Sat, May 22, 2010 | 16:04 BST

Gears of War 3 preview details weapons, infestation, characters

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The lucky sods over at GamesRadar got to check out Gears of War 3 recently, and the knowledge brought back from Epic’s secret lair in North Carolina, contains some interesting stuff indeed.

Apparently, things on Sera have have taken a turn for the worse. Set 18-months after Gears 2, the COG has disbanded and Chairman Prescott has disappeared. Humans and Locust alike are scarce, but a new invader has arrived in the form of a Lambent infestation. Yikes.

That’s not all though, through here, the site chats a bit about the cast of characters, Dom’s beard, naval battles, flamethrowers, brutal looking weapons and the improvised tech being used by the human survivors.

Other than talking about what’s in the game, the site had a chance to speak to Cliff, Rod Fergusson, and the game’s writer Karen Traviss.

According to Bleszinski, Gears 3 is not the only project “in the fire”.

“I might be working on things you might not hear about for years,” he said. “I’m the kind of person who absolutely needs to have multiple piles of projects to work on. Gears happens to be the big pile at the moment, but I assure you that Bulletstorm is building up to a larger pile and there are other projects as well – multiple irons in the fire.

“It just happens that Gears is the one presently in need of some hammering”.

Gears 3′s slated for April 5, 2011 in the US and April 8 in the UK, and some nice new shots of it hit last night.

Thanks, Evil Avatar .

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13 comments

Lahanas
22/05/10, 4:19 pm

Steph is that an official pic you have up there? Can you please post a link so I can get it?

Stephany Nunneley
22/05/10, 4:36 pm

@1 – here you go: http://static.gamesradar.com/images/mb/GamesRadar/us/Games/G/Gears%20of%20War%203/Bulk%20Viewers/Xbox%20360/2010-05-21/GAM226.feat_cov.bk_3–article_image.jpg

It’s on page 5 of the GamesRadar piece.

reask
22/05/10, 4:39 pm

I must put this on my PS3 dash board.

Tallon 4
22/05/10, 4:39 pm

Dunno….I’m kinda fed up with bald space marine tough guys as a lead characters.

Lahanas
22/05/10, 4:44 pm

Thanks but how do we get the bigger version?

Stephany Nunneley
22/05/10, 5:01 pm

@5 – just re-size it and tweak it a bit.

ybfelix
22/05/10, 5:37 pm

Marcus is not bald(actually in GOW1&2 none of your teammate is bald except the short-lived Kim…and maybe Carmine). And he’s never been to space afaik.

Gekidami
22/05/10, 5:40 pm

Have we ever seen Marcus without his pirate style bandana? I’m pretty sure he’s hiding a receding hairline.

Isaaclarke37
22/05/10, 8:16 pm

I loved that picture.

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xino
23/05/10, 1:07 am

that pic is sick

#11

adam13
23/05/10, 8:12 am

Great! Gears 2 was a huge pile…and now gears 3? At least he admits it.

#12

Patrick Garratt
23/05/10, 8:19 am

I’m going to replay Gears 2 to get myself in the mood.

#13

Moonwalker1982
23/05/10, 10:49 am

Gears 2 gets so much smack from people, but why? The campaign was awesome even though the final boss was a joke, a ridiculous joke. They throw so many big enemies at you throughout the game and then you get to that one point and…sigh, ah well.

But it was damn awesome, and horde is addicting as hell. Personally i’ve never played much deathmatch in the Gears games so i can’t really say much about that. But from what i heard, people especially talk negative about the multiplayer.