Gears of War 3 Comic-Con 2010 Preview
In a recent interview at Comic-Con 2010, Cliff Bleszinski gave us a bit of an incite as to where Gears Of War 3 is heading.
Marcus and friends are on a Raven’s Nest, it’s kind of like a flotilla, the water was basically the safest place for them to be. A new threat known as the Lambert has arisen; Locust’s infected with imulsion, they rapidly mutate. Over the course of the game, Marcus gets a message from his dad who he believed was dead; the idea being if he can save his dad he can save the world.
The most highly anticipated addition to Gears 3, beast mode.
Cliff Bleszinski: “People are like yeah, so it’s beast mode, it’s reverse horde? And your like.. at the start maybe, but now it’s complete class based you have a Kantas who can heal, you have a suicide bomber ticker which is almost like the stealth strategy type of gameplay, the Beserker’s kinda blind but she’s also like a tank, you have all these different classes that also supplement one another and there’s also a lot of depth in it.”
Rod Fergusson: “What’s really cool about beast mode, is it’s really a class based system, whereas normally in our co-op stuff you’re dealing with just humans where the only different ability they have is what gun they have. But in beast mode, every creature has a different ability.” When Rod was asked about his favourite creature, he has this to say. “It’s all ticker, all the time. He’s the cheekiest, easiest creature to play, but you’ve got to play yourself up to kill things. Every third person game has to have cute butt move in and ticker does that for us.”
In the third instalment of Gears, you’ll also be allowed to bring two more friends along for the campaign.
“One of the big things for us now is four player co-op, we’ve been meaning to do that for a while, now we’re really happy because it turned out to be really challenging to do a story based game with four player co-op.”
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