Truth be told, I’m not a big video game fan. Well, I am… I just don’t play them often. But one franchise I happen to be a big fan of is X-Box 360’s GEARS OF WAR. In my opinion GEARS blows HALO right out of the water. Hate me if you must, but GEARS OF WAR is pretty awesome.
Now we all know a GEARS movie may or may not be happening soon but it seems another game will most definitely be heading our way! The news recently broke that Epic Games are planning on hitting us all with GEARS OF WAR 3 in April 2011! And to celebrate they’ve even gone and released a trailer for this shite!
The trailer for GEARS OF WAR 3, much like the previous GEARS games, is pretty epic. Titled “Ashes to Ashes,” the trailer seems to give us an idea of what kind of world we’ll be a part of come April of next year. Just head on over to our videos section to check it out or just scroll below. Brothers to the end.
To go hand in hand with this announcement, the guys over at Meristation recently chatted a bit with Epic Games’ design director Cliff Bleszinski about a number of things, mainly GEARS OF WAR 3! Bleszinski touches on a mess of topics regarding GEARS 3 including new weapons (sawn off double barrel shotfun and pendulum lancer?!), the third game’s script (being penned by Karen Traviss), and several other aspects of the game. He mentions shite like how we’ll finally find out the origins of the Locusts and that there’ll be new executions in GEARS 3 as well as incentives for players to use each execution more than once. Nice! Here’s a bit of what Bleszinski had to say:
“You can expect that we’ll answer the majority of the questions that players have about the history of the world and what’s going on. We’re not going to answer everything alright, but I can tell you and be confident this will be the conclusion to a trilogy. So when you look at the overall bucket when all is said and done of Gears 1, 2 and 3 it will all fit together as a nice start and end to a story.”
“The new enemy that you’re fighting are called the Lambent. It’s really important to note this, we kind of teased those in Gears 1 with the wretches who exploded upon death and then at the end of Gears 2 you saw the Brumak mutate into this heinous creature that was a combination of claws and teeth and tentacles and what-not. The jist of it is that this energy source emultion that’s been powering the planet for so long is not good and that it’s infecting the various denizens of the planet and causing these horrible creatures to come after you, who’re very very tough, can sprout mutations at any point, can have adverse effects after they die as far as turning into different things or exploding and they take on all different forms and they’re very very ugly. The locusts basically haven’t been seen much in the beginning of Gears of War 3. It’s been beaten. It’s been about 18 months since the events of Gears of War 2. We flooded the Hollow, nobodies seen any locusts. We don’t really know where the majority of them are. And we’re dealing with this threat of the Lambent, who are just completely horrible, nightmarish creatures.”
“Gamers love the shotgun. “
There you have it! A nice loaded update on GEARS OF WAR 3! Bet you didn’t see that one coming, huh? Head right over HERE to check out the interview for yourself and be sure to keep it here for anything and everything GEARS OF WAR as we hear it!
Even hot naked chicks dig GEARS OF WAR!
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