#GEARS OF WAR FIRST PERSON SERIES#

When the ground rumbles, it means an Emergence Hole is opening, and Locust forces are about to pin you down until they're dead. The blood trails and splatters are unlike anything you've seen since you last shot holes in a ketchup bottle.

From your first encounter on a bridge between opposing wings of a desolate prison to the final boss fight, it's all about gluing yourself to cover points and making every second of exposure count. Every battlefield is engineered to support the game's delightful central mechanic: locking yourself to the backside of a cover point with the spacebar and then pressing mouse2 to lean over the top and fire. If Halo is Combat Evolved, this is combat by intelligent design. This would make a good ride at Universal Studios, but it won't make a good film unless they have a big old think about it.ДЄnd yet it is good, because Epic has streamlined the traditional third-person combat mechanism, given you an adhesive bum and concentrated on the world you inhabit. A lot of the clashes you face have their own timbre and recognisable characteristics, but they all follow the same script. The triumph here is understatement, rather than execution: dialogue sequences and cut-scenes are cheesy and largely installed to break up the pace, but the fact it leaves a lot of questions unanswered gives it the closest thing it has to mystique. So they come out of the ground, and you kill them, which gets you closer to your objective. The story is so basic that it would barely cover a pamphlet, let alone a screenplay: the world is at the mercy of ground-dwelling Locust warriors, and you have to stop them. But despite its ludicrous, comical violence, its likeably primitive caveman cast and its brilliant graphics, the reasons it works are almost entirely distinct from the qualities of the action films to which its impact is often compared. It's an almost ceaseless chain of brutal skirmishes and firefights fought by tank-like muscle men who eat gravel for breakfast and sound as though they chew on wasps when they polish their armour, which isn't very often, because they're too busy washing their hands in blood. From the chainsaw bayonet to the exploding crossbow bolts, from the giant spider clawing at your helicopter to the elusive, sibilant stirrings of cloaked monsters buried deep below the earth in an ocean of golden death.

Gears of War: Judgment is set for release on Xbox 360 in March 2013.Billed by its creator as a game that would 'place gamers directly in the shadows of a ravaged world, surrounded by the beautiful remnants of a destroyed city and the horrific dangers that hide in the rubble', Gears of War is designed to be a crowd-pleasing blockbuster. So yeah, PCF's campaign is a different campaign, but at its heart it's Kilo squad, and Lancers and taking cover - it's a Gears game.' 'People Can Fly is very much about things in level with a high replayability because of the Smart Spawn System, which brought to it by changing the AI. 'Our Gears game was heavily scripted - lots of cinematics, big storytelling stuff,' Fergusson says. The change in developer has also led to a change in pace, thanks to a new AI system which changes the behaviour and location of enemies on each playthrough.

#GEARS OF WAR FIRST PERSON SERIES#

Right now, all eyes are on Gears of War: Judgment, which sees Epic handing the series over to People Can Fly, the developer responsible for crazy shooter Bulletstorm. We look at what makes sense and move in that direction.'

We don't want to say never but it's not on the top of my mind either. 'It's all about what's interesting in the industry at the time and where fans want us to take it. 'I'm a big believer in never say never,' executive producer Rod Fergusson told Official Xbox Magazine in the current issue, out this week. Gears of War was developed from the ground up as a third-person shooter based around its duck and cover gameplay, but that doesn't mean that now the Gears universe is well established, the studio won't consider making an FPS set in that world, if fans demand it.

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