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Epic says Gears of War pushes Xbox 360 to the limit Posted by XanTium | October 28 10:00 EST

From joystiq.com: "We pushed the 360 to the limits," Gears of War QA manager Preston Thorne told Siliconera at last night's Hollywood launch party. While obviously an inflammatory remark, there could be some truth to the statement. After all, it was Epic that allegedly convinced Microsoft to bump up Xbox 360's RAM to 512 MB -- and Epic still maintains that 256 MB would not be enough to run Gears in its current state. Read More: joystiq.com and siliconera.com

[DMAddict]

With this kind of talk, it makes me wonder if wer're going to see more game freezing with GOW. I've experienced it a couple times with Just Cause.

This post has been edited by DMAddict: Oct 28 2006, 02:51 PM

[Mega_mil]

QUOTE(DMAddict @ Oct 28 2006, 02:21 PM)

With this kind of talk, it makes me wonder if wer're going to see more game freezing with GOW. I've experienced it a couple times with Just Cause.

LMAO

I know.  I was thinking the same thing.  I'm on my 3rd 360 and I'm seriously about to write a letter to M$ and request my money back cause no system has had this many issues before.  I still have my 8-bit Nintendo and it works better than these damn 360's do.  Either the games stutter or freeze.  I was playing the Rainbow Six Vegas demo last night and it froze on me again.   (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grr.gif)

[RiPpN-N-TrIppN]

yeh that kinda worrys me also
does that mean this is as good as any 360 game is going to get

[m_hael]

no it doesn't mean this is as good as its going to get... it means the design for GOW pushes the 360 to its limit.

there is always room for optimisation... just like there is always room for beer.

[xboxexpert]

More and More Hype....lets just see the damn game!

[sicknasty413]

QUOTE(xboxexpert @ Oct 28 2006, 10:18 AM)

More and More Hype....lets just see the damn game!

agreed.

And i wouldnt worry about GOW making 360s freeze, Im sure the game was built CORRECTLY so that it utilizes the 360s potential without causing it to overheat/freeze/poop/whatever....and yes, that is possible.

[m_hael]

its epic... it was designed to run on PC then shoehorned into the 360... money talks and designing a game specifcially for 360 is not lucrative enough.

[XanTium]

TBH I'd be surprised if the Xbox360 couldn't do better ...
I'm pretty sure Halo3 will push more about of the 360.

[xboxexpert]

QUOTE(XanTium @ Oct 28 2006, 09:54 AM)

TBH I'd be surprised if the Xbox360 couldn't do better ...
I'm pretty sure Halo3 will push more about of the 360.

XanT lemme find out you'll be online with Halo 3 so I can own you in a multiplayer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Xx The 0ne xX]

gears of war is going 2 be good, 360 can get much much better, i love gears of war got my stuff preordered but i kno its not the best 360 can do, epic has been working on this game to make sure it doenst cause hardware or any other issues with 360, they have it running at 60fps, and the reason other games like the rainbow six demo freeze up is cuz they dont put enough time and effort into it, ubisoft and EA like to make shitty versions of their game most of the time for all consoles and not really put forth the effor to debug and fix all of the issues. I mean look at Dead Rising it could have taken them 5 min to fix that SDTV text issue but they said fuck it, epic isnt like that with gears of war they have been working on it 1 year before xbox 360 was even announced, plus the rest of this time, Gears of war is def gonna b the beggining of the real next gen.

[abuimak]

I just want to play the game, I haven't turned on my 360 since the summer because all the developers decide to come out with their hits during the XMAS when I have EXAMS and stuff to do, I will, however make time for this game if they would just stinkin release it and stop talking about it already.

[shotgunsteve]

what pointless hype... all they had to say was that their game pushes the 360's limit...

[laurie]

Im sure GOW was running at 30 not 60. I could be wrong.
There is no way that in 1 year of any consoles release its potential will have been filled. Look at the last batch of ps2 games compared to the ones which were supposedly pushing the system to its limits during its infancy. They are twice as good looking at least. Developers will find new ways to exploit the hardware to maximise its efficiency and capabilities.

[cerberus414]

I think people with broken Xbox 360s are either:
1. PS3 Fanboys who are trying to divert attention away from the Resistance Killer (aka Gears of War). Yes, that's what Sony said about Resistance being the Halo Killer. I'm pretty sure they meant Halo 2 not Halo 3
2. Retards because MS is refunding money for the broken Xbox 360s. (Made before 2006, because the problem was isolated afterwards and has no relationship with how much stress is being put on the system - aka defect) Are you guys trying to blow the issue out of proportion? Obviously, just because every 3rd post has to do with the "3 rings of death" doesn't mean everyone has it. Only those who have it will go online will talk trash. If you ever took Statistics you'd know that this shit is biased. And all this crap with 33% of 360 failing is crap too, because MS would of recalled and some 3rd party calculations are probably wrong and meaningless. I think Microsoft would know the real failure numbers.