Hot new Gears of War screenshots released by Microsoft

by Dan Choi @ on Sep 19th 2005 5:45PM

Actual-pixel crop of a new high-resolution screenshot from Gears of War

We've just received a batch of six new images from Microsoft for the Xbox 360 title Gears of War. Four of the six have been confirmed to be "in-game" shots, but we should note that the other two concept-art pics (numbers 3 and 4) are rendered drawings that aren't in the game itself.

As for the actual screenshots received, they appear to serve as a counter measure to the extreme media attention given to the screens, trailers, and related magazine scans of Metal Gear Solid 4 (for the PS3) coming out of the Tokyo Game Show this past week. Joystiq may have looked like an MGS/Sony fan club during this time, but that's only because the most impressive graphics and presentations were coming out of Konami's camp for MGS4. Would MS have an answer to Kojima's "real-time" work of art?

Xbox VP Peter Moore had this to say at TGS: "Cell processor or not, when I look at the technical specs, I don't see anything that concerns me overly from a performance point of view. Quite frankly, having the ability to move first in this space, I think, provides us with the opportunity for a huge advantage." [Thanks, metal_gear_jello!]

While we figure out whether the site can handle the full-resolution versions or not (and whether Moore should really be worried or not), feel free to follow the link below to see some smaller-sized images from Epic's great third-person-shooter hope for the 360. [UPDATE: Check out the four full-size screenshots (and not those two concept-art images) on 360hacker.net here. Thanks for hosting 'em, Justin! ...TeamXbox has posted all six here! Nice.]

And now for some larger (but still smaller-than-the-original) versions; clicking on a 425-pixel-wide thumbnail will bring you to a 1024-pixel-wide enlargement of the image (which was resized from the 1280 to 3600-pixel-wide original). Only the first thumbnail below points to the proper 1024 image right now, but we?ll get the others up in due time. Sorry about the delay. [UPDATE: All six 1024-pixel-wide images are now up. Click away, dear friends!]

1. MantleTime [1024-pixel-wide version]