*Official Gears of War 3 topic*

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So reports Edge here. Supposedly its been delayed until next year to leave Halo Reach and Natal unchallenged

Lefty Redbeard wrote:Can niteowl or a mod change the title of this thread to *Official Gears Of War 2 thread*

Dont ya mean Official Gears 3??

I'm a big fan of both Gears games so I'll be pre-ordering and picking it up on release day. I'm really looking forward to 4 player co-op. Hopefully they've learned something from Gears 2 and they ship it with working multiplayer that doesn't take 6 updates to fix. Also hope they keep/improve horde as well.

Just for you Lefty some chainsaw gossip:

"There seem to be a number of modifications that are being made to the entire minigame making it actually worthwhile and more dynamic than in the previous Gears of War game. There seems to be a dose of “swing” being added to make the sequence a bit gorier than it was. This sequence was supposed to be put in the previous game itself but was chopped off due to time constraints, informs our source."

Red Sauce: Chainsaw Duel Rumours.

ricklilley wrote:

Lefty Redbeard wrote:Can niteowl or a mod change the title of this thread to *Official Gears Of War 2 thread*

Dont ya mean Official Gears 3??

Yes, I do!

Gabhlan wrote:Just for you Lefty some chainsaw gossip:

"There seem to be a number of modifications that are being made to the entire minigame making it actually worthwhile and more dynamic than in the previous Gears of War game. There seems to be a dose of “swing” being added to make the sequence a bit gorier than it was. This sequence was supposed to be put in the previous game itself but was chopped off due to time constraints, informs our source."

Red Sauce: Chainsaw Duel Rumours.

Excellent!
I'll putting a little english on my spin, Irish.

Just a heads up for those who are interested and don't already know.
There's a few of the developers of Gears on Twitter, two of them are randomly giving away redeem codes for the All Fronts maps pack, golden weapons and Gears avatar clobber.
If you have Twitter, follow, iFlak and GearsViking.
I'm after a golden hammerburst, but as they're in the US and the codes are a once only deal, I always miss them, but you never know, perseverance may eventually pay off and I'll have my very gold hammerburst

ICE-T possible voice actor for gears 3.

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OMG! Iced Tea? Why didn't you say so... I'm preordering immediatly....

I've seen pictures of that young fellow of a dark persuasion form the comics in some of the Gears 3 picture collections... what's his name? Jason summink? Maybe Mr. Tea will be voicing him....

Just been trawling through my Twitter in the vain hope there might be a golden Hammerburst code that hasn't been taken, no luck as usual and came across this . .

iFlak

RT @DannyBoy357k: @iFlak Oh btw, what did you think of the platinum lancer idea? Pretty BA huh?

Platinum lancers? How could you tell when 90% of the Gears world is grey to begin with.

"Hip-hop artist Drake will serve as the voice and soul of Jace Stratton in Epic's third and final chapter in the Gears of War saga. Drake is a Grammy-nominated artist whose latest album "Thank Me Later," will make its retail debut June 14th. The character he is playing , Jace Stratton was one of the stronger charcters from the Gears of War comic series that Epic felt needed to find his way into the game:

"Jace is a central character in the comic books, so he was an obvious choice as a character we wanted to bring into the third game," said Epic Executive Producer Rod Fergusson. "When we began casting for the role, ‘So Far Gone’ had just released and Drake’s combination of heart and grit was just what we were looking for. Rather than search for somebody who sounded like him, it was clear that we should approach him directly… fortunately he turned out to be a huge fan.""

Sauce: gameculture.com

Twinkle bailed me out of Gears 2 last night. It had been taunting me for about a Year and I couldn't finish it but God Bless her cotton socks we collectivley made short work of the last 2 Acts.

Cheers Twinkle

Heres a link to the thread James put up showing the first in game footage for Gears-3 [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

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DUDE EPIC!!! Weapon Swaps, grenade tag meat shields it just looks kick ass, and poor carmine solders arm

This will give all the info you could wish for.
Sounds frickin amazing!

Awesome sauce, sounds like a blast!!!

Can't wait to earn enough of those tokens so I can take on the Cog as a Beserker.
So now we'll have Horde and Beast. This game just keeps getting better every day.

This mode looks great, can't wait to play as a Beserker. Overall this game is looking fantastic from what I've seen, I just hope they fix the multiplayer issues that Gears 2 had.

i werent gonna bother getting this game as i liked number 1 but number 2 is sh*t imo...but that does sound good , although ive always sucked at multi on gears so i spose its just summit else for me to get frustrated with...i like the sound of being a ticker..

Sweet another gem of multiplayer can not wait lets hope you can have access to Reavers ond Brummaks

Sounds like great fun, i just hope the achievements aren't as heavily stacked as the Horde ones on Gears 2.

Fecking A.
Horde mode... as locusts.

that looks fab a long wait untll april. wishing my life away

brilliant i love the gears games and this looks another instant hit

It does look interesting. Can't wait for it to come out.

very nice find mate, really looking forward to this mode and game now. its going to be awesome.

A few more details Cliffy B has let slip over Gears 3, sauce: xboxer360.com

"At the beginning of GOW3, Dom is farming. Why? No idea – Cliff didn’t go into detail, but we guess it’s a sign of the post-apocalyptic society the characters now live in. This doesn’t mean it’s a wasteland – footage we’ve seen is a lot more colourful (there’s some gorgeous textures too) and the environments are very varied. Expect to see forests – but not too many, since Cliff says they’re hard to do well, and not worth doing if you don’t do them well – and towns “like in Spain, with Stucco roofs and so on – think of Seville.”
He talked a bit about the teaser trailer. The city/area in it is called Char, and was absolutely nailed by the Hammer of Dawn strike. Cliff said the inspiration for the appearance of it was the excavations at Pompeii.

Girl Gears – the dark haired one is called Stroud, and looks pretty hardcore. The weapon you saw her using in the E3 demo is a Pendulum Wars era sword bayonet. Cliff explained that the rationale behind the chainsaw bayonet is that to properly stick a locust with a traditional bayonet you need a ten foot run-up. However, weapons and ammo are so scarce in Gears 3 – since there are no factories left, this being 18 months since the end of Gears 2 – that they have to use whatever weapons they can find, including ones from museums, dumps and so on. He did confirm that this wouldn’t be a game mechanic, so you won’t need to scavenge (random fact: he hates it when games have food as a mechanic). Ammo will be limited in quantity but not ridiculously so.

The new bayonet has a variety of ‘executions‘ – fatalities, basically – and the locust have new ones as well, including the one from the demo where it rips off someone’s arm and then beats them to death with it, something Epic have wanted to do “since the first Gears of War”.

What next? This is the last game in this cycle he says, but the Gears universe is rich and deep enough for more games. They’re concentrating on Bulletstorm for the moment though, and while he doesn’t have any immediate plans for Kinect he said that as a developer, his “curiosity is piqued”."


The dark haried one is called Stroud? WTF... Stroud is Anya's surname... the blonde....

And the old "ripping off someone's arm and beating them to death with it" trick is an official Locust execution... that'll make a few people happy... and a few others nauseated, I'm sure.