Gears of War in motion

Wednesday 10 May 2006
While attending 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's pre-E3 conference, we were treated to a demo of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games' Gears of War, the staggeringly attractive 360 shooter. It's odds-on to become theಌ most exciting game of the year for Microsoft's next-gen hardware - just take a look at these new screens to check out the game's impressive form for yourself.

Set on a ruined, alien-infested Earth, Gears of Warജ is an all-out bullet buffet. The heavy focus on combat stresses rigorous use of cover, with enemies consta▨ntly pouring fire into your general direction.

You can dive into cover, hunker down and move about, lean out to loose off 🙈a few shots, or leap over obstacles𝓰 to charge into new cover positions. Brilliantly, you can also blind-fire, holding your weapon out and just blasting away without risking your neck with careful aiming.

Gears of War has a very Resi 4-style camera, although Marcus Phoenix - the none-more-ripped star - is far more manoeuvrable than Resi's Leon Kennedy. The over-the-shoulder view gives😼 the game an intense🍰, filmic quality, and serious levels of heart-endangering atmosphere.

This proud focus on action, the constant cover-to-cover rush and never-ending barrage of bullets is a breathless experience. And the game is brutal. Thick streams of the red stuff gush all over the place, especially once Marcus gets in close and uses h𒅌is rifle's chainsaw-bayonet𝔉 to chew an alien's face off.

We'r♔e a bit concerned, though, that the alien nasties seemed irritatingly resistant to a chestful of hot lead - they might be bulging, burly brutes, but when we drill someone with a clip of hollow points we expect them to go down, and stay down.

We're a wee bit excited about Gears of War, as you might have noticed but, unfortunately, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft is being excessively coy about a launch date. The official line is that the game will splash down on "Emergence Day 2006". But, beyond possibly bꦐeing a reference to 360's original launch date, that's not that helpful. But, with E3 kicking off in a matter of hours, we'll be first on the scene to dig up new info on this stunning 360 title. Stay tuned.

Ben Richardson is a former S♉taff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a for🍨mer Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.