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360 still might see Gears PC bits

November 09, 2007 in News comments 5

With Gears of war being released on PC today, Eurogamer ask Mark Rein whether the Xbox 360 versions will contain the 5 new chapters that the PC version will have. It looks like the Xbox gamers will be recieving these five new chapters, although it is still early days and is yet to be confirmed.

Asked if Epic is categorically never going to release them as downloads for Xbox 360 users, Rein said, "It looks that way."

Never? "Well, never say never, but I mean there's no plans to do it. The problem is the two versions aren't really compatible," he added, reiterating the previous explanation that the PC and Xbox 360 code-bases are too far removed from one another for an efficient patch.

Gears of War on PC introduces chapters that bridge the gap between events at the end of Act 4 and those that kick off Act 5. In essence (mild spoiler), it explains why they go from the house to the train. Sort of.

Gears on PC also includes a level editor and of course the ability to play with a keyboard and mouse, which we certainly appreciated, and it also allows you to get on board with Games for Windows - Live (Xbox Live for Windows) on XP as well as Vista, meaning you can unlock another 1000 points worth of Gamerscore for Gears of War if you're really that bothered.
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    Final Blade Nov 10, 07
    New chapters huh, i wonder if they are going to be good.
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    Pinkrhyno Nov 10, 07
    Fighting a brumak will be fun.
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    HBK619 Nov 11, 07
    Major bummer that it probably won't make it to the 360, because that would probably get my to pop Gears back into my 360, after leaving it on my shelf to gather dust for so long. Level editor, depending on how in-depth sounds quite cool though, not to mention the fresh content.


    Does this mean PC gamers will be playing online against 360 gamers?
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    djjimmy2k2 Nov 11, 07
    nope. the guy said before that due to the 360 and PC being totally seperate formats its not possible for 360 and PC gamers to stand off against each other in the multiplayer or any other part of the game. sucks really cos at the mo theres hardly any multiplayer games going. ive done a bit of multiplayer so far but im crap at it and i want to practice, but cos theres so little servers that keep going on and offline im not having much of a chance.

    ive never played the 360 version but if its anything like the PC version (some ports can be pretty dodgy) then it must be a really great game.

    and yeah, as far as i know the new chapters focus mainly on the brumak battle. looks fun. on the PC version you can skip straight to act 5 and the fight.

    the editors very in-depth too. its like an unreal specialised version of maya, the best modeling/animation piece of software in existence. it would be difficult to get that onto the 360 due to how complicated it is. well not complicated, but there are alot of tools and itd be impossible to work with if you didnt have a mouse/keyboard setup.
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    Woudo Nov 13, 07
    Uh huh. So basically we are never going to see the added chapters on Xbox. Thanks guys

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