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Gears of War for PC Rumour Shut Down

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Posted 04:37pm 23/11/06 by: Dan
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Microsoft have piped up to quell the rumour that Gears of War is destined for PC. The commotion started after an image of Gears with Games for Windows box-art appeared in a PC Gamer print cover story, getting the PC gaming purists all excited. The PR department have now explained that image was just a old pre-e3 mock-up that was accidentally included in the asset package sent to PC Gamer and that they "have nothing further to announce about Gears of War, or any other platforms it might come to, at this time".

Yeah, "at this time", we so know it's coming!

In other Gears of War news, MS sent word this morning that they've now sold over one million units - not bad for two weeks. The title has now become the number 1 multiplayer game on Xbox Live (finally an Xbox 360 title overtaking Halo 2).
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Thu 23 Nov 06, 4:51pm
James Walker
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 4:51pm

what is the the number 1 single playing game?

Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:03pm
Nirvesta
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:03pm

Would be a bit hard to find the no.1 single player game as everything's got a single player component. You could assume that the most units of a game sold means it's the no.1 single player game. But if most of those people are playing online then you'd have to find some other way to find that out.

Either way i'll be getting this on the 360.


Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:05pm
Hawk Rulz
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:05pm

apparantly it's "The" game to buy an xbox360 for.

halo/fable was the reason why most people bought the xbox, and this is the reason why the 360 is mad.

or atleast that's what everyone who comes into work to buy them says.

Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:30pm
Cormac
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:30pm

Damn we dont get a crappy console port :P

Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:45pm
BZ Favzer0
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:45pm

why is this game so popular?

Edit* after reading the gamearena review...Wow what a statement...best action game ever...now i feel sad, reading this thread.

Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:49pm
eMONKe
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 5:49pm

I reckon MS will release it in a years time for PC, but only for windows vista. They want people to buy a xbox360 now, and they want people to buy Vista later.

Thu 23 Nov 06, 6:11pm
killersight
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 6:11pm

igot gears of war and guess wat its realy sick

Thu 23 Nov 06, 6:19pm
moo535
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 6:19pm

james, xbox live is single player and multiplayer, it could have three multiplayer games played in an entire month and still make it to number one if 1 million people are playing single player.

if you have xbox live it's always on when the x360 is, so all games played are ranked, even a demo disk from a games mag, marketplace demoes crack the top ten all the time.

and oblivion has been on there pretty much since launch.

back on topic though, i agree with emonke, any pc friendly shooter microsoft has a hand in will get ported to pc.

Thu 23 Nov 06, 10:59pm
K-007
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 10:59pm

Its one of the first games to use U3 Engine..funny enuf at E3 They had this game running on PC on 6800Ultra SLI butter smooth at very high ress..

Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:04pm
Agent--006
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:04pm

1 million copies sold. Given the (relatively) small user base of Xbox360 at this stage of its lifecycle that is pretty damn impressive.

Im getting my copy from Kmart on Monday hopefully (only $79!)


Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:17pm
Sinecure
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:17pm

How much are Xbox 360's going for at the moment?

Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:41pm
BeeJaY
Posted: Thu 23 Nov 06, 11:41pm

I'ts one of the first games to use U3 Engine...


isn't it the first?

Fri 24 Nov 06, 12:15am
K-007
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 12:15am

There was this game released on Steam..Robot something..it is U3 Engine..but it is a badly done game -.-

Fri 24 Nov 06, 7:52am
moo535
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 7:52am

roboblitz is the first game to use unreal 3, it's not designed for pc's so i don't know why it shipped there at all.

it was designed for xbox live arcade, thus why the entire game is sub 50MB, it uses procedural texture generation, a physics driven animation system, basicly the game itself is nothing but a logic and graphics engine. i really want that game to ship on xbox, i'm sick of retro titles.

Fri 24 Nov 06, 4:47pm
vodkaandbbqshapes
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 4:47pm

lol, pc fanboys want Gears!!
you want it!! you know you want it!

Fri 24 Nov 06, 5:36pm
eMONKe
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 5:36pm

lol, pc fanboys want Gears!!
you want it!! you know you want it!


well if there is a good game, of course you want it on your chosen platform. If you have the money to buy all gaming platforms then all power to you, but there aren't too many of those people around (relatively).

Fri 24 Nov 06, 7:34pm
deius
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 7:34pm

lol, pc fanboys want Gears!!


As much as I'd love to have a 360 (and a big TV) and GoW, I'll just have to settle for PC.

Trust me, by the time GoW comes to PC there's going to be much better stuff around (ie Crysis and Bioshock)

Fri 24 Nov 06, 8:51pm
killersight
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 8:51pm

bioshoock is coming on 360 as well and will be better so... thats all

Fri 24 Nov 06, 8:53pm
deius
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 8:53pm

bioshoock is coming on 360 as well and will be better so


On 360? Yes.

Better? No.

Fri 24 Nov 06, 9:03pm
moo535
Posted: Fri 24 Nov 06, 9:03pm

by the time GoW hits pc's there will be dozens of big titles for both platforms that are better. i'd be seriously concerned for pc gaming if anything else was true.

GoW is good, but it's not the gamers valhalla, better games will come.

Sat 25 Nov 06, 1:20am
slaytan
Posted: Sat 25 Nov 06, 1:20am

Xbox 360 lol, its nothing but the latest Atari , console bleh. Pc yer baby!!! Ya get more bang with a PC, right guys :)

Sat 25 Nov 06, 1:29am
eMONKe
Posted: Sat 25 Nov 06, 1:29am

Xbox 360 lol, its nothing but the latest Atari , console bleh. Pc yer baby!!! Ya get more bang with a PC, right guys :)


half-right. Consoles have their place as do PC's.

Sun 26 Nov 06, 6:37pm
Cormac
Posted: Sun 26 Nov 06, 6:37pm

I dont like playing FPS on conosles. So I am always gonna have a PC. Consoles are good for driving games and other stuff like that but not FPS.

Sun 26 Nov 06, 9:52pm
killersight
Posted: Sun 26 Nov 06, 9:52pm

no fps is way easyer to control on consoles

Sun 26 Nov 06, 10:12pm
Shorty McNostril
Posted: Sun 26 Nov 06, 10:12pm

That is all personal preference. I personally cannot stand dual analogue controls, yet a keyboard and mouse i find simple. Wii controls are yet to be experienced.

Mon 27 Nov 06, 1:28pm
millo
Posted: Mon 27 Nov 06, 1:28pm

Before this GoW was release I was feeling a little down about my xbox360, but now all my fears have been quashed! This looks & plays like a dream. GoW was to be Microsoft's big punch this xmas before the PS3 gets released & I think they nailed it. If this is the new standard I can't wait to see what they deal out for Halo3.

Mon 27 Nov 06, 5:55pm
killersight
Posted: Mon 27 Nov 06, 5:55pm

same here

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