Gears of War

Gears of War is the first Original IP that Epic Games has developed since Unreal debuted in 1998. The game is rumored to be the mystic Unreal Warfare that Epic talked much about in the early builds of Unreal Engine 2. The game is mostly single player based, but was very popular online as well on the Xbox 360. It is also likely Epic's best selling game, selling more than 5 million copies in the first few months of it's shelf life. The game was released on November 11th, 2006 for the Xbox 360. It was also released on the PC on November 11th, 2007. A Mac version has been announced, but has not received a release date yet.

History

Demo

A demo was rumored for Gears of War early in the development cycle, but later on Mark Rein reported that there would be no demo due to it being impractical to spend time on one.

Release Details

• November 11, 2006 - Xbox 360 - 1 DVD9
• November 11, 2007 - PC - 1 DVD9

Reception

Overall reception to the game on the Xbox 360 was positive. The game received high 90% scores on most major game journalism sites. Points that were cited in reviews often revolved around the lack of many game bugs, a very robust and fun multiplayer mode and the easy to use controls.

Reaction to the game on PC is both good and bad. Many people seem to have performance problems, crashing problems and problems getting the game to run.

Game Content

Music

The music was written mostly by Kevin Riepl.

Weapons

• Lancer
• Locust Pistol
• Shotgun
• Hammer of Dawn

Characters

• Marcus
• Dom
• Baird
• Cole
• General Raam

Races

• Humans
• Locust

Gametypes

• I dunno

Maps

Singleplayer

• Train Wreck

Multiplayer

• I dunno

User Created Content

• Hourences map

Additional Content

Trivia

• some trivia thing.

Previews and Reviews

References

See Also

• Unreal Warfare