Look Its a Panda
10-10-2006, 03:49 PM
Gears of War just got all viral on us. People who subscribed to the game's official site received an email this morning with a cryptic message and even more cryptic link.
The message seems to be a bit of coalition propaganda, but a dozen of the words in the paragraph are hyperlinks to the same page. The links all point to a sub-page of the Gears of War site called 48HrsExclusiveAccess. The page first shows a little black and white security video of Marcus Fenix in a prison cell and then goes black. You're give three matches to light and explore a wall on the page. If you click on any of the four messages you find there you get to see four different videos showing backstory and some gameplay.
More interesting is the fact that the dozen words that are hyperlinks in the email form the sentence: Marcus Fenix has been located. You have 48 hours to mobilize.
The question is what does that mean. It could mean that the linked page is only around for 48 hours or, let's hold our breath, that we will be perhaps getting a demo of Gears of War in two days.
Go, rend the site, let us know what you come up with.
http://www.gearsofwar.com/48hrsexclusiveaccess/
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/rumor-g...days-206547.php (http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/rumor-gears-of-war-demo-in-two-days-206547.php)
I assume Epic and Microsoft are just messing with our heads. Epic have said, on several occations, that there won't be a demo before the game is released.
Seeing how much hype GoW have gotten and is getting, I don't think Epic are to benefit much from a demo - people are going to buy the game blindly, and a demo is probably more likely to scare people away than to attract new people.
The message seems to be a bit of coalition propaganda, but a dozen of the words in the paragraph are hyperlinks to the same page. The links all point to a sub-page of the Gears of War site called 48HrsExclusiveAccess. The page first shows a little black and white security video of Marcus Fenix in a prison cell and then goes black. You're give three matches to light and explore a wall on the page. If you click on any of the four messages you find there you get to see four different videos showing backstory and some gameplay.
More interesting is the fact that the dozen words that are hyperlinks in the email form the sentence: Marcus Fenix has been located. You have 48 hours to mobilize.
The question is what does that mean. It could mean that the linked page is only around for 48 hours or, let's hold our breath, that we will be perhaps getting a demo of Gears of War in two days.
Go, rend the site, let us know what you come up with.
http://www.gearsofwar.com/48hrsexclusiveaccess/
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/rumor-g...days-206547.php (http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/rumor/rumor-gears-of-war-demo-in-two-days-206547.php)
I assume Epic and Microsoft are just messing with our heads. Epic have said, on several occations, that there won't be a demo before the game is released.
Seeing how much hype GoW have gotten and is getting, I don't think Epic are to benefit much from a demo - people are going to buy the game blindly, and a demo is probably more likely to scare people away than to attract new people.