1. ...and once all the celebrations cool down, all the prizes are gone, only then will the rest of us in the UK and Europe get our chance to actually BUY and PLAY Gears of War.

Another kick in the nuts for non-American gamers. Would it have killed them to wait another week? Would it have killed them to released GoW at the same time?

Thanks Epic.

Posted at 8:50AM on Nov 12th 2006 by Insomnious 0 stars

2. yep i agree m8...same day release would be better ...fingers cross someone jumps gun and sells game on wednesday.

Posted at 9:08AM on Nov 12th 2006 by 4corfe 0 stars

3. But it happened and it is better!

Posted at 9:42AM on Nov 12th 2006 by Norb 0 stars

4. i really hope so but game are actually gay

Posted at 9:23AM on Nov 12th 2006 by Nick 0 stars

5. It's odd that today is technically the launch date of GoW but Epic did a very rare thing, actually allowed people to sell it when they received it (Nov. 7).

But today is definitely an important day for the Xbox 360, because this game is a definite reason to own an Xbox 360, and the more attention GoW gets, the more attention the Xbox 360 will get during the holiday shopping rush (especially since we ALL know the PS3 will have a massive shortage (predictably bigger than the 360's) because of only having 400,000 units, which will give the 360 a huge advantage). It also shows current Xbox 360 owners that this game is a game that you MUST have, a game that completes your Xbox 360, like with Halo on the original Xbox.

Also, I am sure Epic will do a "European Emergence Day" celebration as well.

This game deserves all this attention and the hype it got, its an extremely good game and an excellent piece of work.

Posted at 9:42AM on Nov 12th 2006 by DA360 2 stars

6. I was hoping to join in on this fun but GoW killed my XBox, and now I have to wait 2 weeks for it to get repaired.

Posted at 10:57AM on Nov 12th 2006 by AF Fighter 0 stars

7. The only 'bonus' that I can see for UK gamers is the deal on trade-in's they have for the Gears of War release; bring back one of a selection of games and get £30 off. Not bad I suppose. Similar to these deals;

http://www.game.co.uk/lowdown.aspx?lid=6673

I received a leaflet with my purchase of CoD3 today at Game in Dundee.

Posted at 12:00PM on Nov 12th 2006 by Insomnious 0 stars

8. I can do nothing but agree with Insomnious

Posted at 9:18AM on Nov 12th 2006 by DannyOB@360insight 0 stars

9. I was playing a bit, but got tired of having to try to join a game, only to get kicked off again, and again and again, this whole "Lost connection with Host" thing is annoying as hell...seriously, it's about 80% of the time, it really gets on my nerves.

Posted at 2:25PM on Nov 12th 2006 by Zach 0 stars

10. I agree with # 10. I havent been able to enjoy online play due to "lost connection with host" happening over and over.

Posted at 3:06PM on Nov 12th 2006 by BigL 0 stars

11. I guess I was expecting more from Emergence Day. Let's see, there is a leaderboard tournament, a chance to win a surround sound system (which I already have),a chance to game with Megadeth (do I really care?), some gamerpics, and a video for CliffyB.

Come on Microsoft he can do better than this!

Posted at 3:12PM on Nov 12th 2006 by ctyree 0 stars

12. We've gone through the game 3 times; once on each difficulty. I must say that while the game is good...it's extremely short. The graphics are good, but not as amazing as I had thought they would be.

Multiplayer? I haven't been able to connect. I'm getting really tired of this "be a host or find a host manually" crap. Why does no other game use Halo 2's style of matchmaking? Searching for a "good lobby" gets really old. Sure, there's usually a "quickmatch" option but it's not as effective.

I tried to avoid diving head-first into the media about the game because that just sets someone up for disappointment (*cough* Final Fantasy XII *cough*). I'm glad I did, otherwise, I might be somewhat disappointed. Personally, I think Dead Rising is the better game this year.

*sigh* the wait for Halo 3...

Posted at 3:23PM on Nov 12th 2006 by SuicideNinja 0 stars

13. For all of you saying that you keep getting connection lost, it's because you are trying to join a room that is full try to join one that is about half full so that it hasn't filled up since you refreshed the list and when you try to join the game.

Posted at 3:48PM on Nov 12th 2006 by Nutman 0 stars

14. im there

Posted at 4:31PM on Nov 12th 2006 by HandsomeTy 1 star

15. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who can't get into a multiplayer match.

Hey Nutman - thanks for the completely useless piece of advice. It doesn't matter how full the room is when you join - it just boots you anyways. Don't defend a system that is completely effed up.

I can't believe that Epic didn't emulate Bungie's matchmaking system. Not being able to play ranked games with friends is so effing lame.....

Posted at 5:51PM on Nov 12th 2006 by BoBaFerret 0 stars

16. for those who can't get in a multiplayer game... STOP USING THE "QUICK MATCH" OPTION!!!

Just search for a game manually, and select a game with a lot of open spaces... problem solved. I had the exact same problem with the multiplayer that all of you are talking about, once I started doing a manual search, i've had probably an 80-90% successful connection rate.

Posted at 7:17PM on Nov 12th 2006 by crono999 0 stars

17. Yea it's got nothing to do with rooms being full. I mean if you try and join a quick match and you still get that problem hen there is a problem.

The game is amazing though. The singleplayer is awesome, the amount of detail is astonishing and the polish on this title really shines through. Haven't gone deep into coop yet, waiting for friends to get the game and/or come over to give that a go. I just tried multiplayer today thinking it would be simple deathmatch that wouldn't resemble the singleplayer one bit (ala Splinter Cell) but to my surprise everything is there. The cover system, the awesome graphics and the hectic firefights. So I'm really digging that, though I too am having a problem connecting to many games.

Great job Epic.

Posted at 7:44PM on Nov 12th 2006 by BklynKid 0 stars

18. well crono,
quick match is an option... so it should work. yes, searching for an open game works a bit better but it still has a higher failure rate than any other game i've played online. maybe a day of the development team playing with the owners of this game complaining about this will prompt them to try and do something about it.
if everyone just shuts up and accepts it and tries to work around it they have no reason to fix the system

Posted at 7:50PM on Nov 12th 2006 by get over it 0 stars

19. This game looks amazing, and plays amazing, but most already know that. I was going to try to play for the full 24hours but I had give up the big TV, and didnt want to move my 360 into my room, as my TV only has mono in/out >.

Posted at 9:35PM on Nov 12th 2006 by HoodOrnament 0 stars

20. Here in the UK it's much less exciting i'm afraid.

By now you've had your copy of Gears of War for a few days. -Nope not out here yet...

You've been summoned to play 24 hours of Gears of War on Xbox Live. Jump online, win some cool prizes.

- Our Xbox live is much crapper, we don't get exclusive prizes, were not worthy, but hey at least we still pay more for the same game.

- download exclusive content and most importantly kick the Epic development team's ass.

No exclusive content from us, well maybe on OUR emergence day we may get a free gamer pic... if were lucky.

/Rant

Posted at 9:34PM on Nov 12th 2006 by Mr Annoyed / Jealous - however you wanna take it. 0 stars