Gears of War 3 - Catch All

Wha-WHAT?

"No thanks" to "Console MP of the Year" in an instant. I'd be surprised if it's true, though.

Gumbie wrote:

CVG is reporting that Gears 3 will have dedicated servers.
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Gears of War 3 gets dedicated servers

cvg wrote:

Gears of War 3 will include dedicated server support, much to the relief of fans, CVG has learnt.

Developer Epic games has made the move in an attempt to address online problems that affected the last game, including sluggish matchmaking and occasional lag, we've heard.

Although now mostly addressed via Xbox Live patches, the Gears 2 issues left a bad taste in many early adopters' mouths - something that hopefully won't happen again with the third game.

When contacted on the issue, Gears designer Cliff Bleszinski told us that dedicated servers are "just a rumour".

Read everything we know about the big sequel in our huge Gears of War 3 details blowout. It's sounding very good indeed...

Gears of War 3 gameplay details are HUGE

cvg wrote:

New Gears of War 3 gameplay details have arrived, via the pages of a Russian magazine that appeared on the internet this morning. Prepare for a BIG read...

According to the mag, the third Gears has humanity in pieces, split into tribes and fighting for their survival. After flooding the last human city, Marcus and Dom have taken refuge on an aircraft carrier called Raven's Nest (which you can see here), on which the game kicks off.

Quickly COG overlord Prescott lands on the Raven's Nest and drops the revelation that Marcus's father is still alive - and he's discovered a way to save humanity.

Here's the best bit: Marcus and co will occasionally have to defend the Raven's Nest from attack to protect their tomato patch (no, that's not a dodgy translation) as food's a bit scarce in their version of Kevin Costner's Waterworld.

The Locust have been kicked out of their homes and driven out by the mutated Lambent - the main enemy in Gears 3. According to the Russian mag, The Lambet are able to battle two-to-three Gears at the same time and once they're close to death they'll charge and explode on the nearest Human.

As our colleagues at Edge exclusively revealed, they've also got giant tentacles for reaching over cover - and these remain active even after they die.

Now the story rubbish out of the way, here's the stuff you're really interested in: Guns. Gears 3 is set to include several inventive new killing tools, top of which is a grenade launcher that fires organic bombs under the ground. After pulling the trigger, your payload burrows through the earth, underneath your targets cover and explodes - a bit like a subterranean mortar.

We already know about the Pendulum Lancer - the predecessor to the chainsaw version - but one interesting addition we don't have much info on is the DB Shotgun, a double-barrelled boomstick that takes a "long time to reload" and can only hold two shells at a time, the trade-off being that you can fire them both at the same time for massive damage. Sure to be a multiplayer annoyance.

There are three types of grenade in the third game; frag, smoke and ignitable - and they can be combined. For example lobbing an ignitable grenade followed by a frag will create a fiery hell in a closed environment.

Gears of War 3's new Lost Planet-style mech (which you can see here) is apparently called the Silver-Back and carries a hefty machine gun (infinite ammo) and grenade launcher (limited ammo). According to Russia, the Silver-Back is well protected from the front but not so much from behind.

Excitingly (if you're a mentalist), almost every gun in Gears of War 3 will have its own unique execution move, from throat-slashing bayonet kills with the Pendulum Lancer, to a neck-breaking shotgun move, head-squishing mortar smack and a flame thrower manoeuvre that sets people on fire... from the INSIDE.

Even cooler, with the meatshield you can now shove a grenade inside a captive Locust's armour and kick him towards a crowd of baddies - Sparta style.

On the multiplayer front environments now constantly shift and crumble during battles, which you can somewhat see in action via these scans. In Gears of War 3 players can also swap ammo and weapons, which is bound to solve a lot of the mortar squabbling from games past.

... aaaand breath. Many thanks go to Russian man 'Razor605' of the Epic forums for translating these. We very much look forward to seeing Gears 3 with our own eyes - it sounds biggerer, betterer and even more badass.

Canadian Zed is gonna be thrilled at the meat shield sparta grenade.

Lots of new screenshots over at Gameinformer.

Cool mech. Weird, Doom 3-esque metal-spider things. Anya looking less than pleased to be holding a sniper rifle.

I think its funny that the quad-mounted machine gun has bayonets sticking out of it. Maybe it has a lunge & impale mechanism or better yet those are new assault rifles in a mounting harness. That would be kick ass to get a stabby gun (think jackhammer) to compliment the saw!

EvilDead wrote:

I think its funny that the quad-mounted machine gun has bayonets sticking out of it. Maybe it has a lunge & impale mechanism or better yet those are new assault rifles in a mounting harness. That would be kick ass to get a stabby gun (think jackhammer) to compliment the saw!

I think it's 4 of the Pendulum lancers strapped up to be a badass mounted gun.

I don't care what anyone says, Cliffy B is a genius. I just watched his interview with IGN. Everything I've seen so far makes this look like it'll be absolutely awesome.

The gameplay video he showed was cool too!

Beast mode looks like the most fun thing ever.

Thin_J wrote:

Beast mode looks like the most fun thing ever.

Yes. Yes it does

Beast mode does look cool. The next logical step would be L4D style Versus

MannishBoy wrote:

Beast mode does look cool. The next logical step would be L4D style Versus :)

For sure. And I bet we'll see it, too. If they go through all the trouble of making the non-humanoid Locust playable, there's no reason why they couldn't set up cog vs locust proper.

Clemenstation wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Beast mode does look cool. The next logical step would be L4D style Versus :)

For sure. And I bet we'll see it, too. If they go through all the trouble of making the non-humanoid Locust playable, there's no reason why they couldn't set up cog vs locust proper.

The only challenge they'd have there would be balancing things. Players are going to be way better at abusing the extra life and abilities of some of the Locust stuff than the AI is.

Yet another version of the Gears wallpaper for those eagerly awaiting the game.
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I'm going to play the hell out of this game. I don't know why but Gears gets a pass with me (and a large population of people here). There are big problems with the online component and the story is definitely lacking in many areas but I just can't help but be excited for this game.

I can answer that question: Chainsaw Bayonet.

MannishBoy wrote:

Delayed until "Holiday 2011"

:(

Nooooooo! I just pre-ordered from Amazon too. This is getting ridiculous since it was originally supposed to launch this Holiday then delayed so it wouldn't be going head to head with Halo. Are they just delaying it now to capitalize on Holiday sales?

EvilDead wrote:
MannishBoy wrote:

Delayed until "Holiday 2011"

:(

Nooooooo! I just pre-ordered from Amazon too. This is getting ridiculous since it was originally supposed to launch this Holiday then delayed so it wouldn't be going head to head with Halo. Are they just delaying it now to capitalize on Holiday sales?

Joystiq Article wrote:

"However, we've elected to move the launch of Gears of War 3 until Fall 2011 to make it the marquee title for the holiday season."

If thing isn't as polished as can be, I'll be quite upset. Also remember this is the last game in the Gears trilogy and they are probably wanting it to be the epic game of 2011 (pun intended).

Good to see Microsoft is smart enough to get the hell outta the 3DS's way.

I'm not happy about this. Not one bit. I wanted this in November, but 2010. G'damnit.

Good for them. They have no excuse this time if the netcode is an absolute piece of sh*t.

Gumbie wrote:

Good for them. They have no excuse this time if the netcode is an absolute piece of sh*t.

"It's Gears"...

I hadn't heard about a holiday 2010 launch, only the April 2011 launch. This was a good thing, since my B-day drops two days after launch; instant present to me, right? Well, no. That was dashed and now I have to wait 8 friggin months for my B-day present.

This just gives me more time to save up for a television. Thanks Epic!

H to the ickle wrote:

This just gives me more time to save up for a television. Thanks Epic!

From the looks of it, this game might also force me to upgrade to a bigger, better and more badass TV.

trueheart78 wrote:
Gumbie wrote:

Good for them. They have no excuse this time if the netcode is an absolute piece of sh*t.

"It's Gears"...

Yep, that's the point.

Open multiplayer beta and dedicated servers confirmed.

Gumbie wrote:

Open multiplayer beta and dedicated servers confirmed.

Yes and hell yes.