Gears of War's Epic History 26
GameDaily has up a piece looking at the history of Gears of War , which was released this past Tuesday. The game's history is also the tale of developer Epic Games, which grew from a garage group to one of the biggest names in FPS titles. Beyond that, though, "'Gears has a sordid history,' said [Epic Founder Tim] Sweeney. 'Initially, we planned to take the Unreal franchise in a more large-scale combat direction, more like Battlefield 1942. So we began this project called Unreal Warfare and spent a few years developing that. We realized we wanted the real focus to be on a single-player game with realistic combat. Around the same time, we were developing Unreal Tournament 2003 with Digital Extremes. We took the efforts from Unreal Warfare — it had a lot of the early ideas of Gears of War — and merged that into the Unreal 2003 project. From that you saw the Unreal game take on the large-scale combat — the Onslaught style of game.'"
Ho hum... (Score:1, Offtopic)
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I hear that a lot about the Wii. But consoles are fun if they have a good variety of fun games. I have never in my life played a game by Epic that was not fun. I have spent more time playing ZZT than any other game I can think about and nothing by epic in the fifteen years since has ever lowered my opinions of them. I'm not saying Nintendo isn't as good as Epic, Mario 3 and 64 drained much of my life as did the donkey kong country games and goldeneye by its su
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Most developers/publishers want to sell as many titles as possible. That's the bottom line. Sony is notorious for giving developers crappy dev kits, and yet the developers put up with it. XBox was more powerful than PS2, and yet developers didn't abondon the PS2.
As far as being "beefy" enough, I imagine the Wii is at least as powerful as the old Xbox. Play some of t
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Short-sighted to be a platform fanboi (Score:2)
The Wii isn't even out yet, and still many Nintendo fanbois are hyping it to death, as if games will only ever be good on the Wii.
The truth is, there are great, fun games on all the major platforms. Honestly, anyone who is a platform fanboi is a gaming "noob".
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In terms of the Wii, it's got one of the more obvious drawcards that the other two next-gen systems don't have in the Wii-mote. Nintendo are using that as the major driving force for the console, and for good reason - it is what makes it stand out from the c
No thanks! (Score:2)
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For those that don't know:
You can go to the Nintendo World Store at Rockafeler center in NYC to play the Wii (opened last weekend, they have 12 consoles, no redsteel or Zelda sadly)
I got to watch alot of games (including a WWII game I didn't catch the name of) as well as play Exite Truck.
some random notes:
1) The graphics are actualy rather good. They probably are not as good as a 360 on a 50" pla
It wasn't always called Gears of War.. (Score:5, Funny)
Wheelbarrow of Warfare
Spanner of Shame
Cogs of Despair
Machete of Manslaughter
Tweezers of Terror
A Clockwork Horror
Super Game 22
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Drill of Demise
Hammer of Hell
Minute Hand of Doom
This is kind of fun.
Don't worry (Score:1)
I miss Epic (Score:3, Interesting)
we need more games like that.
GameHippo [gamehippo.com] is currently where I (LEGALY) get my fix for those types of games for anyone else getting the craving.
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For the most part they are only good for finding relatively new games, they rarely will update older games.
If anyone else knows of good freeware pages, please let me know. However gamehippo is the clossest thing I have found to being good.
(and thanks for the link, I love finding new games
is it really out yet (Score:2)
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Correction (Score:3, Informative)
Not quite true; although Apogee published Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen, id was the company that created those titles. Also from Apogee in the early days were: Supernova, Crystal Caves, Paganitsu, Secret Agent, Monster Bash, Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, and of course, the original Duke Nukem.
Their old collection of shareware titles is still available for download here [3drealms.com] and purchase here [3drealms.com]
Storied (Score:2)
Rob