Gears of War, Microsoft's Spectacular IP

Badassgamer writes "Seriously, in all of this current console generation, never has a brand new IP caused such a stir, never has a brand new IP been so sought after, it's a very rare thing for a new game to burst into the scene and make such waves across the world of gaming, of course I'm talking about the 'Gears of War' series."

[KionicWarlord222]

i agree gears had big impact. I was blown away at the first one ...thank you epic.

[GWAVE]

Gears of War belongs to Microsoft? Hmmmm, what was EPIC's involvement then?

[ShabzS]

it was a blast to play the game thanks to epic and ms to bring it to 360

[JokesOnYou]

This blog has been doing nothing but pro ps3/anti-360 news for over a year looking at the content and past headlines. Now suddenly "Brad" for the first time after it was evident the site is biased actually now has 1 postive 360 game news story on his blog, and its a short piece about Gears being a great new IP, yeah and in other news water is wet, just seems like a poor attempt at deflection to cover up his extreme one sided nature:

"Faulty Tech...Now Acceptable?"
"Killzone 2 is the New Game to Beat"
"So who really has sold more consoles? Microsoft or Sony?"
"Crysis Knocked Out by Fight Night Round 4"
"Microsoft Need to Make a Splash at E3 2009"
"What Sony has and Microsoft doesn't..."
"Gaming Journalism...biased joke?"
"Killzone 2:Guerrilla Games Overcame the Odds"
"Less 'Unreal Engine 3', More custom engines..."
"Xbox 360 reached it's technical limit?"
"Why does Killzone 2 have to defeat Halo 3 again?"
"Is Microsoft Giving up on Console Visual Superiority?"
"Killzone 2 is still the best looking PS3 game."
"God Of War 3, To set the New Visual Benchmark?"
"Resident Evil 5 - Where's the Fun?"
"Killzone 2 Demo Impressions"
"Killzone 2 Review Bias?"
"Killzone 2 lives up to the Hype."

SDF=Confirmed, lmfao

JOY

[Mindboggle]

Fail...Gears of War is third party...Its not owned by microsoft in any way, the IP is Epics. Microsoft only publish it.

[kewlkat007]

talk about exposing...

At least 1 positive article is better than none..

[ShabzS]

you sony fanboys are ridiculous... seriously

[TheAntiFanboy]

A great game is a great game. If it were a PS3 exclusive I bet none of you lurkers would be disagreeing with the above.

Get off your ignorant high chairs and just accept a great game as is. Everyone's been doing it with your console for Killzone 2 and all of your other great exclusives. So quit being selfish, be grateful that there are developers out there still dedicated to the art of creating great games, and praise the ones that deserve it, even if they may be for a console you don't own.

I own both Killzone and Gears of War 2. They sit next to each other on my shelf. THEY CAN COEXIST.

[Bnet343]

Gears 1 and 2 are nice games, but online multiplayer excluding Horde in Gears 2 is awful.

[JokesOnYou]

and I got alot of hate on the other thread for just giving the facts, some act like its might fault for noticing that there wasn't 1 positive 360 related news story on this blog until just NOW, weird huh?

JOY

[Blaze929]

You hit the nail on the head.

@Kigmal

when was the last time you played Gears 2 online? Its fixed....

[Bnet343]

After TU3. It's not fixed. I still die from a mile away from shotgun, etc. Host wins everytime, etc. Awful game when it comes to competitive multiplayer.

[Blaze929]

I dunno, either your connection sucks or we aren't playing the same game becuase its fine now.

But yeah i dunno, been playing Gears 2 again like crazy ever since TU3 and it's been fine for me. Browse forums and no one is complaining about the past problems anymore.

[ZuperAmazingCooKie]

The storyline is an uninspired mish-mash between H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine", the movie "Top Gun" and the countless storylines where humanity is cornered against a group of mutants/beasts/aliens. The cover system was NOT invented by Gears of War or Epic or Microsoft so get off your High Horse, fanboys, Killswitch came first. It's not the best either as it has already been refined by other games.

The graphics are not the best of this gen and they've been beaten several times since 2007, even Gears 2 looks almost the same as the first one. They're not the best the 360 can do either, the Unreal Engine is a jack of all trades and master of none. There are games with better animation, color, lighting, character models, scenarios, more polygons on screen, all at the same time.

http://www.lensoftruth.com/...

http://kineticninja.blogspo...

Last but not least, Microsoft doesn't own this and the reason for that is that it was either too expensive for them to own, or it was never gonna be owned. It is owned by Epic and by the looks of it it will probably always will. You know what that means...

[The Dude]

@Kigmal

The multiplayer plays great dont blame your lack of skill on the game, it is noobs like you who roll right into my shoot gun or run at me with your lancer.

[evrfighter]

I'm impressed JOY. Well done.

@ cookie

From what I remember the cover system goes far beyond killswitch with Winback for the 64. There might have even been a game or two before that.

I think even "General Chaos" for the genesis had a cover system.

[phosphor112]

Winback did have a cover system, but Kill.switch has the exact same cover system Gears does. Including blind fire and all that.

[evrfighter]

"The cover system was NOT invented by Gears of War or Epic or Microsoft so get off your High Horse, fanboys, Killswitch came first"

If im not mistaken he's saying killswitch invented the cover system. I wasn't telling him which one is like so and so's. All I'm saying is the cover system came before Killswitch.

[4Sh0w]

lol, thats some pretty good sfuff, its a shame that blogs like that gets posted here

[Tr10wn]

wow seriously i been on n4g for 2 days now and wow this is like heaven for PS3 fanboys

[ShabzS]

get used to it man

[Cajun Chicken]

"Who would have though a well built battle-hardened guy with a chainsaw connected to an Assault rifle would be such a great idea?"

Certainly not me and still not me.

[HeavyInfamous]

I didn't think so either, but it clearly was...

[KionicWarlord222]

who doesnt enjoy chainsawing people in half?

[Sonyfanclubpresident]

just the fact that a jack @ss like Cajun Chicken#1 has that many bubbles,
while making a statement like that,shows how flawed this site really is with it's bubble/multi account system.

Fact of the matter is,nothing will come close to the Gears series this gen.
Sorry.......but no......LOL not even Kilzone 2.

Sales and ongoing live community activity give testimony to this.

poor gaystation droids........poor boys.

[NegativeCreep427]

"poor gaystation droids........poor boys."

Oh and just what the hell are you supposed to be? A Man?

LOL! Really? You think you have some kind of machismo to consider yourself above any of the younger, minor-aged fanboys here on N4G? Well dammit, if you are a man I seriously hope you find the time to wake up, drop your balls, and move onto something a real man would do, like not coming onto the F'n internet and talking like some extremist fanboy who would prefer GoW over T & A.

[Montreafart]

Here is a reality check, stupid xbot!

IP stands for "intellectual property". To own IP, it must belong to you. Well guess what, Gears of wars does NOT belong to Microsoft. IT BELONGS TO EPIC GAMES. Hence, calling Gears of wars, Microsofts "spectacular" IP, makes you look like a frikkin MORON and I bet the folks at EPIC games ARE NOT AMUSED at all.

This alone makes this blog another ridiculous and worthless piece of xbot rant. But do carry on. Never has a game "has so much of an impact?"

Ahahahaha TOP GeOW1 sales ~ 5 million

Lets check some history, shall we?
FF7 ~ 10 million
Tekken 3 ~ 9 million
Gran Turismo 3 ~ 10 million
Metal gear solid 2 ~ 7 million
Grand theft auto 4 ~ 11 million

JUST TO NAME A FEW. Botassgamer, I think I speak for the vast majority of REAL GAMERS when I say: "SHUT THE FK UP, XBOT"

[Deadman64]

Hmmm are sony fangirls getting angry because resistance failed in comparison to gears of war? or is it that killzone also failed in comparison.......

[Eiffel]

Those are sales from years ago. Gears of War is at 5 million and is active on a current gen system.

What are you smoking?

[Tr10wn]

GTA4 11m hahahaha you ask your mom right? (Mom how many copies of GTA4 have been sold? i think is like 11m bob) hahaha search some info noob

GTA4 PS3 = 5.55
GTA4 360 = 6.97m

N4G is full of incompetents ps3 fanboys which compare 13 years old games with games like GoW 2 which is a 6 mounth old game and then defend a console that have sold 9m of console less than the 360 but even when the 360 sold more multiplat games N4G fanboys said NOOOO PS3 is the bomb and we sold 11m copies of GTA4. Now find a PS3 exclusive and compare sales with a 360 exclusive good luck trying to find one.

[OperationFlashpoint2]

I feel that Gears is a great series, although not sure about his statement about Uncharted not looking better, but that's his opinion I guess..

[Unicron]

Each title has its pros and cons visually. Those comparison shots really show how Uncharted dominates in the lighting, fx, and character modeling. But Uncharted also suffers from screen tearing and some framerate hiccups. Gears as a whole really feels cohesive with some spiffy postprocessing, I just wish the bullshots weren't so doctored up. In the end however, both games are amazing, so we gamers should feel lucky to be able to enjoy both, no?

Aw, baby phantom disagrees. Man up and start a discussion, stop being pvssies.

[jmcorp]

makes good points.

[Josh360]

It's Epic's IP not Microsoft.

[HeavyInfamous]

I don't think it's meant that way...

[crck]

Not sure how people can disagree with you on that. The IP belongs to Epic, that is a fact. The title should be MS's spectacular exclusive if anything.

[Dont BE mAdd]

not M$ ip just on their console exclusively since u need it to be Sooo clear

[Jinxstar]

"Seriously, in all of this current console generation, never has a brand new IP caused such a stir, never has a brand new IP been so sought after, it's a very rare thing for a new game to burst into the scene and make such waves across the world of gaming, of course I'm talking about the 'Gears of War' series."

LBP maybe?

@ Below
Look really I feel this game has all the bases above checked. new IP. Sought after. Burst onto scene. Makes waves. Caused Stir....

Really there are a few games this gen that I could fill in and write an article about how they "Revolutionized" or what not.

Dead Space. Burnout paradise. LBP. Bioshock. COD4. Warhawk. Killzone 2. Each pushed their own perspective categories in a new way that was beyond anything I had hoped for in terms of originality, innovation and grandeur. I personally played the 7 hour campaign that was GeOW 1 and played some Horde and Story of GeOW 2. Both were... Ok... However I feel they were limited on many fronts myself.

I'm not saying they were bad I'm just saying they weren't "ZOMG WOW"

I could and will list off all the amazing qualities of the few games I have listed above if you really want me to but I think you can figure it out for yourselves. We are all gamers here and I just feel Gears wasn't all that Amazing... I never liked the online much but I will say i did have a very good time playing Co-op with my buddy when I had a 360. Apart from that it was just ok...

Lowcarb... Really? You think Sales has to do with quality. Then I guess Wii Play and Mario Kart stomped the hell out of anything on the 360 or ps3. They must be better. Noob.

Rambi. yeah Gears wasn't the first to do cover. They were the first to do cover in a TPS and get it right. even MGS had cover man... Depending on how you want to look at it.

Edit 2; Really I feel that the games were ok. Nay Good even... but if it weren't for hype and other things they would not be what they are. any game with a 7 hour campaign. limited online and bugs everywhere gets torn apart by the media like rabid dogs on a bag of meat. it was good but in no way "this gens defining game" if i will remember one game from this gen it wont be gears. If I were stuck on a desert island and could only take one game it would not be gears.... It is a good game but in no way deserving of it's throne imo.

[rambi80]

in terms of how many people ripped off its cover system gears certainly has had the biggest impact for this generation thus far.

Still early days pertaining to the influence of LPB but i love it + highly recommend it.

[lowcarb]

LBP caused a stir but nothing like Gears unfortunately as expressed by sales.

edit: It's good to see brad putting out something positive 360 rather than the all day usual attacks.

EDit jinx: Ok I will reply to you even though I know nothing will get through that thick skull of yours.

"You think Sales has to do with quality."
I never said anything about LBP or Gears having better qaulity so please tell me again what the he11 you talking about? Comments like that make you sound like the noob buddy.

[elorm9]

"in terms of how many people ripped off its cover system gears certainly has had the biggest impact for this generation thus far."

Well, Gears copied it from Kill Switch

[rambi80]

Okay - thanks for the correction - I'll check it out

[Downtown boogey]

both had a pretty substantial impact when they were released too... As well as Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter

[Gitaroo]

it was released at the right time, thats all I can say, just like Halo1.

[Unicron]

Gears took an undeveloped concept seen only in a few games prior, and built a solid system around it. Coupled with the U3 engine, which at the time was brand new, and it definitely made the game stand out. I picked it up for the PC and enjoyed it. It was like a summer movie, light and fun action fare that focused the most on gameplay. Couldn't get into MP however, though co-op rocks.

Kudos to Epic (not MS, give credit where its due) for bringing a solid new IP this generation. The best companies are the ones that take chances on new concepts I feel.

[lowcarb]

Also kudos to Ms for listening to Epic and helping them achieve the game they set out to make by adding more ram.

edit below farhsa2008: Sure it is....open zones that way since you seem to have forgot>>>>>> >>>>>>>> ;>>>>>>>&g t;>.

[Unicron]

Also true. I think that should be something the big 3 do when preparing their new consoles, listen to the developers more, as they are the ones... you know, doing the developing.

[evrfighter]

Also one that picked it up for the pc earlier this year just to try co-op with a friend.

It really was an awesome experience for the both of us. We are both PC only FPS gamers but we had a blast with this one. We are both now eagerly hoping for a gow 2 port to the pc.

[Says you]

Impressive this game was nothing but an Unreal Tournament spin off without the chainsaw it would have been more of the same I wasn't even blown away by the graphics or the gameplay people easily get impressed by something that wasn't that spectacular this game was broken from the start with its glitches

Epic pulled a Microsoft on everybody by giving the game out early it didn't look nothing like the bullshot and the same thing with the second one why would they lie about there games if they knew there games wouldn't be nothing like that!

I would know I played it.

[KionicWarlord222]

Gears of war 1 had glitches : every game does. Gears 2 doesnt have many at all.this is a completely different experience then unreal tournament series.

[Chuk_Chuk]

Last time i checked MGS4 didn't have glitches(that i knew about)

[1ikedamaster]

I disagree. Gears 1 was almost perfect, well...except for the "insta-downs" from sniper and the exploits people would invent. It was by far the best experience anyone could have with a fast/tactical 3rd person shooter. Gears 2 glitches were fixed but the gameplay as a whole online is somewhat jaded, not the Gears I used to play. Gears 2 just plays different. I don't love it like I do Gears 1, granted, Gears 2 did add gamemodes and features that Gears 1 could have had.

[farhsa2008]

uncharted destroys gears in every way

[Downtown boogey]

No, I'd say the graphics are worse than in Gears 2. Still, Gears 2 is no match for Killzone 2 or Uncharted: Among thieves

[table]

take it easy lord vador... insecure much?

I dont understand why people cant accept that another console has good games. I disagree when you say gears has a better online than killzone2... ridiculous statement

[Harry_Manback]

If you actually believe Gears kicks so much @ss.
The first one was alright for its time, but I thought the sequel was terrible. Everything from the laughable story, the washed out & inconsistant graphics, and the broken & lackluster multiplayer just doesn't cut it by today's standards in video games.

[jack who]

your kinda late no?

[KionicWarlord222]

lol isnt this article suppose to be : why this was good game?.

[Chuk_Chuk]

he brings up some good points but the graphics are not better than uncharted. But thats my opinion

[DelbertGrady]

The insane jealousy of the PS3 fanboys just proves his points even more.

Gears of War truly is an epic milestone in the history of gaming. Forged by the hands of gods among men. A true joy for gamers to behold and to play. Delivering on all fronts. Reviews, online activity, sales. A true AAA title.

Epic. We salute you!

[NegativeCreep427]

but "an epic milestone in the history of gaming" ?

"Forged by the hands of gods among men." ?

...Good God man get a f*cking life beyond the computer monitor and tv set.

[1ikedamaster]

Soda got it right. Just because it wasn't on your console of choice does not mean it's not an epic experience in every sense of the word.

[DelbertGrady]

Remove the eyeliner and get a sense of humour, you emo douchebag. He's not coming back, OK? Get over it.

[KionicWarlord222]

well...i agree gears is fun but that other stuff was harsh....but everyone does have there opinion.

[Lord Vader]

Well, REALITY is harsh. The N4G kiddies live in a fantasy land where Socom is a good game & Killzone 2 is perfect. I've had both consoles since their respective launch, I love Uncharted & MGS4 btw, but they dont have MP or any replayability whatsoever. The biais on this website gets old & so does the FUD.

Some of you Sony kiddies should go play Gears & Halo's MP for a weekend & see how much FUN it is & you'll see how crappy Resistance & KZ2 really are...

Great Graphics does NOT = Great Gameplay or most importantly, FUN TO PLAY... & even better with a Big party of Friends playing all night.

Freakin' Clueless.

[table]

no need to cry about it lord vador... its them thats loosing out not you remember?! are you sure you have a ps3?

[TheBand1t]

And what if I'm of the opinion that Halo and Gears doesn't give me as much satisfaction to play as Killzone and Resistance?

I've played Gears and Halo, and while good, weren't something I could probably get into. Note of course that is a preference and clearly an opinion on my part. It's just Killzone and Resistance give me more enjoyment.

You, however, are clearly no more than a fanboy, something that should be reviled and looked down upon, whether they be PS3 fanboy or 360 fanboy. Seriously. Don't state your opinion like they're god given fact.

[Cenobia]

"I've had both consoles since their respective launch, I love Uncharted & MGS4 btw, but they dont have MP or any replayability..."

Metal Gear Online...

You should really buy a PS3 though. Those games you pretend to have played are quite fun.

The way you talk makes you sound about 15 to be honest. And calling people 'kiddies' because they prefer different games makes you sound like a moron.

You obviously haven't played every PS3 multiplayer game, and you seem to think your opinion is fact. You also contradict yourself every other comment. First you say KZ2 looks like crap after 30 minutes, and then you scream "Graphics aren't everything".

Uncharted ripped off Gears? You have NO idea what you're talking about. Gears ripped off Kill.Switch you porridge brained toddler. I love how everyone thinks Gears is revolutionary, new and different when the mechanic you claim it created was in PS2 games.

Just stfu already.

[boodybandit]

Somehow I doubt you have ever played KZ2 or Resistance.
You can check my profile and see I played Gears 2 as early as this past Thursday. I played it for 3 hours straight with a group of friends. It is "my opinion" that KZ2 and Warhawk (not a big Resistance fan) are significantly better than Gears of War 2 "online".

GeoW2 has too many issues (even still) and the lag and hit detection is questionable at best. I never lag in KZ2 or Warhawk and they hold 3 to 5 times more players per server. I enjoyed the original Gears of War more than the sequel. I don't like the party system and I guess the overall shock and awe of the first wore off of me.

If Gears is so great why does it usually rate 4 to 6 (behind Halo 3, COD4, COD:WAW, LFD or RE5) on XBL's most played list since it practically launched? I think that in itself shows you a lot of people are disappointed with Gears 2 and the direction Epic took with their online matchmaking.

Personally I wish Epic would allow unranked rooms to just create servers where anyone can play and cycle the maps like we use to in the original Gears. I'm not alone on this. I have seen thousands of post on other forums and sites of people wanting the same thing. Most of the people on my friends list I met during Gears 1 and I rarely see any of them playing it although "ALL" of them purchased it.

[iHEARTboobs]

Sony kiddies? What a tool. That's fine if you don't like those games but don't try to pawn your preferences as fact. Horde is fun though, don't really play anything else in GEARS. KZ2 is lots of fun too.