The next update for Epic's hugely successful Xbox 360 shooter Gears of War fans will be out "Definitely within a couple of months", Mark Rein has revealed.
Speaking to Team Xbox, he added the developer wants "to have as regular a stream of new stuff coming for the title" as possible.
Rein reaffirmed that "there'll be a fun little surprise in the next update", although wouldn't spill further beans. "I don't want to say specifically what we're going to have," he said.
And will the next Gears update be a free download? Epic would "love to have everything be free", Rein explained, although "There's a lot of pressure on us, having the leading game on the platform, to be part of the downloadable economy... there's external pressure on us to participate in that."
During the interview, the Epic boss also described a PC version of GoW as being "inevitable", but said technology is a key hurdle to overcome.
"The big challenge is to make a game that was designed solely for the console... to take advantage of every last little corner of that console, to fill every little crack and run as many threads as we could and do as much to exploit the power of that machine, and make it run well on enough PCs to be worth releasing. That's a challenge.
"UT will help us there, because Unreal Tournament 3 will be kind of our vanguard PC product, and it's helping us get optimisation on the PC. So it's just a matter of, now, can we make Gears run on enough PCs that it's worth selling...or do we have to wait in five years until everyone has a PC that can run it?
"love to have everything be free", Rein explained, although "There's a lot of pressure on us, having the leading game on the platform, to be part of the downloadable economy... there's external pressure on us to participate in that."
Looks like they are laying down a path for the excuses for not having free content as previously stated when he said "this is EPIC" etc. Ah well, if its good, i'll pay for it!
I'd pay for it right now if it means it would get here sooner.......cant get enough. How about some extra campaign missions epic? How cool would it be to find out exactly how the coletrain became the last man standing early on in the game, not to mention all the other occasions where the main charactors got seperated, fill them plot holes and gears will be the ultimate sci-fi game ever.
Hope the special feautre in the update is a decent Halo 2 style matchmaking system, it's a great game but not being able to play with friends on the same team in ranked match is a major problem with a lot of online 360 games.
Well hopefully this 'update' will go some way to making up for the originals lack of environment and weapon variety that lead to the same combat from beginning to end. Something simple like being able to hold all the weapons at once (and add a few more), would lead to much more experimenting and variety in combat.
Hope the special feautre in the update is a decent Halo 2 style matchmaking system, it's a great game but not being able to play with friends on the same team in ranked match is a major problem with a lot of online 360 games.
Could not agree more. Really f**ks me off limiting the game like this. I want to play with my friends while contributing to my leaderboard score and the achievements at the same time. f**king stupid the way it is at the mo. Looks like a lot of games are going down this route though which is worrying.
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