Gears of War

aka: GoW

Released

November 7th, 2007 on Windows

Publishers

Developers

Epic Games, Inc.

Moby Score

8.0

#1,928 of 154K

Critics

87% (35)

Players

(62)

Ranking

#645 on Windows

Collected By

67 players

Genre: Action
Perspective: Behind view
Gameplay: Shooter
Interface: Direct control
Setting: Post-apocalyptic
Sci-fi / futuristic
Narrative: War

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Description official descriptions

The Windows version of Gears of War has several features not seen in the Xbox 360 release. These include:

Five new single player chapters added to Act Five, which describe the escape of Delta Squad from a giant Brumak
Three new multiplayer maps
The Unreal Map editor
The Annex game mode
50 extra achievements
Free Windows Live! Silver play
DirectX 10 optimization

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Credits (Windows version)

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Lead Designer	Cliff Bleszinski
Executive Producer	Michael V. Capps
Producer	Rod Fergusson
Associate Producer	Tanya Watson
Lead Artist	Wyeth Johnson
Lead Level Designer	Jim Brown
Lead Programmer	Stephen Superville
Programmers	Ray Davis Laurent Delayen Jeff Farris Robert McLaughlin
Artists	Greg Mitchell Aaron Smith Kendall Tucker Alan Willard
Animation	Jay Hosfelt
Level Designers	Grayson Edge Paul Mader Sidney Rauchberger Demond Rogers Kenneth Spencer
Lead Project Manager	Piotr Krzywonosiuk
Project Manager	Bartlomiej Miszkurka
Lead Programmer	Tomasz Jonarski
Lead Gameplay Programmer	Bartek Sokolowski
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Discussion

Subject	User	Date
Does this get any better?	MichaelPalin (1418)	2008-01-06 18:33:59
Why are these split over two seperate entries?	xroox (3955)	2009-02-20 02:59:40

Trivia

Launching problem

In January 2009 players were suddenly unable to launch the game. Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games, Inc. responded that this was not related to the game's DRM. Instead, the online cheat detection features are based on digital signatures. The executable was signed with a certificate that expired in a way that it broke the game. The company eventually released a patch that solved in the problem, but in the meantime it could be resolved by changing the computer's system time to an earlier date.