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Unreal Engine demos not from Gears 2

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Epic Games vice president Mark Rein has said that the Unreal Engine tech demos shown off during Wednesday's Microsoft keynote speech at GDC were not from Gears of War 2. Apparently they were based on leftover bits of Gears of War 1.
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mintaro - 664 days 5 hours ago
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that was from Gears of War 1? wow, i can only imagine Gears 2
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socomnick - 664 days 5 hours ago
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I will be delighted if they keep the destructible environments and somehow include it into the multiplayer. I would love to be able to shoot a torque bow into a wall and kill the player hiding behind it.
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Blankman - 664 days 4 hours ago
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yes socomnick that would be cool. But lets settle down for a bit. The gears footage shown was using update unreal engine technology so in other words that is what gears 2 will look like since its running on the updated technology. The visuals might be improved before gears 2 releases but not by that much since the game runs on the same engine as the gears 1 footage did, it will be essentially the same. Not to sh!t on anyone's parade or anything but someones got to stop you guys from getting your hearts broken. Gears 2 will look like gears 1/tech demo but with better ligthing, more water effects more enemies on screen destructible environments and so on
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kevoncox - 664 days 4 hours ago
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GTA 3

http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A...

GTA: SA
http://farm1.static.flickr....

2 games, same engine. Leaps and bounds difference in graphically quality. Now please STFU.
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kewlkat007 - 664 days 3 hours ago
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1.4 - Come on Blankman..
Here you are, on the biggest 2008 (Video) game article...

"Blankman - 4 hours ago
well you have to let the 360 have one game lol. If you take out NG2 wats left."

-Are you sure your not trying to sh^t on an xbox gamers parade?...

Most Gears of War fans, are awaiting this title, and is not trying to downplay the graphics. Since, most are interested in Gameplay Mechanics, Story, Weapons, multi-player, to tell you the truth. None of which was or has been shown besides this little tech demo as GOW2.

Honestly we see more gamers that do not own a 360 worry about it's games and sales, besides the game for game superiority complex comparisons.

I'll wait for some real "Meat and Potato" media to judge the game as well as the final product, but you know it doesn't even matter. This game will be Pre-Ordered ASAP. The graphics will be good enough for a purchase. Graphics are just Icing on the cake.

The game look goods enough for me as it is, I know it's not going to look life-like. PC games will always look better than any console because they are scalable, year after year.
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i Shank u - 663 days 12 hours ago
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hey Blankman, sh*tting is for the toilet, not 360 news. thanks
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mariusmal - 664 days 5 hours ago
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no sh1t sherlock. that's what i was telling in the older news about a gears 2 footage.
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Kigmal - 664 days 4 hours ago
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What!? Holy crap if that was Gears 1, imagine Gears 2!
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Blankman - 664 days 4 hours ago
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setting yourself up for dissapointment men. I dnt believe gears 2 will look better it will jst have better lighting and better water effects and so on. Until i see an undoctored screenshot before i can buy into it.
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nicholascage24 - 664 days 4 hours ago
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3.2 - @blankman i agree with u
I agree with you. Others would agree too once they read the STORY.
Gears2 uses better lighting algorithm ,has better splashing effects and has a destructible environment
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deepio - 663 days 20 hours ago
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Blankman, do you really think no one can see how much of a fanboy you are? Why don't you do us all a favour and leave your comments in the open zone. Moron.
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beavis4play - 663 days 15 hours ago
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3.4 - deepio, you're the moron
why would you say that? his comments wer just opinions and didn't include attacks against anybody. i agree with him. i play gears single player and co-op till the end. i found the story non-existant, (go past locust come out of ground and fight humans and there is next to nothing) the weapons(except the kick a$$ chainsaw) uninspired and the levels totally lacking cohesiveness. i think gears looked great and if they improve the shortcomings will be as good as any game available this year(if it arrives on time)

but the statements blankman made were in no way an attack or a fanboy rant.your comments show you are the one who needs to grow up. people are allowed to objectively express an opinion.
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deepio - 663 days 13 hours ago
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I don't mind people voicing their opinions, but before they've even played the game or even seen any footage!?! That, I find, is idiotic.

I'm not saying what the game is going to be like, no one here is going to know that, but that doesn't stop fanboys like Blankman from thinking that they do. In a typical fanboy fashion, (albeit toned down thanks to posting in the gamerzone) all he is trying to downplay the game before he's even seen it! Telling people to set themselves up for a dissapointment is not exactly constructive is it. He's clearly just a fanboy trying to quash the hype surrounding the game.

And how can you possibly agree with him? Have you played the game? Do you know whether its just the same game, same graphics, same shortfalls with better lighting and water effects. No. Exactly.
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rhood022 - 664 days 4 hours ago
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Its amazing how many people thought that was a tech demo of Gears 2. I remember the guy doing the demo even saying that it was being demoed on assets from the first Gears.
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heavyarms - 664 days 4 hours ago
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5 - LOL@FOOLS
Only real gamers know that was not gears 2. That was gears 1. Now just imagine what gears 2 will be like. Let the OWNAGE begin!!
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nicholascage24 - 664 days 4 hours ago
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5.1 - did you even read the story
"However, that doesn't mean Gears 2 won't have things like fancy water, destructible environments, hundreds of Locust on-screen and soft-body physics. "We generally don't put features in our engine that we don't use in-game," he said. "

Gears 2 uses the same UE3 as Gears 1 but with added features
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name - 664 days 4 hours ago
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I posted that it wasnt gears 2 and I Got massive disagrees. -_- I'd like an apology.
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nicholascage24 - 664 days 4 hours ago
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6.1 - This is what you will be seeing in Gears 2
why would someone apologize?

better lighting,better viscosity,better water effects ---thats Gears 2 for yaa.

BUT on the same unreal engine 3 with added features.

GEEEZ atleast read the story!!!
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Daz - 663 days 14 hours ago
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you know alraedy you must be and insider.
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chaosatom333 - 664 days 4 hours ago
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did they even start on gears 2 then? i am confused. it will be pushed to 2009 then.
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Mu5afir - 664 days 4 hours ago
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8 - Wow, please read the article.. this is MISINFORMATION at it's best.
First off, Mark Rain doesn't state ANYTHING, that is a speculation made by the author of the article. What is assumed, is that these demonstrations were running on the Unreal Engine, and most likely on PCs / dev kits, not on a 360 SKU. These were simple demonstration of the Unreal Engine, all or none of what was demonstrated might be in the actual game.
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tgh machines - 664 days 4 hours ago
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I TOLD YOU GUYS THAT YESTERDAY. Remember?
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toughNAME - 664 days 3 hours ago
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AH HA!
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jackdoe - 664 days 2 hours ago
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Well, no sh!t it wasn't from Gears 2. They reused some assets(level design for example) from GeoW 1 for those tech demos.
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HyperBear - 664 days ago
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I laugh at these PS3 fanboys who just put us down for having the ability to get pumped for a game, then have them come and say, "get ready for disappointment", and "Gears will be nothing visually compared to anything PS3 this year". I dont know if youve people have noticed, but this site is being run by Sony Fanboys and all day long. Why? you ask. Cause they are on here 24/7 because they have no good games to play on PS3 yet, and so they come on here and put down great 360 games that are coming out, any way possible. You guys wanna talk about disappointment. How bout KillZone 1 when it came out, that was the biggest disappointment in gaming history, and although right now(from the whole 1 video we've seen for it) KZ2 looks amazing, it will probably do what KillZone 1 did and play like sh!t and wont be fun. Also, you guys must be living under a rock, cause theres been more PS3 let-downs than 360. Lair, incredible visuals, stunning graphics, gameplay sucked major ass (didnt sell well). Heavenly Sword, incredible visuals, stunning graphics, too short (didnt sell well). All im saying is that you guys think Graphics and Visuals make all the difference, it actually doesnt. Halo 3 wasnt graphically impresive, yet it sold what over 3 million copies in 1 day. All im saying, is that dont even judge a game when you havent even played it, or even played the 1st one, and do note that this game will slaughter and KillZone, MGS, FF or whatever game comes out in sales. Why dont you people go away and play a game on your PS3, or are you getting bored of stunning visuals and lack of excellent gameplay. (Buy a 360, youll have fun)
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Ko_Uraki - 663 days 23 hours ago
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13 - You are so right
Infact the PS3 fanboys don't understand that the best games for PS3 aren't visually better on their console. They ignore even the fact that the UE3 thech demo was showed during the MS keynote (before the announce of GOW2). It was clearly GOW with the upgraded engine used for GOW2.
But they don't want to see the truth. For them Killzone 2 will be always better. LOL
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Xbox is the BEST - 663 days 22 hours ago
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just mad that Gears 1 didn't max out the 360 like they've been hoping it did.
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humble_gamer - 663 days 15 hours ago
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nice name
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DARK WITNESS - 663 days 21 hours ago
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15 - come on...
It clearly said it was just to show off the updated tech.

anyone with eyes could see most of those environments and so on were from gears 1.
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xionpunk - 663 days 12 hours ago
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Yeah it was pretty obvious it was still using Gears 1 stuff, IMO.
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