Comments on: Gears of War PC review

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:20:36 +0000

An amendment to my last message: at E3 2008, Microsoft announced that Games for Windows online modes are going to be free for all levels of membership in the near future. Whether or not that means that MP gameplay restrictions will also be lifted was not mentioned; I suspect a patch is going to have to be published for that, so watch out the next time you fire up a GFW title.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:46:00 +0000

Online play is through Games for Windows Live, which works the same as Xbox Live and uses your Xbox gamertag. Silver-level members have limited play options, while Gold-level members get the entire package.

By: DirteeoneSkeez

DirteeoneSkeez — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:07:12 +0000

can u use your xbox live id on this game wen u go online with it??

By: cci

cci — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:48:25 +0000

Sorry, but I’ll have to strongly disagree with Roger’s assesment of the PC version of GoW. I personally never encountered any problems that he encountered.

Having played both versions, the PC is far more superior in every aspect.

By: shadabmalik

shadabmalik — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 09:04:38 +0000

i want to play game

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:46:34 +0000

Creed: Gears installs in DX9; you have to enable DX10 support in the Options menu, so don’t let that stop you from playing.

By: Creed

Creed — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:34:43 +0000

Games for windows live + vista = Epic fail. Microsoft is singlehandedly responsible for destroying the PC as a gaming platform by not supporting DX 10 for Windows XP. I hope more developers embrace OpenGL the way Id software did and develop games for Windows XP without sucking up to the money whore that Microsoft is.

I seriously doubt if I would ever play Gears of war on PC unless they release a DX9 version of it.

By: Roger Webster

Roger Webster — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:02:26 +0000

I loved this game on the XBox 360, and looked forward to playing it on my PC. However, after the third time the game deleted all progress and checkpoints, I shelved it until a fix addresses this most horrendous of bugs (deletion of user data). I, along with hundreds of others, are *still* waiting for a patch to address this (and other) issues.

Stay away from the PC version of this game. Sorry Epic, but unless you can be bothered to patch the game, for me it’s not “equal parts” — I’m 110% disappointed.