Gears of War 3 Gets Release Date and Trailer

[DefunctTheory]

Another day one buy for me; I've always been a big fan of the Gears games - they seem to have a rather unique feel to them - the story itself is typical blockbuster action - yet they still manage to create a deep and interesting universe through art design alone; obviously later coupled within the books - that's a very impressive achievement.

I always found that Gears shares the fate of Killzone, in the sense that there's a really interesting universe crafting the entire thing, but you hardly ever get to see any of it. Or, rather, get to see it from an "overall scheme of things" perspective - one that I would really like to get to know more of.

I would really like to see some flashback sequences similar to the one at the start of the riftworm - only, of course, playable.
Exploring a pre-E Day planet of Sera would do wonders for crafting the crumbling ruins - so it hits you all the harder when you see it on the brink of complete annihilation.

I actually liked that part of Gears. While you're completely immersed in the mission at hand (obviously the most important ones), I never got the impression that I was one maning the whole war.

That, I'm a sucker for the underdog. Even when completely stomping locust, you never loose the impression that your fight backwards into a pit of death.

 

[SilverKyo]

Anya better not be replacing Baird, everyone loves Baird. It also looks like even GoW isn't immune to the selling power of boobs.

I did notice that they seemed to replace one blonde with another, because they gave us a glimpse of Cole, but absolutely nothing about Baird. Considering Anya also probably has a bit of technical know-how, I'm gonna call it now and say they killed Baird off. Which sucks because he was my favorite character, and I really could have gone without "THIS IS THE COLE TRAIN BABY!"

EDIT: ah, i have to take that back. at the 0:54 mark, you see both Cole and Baird shooting off at something. I guess there are 5 people now. So maybe not Baird, but I'm guessing SOMEONE gets killed off... unless they have 5-player story co-op, which would just be awesome.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Anya better not be replacing Baird, everyone loves Baird. It also looks like even GoW isn't immune to the selling power of boobs.

I did notice that they seemed to replace one blonde with another, because they gave us a glimpse of Cole, but absolutely nothing about Baird. Considering Anya also probably has a bit of technical know-how, I'm gonna call it now and say they killed Baird off. Which sucks because he was my favorite character, and I really could have gone without "THIS IS THE COLE TRAIN BABY!"

The Cole Train is an intricate part of GoW. Personally, I hope the final sequence of 3 is defeating a ridiculously huge locust beast by plowing an actual coal train into its nads.

Honestly, that would pretty much make my year. Are you listening, Microsoft? Make this happen.

 

[SilverKyo]

Anya better not be replacing Baird, everyone loves Baird. It also looks like even GoW isn't immune to the selling power of boobs.

I did notice that they seemed to replace one blonde with another, because they gave us a glimpse of Cole, but absolutely nothing about Baird. Considering Anya also probably has a bit of technical know-how, I'm gonna call it now and say they killed Baird off. Which sucks because he was my favorite character, and I really could have gone without "THIS IS THE COLE TRAIN BABY!"

The Cole Train is an intricate part of GoW. Personally, I hope the final sequence of 3 is defeating a ridiculously huge locust beast by plowing an actual coal train into its nads.

Honestly, that would pretty much make my year. Are you listening, Microsoft? Make this happen.

I know he is, that doesn't mean i have to like his overly obnoxious attitude

 

[Nannernade]

Uhm... I really need to know how could they make another Gears of War?

Spoiler

Didn't they destroy the Locust after they made that mutated thing explode? (Sorry I can't remember what they were called right now)

 

[scotth266]

Nice symbolism there: I like the Pompeii reference a lot. I also like Dom's beastly new facial hair, and the inclusion of Anya (which shows that while Gears characters are certainly beefier than normal humans, the armor does account for quite a bit of it.)

I didn't like the soundtrack so much, but it works.

 

[Spoon1138]

Can't decide which trailer I prefer....This one or the Gears 2 launch trailer.

Maybe now that Dom is growing an apathy beard he'll be less winey or at least emotionally consistant.
I recently replayed the campaign and I had forgotten how bipolar he is. Hopefully they will leave out a vehicle section.
It was so painfully obvious that they had warthog envy. Most shooters with vehicle sections do.

 

[scotth266]

Uhm... I really need to know how could they make another Gears of War?

Spoiler

Didn't they destroy the Locust after they made that mutated thing explode? (Sorry I can't remember what they were called right now)

Yes, the Gears supposedly defeated the Locust.

Spoiler

You see, the whole plot behind Gears 2 was that the Locust had become extremely aggressive in the war. The Gears decided to try to kill the Queen with a desperate pushing offense to end the war before their last remaining city, Jacinto, was destroyed. Jacinto lays on a foundation of bedrock, so the Locust can't tunnel up: that's how the city had survived for so long.

However, the Gears discover that the Locust have found?/made?/worship? a gigantic worm that they have been using to sink the remaining human cities. Jacinto would have been next, but Marcus' squad manages to kill the worm from the inside.

After that, while still making their way to the Queen, Marcus & co. find voice recordings of his father saying that he has a way to stop the Locust once and for all by flooding the Hollow with seawater. However, this would come at a cost: the only way to do it is to sink Jacinto.

At the same time, the team discovers the reason for the Locust aggression: they have been at war underground as well, with the glowy Locust (the Lambent.) The Locust had planned to sink Jacinto with the worm while rushing to the surface, finishing both the humans and the Lambent (who would still be underground) at the same time. The Gears manage to turn this plan against the Locust by sinking Jacinto before the Locust can escape to the surface.

However, after the credits play...

Spoiler

Marcus' dad comes on over a crackling radio frequency, saying "What have you DONE?!?" in a voice filled with despair. This, plus the Lambent that's killing the Locust in the trailer, would seem to suggest that the plan failed miserably, and now the humans have no refuge to hold back the Locust/Lambent.

 

[ironlordthemad]

Waitwaitwait, that was Anya? Anya?
WAT.
But she's a radio person, she has no combat training! Why wasn't she fighting before? GWARGH.

Still, okay trailer, sort of excited for it to be released.

Everyone in the Cog has Military training. She used to be a soldier in the pendulum wars even though she DID do quite a bit of radio work there. Point is, she's in the army, she knows how to fight.

As I noted in the other thread, Dom has a rockin' old man beard there. Can't say I'm a fan of the new armor. I guess I liked it when they looked like walking tanks.

Every member of the CoG military has training, you just haven't seen any female gears in the series because women were pulled from the front line to help breed more soldiers. Well that and the haven't shown Sargeant Mataki yet, which is a shame because she kicks ass in the novels.

Talking about dom rocking the old man beard, I saw cole and thought he looked old because a bunch of ash had fallen on his eye brows. Now I know it's just ash, but I still want too see an old version of cole. I think it would be funny. Old papa Cole just sittin on the porch in a rocking chair.

 

[hittite]

I once spotted a female COG in Gears 2 (she was the medic working on the downed soldier in the Hollow). I could only do so because they gave her a line. There was no visual difference between her and the rest of the soldiers.

 

[lee1287]

Waitwaitwait, that was Anya? Anya?
WAT.
But she's a radio person, she has no combat training! Why wasn't she fighting before? GWARGH.

Still, okay trailer, sort of excited for it to be released.

Read the books. She has.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Straight nerdgasim when i saw that. Looks like Dom has given up on life... to bad, i thought he'd be out for blood. Oh well... I'm expecting to be blown out of the water and into space with this game.

Also, does anyone know the name of the song in the trailer? I feel a compulsory need learn how to play it.

 

[lee1287]

18 mmonths after the book. Can not wait for this damn game.

 

[SilverKyo]

Straight nerdgasim when i saw that. Looks like Dom has given up on life... to bad, i thought he'd be out for blood. Oh well... I'm expecting to be blown out of the water and into space with this game.

Also, does anyone know the name of the song in the trailer? I feel a compulsory need learn how to play it.

The song is Heron Blue by Sun Kil Moon (hey, that rhymed).

Also, I'd like to add that i like the gears story and feel it actually has a pretty good, solid B+ story in it, almost as good as half-life, but the problem Gears had and where Half-life excels is the presentation. Gears never really presents it's story that well, where as half-life does so fantastically, which really sets apart good and great shooters.

 

[hazabaza1]

Waitwaitwait, that was Anya? Anya?
WAT.
But she's a radio person, she has no combat training! Why wasn't she fighting before? GWARGH.

Still, okay trailer, sort of excited for it to be released.

Everyone in the Cog has Military training. She used to be a soldier in the pendulum wars even though she DID do quite a bit of radio work there. Point is, she's in the army, she knows how to fight.

Waitwaitwait, that was Anya? Anya?
WAT.
But she's a radio person, she has no combat training! Why wasn't she fighting before? GWARGH.

Still, okay trailer, sort of excited for it to be released.

Read the books. She has.

Huh. I've only played the game and didn't even know there were Gears books, so I was unaware of this.
Still, she looks far too "not muscly enough" in the games to be someone with combat training.
Oh well. As long as the gameplay's good, I'll be happy.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Looks fun. Who knows I might have a 360 by then.

Can I ask a question. Why the 3 day release date difference? What could possibly take 3 days longer? I can understand release differences for localisation and such, but 3 days. That isn't even shipping time.