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Gears of War 3
Topic Started: Monday Apr 12 2010, 08:55 AM (1,623 Views)
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So the story is, Cliffy B was scheduled to be on Jimmy Falon's show on Friday night. His appearance was to make a major game announcement which he was trying hard to tell people *might not* be Gears of War 3. However, the appearance was pushed back till their Monday night.

Looks like the Xbox Live monkey's weren't made aware of the rescheduling though, because an ad telling everyone to "Celebrate the announcement of Gears of War 3" popped up on the 360 dashboard right at the original scheduled time that Cliffy B should have been on the show.

So there you have it people, Gears of War 3 confirmed by MS themselves. No doubt there will be plenty of actual details after Cliffy B does his bit.
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Is that all it was ment to be? Just the announcement of GOW3?? Shit i could have announced that back after the end of Gears 2
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The onlyt thing that i liked in gears 2 was the horde mode, so they would have to do one HELL of a haul for them to make me buy the third....
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Horde is amazing. I'm so excited, still, it's 12 months away, that's ages. The other game they are apparently announcing, 'Bulletstorm' looks great too. I think its on the next cover of Game Informer.

Can't wait to rev up my golden Lancer again!
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TBH i wouldn't mind cracking out my copy of gears for a game of horde sometime soon.
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I'll respond to that invite
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Me too. :)
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Me three, if you don't mind a mute squadmember :silly:
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Silence is Golden......like a blood soaked Gold Lancer B) :chainsaw:
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Ill be up for that. I Love Gears, it has something other games lack, it just feels really satisfying to get kills.




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Wow, we got excited over this announcement, didn't we? :lol:

Well, the only real news is that the campaign is now 4 player co-op.

A bunch of in game screenshots hit the web last night.

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In the most recent issue of Game Informer magazine new information has been revealed about the third installment in the Gears of War series. We learned the first details about Gears 3 on the Jimmy Fallon Show which debuted the trailer back in April. So far we know that Dom has a beard, Anya fights with the boys, and Marcus has a new gun. But there's so much more.

It's been a year and a half since the fall of Jacinto and the Gears are now living aboard a converted aircraft carrier called the Raven's Nest. The government has disbanded and the survivors from the first two games call a make-shift flotilla their home. The crew rely on each other more than ever, which is highlighted in Gears 3 by the new four-player co-op. Marcus and Dom return to lead a new character named Jace Stratton and Anya Stroud.

Players can now trade weapons with each other or other soldiers in their battle against the lambent. This new enemy which first appeared in Gears of War 2 enters the game quickly when giant enemy crabs overtake the ship. These are a precursor to reanimated Locust troops called Drudges. When attacked, these enemies spawn tendril-like limbs that allow them to expand outward and upward, making cover a lot less safe. They'll also perform a last-ditch attack by blowing themselves up while running at the player.

To fight the new threat the players have access to a new "Pendulum-era lancer with a bayonet and more powerful, close-range rounds. There's also a redesigned hammerburst with a standard zoom, a sawed-off shotgun, and a massive one-shot rifle. One strange new weapon is the digger launcher which fires piranha-like creatures into the ground where they then seek and devour their targets.

The Locust still make an appearance along with new enemy classes like a grenadier and large, organic catapults. To face these larger threats, players can now suit up in a mechanized suit called a silverback. These come equipped with a rocket launcher and a heavy chain gun and can also be deployed as cover, allowing multiple team members to use the weapons.

There's also a new arcade mode that has highly visible scoring and stat tracking. Then it allows players to fiddle with variables including gravity, big-head mode, and sound effects. Arcade mode also includes an idea that appeared in Shadow Complex where players are alerted to how well their friends have done in a certain area.

As far as multiplayer, only two maps have been revealed including a ruined thrashball field and the sinking remains of Jacinto called Overpass. The multiplayer environments can alter dramatically during a match, like water flooding and receding from the ground. There's also a new multi-turret where players can affix their own weapons then hit a single trigger to fire bullets in four directions.

The article also promises a host of new executions using almost all of the weapons and more importantly, we'll finally learn the secret behind Adam Fenix and his plan to save the planet.
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GOW 3 has sort of crept up on us... Me anyway. I'd totally forgotten it's due out THIS MONTH!

Anyhow, my real reason for resurrecting the thread - has anyone else seen the lancer that's being offered for sale by EB games? I couldn't resist ordering one, only $128 bucks. It's the pendulum wars version but still, the kid in me couldn't resist.

http://www.ebgames.com.au/xbox360-154847-Gears-of-War-3-Retro-Lancer-Replica-Xbox-360


The aus version is gold colored, which will be down to our stupid laws against weapon replicas, but given the special in game gold lancers I think that's actually cool.


Btw, I do know it's probably a waste of money... But ... It's a fucking lancer!
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That is awesome, but my missus would kill me..........................




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Ooooooo........I do want one. Id say it's the inner kid in me screaming out for it but the adult in me is saying 'You'll just end up getting it and it'll then go directly into the closet never to be seen again and just take up space and then later on in life when your moving house or your doing a spring clean you'll see it once again and think about the time you use to be impulsively buy useless crap.......and then reminisce about it a little and sigh' :p
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Was actually getting excited about this, mainly for hord mode, but I'm going to be away for this so might give it a miss.
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Is the toy lancer plastic or metal?
Im inclined to think its plastic if its got the gun sounds, I have this vision of it being like one of those 'clack clack' sounding assault rifles you buy in target for kids.


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For $128, most definantly plastic and most likely a clackity clack sound or pre-recorded gun noise
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Couple of vids have surfaced on the net showing the gun. Looks better than I expected tbh, and it's massive (I didn't fully believe the 3.5 feet claim). Still not sure why it's so cheap, relatively. I just bought some cheap plastic tat for my nephews birthday that was 100 bucks, "Ben 10" alien created doohicky... So 130 bucks for a goddamn lancer is pretty sweet.

It's disappeared off the EB games site, which I'm not sure whether to be worried about....


Speaking of gears though, is anyone else getting it? I have the next couple of weeks off, so will actually be around for some multi if anyone is playing next week. I may even forego my usual "got to finish the SP first" embargo....


Edit - although from what I recall last time I played gow2 multi it was my birthday a couple of years back, I was hideously drunk, I think my brother in law had joined and seem to recall a bunch of OSG peeps, and I vaguely recall calling everyone bitches and screaming at the top of my lungs whenever i got killed so completely understand if that put people off.....
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about a little guy that lives in a blue world
and all day and all night and everything he sees
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and a blue corvette
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I'll likely be getting this blue, so keep an eye out
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