Gaming, General Gaming, Microsoft, PC, press, Xbox 360|September 25, 2009 3:43 am

TGS 2009: No Gears of War 3 Until Next-Gen



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Gears of War Launch: November 7, 2006

Gears of War 2 Launch: November 7, 2008

Gears of War 3 Launch: 2012? 2013?!

According to Epic Games’ President Mike Capps, that’s a very real scenario. Speaking at the TGS 2009 earlier today, Capps stated the following: ‘If there were a next Gears of War, that will be for the next console generation, whenever that is. If someone knows, please tell me! That’s about four or five years away, I think.’

I am 110% in support of this, as Gears 2 felt slightly rushed in my opinion. The original Gears of War was one of the most-played online titles, and I feel that Epic wanted to hurry to get Gears of War 2 out so that they didn’t lose that momentum.

Also, lead game designer for the Gears of War franchise, Cliff Bleszinzki, hinted that the next iteration of Gears could include RPG (that’s Role-Playing Game) elements. If this is true, it will only widen the appeal of the franchise past the shooter genre into the area already occupied by the Mass Effect series, the BioShock series, Fallout 3, and the upcoming Borderlands which looks to equally balance the FPS and RPG genres.

In the meantime, I would like for Epic to concentrate heavily on DLC for Gears of War 2 that can fill in the gaps in the story for those that do NOT want to read ‘The Pendulum Wars’, ‘Aspho Fields’ and ‘Jacinto’s Remnant’. A few more map packs couldn’t hurt either.

Source: IGN

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  • Echo307

    Hey, just a heads up that this particular story has since been updated.

    Mike Capps came out and clarified that he was speaking about a Gears of War game based on the Unreal 4 engine. The unreal 4 engine is being built for next-gen consoles.

    He went on to say that it has nothing to do with Epic’s plans for Gears on the current-gen consoles.

    I bet we see a new one next year.

  • http://azraelsblogaboutwhatever.blogspot.com Patrick Talbert (AzraelPC)

    If we see another GoW, it will be a prequel. There is apparently a ton of story that isn’t covered in the games that IS covered in the novels, but only the hardcore fans of the story will read the novels.

    Just my opinion, obviously.

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