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    Gears of War 2

    Game » consists of 13 releases. Released Nov 07, 2008

    Join Delta Squad once more in the fight against the Locust Horde, in this "bigger, better and more badass" sequel to the 2006 smash hit.

    What was that "meat cube" demo used for?

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    #1  Edited By AndrewGPM

    In Gears 2, what do they use the meat cube demo for?  I don't care about spoilers.
    At what point does that tech make it in to the game? I am just curious because it looks awesome.

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    #2  Edited By Ma7moud

    Cliff B said that its going to be in game but surprisingly it wasn't in game.

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    #3  Edited By HandsomeDead

    Meat Cube?

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    #4  Edited By DragoonKain1687

    It was some of the new physics engine technology, its barely noticeable, unless you are extremely meticulous. It was just a Tech Demo mostly, its most likely to hard to add as code to the actual game but keeping the same quality. I remember the old PS2 tech demos, they made things look like they do now, but of course, they were just rendering a single face and not a full action. Same thing here.

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    #5  Edited By AndrewGPM

    Ah. I was watching the GameTrailers video review and they said it was used for something in the game.
    They said something along the lines of "just wait till you see what that meat cube demo was used for!"
    No one likes a liar GT... no one likes a liar.

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    #6  Edited By Green_Incarnate

    I guess some of the physics stuff was in there in some of the levels. Spoilers in the "Worm lv" maybe and those blue plants on the previous lv.

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    #7  Edited By AndrewGPM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4pe6UAS2M

    For reference.
    I googled it and I think it has to do with the final boss.

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    #8  Edited By napalm

    I'm pretty sure the meatcube demo to demonstrate the flesh psychics of the big monsters such as the brumaks. If you noticed when you shoot then, their skin kind of falls off and sheds realistically. I suppose this is what they meant.

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    #9  Edited By commodore64

    There's no "meat cubes" specifically but lets just say there is a very "meaty" level that uses this tech.

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    #10  Edited By keyhunter

    MEAT.

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    #11  Edited By oraknabo

    I haven't played the game yet, so I don't know where it was specifically used, but it was a demonstration of the new soft-body physics capabilities of the new Unreal Engine.

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    #12  Edited By keyhunter

    I have to say the new Unreal engine is really impressive. I wish they would have waited for this new build of the engine to make Unreal Tournament 3. That game was pretty bare  ones compared to 2k4, which had an upgraded unreal 2 that added all sorts of neat stuff.

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    #13  Edited By TwoOneFive
    AndrewGPM said:
    "Ah. I was watching the GameTrailers video review and they said it was used for something in the game.
    They said something along the lines of "just wait till you see what that meat cube demo was used for!"
    No one likes a liar GT... no one likes a liar."
    GT is pretty good at misleading 
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    #14  Edited By AndrewGPM
    Napalm said:
    "I'm pretty sure the meatcube demo to demonstrate the flesh psychics of the big monsters such as the brumaks. If you noticed when you shoot then, their skin kind of falls off and sheds realistically. I suppose this is what they meant."

    This is all I was asking. Thank you!
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    #15  Edited By Black_Raven

    They should have made the meat cube the locust leader.

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    #16  Edited By valandil
    Black_Raven said:
    "They should have made the meat cube the locust leader."
    That would be badass indeed!
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    #17  Edited By Prime20
    Black_Raven said:
    "They should have made the meat cube the locust leader."
    I could picture my self saving the world by killing a giant thing of spam.

    Hell there's toast in the game why not have some spam to go with it.
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    #18  Edited By dsplayer1010

    I haven't noticed it

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    #19  Edited By daniel_beck_90

    that feature was used in :

    1- Meat shield ( using the other locusts as shield )

    2- the entire level took place inside the Giant Worm

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    #20  Edited By Captain_Fookup
    Black_Raven said:
    "They should have made the meat cube the locust leader."

    If this was true I would of had a lot more fun "fighting" the last boss.
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    #21  Edited By Unreal_dro

    Spoiler - 



    Theres a Level inside a Worm (which is made of......meat) so basically everything on that level
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    #22  Edited By MKHavoc

    I thought that was just to show off the unreal engine.

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