(You can dress up the loudmouth COG soldier in his old sports uniform, too, and it’s an awesome thing to behold.
Finally, the Thrashball map mimics an old football stadium and invokes Cole Train’s glory days as a pro athlete. Checkout is a dilapidated big-box store, so imagine a firefight at Costco and you’re halfway there.
It’d be quaint if not for all the curb-stomping going on. The Old Town map is bright and airy, looking like a quasi-European village. Glimpsing at the beta teases players that Gears 3 will be the best-looking game of the series. Do you go all out for the opposing team’s leader at first? Let them come to you? And what’s the best way to safeguard your leader, especially if he goes off running to engage the enemy straight away? ( More on : Epic Games President Talks “Bulletstorm,” “Gear of War 3” Multiplayer Beta) The campaign isn’t the best (story was well written but the missions were a little tedious) but the multiplayer is probably the most rounded, balanced experience to date. Even playing with strangers, I found this match type to be the most strategic. Gears of War 3: As I still play Gears 3 on a regular basis (I was on it the day before the beta was released), I can say conclusively that Gears 3 is my favourite Gears. So the battle never sits on one part of the map too long. The beta concludes on May 15th, but won’t do so without featuring three new modes, four maps and numerous unlockables (Beta Tester Medal, Thrashball Cole, Gold-Plated Retro Lancer, Flaming Hammerburst, Flaming Lancer, Flaming Sawed-Off Shotgun, Flaming Gnasher Shotgun) which will barry on to Gears of War 3 when it launches later this year, in. Yes, it’s a variant on the old staple Capture the Flag but one where the objective’s not only always moving but can fight back. Teams then need to hunt and capture that player for 30 seconds to win a round. It’s a ton of fun, with each side getting a player designated as the leader. ( More on : Epic Games President Talks “Bulletstorm,” “Gear of War 3” Multiplayer Beta)īut the mode I played the most was Capture the Leader. Each round ends when a team reaches the score objective, which appeared to be randomly generated. The quicker you get to the location and hold it, the more points your team scores. The Gears of War 3 Multiplayer Beta is open now for persons that purchased the Epic Edition of Bulletstorm or pre-ordered the game from Gamestop. Purchase any Gears of War content from the Xbox Live Marketplace which includes game add-ons, games on demand, and avatar gear. Select locations get highlighted by glowing rings of light and each side scrambles to get there first. The King of the Hill mode is location-based, working off of a take-and-hold mechanic. One thing I’ve noticed is that long-distance arms like the Torque Bow and the Sniper Rifle tend to be scarcer than the others. Weapons get strewn all over the map and it’s a mad, lethal scramble to grab them all. Team Deathmatch plays as you’d expect, with players controlling the human COG soldiers and the subterranean Locust monsters facing off to get the most kills. You can play three Versus Mode match types in the GOW3 beta: Team Deathmatch, King of the Hill and Capture the Leader. ( More on : Microsoft Pushes Gears of War 3 From Spring 2011 to Next Fall) Epic Games will be rolling an appetizer of what to expect when the multiplayer beta launches in two weeks, but this week the dev studio made an exclusive preview available for the press and VIPs. (Yes, we know about those Combat Evolved rumors…) What that means is that Gears of War 3 will be the big tentpole title for the Xbox faithful this fall. Players will be able to take on the personas of five main characters: JD, Kait, Del, Reyna (Kait's mom and leader of the Outsiders) and Oscar and (Kait's uncle, ex-Gear soldier, and expert survivalist.Follow far, 2011 looks like a year without Halo. Early Access to the Gears of War 4 Multiplayer Beta: As an added bonus, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition offers early access to the Gears of War 4 multiplayer beta in 2016. If you purchase and register for the Ultimate Edition now, you will be able to obtain the tokens. There is also an open beta that will begin Monday, April 25th and run to Sunday, May 1st for Xbox Live Gold members.Īfter an exclusive look into the game's production, Game Informer reported that we should probably expect Horde mode to return, and that the game will remain as it has always been - human vs. This doesn't mean that everyone else is cut off. These players will receive tokens in waves that will allow them to log onto the beta (as long as they are using their own Xbox Live gamertag.) This beta will be open Monday, April 18th to Sunday the 24th.
In order to obtain early access to the beta, you need to have played Gears of War: Ultimate Edition for the Xbox One or Windows 10.