Gears of War PC leaked

AHEAD OF THIS this week's E3 convention in Los Angeles, a video has sneaked its way onto the interwibble showing PC-exclusive footage of top Xbox shooter Gears of War.

The game has long been tipped to appear on the PC DX10 platform, and this video all but confirms that E3 will have the details. The video, which showed up on Gamevideos.com and has since made it onto YouTube, shows the Gears gang fighting a new enemy called the Brumak, which didn't appear in the original 360 version.

Gears is based on the Unreal Engine 3, and will be one of the first major titles to appear on the PC with this engine, Rainbow Six: Vegas being the first and the new Unreal Tournament possibly being the second, depending on whether Epic can actually get that finished some time this year.

The game was really designed for joypad controls, being rather more arcadey than your average PC-centric FPS, and so it remains to be seen how well the controls will ranslate to mouse and keyboard. But that aside, we suspect there are plenty of GeForce 8800 owners drooling over the prospect of getting this going on their 24" widescreen monitors - never mind the fact their graphics card cost more than an entire Xbox 360 console. Who needs value when you have a big-ass gaming rig? µ