New GoW info from OXM

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This is from a thread at TXB. My issue has not yet arrived. The misspellings are not mine . The author says the screens look better than the Prerendered Killzone trailer :

In GOW, if you hit the reload button as soon as you run out of bullets, you'll reload quicker and get back into the action faster, and your bullets will have a small damage amplifier on them. If you miss the timing on the reload, your gun will jam momentarily.

They say Gears of War will have a minecart level. What a cliche. It will work like a railgun shooter where you ride in the cart, duck for cover, and pop up to shoot targets moving by you.

Some cover can be shredded by bullets, as we'd expect. They also said all the animations have been re-done with new motion capture animations. I say thank God for that!

If you press A you go into cover, then press A to jump over the cover or swat roll to more cover. Press A while you're running to dive roll, and hold A while running to duck your head and "roadie-run"

You're never alone, there's always one or three other guys with you in a level, and they are the avatars for your buddies in co-op. There's seperate paths in the level you will have to take, for instance one player gets up to a spotlight to shine on the other player so he's in the light and protected from the locust horde, and he must keep the light on you while you cross a dangerous open area. Then you get to another spotlight and do the same for him.

Youcan give commands in certain situations. CliffyB says that they will make the Ai good so that it doesn't turn into "how can i babysit these guys who don't know how to stay alive." He says something I like. "that's not a feature; that's a job!"

LB brings up commands. You can have them:

cease fire

fire on a targe

move to location

regroup

Pretty standard stuff. It will work in co-op and multiplay too and your comrades will see the command in their HUD. In team deathmatch thouhg, I'm sure no one will pay attention.  But in co-op it will make things easier, like when someone on PDZ says "kill this guy" and you have no idea what he's talking about. Now you will have him marked on your hud.

He talks about sneaking up and laying it to an enemy with a chainsaw, which is particularly gruesome. CliffyB also talks about "the Hammer of Dawn" which is a devastating two-player weapon. In single player, you have a laser that you can paint targets with and artillery will completely destroy anything around it. (sounds like entire buildings the way they're talking.) In co-op, you both steer the beam somehow and there's an ultra big rain of fire.

The Hammer of Dawn is used sparingly because the laser is in orbit, but when it lines up, you can use it as many times as you want.

Keeping teammates alive is a lot like GRAW, where they go down and you can heal them. This should work in co-op as well, like the revive kits in PDZ.

The game MAY use the headset to give commands.

The chainsaw bit sounds heavily influenced by the chainsaw guy in RE4. Yummy.

There's a crossbow weapon called the torque bow. you control how far it shoots by how long you hold it down. You can shoot a locust in the arm, watch them go behind cover, then detonate the arrow and see the strings of gore and bodyparts go flying.

There's a stickgrenade also. You can swing it on a chain and throw it. You can melee and enter a God of War-style minigame where you shove the grenade in the enemy's mouth. And you can close holes that locusts are coming out of with them.

The story sounds deeper than we thought. You'll get to see the main characters' birthplace, and there's more characters also, and a girl named Anya.

Achivements: The achievements in this game sound a LOT like condemned's. There's a graffiti symbol called the "crimson omen" and there's three in each level. Find one for a bronze medal, two for a silver, and all three for a gold medal achievement. Should add that much more to the replay value.

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