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[KAGE360]

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Gears of War Demo Coming Soon?

First thing is first, this is definitely a rumour, so don’t get your hopes up. Anyways, if we’re really lucky, Gears of War may be appearing upon Xbox Live as a demo by the end of the month. A user at GameDreams.com submitted an article on the subject.

“With Fight Night having just appeared out of nowhere, and Street Fighter on the way, amazing downloads were on a lot of CES attendees minds. One particular game demo that set the net alite was a ‘Gears of War’ demo possibly hitting the Marketplace this month! Yeah, the timing is laughably imaginative, but the demo is real, and may be coming sooner than you think. Epic and Cliffy B’s baby boy has been shown everywhere the XBOX 360 has. Over the past 8 months they’ve managed to refine and polish several levels of the game to near Gold shine. A contact of mine at MS says gamers can look forward to one of those levels arriving in the download center sometime soon. What that means is anyone’s guess.”

As I said, don’t cross your fingers.

http://www.gaming-360.com/?p=88

[Deftech]

hmmmm

speechless, for now  

by the way, respond to PM when time permits.

[KAGE360]

yeah its a pipe-dream of an idea but still mighty cool to think about.  it still puzzles me why they never even released a video, i mean they had it on the OXM disk for cryin out loud.  my firm belief is that anything that is released on OXM should be available for DL

[Joergen]

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Here's what I posted earlier on Evilavatar.com

First the demo baloney....

There is no chance a demo level of Gears is hitting the Xbox Live Marketplace this month, next month or the month after that. We love the Xbox Live Marketplace and Xbox Live Arcade and have lots of cool ideas how we can leverage them but not until the game is finished and we don't realistically know when that will be at this point in time. I can tell you however that the game is incredible and there will be lots of cool stuff in it that you didn't expect to see. Sorry for the tease

Now, about those screenshots. Those are NOT new screen shots. In fact they're quite old and some aren't Gears at all. Here's what I wrote about them in a different thread on this forum...

These are very old images, mostly from our internal PR Kick-off meeting with MS back in December 2004. They were never intended for release and they don't come anywhere close to representing what the game looks like today. In fact some of those images don't represent the game AT ALL! The grassy field images are from our GDC 2004 Unreal Engine 3 demo and NOT from Gears! That is TWO YEAR OLD engine demo content we showed to MS PR people to give them an early flavor of what the tech could do. As you can probably guess we're pretty unhappy that these crappy images have surfaced. Unfortunately this isn't the first time our publisher has released content not intended for release and it feels like a punch in the gut every time it happens.

And sadly seems like the wait for this game can be anything between fall of 2006 to spring of 2007, which would make the game almost obsolete if it arrives so late with Halo3 and god knows what knocking on the door.

[prankfurter]

the agony of the wait!

[KAGE360]

QUOTE(Joergen @ Jan 13 2006, 03:57 PM)

Sorry guys, Mark Rein says:
And sadly seems like the wait for this game can be anything between fall of 2006 to spring of 2007, which would make the game almost obsolete if it arrives so late with Halo3 and god knows what knocking on the door.

the game will not be obsolete by the time the game releases.  hell there arent even any games coming out using the unreal 3 engine until later this year anyways so how would that make the game obsolete.  also i dont see halo coming out this year, it wouldnt make sense for MS to release something that will take the steam away from GoW.  just like the unreal 2 engine this generation, i can see the unreal3 engine being used the entire cycle of the next gen life-span.  my point is, no worries it wont be obsolete, thank you for clearing up the rumor though i figure it wouldnt happen.  

[Joergen]

Well I didnt mean entirely obsolete but the further the game is pushed the less impressive it will become since other games will attempt to approach new visual standards aswell.

GOW will be one of the shining moments of 360 this year if not during its entire life, and it cannot come soon enough.

And Frame City Killer uses UE3 and will kick some GOW butt!


 

[Deftech]

Oh man, I was about to scold Joergen for that comment and realized he was joking. Nice pic of the car  

Personally, Its not just the graphics that draws me in for Gears. Sure its a big part of it, but its the world it takes place in, its the enemies, its how the game is being made for Coop(best part IMO) and not just tailored for online mayhem(taking away from sp/coop like so many games nowadays[pisses me off]).

Gears could come in 2 years and it would still remain at the top of my most wanted list. Go Marcus! You bad ass  mofo you!

[tonloc79]

I sit in the corner, in the fetal postion, with both fingers crossed!!!!!!!

[whiteblur67]

oh snap that would be sweet

ps3 is never going to have downloaded demos(only if they make use of the hd)
the only way to get ps3 demos is there very expensive magazine which will probably go up in price

[mathias]

I would hate to be faced with the decision to which game to play halo 3 or gears of war... if they are released around the same time....


who am I kidding....


 I will buy both


and I will make time to play both...



So will you ..  

[hamwbone]

thats a given, =)  i hate these system wars, i wish every one could jsut afford both. i will enjoy them both