What is the Markza gun in GOWJ?

What is the Markza gun in GOWJ?

This UIR Semi-automatic rifle’s scope make the Markza the perfect weapon for far away shots. With the large capacity mag, you’ll be able to hold a point on a map to cover your teammates or yourself! This deadly accurate rifle is sure to be a fan favorite, especially to those going for headshots.

Check out this video to see this new addition to the franchise in action:

Gears of War: Judgment Achievement Points revealed

List of Gears of War: Judgment Achievement Points

Here is the very full list of GOW Judgment's achievements. They seem a little less create than prior Gears games - there's no Star Wars referencing 'It's a trap' for example.

There does seem to be a good mix between campaign and multiplayer.

• They Called Him Karn (10 points) - Completed Museum Of Military Glory
• Open Arms (10 points) - Completed Halvo Bay Military Academy
• The Real Thing (10 points) - Completed Seahorse Hills
• Take Back This City (10 points) - Completed Onyx Point
• I Told You (10 points) - Completed Downtown Halvo Bay
• This One's Not Over (10 points) - Completed Courthouse
• Friends (10 points) - Completed Aftermath
• Determined (10 points) - Completed all Campaign Chapters on at least Casual difficulty
• Steel Nerves (10 points) - Completed all Campaign Chapters on at least Normal difficult
• Iron Fist (25 points) - Completed all Campaign Chapters on at least Hardcore difficulty
• Lion Heart (50 points) - Completed all Campaign Chapters on Insane difficulty
• Party People (10 points) - Played any section in 4 player Co-Op
• Blood Brothers (50 points) - Completed all Campaign Chapters in Co-op
• Challenge Accepted (5 points) - Completed your first Declassified mission
• Never Give Up (10 points) - Completed at least 20 Declassified missions
• Quality Soldiering (50 points) - Completed all Declassified missions
• A Peek into the Future (10 points) - Watched Aftermath teaser
• The Aftermath (20 points) - Unlocked Aftermath
• Rising Star (10 points) - Attained 50 Stars on at least Casual Difficulty
• Shooting Star (20 points) - Attained 75 Stars on at least Normal Difficulty
• Star Struck (50 points) - Attained 100 Stars on at least Hardcore Difficulty
• Superstar (50 points) - Attained all Stars on Insane Difficulty
• Never Forgotten (10 points) - Recovered 10 COG Tags during the Campaign
• Veteran Remembrance (10 points) - Recovered 25 COG Tags during the Campaign
• Respect for the Fallen (20 points) - Recovered all 48 COG Tags during the Campaign
• Ribbon Master (10 points) - Earned 3 unique Ribbons in any section
• Proud Wearer (5 points) - Equipped your first Medal
• Ready for War (20 points) - Earned at least one Onyx medal
• Sybarite (50 points) - Earned the Onyx "War Supporter" medal
• Seriously Judgmental (75 points) - Completed all Declassified Missions on Insane difficulty
• Level 5 (5 points) - Reached level 5
• Level 10 (10 points) - Reached level 10
• Level 20 (10 points) - Reached level 20
• Level 30 (15 points)- Reached level 30
• Level 40 (25 points) - Reached level 40
• Level 50 (25 points) - Reached level 50
• Let's Do This (50 points) - Achieved level 50 and chose to re-up for another tour of duty
• Fearless (50 points) - Achieved level 50 a second time and chose to re-up for another tour
• Unstoppable (50 points) - Achieved level 50 a third time and chose to re-up for another tour
• Death to Locust (10 points) - Killed with all classes of COG in Overrun or Survival
• Death to the COG (10 points) - Killed with all classes of Locust in Overrun
• Survivor (10 points) - Completed wave 10 on all maps in Survival mode
• Globe Trotter (10 points) - Won a match on every map in all Versus modes
• Jack of All Trades (10 points) - Won 10 matches of Overrun
• Team Leader (10 points) - Won 10 rounds of Team Deathmatch
• All Rounder (10 points) - Won one match in Free For All, Team Deathmatch, and Domination
• Roaming Free (10 points) - Won one match on every map in Free For All
• Team On Tour (10 points) - Won one match on every map in Team Deathmatch
• Overran (10 points) - Won one match on every map in Overrun
• Dominator (10 points) - Won one match on every map in Domination

GOW Judgement to have free-for-all multiplayer

Gears of War: Judgement's multiplayer will include free-for-all multiplayer.

This is according to Official Xbox Magazine who reckon they have the inside scoop.

If this is true, I'm pleased as I generally haven't played to much Gears multiplayer but a Lone Wolf type mode would def interest me!

Sofia Hendrik cosplay from Gears of War Judgement

Just as Gears of War had Anya as a bit of sex interest for the lads, Gears of War: Judgement features Sofia Hendrik to keep the lads (and ladies) interested. The GOWJ game is not even out yet  and here's a sweet red head doing a fine cosplay version of Sofia.

Sofia Hendrik in GOWJ action screen shot

Here's a promo screen shot of GOWJ's Sofia Hendrik taking on some unfriendly Locust. The game  is looking less and less like a Halo 3: ODST cash in using already available assests but a fully fledged game..... yes, I went there.

While you're at it, check out this sweet cosplay version of Sofia Hendrik.

A chat about GOW: Judgement's artwork direction

Game Informer has an article on the direction that the artwork of Gears of War: Judgement may take. Chris Perna answers the questions - here's some extracts from the interview:

Game Informer: What was your approach when designing Gears of War: Judgment’s visual theme, and how does it compares with what the series has done in the past?

Garron Paduck

Chris Perna: I think one of the things that we want to get across is a lot more brutality of the Locust, a lot more fear. I think visually, it’s probably a darker theme than the other games as far as the Locust being scary again. We kind of got away from that a little bit over the course of the series. We’re trying to bring some of that back...some of the intensity, some of the fear. You know when we really concepted these things, they were stealers of children in the night. They were these ghostly figures. It was almost a survival horror game at one point. We kind of wanted to get back to the roots of the Locust and emergence day and show them as more vicious and fearsome.

The RAAM’s Shadow DLC also took place prior to the trilogy. Did that serve as any indication of what we can expect from the world?

Yeah, and I think we really learned a few things from RAAM’s Shadow as far as quality and visual bar and things like that. I think that visually, this will be more of an enhancement from that. We’ve tweaked the engine a bit and added advanced bloom and different types of effects, and it’s really pushing things in a different direction. So, I think it will be an evolution from RAAM’s Shadow.

Can you tell us a little bit about the process of designing a younger Cole and Baird?

Baird

Yeah, sending him back was kind of tricky. Baird is actually an officer when he starts out. He’s cropped and trimmed. What we did was take a look at Baird in Gears 1, and he was acne-scarred. Denis Leary was part of the inspiration for Baird. You know, just this wisecracking, kind of *** guy. If you’ve ever Denis Leary’s stand up he’s smoking and drinking and just kind of ripping. So, that was Baird to me anyway. So we took him and we gave him some acne scarring and some battle damage and dirt and that was Gears 1.

Pretty much throughout the whole Gears series, his fiction was getting busted down to private, and he was pissed about it and taking orders from Marcus. We took a look at where he was and then we said “well, what is he like as an officer? Well he’s fresh and he’s confident and he’s cropped and his hair is a little different, a little neater. His face doesn’t have acne. It isn’t dirty. And he’s a little bit younger and he doesn’t have the lines on his face and the battle wear.” So that’s what we did there. And Cole was an athlete, so he’s thinner and more agile. We kind of took him and made him a couple years younger and made his body a little more fit.

Rod Fergusson talks GOW: Judgement direction

Kilo Squad

Game Informer has a pretty sweet interview with Rod Fergusson which discusses the direction that Gears of War Judgement is headed in.

A key thing I took from it is the ability that during the trial of Kilo Squad, the player can choose to offer additional evidence that 'declassifies' information which then alters the actual game play.

For example stating that Dark Wretches were present in a mission means they might just turn up in the campaign.

Rod also indirectly confirms there will be another Gears of War game that will be released on the next generation Xbox

Meet Garron Paduk from GOW: Judgement

Meet Garron Paduk from GOW: Judgement

Name: Garron Paduk

Height: 6'1"

Weight: 215 lbs

Paduk comes from the other side of the Pendulum Wars. Originally Paduk fought for the Union of Independent Republics. His home nation of Gorasnaya was destroyed by the Locust Horde very early on in the war.

Fortunately for Paduk, the COG navy helped him and a few others flee his demolished home. Originally considered a Prisoner of War by the COG authorities, Paduk eventually managed to convince his captors that he'd be of more use killing Locust with Baird's Kilo Squad than rotting away in a small prison cell.

You may have already met Sofia Hendrik, another COG that will feature in Gears of War: Judgement.

Meet Sofia Hendrik, COG

Sofia

Meet Sofia Hendrik,  a COG from GOW: Judgement

Name: Sofia Hendrik
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 135 lbs

Before those nasty Locusts decided to invade hit Halvo Bay, Sofia Hendrix was training as an Onyx Guard cadet. Sofia stepped into the fight against the Locust Horde after being exposed to the atrocities of war as a media correspondent towards the end of the years-long Pendulum Wars. 

Having seen terrible actiond and crimes committed during battle, she sets out to ensure that the conduct of war is properly waged, and that personal ethics and morals must not be sacrificed for victory.

Sounds like a damn goody too shoes....

Gears of War: Judgement Official Reveal Details

Gears of War: Judgement Official Reveal Details

By Dan Bell at Gears of War

“Gears of War: Judgment” delivers the most intense and challenging Gears of War game yet, with a campaign that takes you back to the immediate aftermath of Emergence Day — the defining event of the Gears of War universe — for the very first time and tests your mettle in highly competitive new multiplayer modes.

Set years before the events of the previous Gears of War trilogy, Judgment centers on Kilo Squad, a troop of soldiers led by Damon Baird and Augustus “The Cole Train” Cole. They are joined by newcomers to the Gears series, Sofia Hendricks and Garron Paduk, as they attempt to save the besieged city of Halvo Bay from a terrifying new enemy. Gears of War: Judgment depicts the planet Sera on the brink of annihilation by an unstoppable new Locust menace, giving you a new vantage point into one of the richest and most acclaimed sagas in gaming.

As with all Gears of War games, Judgment delivers intense co-op gameplay. Play cooperatively with up to three friends on Xbox LIVE (four players total) and experience more challenging gameplay scenarios and achievements by uncovering critical information during the course of the campaign with Judgement’s all new “Mission Declassification” system.

Gears of War: Judgment also introduces a new Smart Spawn System [S3] for both campaign and multiplayer action. This new system ensures that each encounter is unique and new because types, timing and locations of enemies change with each new encounter.

Finally, Gears of War: Judgment introduces Gears players to brand-new multiplayer experiences like OverRun, a thrilling new class-based competitive mode that pits Locust and COG soldiers in a head-to-head battle unlike anything Gears fans have experienced yet. OverRun is an objective-oriented mode that lets five-player teams alternate between playing as Locusts and COG soldiers, and marks the first time that a class-based, competitive multiplayer experience has been introduced in the Gears of War series, amping up the addictive gameplay with a deep player progression system layered on top of the experience.

Additional game modes will be announced at a later time.

Gears of War: Judgment will launch worldwide in early 2013 and will be available exclusively on the Xbox 360.