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    HEXUS.gaming :: Hands-on Preview : Gears of War - Xbox 360

    I'm supposed to be working on other stuff, but this can't wait. You need to know now that Gears of War is everything that we've been hoping for...amazing.

    Check out the hands-on Preview for more info.

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    Fantastic read and could you possibly have heightened the excitement any more!?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parm View Post
    Fantastic read and could you possibly have heightened the excitement any more!?
    Yeah, I might have got carried away but I'm so excited.

    I can promise you that if I thought it was no good I'd say, but not a bad word to say about it, potentially the best game ever for me. Just hope single player is as good!

    I'm sure Nick will add his comments as well.

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    The last bit of the article pencils in Emergence Day for November 11th, although that is true for our US counterparts it's slightly different here in Europe.
    Our own Emergence Day is November 17th. Highlighted in red on my calender!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Parm View Post
    The last bit of the article pencils in Emergence Day for November 11th, although that is true for our US counterparts it's slightly different here in Europe.
    Our own Emergence Day is November 17th. Highlighted in red on my calender!
    Sweet, cheers!

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    We rolled up to this event with 3 games on our list that we HAD to play...

    Gears of War, Pro Evo and Call Of Duty 3.

    Luckily, seeing as we were early, we were offered the chance to go upstairs and have a multiplayer sesh with the MS guys on Gears Of War.... and it was bloody awesome.

    First or third person shooters on consoles have never realy done it for me, I just can't ever get past how inaccurate a joypad can be compared with the PC's mouse... but Gears of War just blew me away.

    It really is very, very good, judging from what we've played.

    Of course, it's the first outing of Epic's Unreal Engine 3, so it looks the mutts danglies... but beyond that, there's simply LOADS of little touches that tell you this a polished game... the reloading animations, the death animations, the physics, the image effects, sound effects... everything is superb and I'd even go so far as to say that graphically, Gears of War surpasses any first or third person shooter currently out on PC.

    We only played the multiplayer maps so I'm withholding judgement on what the single player mode will be like, as I haven't played it. I do hope it's good as I'm much more into SP than MP, purely for when my Xbox 360 is being used and when other players are around... If the SP mode is as good as the MP (and it needs to be better to keep the player engaged), then Gears of War just might be the killer app the Xbox 360 needs.
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    That sounded fantastic, I can't wait for that game. Although, being that close to christmas I'll proberbly end up getting it then.
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    My anticipation for GoW has reach such heights I'm afraid it can do nothing but dissapoint :/

    But hey! Even if it dissapoints (somewhat), Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell are just around the corner for some x-mas R&R

    I honestly do hope it's every bit as good as you describe Steven!

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    Quote Originally Posted by d0nson View Post
    My anticipation for GoW has reach such heights I'm afraid it can do nothing but dissapoint :/

    But hey! Even if it dissapoints (somewhat), Rainbow Six and Splinter Cell are just around the corner for some x-mas R&R

    I honestly do hope it's every bit as good as you describe Steven!
    If noone likes it now I'm going into hiding, I'll be lynched

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    This is HL2 all over again...looks friggin awesome
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    this might be the game thats going to convince me to join you guys..

    if this turns out to be as good as it claims to be.. thats another &#163;300 outa my pocket..
    Me want Ultrabook


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    Well Sawyen, the decision to shell out &#163;340 for the console was painfull at first, but a necessary evil in order to play GoW and the upcoming Clancy games coming this yule season

    Kind of glad Mass Effect isn't due until 2007, I only have time for so many games..

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    Argh

    Argh argh argh.

    I really don't want to buy a 360. But this looks so good! AAAAAAAAAH terrible decisions to make!

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