New Gears of War map pack coming this Thursday

Posted May 1, 2007 at 9:53AM by Karl B. Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Epic Games, Map Pack, Microsoft, Microsoft Points
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Gears of War - Image 1


Four new maps for Epic Games' Gears of War are coming to Xbox Live this Thursday. These maps are part of the Hidden Front map pack which costs 800 Microsoft Points. Here's the skinny on the new maps:
  • Bullet Marsh - In this Kryll-infested swamp, an old generator still powers the area lights. A few stray bullets could easily knock out the generator, leaving combatants to fend for themselves against the Kryll.
  • Garden - This overgrown and crumbling conservatory still has a working fertilization and pesticide system. This system can pose a serious hazard to anyone who ventures into the greenhouse without first venting the air.
  • Process - Teams must fight for control of this subterranean Imulsion processing plant, still active despite the cessation of the Pendulum wars.
  • Subway - Timgad's Central Subway station used to serve as a central hub for commuters. Now the tunnels are crawling with Locust.
If you don't have the 800 MS Points to shell out for the map pack this Thursday, don't worry. All four maps will be available for free come September 3.

 
 
 

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by bigp - 2007-05-01 04:25
» AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA

NO MORE FREE STUFF FOR YOU LITTLE F@GGETS

by kiss My @ss - 2007-05-01 06:26
» Yo momma

***** off dumb @ss

by kv - 2007-05-01 06:46
» WTF

What happened to free stuff? This is crap...800 points, and why September when they become free!?

by me - 2007-05-01 07:10
» hi

hey dont go to college cause u cant play xbox on their network cause it causes 'lag'-so stay home and never grow up so u can play ur xbox live as u please. Its just a hassal to commute back and forth EVERY day to play video games online. Dont do an online college either, its a waste, so just stay home in ur moms house ur entire life, so that u will be able to play xbox live

by Sony sucks - 2007-05-01 07:12
» geeky sony fanboys suck

stupid sony fanboy^^

by me - 2007-05-01 07:14
» hi

hey, i found out the mystery of life and how we are all doomed to die a horrible death.



[1/3] + [0.333]

[3] x [1/3] + [3] x [0.333]

[1] + [0.999]

OM FUC*IN G

by jayhawker09 - 2007-05-01 08:44
» er

WTF are you talking about?

by cody - 2007-05-01 08:57
» yay

finally new maps



at least there keeping up updated with all these stuff



first racen down and old bones



then annex



now 4 new maps



but the only sad part is that u have to pay



damn microsoft forcing epic to charge money for content

by AoxomamoxoA - 2007-05-01 09:25
» bigp - the p stands for putz

thats cool. at least we have games to play on our system. otherwise we would probably be doing just like you and trying unsuccessfully to thwart someone elses tastes in consoles.

by yoyoyo - 2007-05-01 10:38
» come on..

its only ten bucks

by palmnat - 2007-05-01 10:43
» i thought

gears content would be free forever... oh well i think the more serious players will dish out the bucks for this..as for me i may but not yet......i will wait to see if the maps are worth it

by Trash like Humans = Game Addicts ################# - 2007-05-01 11:05
» Trash like Humans = Game Addicts ##################################################

NEVER read this essay because trash like human beings like you can’t (don’t) comprehend important lessons like this essay. Stop reading, kids. Still reading? You kids just never listen to others... sigh.



I graduated my university in Japan then got my job as an engineer about 2 years ago. I feel sorry for you, guys, moreover I feel sad and pathetic for your moms and dads. Your parents work every day so you kids can go to schools, also have clothes, school supplies, money for lunch, bus tickets or gas, et cetera.



On the other hand, you guys live your own lives as if you are garbage. You kids will disagree with me; you guys will say you are not crap. Of course. Of course you can’t even realise what you really are because you are the trash itself. However, when other people see you they don’t even want to talk with you because it’s just a waste of time. Most of you game addicts have education of high school. You can become garbage collectors or truck drivers if you have high school diploma.



You kids just have some sort of virtual lives and crappy real lives which are just worthless, lifeless, stupid, pathetic, and sad. There’re many kind of addictions: smoking, drugs (type1, type2, type3, and so on), computer/ video games, gambling (many kinds), porn addiction, alcoholic, and so forth. All of the above are equally harmful in many ways on you. Some things like drug are extensively bad for your physical being; some other types like game addiction are extensively bad for your mental being.



I read this statistic/ report which said that about 20% of all human beings are good and hard working people with at least university education; about 60% of all mankind is quite good and moderate people; then here, about 20% of all human beings on the planet are pure garbage (criminals, robbers, street thugs, uneducated dogs, worthless guys and girls, etc).



If you play computer/ video games 3 days a week or more, and more than 1 hour on one day, then you are classified as a game addict and this is a truth; no arguing on this matter, period. As I said, you don’t even realise that you are a game addict. You games addicted guys, you sad folks spend hours and hours to play various games every single day (you play this popular shooter for a few hours then if you get bored with it then you play this strategy for a few hours then you play this online role-playing game later). Aren’t playing games enough for you, kids?



Merely wasting away your lives by playing games isn’t enough; therefore, you need to spend at least a few more hours every day to visit several game related websites to watch and read game videos, game screenshots, and game news articles which are all about games? It was very hard to find such worthless human beings (like you guys) during my university years because it was a university (a selected institution); however, during my old high school years, I have seen hundreds of trashy kids around me (because anyone can attend high school).



I have to give this very simple example to make your bone-heads understood. Those minorities who have university degrees, have jobs like doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc; then they earn somewhere between $100 and $600 per hour. Moreover, they only have to work 5 days a week, 7 hours per day (35 hours per week; they earn $50,000 per month - 25 times more than $2,000). They can enjoy the rest and live like real humans.



But, you trashy kids earn $7 per hour as bus drivers, store clerks, etc because your highest education is high school (most uneducated guys love to go to the malls to hang out, the malls are full of store clerks). You have to work 7 days a week, 12 hours every single day (84 hours per week – that’s 2 to 3 times more than them; you earn $2,000 per month). You must work full-time in order to pay for food and apartment. You don’t even have enough free time; you live like dogs and garbage.



You will earn $14 per hour when you become 35 years old due to your work experience. Then, look around you and see other younger clerks. Those younger

by . - 2007-05-01 11:07
» .

Pay?

Yeah, sure, if it's worth buying - but not 800pts for 4 maps!?

Should be 400 at the most. And even then I wouldn't buy them myself...

by AoxomamoxoA - 2007-05-01 11:57
» Same In The End

omg you are sooo right. *rolls eyes*



Ever heard the expression Same In The End? It basically means no one cares how much money you make or what you do with your life, because in the end we will all be the same, a forgotten pile of bones in the dirt. Can you even name 5 multimillionair es from the 1700s? No. Know why? Because no one cares, thats why.



But youre only gonna die from your own arrogance, so you might as well take your time ;)

by Rakot - 2007-05-01 12:02
» well well

And just like you browse games related news site and show off your uni diploma +)) then sit in your office come back eat.*****.bathe.sleep.work.eat.*****.bathe.sleep.on and on and on and on and on.......the point in living is life itself - doesnt matter if some people dont want lots of money.as long as they are happy you idiot.and worthless are you cause in the end you are making those electrical things those kids use anyway you *****.

by Shatterdome - 2007-05-01 14:25
» Just wanted to say...

I didn't read it...

by Shatterdome - 2007-05-01 14:27
» NICE

Maps with traps....



Damn i've been waiting for the day a multiplayer game would let you shoot out lights....taking out a generator to shut down all the lights and kill people via krill is just as nice...



I'll pay for the maps just because Epic made an effort to give us free content...and they have been quite regular with it....no other game has had as much content in the same amount of time, free or not, as Gears (on ANY platform)....



Long live gears.....Epic is one company I don't mind handing cash over too....

by paul - 2007-05-01 18:44
» Bahahaahahaha

I too didn't read the whole thing (got sick of the horrible grammar in the first sentence) but judging by how long that useless "essay" is (if you want to call it that, essays have structure however) I doubt you even have a job.



By the way, I would like to know how a kid gets a job as a bus driver.

by ertert - 2007-05-01 20:07
» Jealous first poster

Idiot jealous first poster read the news properly -



All four maps will be available for free come September 3.

by ryeryery - 2007-05-01 20:08
» At least you getting the maps us PS3 owners are having to wait untill September for games that have been out for about a year on 360

All four maps will be available for free come September 3.

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