just saw that big effing monster in a press video...daaaamn
Its in a video montage at xboxyde, but the site keeps dying on me. Shows 3 seconds of Recon...wow
Update:
New map shown!!
http://xbox360.ign.c...5/655743p1.htmlQUOTE
October 4, 2005 - Epic Games showed up to MS's X05 event with bravado and confidence, personified by Game Designer Cliff Bleszinski, who led a packed house of attendees wowed by a simple two-minute demo.
Focusing on Gears of War's horror instead of its action, Bleszinski showed off a level in which a squad of futuristic marines slowly can carefully make their way down a wide pathway. The night-time level shows off pouring rain, which thickened the sky and made the search for "aliens" creepy and suspenseful.
The level starts with in-game cutscenes and is narrated by a young girl who queries whether you believe in dreams, or whether there really are aliens. The following scenes show that perhaps even nightmares come true, with human-esque alien creatures gnawing on carcasses in a room filled with slain human bodies. Blood covers the walls and pools across the floor, and the level of detail in the gibs is just plain nasty. (Nasty in a good way, but still nasty.)
The level was filled with high-res detail. The pouring rain filled in the nooks and crannies of trees, streaming down the dark brown bark with natural motion. The rain poured down on the ground, pooling and parting into streams and rivulets. The characters themselves didn't appear to be hit by the rain or affected by it, but the level was very dark, so it's hard to know exactly (we couldn't see it). The lighting was shown off by the use of a single flashlight which spotlighted suspicious creatures crawling and scurrying around the savaged industrial landscape and amongst rooftops and bridges.
After the cutscene ends, the squad of soldiers, taking cover behind a stone structure, slowly stand and carefully head down a wide, dark path in the rain. They walk with guns cocked and prepared to shoot, and every so often a noise diverts their attention, and the leader throws a flashlight on the noisy area. When he does, the realtime lighting shows off beautifully, highlighting details and sharp edges. Over the course of the short walk, the soldiers spot several disturbances, each one ending in the scurrying sight of creatures disappearing in the darkness. The whole scene clearly foreshadows what's coming, and several other instances prompt the squad leader to shoot at moving barrels. Before we reach the end of the path, CliffyB cuts the demo and explains we can see more tomorrow.
