The “Break it Down” Blog

E3: Gears of War Single Player Gameplay Video Snippets

A collage of single player gameplay in a single video; probably for us by media outlets to cut up and include in different story pieces or segments. Pure hotness, I don’t think any of this gameplay has been shown yet in any of the previously released videos. Looks like some heavily scripted sequences, mini guns, bigger [...]

More Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Gameplay

Ok this starts off a bit slow, but I’d urge you to stick with it and watch the whole thing if you are interested with Gears of War 2, it will start to pick up after about 20 seconds in and you’ll see: Chainsaw duel Chainsaw kill from behind (through the back) Meat-shield Head-crush kill (with Foot) Head-crush kill (with [...]

Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Gameplay Video

Sneak-peak video that not only shows of some new maps that will be in Gears of War 2, but also shows off some new execution moves that are available. Gameplay Video Highlights More Executions (Jump to 6:30 in movie) Chainsaw through the back Baseball-bat head crush using butt of gun Roll Over head crush Torque bow head rip-off Meat Shield neck-snap Capture the [...]

Gears of War 2 Screenshots

New drop of screenshots for Gears of War 2. The reason you care is because Gears of War was awesome, and #2 is looking to be a lot more gory and intense than #1 was (yay!) Thanks VE3D!

Haze (PS3) is Garbage

Just got done installing (1.4 GB) and playing the PS3’s Haze demo and I have this to say about it: It’s utter and complete garbage. The graphics are horrible, possibly on part with Halo 2, but even that is a crap-shoot. They more accurately remind me of how the Gears of War levels look briefly after a [...]

Gears of War 2 - Gameplay Trailer

Gears of War Movie, Confirmed 2010

Well it’s official, looks like New Line (now Warner Bros) is going to go forward with the Gears of War movie: “We’ve got our script on and a director we’re about to attach. We’ll hopefully make that early next year for the summer of 2010,” said Godfrey. If you haven’t caught it already, there has been massive [...]

Gears of War 2: November

Well it looks like Chris Hunkele was right, Gears of War 2 is coming and the seed came out of GDC as expected. It’s looking like a November release, Xbox 360 exclusive, will graphically push the Xbox fairly hard, and as a result, we will all have RRoDs to deal with right after launch. Ohhhhhh BURN Update [...]

Gears of War 2 Coming Soon?

Whilst trolling the interwebs for new games coming out of the 2008 Game Developers Conference, I happened to notice Epic and Microsoft getting cozy together on the floorspace. And after doing some looking, it looks like Amazon has a product page for “Gears of War 2″… I wonder if they know something? If It’s true i [...]

Grand Theft Auto 4 Like Gears of War

As the GTA4 marketing campaign livens up for a Q2 release of GTA4, IGN got some poop about how the shooting mechanics in GTA4 will be much more like Gears of War (with a proper cover and aiming mechanic) that gamers have come to expect from shooters (cough COD4)  like Uncharted and Gears of War. That’s [...]

Nerf Gun Modded to Gears of War Lancer

Kotaku has the poop on this sweet-ass gun mod using a Nerf gun and a Nerf chainsaw. The entire process including pictures of it along the way are included in Forsaken_angel24’s thread over on the Nerfhaven forums. To see a video of this puppy in action, check out Forsaken’s video of making it and then it in [...]

Game Problems All Around

Ugg… looks like a shit-storm of problems for gamers this holiday season. First 1-Up fires off a “preview” of it’s time with the “near final” copy of Half Life: Orange Box for the PS3, and said it’s just a useless pile of crap; ridden with bugs and unplayable in parts. Given that Valve’s head honcho, Gabe [...]

Game Reviews

Welcome to the Game Reviews section. Below you will find reviews of games for all sorts of gaming platforms both in in-depth (long) and mini (short) formats. We ultimately try and answer the real question most gamers have: Should you spend your money on this game? Sony Playstation 2 (PS2) God of War Review Sony Playstation 3 [...]

Gears of War PC Problems

IGN’s Gears of War for the PC review reveal a few interesting tid-bits… namely fuck you Microsoft *cough*, sorry I mean, namely that Microsoft has gotten EPIC to require an Windows Live Gold account ($50/year) for full multiplayer functionality, including online co-op play. So if you just sank $60 on this game and want to [...]

Gears of War Movie Treatment Summary

Kotaku pointed me in the direction of Latino Review’s 22 page summary of the Gears of War movie script it looks like. Does anyone else agree with GameSpot’s Brian Ekberg that Batista should play Marcus Fenix? I totally agree: Update #1: I can’t believe I never posted a comparison shot of Fenix so you could judge for [...]

Gears of War Followup & Games in General

Ok so I finished Gears of War, and here is my final, take-away impression: Beautiful game (visually/audio-ably-ly) Too expensive / Too short / Total Lack of Story Final Score: 7.4/10 That’s pretty much it, for a $70 game to last roughly 6 hours is complete bullshit in my opinion. I can surely play through it again on hardcore, then [...]