It's Gears of War 3 for the most part. They added in a second 'hero' of sorts, that expands your battle abilities, which have overall been increased as well. After reading about it for a while, it seems that where he is sprinting and shooting, that's real game play. As is throwing your partner into a huge bloody mess? Yep. The game sounds real promising, but it literally is, a GoW ripoff from the artwork, to the guns, even down to the engine. Hell, even the enemies, barricades, strategies and huge buff armored guys... It's the same.
Oh my fucking god they better not make a ripoff my favorite game, Gears of Lat 2 is my drug right now, and I just wait for GoL3 to come out, if this somehow fun looking ripoff is going to do shit to 3pic Games, I am sueing them for... hum... I'l find something!
It looks a lot different than GOW to me... I mean, using swords and the battle system? Plus the whole story seems different, where they're trying to take down a global empire of aliens or w/e, as opposed to gears. It looks cool to me.
DarkenedFantasies -- Probably just didn't care. For example, at some point before release, they've updated the graphics of some of the Protoss buildings (Forge, CyberCore, Citadel, Observatory, Arbiter Tribunal), but instead of properly re-rendering them with edited 3D models, they did crappy copy-paste jobs on the rendered graphics.
Ultraviolet -- I suppose we'll likely never know, but my guess would be that they already saw it operating successfully and there was no monetary incentive to finish the original work. And the dev cycle in old school Blizzard was so hectic, it's possible it just got forgotten about after the original game got released. Plus there's an element of existing MPQ files that were packaged with the original discs becoming outdated if they updated it. And it's not like they remade the original MPQs, they just made new ones for BW specifically
[2026-6-21. : 4:26 am]
Oh_Man -- so that makes me think maybe the theory they are unfinished is not true and its a deliberate design decision, coz why not finish them wen ur making brood war?
[2026-6-21. : 4:25 am]
Oh_Man -- the thing is thos buildings are from classic. that means they went ahead and made brood war without ever finishing the 'unfinished' buildings
[2026-6-20. : 6:15 pm]
Ultraviolet -- Yeah he's talked about a lot of that stuff in his casts before. It seems plausible. Especially knowing how Blizzard of yesteryear operated.
[2026-6-20. : 3:47 pm]
NudeRaider -- to clarify: couldn't recall the behavior for every single Protoss building but I was aware the disparity exists.
[2026-6-20. : 3:43 pm]
NudeRaider -- Contained nothing new for me. Didn't know all building's behavior, but very much all unit's. Also Terran balance whine - also nothing new
