:
Summary: Next Gen Graphics/Sound, Initially Very Buggy, Great New PC only Content
Comment: I originally bought an Xbox 360 just to play this game and it was very cool, but as a single player campaign only it seemed way too short to justify the $59+tax price but it was and is a really next gen game with some say a solid multiplayer(never played MP) so it probably was worth full retail. I have since sold both the 360 and the game but I was really happy to hear this great game was coming to PC and picked it up. I play only single player and have played this through several times.
First of all it is indeed your typical messy console port in terms of compatibility and bugginess. Even to now it never really got Epics/Microsofts full attention like the patches being a relative pain to find.
1. I had no problem with WinXP SP2 install but recently I got the SP3 and a new computer and installed this on it. With SP3 it has a bug that basically makes it impossible to install it, fortunately as of about a week ago there is a Live Hotfix that fixed the problem and now I have no problem installing or playing.
2. My last computer, a 2 year old AMD X2 3800+, had a real hard time in the cutscenes/post processing with overheating and thus crashing the game. My new Intel E5200 DC runs much cooler and much more stable as well as faster, so older computers and graphics cards will probably run this on medium or even low settings. I'm on all high at 1680x1050, XFX 8800GT, 4GB RAM, with the post-process settings on low for stability.
3. You absolutely need at least the first "title update" patch from Epic to get a decent non-crashing game. This would routinely crash and at certain times in the game, like the first Berserker encounter, would point the camera straight up and revert to Xbox 360 gamepad on screen keytips. Also even with the patch if you adjust the brightness/contrast settings it doesn't really work until after a couple of play sessions later for some reason. This was true of sound settings as well. Also during particularly heavy battles and cutscenes it would crash. This crash prone aspect is going to be the biggest issue for MANY people playing this game and was a real problem when the PC version first came out. Most drivers associated with gaming need to be up to the release date of this game.
4. Typical Windows Live Junk. I sometimes like to use a trainer cheat for particularly difficult parts of the game to cut down on the frustration factor. WL games constantly check for interference from things like trainers and crash the game when they are detected, why they do this is anyone's guess, mine is anti-piracy but how would a trainer be a piracy issue? Also the whole sign in junk is dumb as well as the prompt to opt in to their feedback/monitoring, no thanks and my non-Windows firewall will enforce that too.
5. Some of the technology needs to be consistent with the other tech. Battle rifles would have built in 4x or more zoom scopes as well as perhaps being non-powder based projectiles. Reload would be perhaps more sparse or even eliminated with advanced weapons. Lasers or other advanced weapons systems would be in place as well as more non-mechanical interfaces for opening doors and other things in general. More auto features would be there as well, like battle drones as well as maybe active armor systems and during the driving section you would have auto sector scanning and firing on the killer bats. Communications systems would be more advanced and visual rather than the radio based systems in game, see Deadspace. The hammer of dawn satellites would be available most of the time, not some of the time, I can get a GPS reading in doors today. I'm an engineer so I guess I notice this sort of thing more than others would though.
That being said this game, once you get it stable, is awesome and has some substantial PC-only add-ons from a single player standpoint.
1. Cover combat and camera is awesome. The cover system is really great and the movement is fluid and easy to achieve with the space key. The camera is well done, always moving and giving a real sense of dynamic action and physical exertion of the player. Combat itself feels very fluid and fun to play with not too complicated key setups, other than the reload timing minigame button which is better as the middle mouse/wheel pushdown button, not the default R button. Blood splatter is really cool to look at. Running is really cool tunnel vision crouch looking, but should have included a regular running mode in upright as well, characters do walk pretty slowly but what do you expect with that amount of armor? The chainsaw is just sick to use, very brutal. Again the camera is so well done in this game!
2. Graphics are still awesome in 2008 terms. Most of the environment is really top notch in terms of textures and detail. The characters are really nice to look at both in body and face as well as the weapons. For me this is a benchmark for other games in terms of next gen qualifications along with Crysis. Bosses are really amazing to look at while in actual gameplay too. You need a better graphics card as well as at least 2GB RAM to get this in decent settings. A cooler running CPU would be important too. Even with that keep the post-processing as low as possible and the cutscene settings low as well and don't turn on Vsync for your life! You'd probably need one of those psycho gaming 2000+ dollar rigs to get this all on insane levels stably.
3. There is a pretty good extra PC only level that is not an afterthought type of thing. This adds value to the single player only people as well as probably the MPs. This gives the feeling to a more complete game to me in comparison to the 360 version. The COG tag finding is a good exploration motivator as well, available on both versions.
4. Sound is great overall. The music is immersive and original with parts reminiscent of the Predator movie soundtrack. If you have a decent speaker setup it is really responsive to where the sound is coming from in the game such as enemy banter and fire. Voices are well done, the guy who is bender in Futurama is the main character as well as that guy from Aliens 2 being a character voice. Weapon fire is pretty good, somewhat generic for some of the standard weapons.
This game is definitely recommended a year after pc release because most of the bugs have been worked out by now with patches and the price is outstanding as well as most current systems/graphics cards won't have much of a problem running it either. The story is interesting and is not just dumped on you in whole, clearly worked out for sequels. Too bad we'll have to wait a few months to get GOW2 on PC!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gears of War for Professional Players: PC gaming rules!
Comment: I never played Gears of War on Xbox 360 because I dont have one, nor do I want one. I am a PC gamer through and through; that is why I buy Blockbuster games like Gears on PC.
Gears of War on PC
Good: -Beautiful graphics
-Good Controls, Great Weapons
-Great action and level design
-Extended and extra levels exclusive to PC
Bad: -Sometimes it will bogg down your PC even on a PC gaming rig
-Going into cover is sometimes glitchy
-Partner AI is pretty stupid and relies on you to help and
revive him instead of the other way around
Overall, this is a good game to have on PC. I would recommend it to anyone who plays PC games exclusively or who wants to get more bang out of an already classic XBOX 360 game.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Game
Comment: I thought this game was great. Although you need a pretty advanced computer to run it, overhauling your computer now a days is pretty cheep. Its what I did. I loved this game because, let's face it, who doesn't like ramming guys up the butt with chain-saws. The game takes graphic to an astronomical level, making you fell like you are in the game. The multiplayer is also altered from the original 360 version, making the experience all that much more enjoyable. The story line is good, you can fight aliens from destroying the Earth. There are a variety of weapons that make bashing the bad-guys loads of fun. You can also fight huge aliens with a machine gun. Great Game!
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