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Lucky buggers in Mumbai, get ready to have your first glimpse of Marcus Fenix and his band of brothers as Microsoft-India prepares to show-off the eagerly anticipated Gears of War 2. Head over to Blue Frog on November 3rd to keep your date with the game. Cocktail and snacks are on the house.
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In other news, a similar event was scheduled for Bangalore as well with Consoul playing host to Microsoft. Gamers from the city would have been invited over to Consoul, Bangalore’s premiere console-only gaming parlor, to try out the game all by themselves. However, it seems like as of now, the event has been put on the backburner. We will update you as soon as we have some news regarding this.
Edit: More news on the Bangalore event after the jump.
Continuing with the tradition of our Thursday Top 10’s, we decided to look at something very obvious, but yet very distinct. So far we’ve looked at the Memorable Character Deaths, the Best Weapons Featured in a FPS and the Top Ten Nine (don’t ask) Original Game Songs. This week, we’re doing a run on some of the most memorable video game themes.
Why? Because apart from the fact how great games really are (no, really!), gamers themselves often tend to rate a game based first on graphics, game play and artistic appeal (though not necessarily in that order) – which is pretty much what decides whether its good enough to play. But EVERY game has to make use of sound and it’s plain to see that, what with games like Half-Life 2 and System Shock 2. Music forms a crucial component of the game-play experience; get the right music at the right time, and you feel the adrenalin pumping. But while most newer games now use ambient noise and music, a lot of cue based intros and then outros – the games we’ve all grown up on and loved have always had that catchy tune, hook, phrase or riff that made everything that much more captivating!
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Gentlemen! Start your chainsaws! Microsoft, in an official press release, has announced that the hotter-than-hot Gears of War for the PC has gone gold and will be made available to retailers across the US on November 6, with Europe set to follow three days later.
As we’d noted earlier, the game will indeed bundle along all of the previously released downloadable content for the Xbox 360, including the bonus maps and the Annex game type, and five new chapters for the single player campaign. In addition to all of this, PC “pwners” will get to experience three exclusive multiplayer maps as well as a “King of the Hill” gametype, as well as being able to create their own custom content through the bundled Unreal Editor.
We’re still trying to contact Microsoft India about when this game would be made available here, but strangely enough, they seem to be dodging this one for some odd reason. With the possibility that Xbox LIVE might launch here soon enough, it’d practically be the best damned Diwali gift we’ve treated ourselves to in a long, long time. Hit the jump for the official press release while we go squeeze in some practice on our Xbox 360s.
Transformers was a true summer movie in all respects after a really *long* time. Straight in the league of Armageddon about 8 summers back, which was the last summer blockbuster that I truly enjoyed. The movie was made on a mega, multi-million dollar budget. And the result was a highly polished, taut presentation of our beloved Lego heroes’ story. But this is not about the special effects or the slick cars used in the movie. This is about what the tittle says. Yes, the music, which I believe is the major yet least talked about aspect of epic movies. Imagine STAR WARS without the classic John Williams score! Imagine Superman without the hugely orchestral yet very pop like theme by the same genius! Imagine Black hawk Down and Pearl Harbor without the ‘To die for my Country’ scores! You guys must have gotten the drift I guess.
No. It’s not any state or college elections I’m talking about here.
I’m talking about The Darkness by the publishing wizards 2K and the development warlocks at Starbreeze. The Darkness is a game that will make you beg for more. It will eviscerate all you had come to expect from shooters. It will rip to shreds the horrible; “comic-book-hero-meets-video-game-and-dies” legacy that a certain developer has been fucking up EVERY time with my favourite arachnid hero. It will make you believe in a real world. It will make you believe in an alternate world. It will make it worth the investment.
Fancy, no?
“640k ought to be enough for anyone”. Remember that? D’you also remember how Microsoft was slamming the PS3’s decision to use BluRay media and how a DVD9 was more than enough? Well, as if it wasn’t enough that Microsoft is choking on the Blue Dragon fiasco (the game, incidentally, ships on three discs) it looks like Epic, who gave them their system seller, Gears of War, is also head-over-heels in love with BluRay. Speaking at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Epic head honcho Mark Rein said that while the PS3 version of their upcoming flagship shooter, Unreal Tournament III was going great, thanks to BluRay, the Xbox 360 version may suffer in the long run, simply because they don’t have enough space to pack it all in.
We’ll compress some things. But you know, we may have fewer maps on the 360 version… Blu-Ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom.
If you think down the road, well maybe the next UT beyond this one, on Blu-Ray disc, we might fill the whole damn disc with all the cool stuff the mod makers make.
Sure, we all knew Epic was pissed at Microsoft for deciding to charge people for their map packs, but after taking it lying down, it looks like Epic may be finally getting back at Microsoft for the Gears of War Hidden Fronts map pack release. So, enjoy, ladies and germs, who plan to enjoy this super fast paced, frag or get fragged in 1/100th of a second on a console (somehow) while the rest of us will just get it on the PC, with all the mods and maps and TCs that you can shake a controller at.