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2015 video game

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition
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Programmer(s) The Coalition
Publisher(s) Microsoft Game Studios
Producer(s) Jarret Bradley
Designer(south) Peder Skude
Programmer(s)
  • Kate Rayner
  • Jaysen Huculak
Artist(south) Chris Matthews
Series Gears of State of war
Engine Unreal Engine iii
Platform(s)
  • Xbox One
  • Microsoft Windows
Release Xbox One
  • NA: August 25, 2015
  • AU: August 25, 2015
  • European union: August 28, 2015
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: March 1, 2016
Genre(s) Third-person shooter
Way(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition is a science fiction third-person shooter video game. It is a remastered edition of the 2006 video game Gears of State of war, the beginning installment of the Gears of State of war series. Developed by The Coalition and published by Microsoft Game Studios, Ultimate Edition is based on the original game'due south source code; The Coalition'due south goal for the project was to accurately preserve the original gameplay experience while updating its visual presentation for a contemporary console generation. Ultimate Edition was released for the Xbox I in Baronial 2015 and for Microsoft Windows in March 2016.

Reviews for the console version of Gears of State of war: Ultimate Edition past video game publications were predominantly positive, whereas the PC version was less positively received due to its technical issues. Praise was directed towards the improved graphics, sound, and the minimal deviations from the original gameplay experience, while criticism focused on AI bug and the dated design of campaign levels.

Contents [edit]

Gears of State of war: Ultimate Edition is a remaster of Gears of War, a 2006 3rd-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games. The game features remastered graphics, textures, and audio. The game is natively displayed at 1080p or Full HD, and runs at xxx frames per second in the campaign, and 60 frames per second in multiplayer modes. Additional features include mechanics from newer Gears of War games, such as spotting and switching weapons while roadie running. Skill-based matchmaking is added for the game's multiplayer modes.[ane]

Ultimate Edition has the same plot equally the original game, with visual upgrades and some stylistic changes. It adds five single-actor chapters, which were exclusive to the PC version of the original game, to the campaign's fifth deed. The additional capacity take place before the original Xbox 360 release's Special Delivery chapter, which depict the events of Delta Squad escaping a giant beast called a Brumak between the fourth and fifth acts, culminating in a boss fight with the Brumak.[2] The ending cutscene is also changed to evidence a glimpse of Myrrah, the Locust Queen; in the original game, only her vocalization could exist heard.[2]

Development and release [edit]

Following the conquering of the Gears of War intellectual holding past Microsoft from Epic Games in early 2014, The Coalition was formed and charged with the continuation and development of the franchise. Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was announced during Microsoft'due south printing conference at E3 2015. It was the offset Gears of War title developed past The Coalition under the leadership of studio head Rod Fergusson.[three]

Gears of War themed graffiti fine art at Ballsy Games headquarters in Cary, Due north Carolina, where the developmental squad visited for consultations about the remastering projection.[4]

The developmental period for Ultimate Edition took 18 months in total including pre-production, and included the remastering of over 3,000 art assets, original motion capture, and refinement of the control scheme.[3] During the pre-production phase, the development team had to cull between starting with the original codebase, starting with the about recent iteration of the Unreal Engine iii, or update the entirety into Unreal Engine iv. Information technology was determined that the squad ought to maintain a playable build of the game throughout development, and so the all-time starting betoken was with the original codebase; from a content perspective, this meant things would already be working on the first twenty-four hour period of developmental bicycle.[four] As they had limited exposure to the gameplay code, the team worked closely with Epic Games, the original developers, which included making site visits to their part for discussions and meetings.[four] Technical Lead Jaysen Huculak said that the technical inconveniences and lack of efficiency encountered past dealing with the original gameplay scripting on the original engine is offset by the fact they did not take to rebuild everything from scratch and that the concluding production would exist "true to the original".[4]

As function of their "e'er playable" blueprint philosophy, the squad's budget for the project were set and maintained by monitoring real world performance in the game.[four] The developers' decision to lock in thirty frames per second for the single-actor entrada style and 60 frames per 2d for multiplayer early on in product was by deliberate design as opposed to a solution for technical limitations. Technical manager Mike Rayner explained that they wanted to present Ultimate Edition as a visual showcase for Xbox 1, just as the original game was for Xbox 360, and that it made sense to run the campaign at a consistent 30fps when its visuals are displayed at 1080p, every bit the results would not be equally aesthetically pleasing otherwise.[4]

Only select elements from the original were retained and unchanged, including voice performances and the score equanimous past Kevin Riepl.[3] The raw animation information for characters had been kept to preserve the original gameplay experience, while the models themselves were revamped: as an example, the armor and skin ratio on a character model is weighted more appropriately and then that the armor did not stretch as much and whatever objects holstered on a graphic symbol'south belts would display animations during the entrada.[4] During an in-depth interview with Eurogamer, Huculak noted that all changes and enhancements to the original source code were implemented based on recommendations from their rendering team.[4] Huculak said both the developers and the publisher have a good understanding of how dissimilar rendering features would perform on the Xbox I, which allowed the team to beginning with the original games' features running on Xbox One and, which were then combined with features from more upward-to-date versions of the Unreal Engine iii as well as Unreal Engine 4: the majority of the editor-facing features were drawn from Unreal Engine 3, while the developers likewise implemented Xbox 1 specific enhancements like eSRAM management or physically-based shading engineering drawn from the Unreal Engine 4.[four] Huculak cited the Unreal Engine lighting solution, codenamed Lightmass, as an example of the technical expertise and knowledge involved with lighting in the developmental process.[4]

Co-ordinate to the Technical Managing director of the Windows 10 port, Cam McRae, Ultimate Edition was developed with DirectX 12 in mind, which he said had allowed the team "much improve control over the CPU load with heavily reduced commuter overhead", some of which had been moved to the game where the team could have more command.[four] Their primary try was in "parallelising the rendering organization to take advantage of multiple CPU cores", with the "control list creation and D3D resource cosmos" existence the focus, while optimization techniques from Unreal Engine four such as pipeline land object caching were pulled in where relevant.[4] In contrast to its console analogue, the PC version would support higher resolutions and frame rates, by scaling upward on higher end hardware and supporting displays in 4K resolution. McRae said they intended to uncap the frame rate for the PC port and implement a congenital-in benchmark manner.[4]

A promotional trailer released for Gears of War: Ultimate Edition paid homage to the original 2006 television advertisement, using the same comprehend past Gary Jules of the Tears for Fears song "Mad World".[five] It was released worldwide for the Xbox One in Northward America and Asian-Pacific countries on August 25, 2015, and in Europe on Baronial 28.[half dozen] Players who purchased the Ultimate Edition received early on admission to the multiplayer beta of Gears of State of war four, which was released on April 18, 2016.[vii] [five] It was subsequently released for Microsoft Windows on March i, 2016.[8]

Technical issues [edit]

The Gnasher Shotgun, a staple choice for shut-range combat in multiplayer games since the first Gears of War,[ix] occasionally failed to register impairment from indicate-blank range in the multiplayer mode for Ultimate Edition shortly after its launch.[x] The effect was considered to be unrelated to latency problems equally information technology was also noted to occur on local split-screen multiplayer.[11] The Coalition previously indicated that the Gnasher works the same style it did in the original game, as the fashion the shotgun pellets were distributed when firing was randomised.[12] In response to player feedback, the Coalition released an update on September 24, 2015, and explained that they changed the Gnasher's randomised spread to the aforementioned shape pellet spread, so players tin better predict and estimate the harm they are doing to opponents more accurately and consistently.[13]

The initial PC release of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, which was exclusively adult for Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform (UWP), suffered from meaning brandish problems and stuttering on contemporary top-stop hardware, specially with AMD Radeon graphic cards.[fourteen] [xv] Games developed for UWP are known to be discipline to technical restrictions, including incompatibility with multi-video card setups, difficulties modding the game, overlays for gaming-oriented chat clients, or key bounden managers.[sixteen] The specific technical bug observed in Ultimate Edition were linked to the programmer's transition of the game to DirectX 12 and the implementation of ambience occlusion.[17] Reports subsequently emerged that driver updates and a subsequent patch released past the developers helped address the technical issues.[18] [19]

Reception [edit]

Co-ordinate to review aggregator Metacritic, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition received "generally favorable reviews" on Xbox 1,[20] whereas information technology received "mixed to average" reviews on PC.[21]

Reviewing Ultimate Edition shortly after its release in August 2015, Brian Albert praised Ultimate Edition equally a "beautiful game with smart embrace mechanics, great core combat, and commitment to an over-the-top tone", and though information technology "occasionally shows signs of age", they were few and far betwixt. Albert highly recommended Ultimate Edition as a starting signal for newcomer players to the serial, as it successfully preserved the original's "strong style and slap-up gameplay", and made it enjoyable and relevant long after the original was released.[22]

Matt Miller gave a favorable review of Ultimate Edition and praised the last product of The Coalition's visual and audio overhauls as "restored beauty".[23] Miller found the gameplay to be mostly true to the original for ameliorate or worse, conceding that some of the shooting mechanics feel dated. Nonetheless, Miller described his experience with Ultimate Edition as a "fun and visually impressive trip down retentiveness lane", and said that "new and old players alike should feel no hesitation virtually seeing this as the definitive way to play the opening story of the Gears epic".[23]

Mike Mahardy from GameSpot considered Ultimate Edition to exist a remake in all but proper noun, as the alterations included a diverseness of content and design changes. To Mahardy, amid the highlights for Ultimate Edition include 1080p and 60fps multiplayer, the well-tuned controls and cover mechanics which reinforces the championship's status equally "the apex of third-person shooters", and the visual improvements to the original'southward horror-driven unmarried-player campaign which thoroughly reinforces a night and personal tone. While less enthused about the entrada'due south late-game chapters and "frustrating AI", Mahardy summarized that the render trip "might have revealed a few more cracks than nosotros remembered, but it also serves as a shield for our nostalgia".[24]

Richard Leadbetter from Eurogamer opined that Ultimate Edition is "a total-on remake done right - fans and purists will accept their own view on how the game should take been updated for the current-gen era, but there'southward no doubt that the vast majority of the game's visuals are updated beautifully", which he felt honored the spirit of the sourced material while presenting a radically new expect based on modern rendering principles at the same time.[iv] Leadbetter noted that a performance analysis for the Xbox 1 version of Ultimate Edition conducted by the Digital Foundry team from Eurogamer showcased "mostly consistent operation beyond all modes with just some occasional hiccups".[4]

In his review of Ultimate Edition, Arthur Gies from Polygon mused that it "doesn't feel new, exactly, but it does feel surprisingly relevant" in validating the original game as a landmark release in the video game industry, and alleged that its "bonafides as a shooter classic experience less in dispute than e'er". For Gies, Ultimate Edition "eloquently" demonstrates an adage that, "No medium is as appreciative to the passage of fourth dimension every bit video games." Gies said the result of The Coalition'south insistence on delivering a "completely intact, gameplay-identical version of Gears' campaign, admitting i with a consummate visual overhaul, and a revamped vision of the original game's multiplayer" made the final product "both amend and worse" that one might call back of the original game, though he did consider Ultimate Edition to be an improvement overall.[32]

Not all reception to Ultimate Edition had been positive. Jeff Gerstmann from Giant Bomb, who reviewed the original Xbox 360 version when he was employed at GameSpot, gave a negative review: he criticized the game's AI and entrada mode, noting that it "anile pretty poorly".[25] [33] Although certain publications such as GameStar have favorably reviewed the PC version, its technical issues attracted widespread criticism of the programmer and Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform.[14] [fifteen] Both GameRevolution and Hardcore Gamer gave favorable reviews for the Xbox 1 version in 2015,[28] [xxx] but published reviews with lower ratings for the PC version when it released the following year.[31] [29]

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External links [edit]

  • Official website

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