Thread: Gears of War 3 Roundup

8th April 2011... That's the PAL release date according to ever irritating "dude" Cliffy B.

4 PLAYER CO-OP!

You did hear right the newly announced Gears 3 will feature 4 player coop throughout the campaign and not the Halo type where they really could do with not being there and not making a whole lot of sense... No, apparently all 4 protagonists will be fully integrated with the story so your not just "generic bloke #4".

So that trailer, it appears to introduce a number of new elements:

• Awesome Beards
• Big Tentacle Baddies
• Women

I especially like Dom's beard and the look on his face when he's on the floor, a man ready to die and weary of war... Nice touch Epic.

The tentacle monster shown in the trailer is a new type of enemy designd to make it less safe while in cover, the monster will reach over and drag you out into the open making your an 'roided up sitting duck.

Finally below please see the games box art (nothing out of the ordinary) and some avatar crap M$ seem hell bent on selling you.

I think the women glimpsed in the trailer in Anya maybe?

Possibly the tentacle monster is NOT locust but a 3rd party attacking both the Locust and Cogs. Smacks of a flood rip off. Had too get halo in there. 4 Player Co-op yeah right so long as epic come up with some decent netcode (unlikely) i can see it being a laggy glitchy mess. If it works i'll be throwing Cliffy B my 50 bucks.

Would 4 player co-op not work the same a horde which is 5 players in theory?

This game is shaping up to be very very good and I think another run through of the first and second ones is in order to keep be busy

Originally Posted by holowV

Would 4 player co-op not work the same a horde which is 5 players in theory?

This game is shaping up to be very very good and I think another run through of the first and second ones is in order to keep be busy

coop 4 player is even number for story, i am not sure why horde had 5 people tho, it usually work well even with 4 players

Second was good in the story because it was no problem, the first one struggled to anywhere on hardcore but still got to do insane but havent moved in months

According too IGN the chick is Anya the 4 player co op sees players as Marcus Dom Cole and Baird

You'll also play a section as another squad

New sawn off shotgun and a new Pendulum lancer and takes place 18 months after the 2nd

4 player coop hopefully means that all 4 guys survive, I'd cry if they killed the Cole train

I'm hoping the last Carmime brother shows up and is a complete bad-ass. He'd be cool to see in the second squad maybe saving Marcus and Dom.

So the Gears of War 3 trailer has finally landed. But what do we think of it? We think it's great actually. It might not have the immediate impact of the announcement trailers for the first two games, but after repeated watches it really gets into your head.
Because after repeated watches, you get to read between the lines and realise what's really going on in it. It might look like just another chunk of carnage-strewn Gears warzone, but it actually reveals a lot about the state of things in Gears of War 3. A hell of a lot. Here's what we've found.

UPDATE:
It's been brought to our attention by Cliff Bleszinski's Twitter feed that the blonde female Gear is officially Anya from GoW 1 and 2. Great news we say. Should create even more interesting tension between Marcus and Dom, if our interpretations of the trailer turn out to be correct.

Another new setting

This might look like just another war-torn city, but after paying closer attention it becomes apparent that the crowds of torched humans died while fleeing from something. And they appear to be trying to shelter from the sky. We reckon this has to be the scorched part of Sera, the majority part of the planet that was wiped out by the COG with orbital lasers in an attempt to finish off the Locust back before the start of the first game. The petrified bodies aren't the victims of the Locust; they're the victims of the rest of humanity.

But why are Delta out here, in the post-apocalyptic remains of the forgotten part of the planet? Two possibilities. Either they need something that was left behind out here, or they just have nowhere else to go. We reckon the latter at the moment. After sinking Jacinto at the end of Gears 2, humanity won't have much left in the way of a home. The fact that they're introduced as literally on the run seems to back this up.

Dom's mega-beard

This means a few things. Firstly, AWESOME! Secondly, Gears 3 is set a good while after Gears 2. Probably another six months or so, which would explain how things appear to have gone just so badly to shit for Delta. And third, it's a sign that Dom has let himself go. He took all the emotional brunt of Gears 2, culminating with his reunion with lost wife Maria in that scene. Evidently he's still reeling from that. In fact we suspect he's in a complete mess.
Look how he reacts to his impending death by Locust bullet:

No shouting. No snarling. No attempt to fight back. Just a look of peaceful resignation on his face. And check out the bodies his gaze is drawn to. A mother and young child. Dom has given up, and just wants to “go home'”.

Tension between Dom and Marcus

Marcus has carried Dom's pain for a long time, but we think it's straining their relationship now. If Dom is falling apart as we suspect, Marcus is going to be pissed off, both at the lack of discipline and the loss of his best friend. Check out what happens when Marcus saves him with his brilliant new pump-action, double-barrelled shotgun. Not a word. Not a helping hand up. Just a scowl, and then away he goes. Instead, Dom is looked after by...

Anya

A female soldier. Doing actual shooting and stuff, rather than just answering the phones. Excellent! We're not sure whether there have always been female COG Marines, or whether her appearance is down a new "Screw the women and children rule, all hands to the pump" philosophy within the COG, but either way we're glad she's here. And is it just us, or does she seem heavily modelled on Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica?

Note though, her protection of Dom. Do we smell a redemptive relationship in the air? We reckon we do. Cue even more complicated relations between Dom and Marcus. Our guess is Marcus being all "Go for it" and Dom holding back because of loyalty to his dead wife.

Loads of Locust

Once again, the COG plan to wipe them out has failed. Badly. And this time they're really on the rampage, presumably trying to hunt down the last of humanity and exterminate it now that it's wiped out its own last safe haven. Expect the message of flawed humanity being the architect of its own destruction to be even more prevalent in Gears 3.

Cole and Baird are back

Yay! We knew they would be, but it's nice having their safety confirmed.

Massive Lambent beasty

It's already been leaked by Edge that Gears 3 will feature huge tentacled monsters that will pull you out of cover. Well here's where you meet them.

Note though, that the soldier it pulls from the battlefield is a Locust rather than a human. This backs up the implication in Gears 2 that the Lambent (a new strain of Imulsion-mutated Locust) are a race all of their own, with no love of their original species. We've long-held a theory that the humans and Locust are going to team up against a common foe (corrupt COG or Lambent) in Gears 3, and we reckon this trailer confirms it. Notice how everyone, Locust or human, turns round to start shooting the crap out of it? That's symbolism right there, that is.


It's all about Dom

One of the biggest things we take away from this trailer though, is just how much Dom is focus of it. Comparatively, Marcus is barely seen, and Cole and Baird even less. Building on Gears 2's plot-line, we think Gears 3 is going centre around Dom's continued emotional landslide and the friction and distance is causes between him and the rest of the squad in the run up to the end times.

It's backs-to-the-wall time

Symbolism time again. The trailer ends with Delta alone and pinned down amongst hundreds of Locust and Lambent. Make no mistake, Gears 3 is going to be brutal and probably pretty dark. Jacinto is gone. Maria is gone. Hell, for all we know at the moment, COG contact could be gone and the squad could be hauling ass through the post-apocalyptic ash of outer-Sera in a desperate bid just to hide and survive.

From GamesRadar

It would add a much welcome edge to the title if it did focus on Dom falling too bits it would be a good foil too Marcus eat bullets Fenix. Are Epic brave enough to try it and are they good enough to pull it off. If they fuck it up they will look like twats but i hope they try. He seems like he's had enough and you do hardly see any other members i hadn't noticed that.

Kick ass beard though