Bluvertigo
07-11-2007, 10:28 AM
Though rumors and rumblings of Epic's top-selling Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War coming to the PC, Microsoft made it official during its E3 2007 press conference earlier tonight. While Microsoft's Shane Kim started things off by announcing that the game would ship with a game editor and some original content, it wasn't until Epic lead Cliff Bleszinski took the stage to provide a live demo of Gears of War in action on the PC that things really started to heat up.
His first order of business was to showcase the Windows Live support in Gears of War, which he did by inviting his buddy Rod for a little co-op action. While waiting to sync up, Bleszinski touched on a few of the specifics of what will set the PC version of Gears apart from its Xbox 360 brethren, citing five new single-player chapters, a new multiplayer mode, and several new multiplayer arenas. Once Rod got connected, taking the role of Gears second banana Dominic Santiago, Bleszinski went on to show a boss fight with the massive Brumak, an enemy that many a Gears fan had lamented never getting to fight head-on in the original Xbox 360 release of the game.
Gears on the PC will look better than its Xbox 360 counterpart, given its noticeably smoother frame rate and seemingly higher texture detail. Hoewver, Cliffy mentioned that the game would run on Windows XP as well as Windows Vista, which made us wonder if the game will support DirectX 10. Either way, we look forward to seeing more of Gears of War on the PC.
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/gearsofwar/news.html?sid=6174087
His first order of business was to showcase the Windows Live support in Gears of War, which he did by inviting his buddy Rod for a little co-op action. While waiting to sync up, Bleszinski touched on a few of the specifics of what will set the PC version of Gears apart from its Xbox 360 brethren, citing five new single-player chapters, a new multiplayer mode, and several new multiplayer arenas. Once Rod got connected, taking the role of Gears second banana Dominic Santiago, Bleszinski went on to show a boss fight with the massive Brumak, an enemy that many a Gears fan had lamented never getting to fight head-on in the original Xbox 360 release of the game.
Gears on the PC will look better than its Xbox 360 counterpart, given its noticeably smoother frame rate and seemingly higher texture detail. Hoewver, Cliffy mentioned that the game would run on Windows XP as well as Windows Vista, which made us wonder if the game will support DirectX 10. Either way, we look forward to seeing more of Gears of War on the PC.
Source: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/gearsofwar/news.html?sid=6174087