See how the other half lives in Gears of War 3 'Beast Mode' footage

@Kleptomaniac Nah. This is a Lambent Berserker. They're bigger and badder than the regular berserkers.

@YimYimYimi And I'm pretty sure he could hear. That was how you got him to run into the doors in GoW 1.

@YimYimYimi
Are they more badass?

@Kleptomaniac Did you see that thing's ass? It's sooo bad.

@YimYimYimi Berserkers are female.. and they were blind, they could smell you, and hear you running or shooting.. and tear your arms off

@Kleptomaniac
@Yim YIm


HOOOOOWW BIG WAS IT?!

@NaeemTHM

I loved Beast Wars! I remember very little of it because of how young I was, but I remember it being awesome.

@mykelsss Obviously it's not done. They even said they need to work on the mechanics. You do realize this comes out in 2011? You're basing a game on how it looks now and it's not even finished.

@mykelsss

No shit that's what he's doing... They show us a video of how the game looks, we get to make an opinion of how it looks.

Early build, pre alpha/beta, whatever that is.. it didn't look fun at all.

@mykelsss Yeah, they are actually done with the game. They are just sitting with their thumbs up their collective ass for the next 9 months before it comes out.

@PWRWarTG

Uh, why the hell did they release a video if not for people to form opinions on it?

If your game isn't far along enough to have decent looking screenshots or video, you DON'T RELEASE THEM.

Only idiots would release media that makes their product look bad.

And while I really enjoyed Gears 1 and 2 (the multiplayer of 2 sucked balls though), this did look boring as hell.

But all that really matters is that 4 player campaign co-op is in this time. THAT will be awesome.

@Verrier
Why would they show it now? Hype. It gives fans a taste of what is coming, and it shows off the basic idea of the game mode. Not to mention some fans like seeing how the game is progressing development wise, and what is going on. Almost every game studio does it Valve, Nintendo, etc.

@mykelsss

So unnecessary.

@CaramelZappa

Dedicated servers would solve 90% of the issues online. Personally, I'm not even going to think about buying Gears 3 if they don't have them. For their sake, not giving a game like GoW dedicated servers is like Enzo Ferrari himself building a car, and then crapping on it. I simply don't get why Epic even considered, let alone decided, not implementing dedicated servers would be fine for a game built on the multiplayer. It's really a slap to their own face for ruining their own hard work.

/rant

@Deschain Dedicated servers have already been confirmed. Worry not.

@CaramelZappa

Dedicated servers confirmed is definately a good start, but a lot more than that is needed to fix multiplayer. For one, Gears 1 was a really social game. You got into a good server with some friends and you could choose what maps you wanted to play, what weapons you wanted swapped out, and who is on each team. After the round was over the map rotated and you kept playing with the same people. This is so important to having fun, because once you find a good group of people to play with you don't want to be paired up with random people. Gears 2 matchmaking just kicks you out into the lobby and you have to start searching all over again.

Other things need to be tweaked too, like weapon balance. The power weapons like the mortar almost ruined multiplayer by themselves. Maybe the shotgun was too powerful in Gears 1, but they made it completely useless in 2.

I already have an essay here so I'm just going to stop, but I could go on and on about how messed up multiplayer is in Gears 2. Hopefully 3 will be better.

@CaramelZappa

Yeah you're right there.

I think Epic went into Gears 2 multiplayer thinking "our game has a very strong cover based mechanic to it, we need to reflect that in multiplayer instead of it being about shotgun battles" and while they have a point, it totally ruined it for me.

I really, really enjoyed Gears 1 multiplayer. And even though a lot of kills ended in shotgun battles, almost all the weapons were used during a match. Some just took more skill than others. Even the shotgun battles took some skill once you got good at it.

In my opinion, the only negative thing in Gears 1 was the active downs from sniper.

Gears 2 just didn't just stand up to it's predecessor in multiplayer at all. I really hate it's inconsistency. And, ok, they didn't want so many shotgun battles. But as you say, did they really have to make it so useless? When at close range, you'll want to use -a close range weapon-. Chainsaw, shotgun, grenade tags, beating and what have you. Talking of chainsaw, that repetitive stun thing when you get hit while chainsawing is stupid.

Gears 2 had many, many flaws and I really hope they come to their senses and fix it all in Gears 3. If they do, Gears 3 is all I'll be playing. We'll have to see.

@CaramelZappa

Listen to CaramelZappa, this man knows things.

Also, while dedicated servers would be a good start, saying they would fix 90% of the issues in Gears 2 MP is silly. They would fix host advantage and they would fix getting matched up with people across the world from you, but that's really it.

All the the crazy weird lag stuff wouldn't be any different. You're going to ping the same to most dedicated servers as you do to most peer hosts. The core of the Gears netcode needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, but seeings as they have only one guy on their staff that works on Gears netcode (they have confirmed this on their forums), that's not going to happen.

@Deschain I blame it on the dudes playing. In the Berserker video, It looked like they gave my mom the controls and and said "here, play this."

@Zacxx201

In Gears 2 multiplayer you could play as people that died in Gears 1 (Kim, original Carmine). I would imagine this is just the same thing here.