Gears of War, a Games for Windows title, features the amazing tactical action and multiplayer excitement found in the critically acclaimed Gears of War for Xbox 360® that has sold more than 3.5 million units. In addition, Windows gamers can enjoy a variety of all-new content, including three new multiplayer maps, a new multiplayer game type, game editor, five new campaign chapters, and DirectX 10 support.

Gears of War thrusts gamers into a deep and harrowing story of humankind's epic battle for survival against the Locust Horde, a nightmarish race of creatures that surface from the bowels of the planet and has no good intentions.

With Gears of War, Epic returns gamers to the massively scoped worlds, memorable characters, co-operative gameplay, and hyper-realistic combat that gamers have come to expect from the franchise, plus a few new surprises


What's New in This Release:

· In addition to the small-arms fire of a few impactful adjustments to the title's multiplayer battles, the "Gears of War" title update will deliver an explosive and game-changing new multiplayer mode known as Annex.
· In Annex, gamers seize victory by keeping control over key map locations, or objectives, long enough to collect a winning number of points. Every map contains two to five identified objectives available for capture, with one objective active at a time. Objectives are based on map weapon-spawn locations and have a potential value of 60 points toward either team's score. Teams collect those points by maintaining ownership of an objective until all 60 points have been distributed. Every second that a team controls an objective, the team gets one point. When an objective falls to zero points, the next objective is selected at random.
· COG soldiers and the Locust Horde alike can visit www.gearsofwar.com for further details.
· And while defending their objectives against the onslaught of opponents, gamers may notice the following minor adjustments to "Gears of War":
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· VGA Cable Support: Monitor resolution widths greater than or equal to 1280 now render as letterbox. In particular VGA users running at 1280x1024 will now see the game in full 720p (1280x720) resolution in letterboxed form.
· Adjusted Assassination Multiplayer Gametype: Leader no longer has to unlock weapons and now has to be executed to die.
· Adjusted Boomshot: Splash damage to be more effective rendering targets down-but-not-out
· Adjusted Hammer of Dawn: Aiming will be more forgiving of moving targets
· Adjusted Roadie Run: Reduced frequency of accidently grabbing cover while running
· Kill Message Ticker: Ticker can now be seen while down-but-not-out and spectating
· General: Addressed a number of possible exploits in multiplayer