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Gears of War eGuide Multiplayer

Gameplay Modes

Warzone

Warzone allows you to play in a competitive, team-based match to the death.

This is the classic multiplayer game in which all players are equal—everyone has equal health, speed, and access to all weapons. Teams compete to eliminate all of the other team’s members. Players who are downed may be revived by a teammate, allowed to bleed out, or executed by the opponent. The game ends when one team defeats all of the players on the other team. This is team-based “death match” at its very best.

Assassination

Assassinate the leader of the enemy team to win the match.

Each team is assigned a leader—either Hoffman (COG) or RAAM (Locust)—and the goal of the game is to kill the other team’s leader. One special rule encourages leaders to actively engage in the fighting: players cannot pick up a given weapon type on the map until their team leader has picked up that type, thus “unlocking” them for his team. For example, the leader can drop his Lancer to pick up a Longshot and then drop it to revert to the Lancer. Only then can his teammates pick up the

Longshot. If the leader wants to keep the weapon, he can; others can pick it up after the weapon re-spawns (roughly 30 seconds).The same goes for the other weapons on the map—if players want it, they can get it only after their Leader picks up one of the same type. The player on the winning team who kills the opposing leader becomes his team’s leader in the following round. The player on the losing team with the most points becomes the new leader of his team.

Execution

Execute your enemies to gain points.

Execution is very similar to Warzone, but it requires all opposing players to be executed, usually at close range. In Execution, a downed player can be either revived by a teammate or left to continue bleeding. The difference here is that once the bleed-out time elapses, the player automatically heals and returns to the fight. This forces the opposing team to leave cover and move in to deliver a coup de grace, whether via the chainsaw bayonet, the curb stomp, or by shooting the downed player at close range. The only exception to this is a head-shot with the Longshot sniper rifle. The team that survives the battle wins the round.