Gears of War official for the PC

Proof?zayl99

Gears Of War 2 Should Be Out X-Mas 2008 For Xbox 360bike749

Epic co-founder Mark Rein has confirmed to the gaming world that his company's super-popular Xbox 360 hit, Gears of Wars, will be making its way to the PC.

yes but will it be DX10 and or look nicer on the pc, probably notAvanaro

it aint happening, it was been thinking about for like a week and then microsoft decided not to

what you guys think about thisbike749

I hate the game for my 360, it's just beyond me how this crappy game won GOTY. It should have been Rainbow Six Vegas in my opinion. Hell, even Oblivion, not this crappy cover fest. The art style was terrible and so for me I'd give the graphics an 8, not matter how shiny it is. Same old drab grays and browns. G4mbl3

what you guys think about thisbike749

I don't believe it for a second.DannyFromm

update your nvidia drivers, there is a profile in the nvidia control panel for GOW, there, believe it.

If you read the thing it says that its no secret that we would LIKE to do it. That doesnt mean they will

Umm...yeah it does. Its been officially stated by Epic Games-can't get closer to the truth than that.Drunkentig3r

Just because that Epic wants to doesn't mean they are allowed to.  That is up to their publisher.  Epic, even though they are the developer, cannot make a port of someone else's game. Microsoft owns the rights to the game (they lisenced Epic to program for them) and they have the final say whether or not it gets ported.  Look it up.

[QUOTE="Drunkentig3r"]Umm...yeah it does. Its been officially stated by Epic Games-can't get closer to the truth than that.Johnny_Rock

Just because that Epic wants to doesn't mean they are allowed to. That is up to their publisher. Epic, even though they are the developer, cannot make a port of someone else's game. Microsoft owns the rights to the game (they lisenced Epic to program for them) and they have the final say whether or not it gets ported. Look it up.

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[QUOTE="Drunkentig3r"]Umm...yeah it does. Its been officially stated by Epic Games-can't get closer to the truth than that.onemic

Just because that Epic wants to doesn't mean they are allowed to. That is up to their publisher. Epic, even though they are the developer, cannot make a port of someone else's game. Microsoft owns the rights to the game (they lisenced Epic to program for them) and they have the final say whether or not it gets ported. Look it up.

Even if Epic owned the rights to the franchise (which they don't), Microsoft does hold the contract to the game.  Thus you'll be waiting a couple of years before they can even begin to code.  And if Microsoft did ever want to put it out on PC, they wouldn't be dumb enough to do it when it is still popular on another of their platforms.  Thus you'd be waiting a couple of years again.  This is Halo all over again. No matter which scenario plays out, you'll be closer to 2010 before you ever see it on PC's.

[QUOTE="onemic"][QUOTE="Johnny_Rock"]

[QUOTE="Drunkentig3r"]Umm...yeah it does. Its been officially stated by Epic Games-can't get closer to the truth than that.Johnny_Rock

Just because that Epic wants to doesn't mean they are allowed to. That is up to their publisher. Epic, even though they are the developer, cannot make a port of someone else's game. Microsoft owns the rights to the game (they lisenced Epic to program for them) and they have the final say whether or not it gets ported. Look it up.

Even if Epic owned the rights to the franchise (which they don't), Microsoft does hold the contract to the game. Thus you'll be waiting a couple of years before they can even begin to code. And if Microsoft did ever want to put it out on PC, they wouldn't be dumb enough to do it when it is still popular on another of their platforms. Thus you'd be waiting a couple of years again. This is Halo all over again. No matter which scenario plays out, you'll be closer to 2010 before you ever see it on PC's.

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=565406

[QUOTE="Johnny_Rock"][QUOTE="onemic"][QUOTE="Johnny_Rock"]

[QUOTE="Drunkentig3r"]Umm...yeah it does. Its been officially stated by Epic Games-can't get closer to the truth than that.onemic

Just because that Epic wants to doesn't mean they are allowed to. That is up to their publisher. Epic, even though they are the developer, cannot make a port of someone else's game. Microsoft owns the rights to the game (they lisenced Epic to program for them) and they have the final say whether or not it gets ported. Look it up.

Even if Epic owned the rights to the franchise (which they don't), Microsoft does hold the contract to the game. Thus you'll be waiting a couple of years before they can even begin to code. And if Microsoft did ever want to put it out on PC, they wouldn't be dumb enough to do it when it is still popular on another of their platforms. Thus you'd be waiting a couple of years again. This is Halo all over again. No matter which scenario plays out, you'll be closer to 2010 before you ever see it on PC's.

If Epic came up with the concept for the game that would be true.  This is Microsofts brainchild and they needed someone to code it.  Just because they made the game doesn't mean they have automatic ownership.

EDIT as the link at the top of this page suggests, Epic has been given the go-ahead.  So this thread is now moot.

if it has the fully featured coop mode of the 360, then this is great news

gow is a pretty stale singleplayer expeirence, and i found the deathmatch pretty vanilla and shortlived when compared with the pc's library of awesomeness

but the coop mode, playing system link with a pal, pretty completely awesome to play - if the pc has it, then it'll be well worth getting on the pc

besides that, meh - the cover system was just taking a gameplay element that's existed in shooters for years and turned it into a gameplay feature that console kiddies went wild for - it's called hard difficulty, when shooters games on hard, you gotta use crouch, prone, cover and lean to survive most firefights - so what gow did was nothing new

it's an astoundingly beautiful game, but there'll be other ue3.0 games out, and crysis, and more, by the time we get gow

so really, all gow is to me is great coop - if the pc has it, then it'll be a damn good game

if it doesn't, the game has no particular appeal at all
A-S_FM

Interesting analysis of the cover feature, and I completely agree, both with that and the fact that Gears of War is a very plain singleplayer experience.

I dont know why they wouldnt port it over, it would sell millions more copies.  Its pretty much that microsoft has them by the balls and wants 360 exclusives methinx.