Gears of War continues to tear through many of our nights over Xbox Live. We’ve played just about every way imagineable it seems or at least we thought. Soon there will be a new way to play Gears of War. Epic plans to release a new game type called Annex on April 9 hopefully in time for the next Unscripted Nights! Here are a few details about Annex.
Objective: Capture and hold key locations to collect enough points to win the round.
Description: In Annex, you win by keeping control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points. Every map has two to five identified objectives available for capture, with one objective active at a time. Objectives are based on map weapon-spawn locations and have a potential value of 60 points toward either team’s score.
Teams collect those points by maintaining ownership of an objective until all its 60 points have been distributed. Every second that a team controls an objective, the team gets one point. When an objective falls to zero points, the next objective is selected at random.
On the HUD, the current objective appears below the team scores at top left. This indicator contains several pieces of relevant information. The weapon icon inside the circle indicates which weapon-spawn location is being used as the objective. The compass along the outer edge of the circle shows the relative direction to the objective. The number inside the circle indicates how many points remain at that objective and the background icon color indicates which team currently controls it.
Respawns: Infinite, wave-based every 15 seconds.
You can find more details of the new game type at the official site for Gears of War.
yeah i know lol
*HUGZ*
April 4th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Thats a small step in the right direction.
Now let’s add…
1. Individual Deathmatch
2. CTF (or something of the sort)
3. Clan Support
Then maybe it will start to live up to it’s top-360-game billing.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
It’s about time they added something other than deathmatch. I found Gears to be boring cause all three game types played the same way. This SHOULD of been on disc.
April 4th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Annex sounds like teh sex.
April 4th, 2007 at 2:59 pm
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April 4th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Thanks again for the heads up, Deac!
April 4th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
If anyone is a fan of Epic when the launched Unreal Tournament in 1999 this is the same as one of the five games called ‘Domination’. This is an awesome game. I loved it then and have not seen it in any of the sequal UT games thereafter. I am so glad they brought it back. This is one of the unique added games that Id’s Quake did not have and why UT blasted Quake out of the box because of its unique gaming style.
This is going to be great fun. Trust me…
April 4th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
we’ll take your word for it Si
April 4th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Deac - Apparently the date was changed on the Gears Update and it’s been edited just about everywhere :(.
Linkage: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3158504
April 5th, 2007 at 4:57 am
thx DJ…hey what’s the date because that link won’t pull up.
April 5th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
DeaconBlade-
Yes you can take my word for it. I found Domination and CTF the most fun to play on UT… way more than Deathmatch. Now if Cliffy B and the gang can include gamestyle like Assault that was in UT. This would make GoW complete. I hear that an ‘Assault’ type of gamestyle is going to be in UT3.
For those who don’t know, ‘Assault’ was a mission styled gameplay. Very fun.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
i wish they had 4 player co-op on Xbox Live with this game.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Oh that would be sweet. But if they decide to create a gametype like Assault which is missioned based just like a campaign then we can enjoy co-op defending against an intruder or completing missions (whichever side you choose)
Deacon, have you ever played the original UT on PC before? If you have’nt then you don’t knw what you missed. That was (still is to me) the best damn FSP to come out with multiple gamestyle games. If you ever have the chance do some research on it and you will see what I am talking about.
April 5th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
i’ve never been a big UT fan. i’ve heard the stories though…i might have to dig for it…i’m sure it’s free somewhere nowadays right?
April 5th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
Well, I don’t knwo if it’s free or not. But research about how Epic dominated the FPS genre will give you a good understanding why they are doing so well with GoW. When they made the announcement back in May 2005 at the E3 that they were going to make an FPS exclusive for 360, I knew then that that was THE killer app, I knew it right off the bat. Epic puts great effort into creativity and uniqueness, and yes Cliffy B was the lead designer of UT back then. Man the more I talk about that game the more I miss it and how I used to download new maps almost every other day because of the mod tool that was given to users to make their own maps. It was such a thrill to play. Honestly, that game would be just as much fin to play today as it was back then, it was that good. Only an upgrade to the graphics would be required. The gameplay was solid.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Deac - I haven’t seen a new date set yet, but Microsoft apparently put the kabosh on the previous date of April 9th.
As of now, I don’t believe there’s a new date set.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
yeah i caught that. my guess is it still hits on that week.
April 5th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Should be worth the wait though.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
GoW is by no means a “killer app”. This will be evident once Halo3 hits and nobody will be playing it. GoW will go down as a gap-filler and an golden opportunity squandered with exceedingly limited Live play.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
[quote comment="26973"]GoW is by no means a “killer app”. This will be evident once Halo3 hits and nobody will be playing it. GoW will go down as a gap-filler and an golden opportunity squandered with exceedingly limited Live play.[/quote]
Whether or not Gears is a “killer app” shouldn’t even be an argument at this point. Three million copies sold is a number that not many games hit - let alone within two and a half months…
As far as the Halo comment, I think that Gears has and will continue to be a nice addition to Xbox Live. There will always be people that prefer third-person shooters to first-person and vice versa, but Halo will inevitably grab a large portion of Xbox Live game time - regardless of the genre, so Gears won’t be the only game affected by this.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:20 pm
3 million games sold is nothing. It won’t even earn a spot in the top 50 at that rate. Let’s try to keep it in perspective.
GoW could have been a sustained hit but gross limitations on Live play-styles prevented that.
April 6th, 2007 at 2:23 pm
On a side note whats with fansites these days using words like “truth” in their titles then only representing one side of the story?
That is prima facia invaildity.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
[quote comment="27351"]On a side note whats with fansites these days using words like “truth” in their titles then only representing one side of the story?
That is prima facia invaildity.[/quote]
HAHAHAHA! Funny
April 9th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Wow the top 50 most sold games ?
give me a link to that and we are going to see
games that either have been out for a while
or have like 5 games out
April 9th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
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