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Quantum Theory Gameplay Trailer

This lengthy, bloody Quantum Theory gameplay trailer suggests that the Gears of War comparisons are warranted.

Jan. 18 2010

Posted by: Ryan

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HooliganTuesday

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Finally we have answer that has plagued the gaming world for years "What could Gears of War have looked like if it was released in 1998"

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Is the video lo-res or is this game being developed for the PS2? Looks god awful

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HOly Heck! Is this legal?

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The developers of this game have to be embarrassed.  That dude with the name like "Zenith Higginbotham" is cursing his parents, can't pull the old "no that wasn't me" to his friends/in future job interviews.

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Fruit Loops / Fruity Rings
 Cocoa Pops / Choc Puffs
  Gears of War / Quantum Theory
 
--etc.

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Gears of meh....

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Looks pretty janky.

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God you would think Gears of War invented the third person shooter, when it totally ripped off Resident evil 4 and killswitch, so shut it dumb asses

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urgh, this looks awful
way to show off some bad AI in their own trailer at 1:16 onwards, wtf are they doing, they're just running around like headless chickens whilst being shot lol

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The main character seems to be suffering Young Blood's disease.
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This could probably be released in hours as a PC mod for the original Gears.
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You know you should get a sex change and be called Crystal when you let a woman do your killing for you.

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Was it me or did it look like they had God Mode on for their trailer? If you need to cheat to show off your game, that's not a good sign.  I don't think it looks terrible, or that being derivative of Gears is necessarily a bad thing, but they just didn't do a good job of making the game look polished or good.

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@zombienutz said:
" I actually could not finish watching that trailer. It looks horrible and derivative (not in a good way either). "
Same. Darksiders is a great example of something derivative but fun to play. This game though......is more like Gears of War took a massive shit and decided to call it Quantum Theory.
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Oh look its Gears Of War 3!

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@Metal_Mills: yep, pretty much
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@squidracerX:
Try playing Killzone 2 on hard, those helgast don't want to get shot believe me, and they move and take cover. its awesome. 
 
this was suppose to be a reply.. . oh well.  I'll probably get this when its cheaper, i always wanted to play gears but I don't have a 360.
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Lol it looks just like gears of war especially the shooting lol! :O

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Cloning the gameplay is one thing......but they even went for the gears art style, which they did a horrid job at copying.  Textures are just BAD!

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That looks really bad, environments are boring, graphics are bad, if some of those camera moments are in game that is going to be a horrible system, looks like there wont be many types of enemies, will have technical issues as you can see in the video as he shoots through a pillar,  it just doesn't look that great.

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This is an ugly ass game that should never reach US shores. It looks like they wanted to make money from the gears gameplay with a Japanese audience (who mostly only own PS3s).

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looks glitchy when vaulting over cover.  exact same thing happened in gears of war sometimes as well

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Meh
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Edited By Mr_Bubbles

Gears of War 3 is looking like crap, eh? 
 
*Friend yell at me* 
 
 
YOU MEAN THIS ISN'T GEARS?

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I'm RELIEVED that Team Ninja didn't make this game!
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lame. glad its not gracing the PC

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gähhn... boring

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Hem, this looks barely better than God of War 2, and I mean 2, on PS2, last gen...
Really, what were they thinking ?

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WTF was that? It looked like someone is trying to show us what Gears of War would look like if it were a Japanese IP and was designed by a team made up of first year graphics students and a trained monkey. Ok that may be overly harsh but I stand by it.
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Throwing a lady at monsters is a surprisingly effective strategy.

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Only the Japanese will buy it cuz it'll say: Made In Japan.

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Sooo...looking ahead to this years Golden Duders...
Item of the Year: Albino Chick?

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Hey, I think I saw this when I went to Marcus Fenix's house and needed to use his bathroom.

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@treebird1337 said:
"wow I remember actualy looking forward to this game, wtf was i thinking "

I know, I remember seeing this years ago and thought it looked alright. Now, however...
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" @ZeroCast said:
" Quantum Theory is an ugly, ugly game... "

and i'm not neccisarlily talking about the graphics...
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Garbage

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@Agent47CSim2 said:
"@treebird1337 said:
"wow I remember actualy looking forward to this game, wtf was i thinking "
I know, I remember seeing this years ago and thought it looked alright. Now, however... "

@Agent47CSim2:
From the debut trailer, I was wondering why people were getting excited over this game at all. The trailer was cheesy, character design was so '80s in a bad way, and... nothing about this game screams something genuinely interesting. It was just a simple copy of Gears of War with some extra features, and tad bit different art style.  
 
Let's just forget about this game and just wait until Japanese Devs bring out the real goods...
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Looks like Japanese Gears of War.

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the moving cover system could be a neat twist. 

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Welcome to Japan.. where innovation goes to die, unless milking the same crap suddenly stops making us money, THEN we innovate!
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well unsure it might be alright big mybe!!!!

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I missed this completely.

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I just hope this game is not as bad as it looks...something has to keep me occupied before gears 3 arrive =[ Somehow i get a feeling this is like Prince of Persia + Gears + PS2 = This

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whats up with the ultra-low res textures? :O

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The resemblance to Gears is ludicrous, like, can devs be THAT lazy?

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that looks kinda bad...