Auf der E3 sorgte das Spiel „Gears of Wars“, dass dort auf der Xbox360 vorgeführt wurde, für großes Aufsehen. Nun nahm man an, da auch nichts andere bestätigt wurde, dass das auf der Unreal 3 Engine basierende Spiel, nur für die Xbox released würde. Doch Ein Artikel auf Eurogamer verrät uns, dass „Gears Of war“ tatsächlich auf beiden Plattformen erscheint.
Im Übrigen kann man sich die beeindruckenden „Gears of War“ Trailer nochmals zu Gemüte führen, oder gar zum ersten Mal in diese Welt eintauchen (attached links).

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Eurogamer: But is that exclusive to Xbox? J Allard: It’s Xbox and PC. Eurogamer: It’s interesting. Why have you not made those Xbox/PC titles like Call Of Duty 2, Quake 4 exclusive to Xbox 360? J Allard: I always get back to the gamers. Every decision we make is really focused on what the gamers want. A ton of our gamers are dual gamers meaning that they have PC and console because they prefer some aspects of PC, especially in FPSs. Okay, should we really make Quake an exclusive that you can’t play on PC. Eurogamer: You did exactly that with Halo, though, and that’s the point. You yanked it off PC and made it an Xbox exclusive. J Allard: No, no. We published Halo on both PC and Mac. Eurogamer: Yes, but that was about two years later! J Allard: We didn’t talk about sequencing. Gears Of War will be on both platforms, but it might be on one before the other. That’s a little bit more of a game time decision.

Screenshots: Screenshots von Gears of War
Trailer: Gears of War Trailer on IGN.com

Eine Nachfassung eines Artikels auf 1UP.com birgt zwar keine neuen Informationen zu Quake4, doch hinterlässt einen besseren Eindruck zu dem Spiel, als die meisten anderen Previews (außer: ) 🙂

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[…] Quake 4 uses the Doom 3 engine to beautify all of the killing for you, and, frankly, the first five or 10 minutes of the demo that id was showing at the Activision booth looked a bit too much like Doom 3 for some of the folks I watched it with, featuring lots of dark corridors and flashing lights and ugly monsters. Had I been in charge of putting together this demo, I would have started with the second segment they showed — the „stroggification“ of the game’s main character, which is as creepy of a cutscene as I’ve seen in a long time, and which elicited audible laughs and groans from the demo audience. Finally, the demo finished with a brief look at some of the multiplayer vehicular combat, which looks good if not overly original, at this point in time. All of which is to say, as Douglas Adams once said: Don’t panic. Quake 4 looked a lot better to me in person at Raven’s office than it did at this brief demo, where it was just impossible to see the kind of thought and detail going into the game. You may remain skeptical now if you like, but I’m still on board.

Q4 PC Preview from 1Up.com

Gestern am 22.05.2005 hat Unreal seinen 7. Geburtstag gefeiert. Anscheinend hat Epic den Jahrestag vergessen, bzw ignoriert ihn, um das schlechte Gewissen über die letzten Nachfolger zu meiden. 😉
Doch genug, Happy Birthday Unreal =)

TeleFragged.com präsentiert seinen Lesern einen Artikel über die Technologie, die hinter Titeln wie Unreal Tournament 2007, Gears of War und weiteren spielen, steckt.

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This not a preview for Unreal Tournament 2007 or for Epic’s new title Gears of War. There are plenty of previews out there that show off the gameplay, and they both certainly look very impressive. On top of these, Epic decided to separately show off the incredible new technology going into the engine behind their new games (and what I’m sure will be countless other games over the next five or more years). What this preview covers is the Unreal Engine 3, which represents the largest single change to Epic’s flagship game engine since they started licensing it out years and years ago.

UEngine3 Artikel

3D Realms gibt neue Infos rund um Duke Nukem Forever an. Im 3D Realms Forum wurden Fragen einiger User von George Broussard (3D Realms) beantwortet. Laut Gamestar.de sucht man aber vergeblich nach wirklich interessanten Neuigkeiten. Allerdings wurde bekannt, dass das Spiel intern auf 9800 Pro- und 6800GT-Grafikkarten läuft.

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„Des Weiteren bestätigte George, dass der Spielverlauf in Levels unterteilt ist und aktuell bereits 15 verschiedene Gegner eingebaut wurden. Auch auf die legendären Bosskämpfe müssen Sie im fertigen Spiel nicht verzichten.“

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Ein weiteres kleines Preview zu Quake4 findet man die Tage auf actiontrip.com. Im Artikel wird grob die Geschichte hinter Q4 angeschnitten.

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In all, Quake IV looks like it may be the first great game using the Doom3 engine. It looks like it has a good single player game that does not limit the player to cramped, dark corridors. It also appears to have squad mates to back you up in fire fights and craft you can pilot as you try to bring the Strogg menace to its knees. Still not convinced Quake IV is doing it right? Then make your decision based on this final bit of info: the assault rife has a flash light in the stock that can be used without switching out the weapon.

Quake 4 Hands-on Preview