Thu, May 31, 2012 | 17:35 BST
Next Gears of War to be unveiled at MS E3 presser
The next Gears of War game has been announced as the next cover for the new Game Informer with an official unveil at E3 next week.

A brand new Gears of War game is being made and is coming to Xbox 360, Game Informer has announced as part of its new cover for its next issue.
No more details were announced, but the new title will be shown for the first time at the Microsoft press conference at E3 on Monday
GI’s promising two covers for the issue, as well as an extensive online look at the game and a teaser trailer for Monday once the announcement has been made.
The mag will also have an online hub that will feature further coverage on the game throughout the month.
The original Gears of War trilogy from Epic’s North Carolina studio, featuring Marcus Fenix, wrapped up last September. A Kinect on-rails spin-off, Exile, was in the works, but Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski has said its been canned.
Its also been rumoured that Epic-owned Bulletstorm developer People Can Fly has been working on a prequel trilogy.
All will be known come Monday. Teaser cover is below.



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#1
Da Man
31/05/12, 5:06 pm
Gears of War is a piece of shit and an Uncharted rip-off. I hate Epic games.
Where’s the straight talking, no nonsense corrector Gekidami?
#2
Se_7_eN
31/05/12, 5:11 pm
@1 – As a Sony fanboy, and a huge fan of Uncharted… Even I am going to say it, you are an idiot.
In no way is GoW an Uncharted rip off. A terrible game? Yes… But far from an Uncharted rip off. As a matter of fact, Uncharted came out AFTER Gears. Sorry dude brah.
#3
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 5:14 pm
@1 i reaaaaaally hope you are kidding now dude, that’s all.
But i hate these kind of leaks….ruins the surprise.
#4
TheBlackHole
31/05/12, 5:15 pm
Hell to the fucking yeah!
Love me some Gears of War.
#5
The_Red
31/05/12, 5:16 pm
That cover art is way too classy for a game like Gears of War.
Also, @1 did you know that Gears 1 came out more than a year BEFORE Uncharted 1 and was first shown 3 years before that?
#6
Fin
31/05/12, 5:16 pm
Awesome! Totally surprised by this!
@3 It’s not really a “leak”, it’s certainly controlled by MS.
#7
ant72
31/05/12, 5:17 pm
I think Gears of War is great.
#8
gdogg979
31/05/12, 5:18 pm
I was going to say didnt gears came out before uncharted,no?
anyway i didnt see this coming??why couldnt this have been left as an actual suprise for MS’s E3?
although i remember an article a few months back stating that microsodt would have all 4 of there main ip’s at e3.
Halo
Gears
Fable
Forza
if they can just go and announce one new ip or pretty much any other AAA core game thats isn’t one of these franchises and non kinect then i’ll be a happy man and it would seem that there e3 wouldn’t have been as bad as everyone was predicting?
Also just seen this is stated as 360 game and def not a ’720′ game…interesting?
#9
daytripper
31/05/12, 5:19 pm
Predictable Microsoft is predictable
#10
Ireland Michael
31/05/12, 5:20 pm
Yeah, more overblown, pretentious dick waving and violence. Just what gaming needs!
#11
mad1723
31/05/12, 5:20 pm
Ouch, hopefully it’s not another case of jumping the shark. Halo 4, God of War and now a new Gears of War…
#12
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 5:20 pm
@9
It’s kinda too bad that they aren’t coming with something brand new. Like Naughty Dog is doing with The Last of Us, but on the other hand….isn’t this new Gears being made by People can fly?
#13
jdfoster00
31/05/12, 5:22 pm
Shock horror… Honestly …. Halo 22 Gears of War 12 …. Need NEW games…. And announcing it not even 1 year after gears 3….
#14
hives
31/05/12, 5:23 pm
Lol. It would be MUCH bigger surprise and cool news if Microsoft just announced this game on conference. Teasing it days before E3 just… spoils it.
Still cool, but meh. I don’t like that there are no real surprises on game events…
#15
Ireland Michael
31/05/12, 5:24 pm
@13 Halo this year. Gears of War next year. Halo the year after that. They have the circle down pretty tightly at this point.
#16
Da Man
31/05/12, 5:24 pm
Hey, number 2 and 5..
Breaking news:
I was being sarcastic.
It was a deliberate bullshit, to test a few things here and there. Unbelievable, I know.
#17
gdogg979
31/05/12, 5:25 pm
@12
who says they won’t announce a new game aswel??
fingers crossed anyway.
a big budget game from twisted pixel would be nice.
#18
daytripper
31/05/12, 5:27 pm
@12 In my E3 predictions thread on the forum I said MS would announce a new Gears going off by how predictable they are and the People Can Fly rumours, I did say it would be a download XBLA title but I’m probably wrong on that one.
I like Gears but 3 hasnt been out a year yet for fuck sake. I hope they are saving new i.ps and ideas for the next system because before the last couple of E3′s most gaming communities have predicted nearly all they will announce beforehand with ease. Boring.
E3 is becoming boring too, too many leaks and reveals before the actual event these days.
#19
Maximum Payne
31/05/12, 5:28 pm
They should waited for next gen IMO.
I don’t think they would innovate with 4th now.Just like Naughty Dog maybe skip Uncharted 4 ?
#20
daytripper
31/05/12, 5:31 pm
@15 Yep, spot on.
#21
G1GAHURTZ
31/05/12, 5:33 pm
Cool!
So there may just be a reason for me to bother watching anything from E3 after all…
#22
OlderGamer
31/05/12, 5:34 pm
Next gen will just be, shinier, prettier, smoother. Same damn games.
#23
G1GAHURTZ
31/05/12, 5:40 pm
Yeah, like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Metroid, Pikmin, Donkey Kong, Kirby, F-Zero, etc, etc, etc…?
#24
gdogg979
31/05/12, 5:42 pm
yea but who’s to say they wont announce another game aswel??
you bunch of pessimists
though im also suprised no has mentioned ,what if its kinect only??
HOLY SHIT..Imagine the uproar.
#25
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 5:43 pm
Nah it won’t be Kinect only. That Kinect Gears game got canned, remember?
. But i doubt a brand new game from MS. All they keep doing is making new Halo’s and new Gears games. I wish they would take a look at Naughty Dog for a minute.
#26
gdogg979
31/05/12, 5:46 pm
yeah your probably right..but im sure someone somewhere said that they had one new AAA ip to announce this year?
of course that could be complete horse shit..
i want a conkers done by twisted .perfect combo!
#27
Patrick Garratt
31/05/12, 5:50 pm
Oh, God. Speechless. Fucking awesome.
#28
Pytox
31/05/12, 5:51 pm
Isn’t it Kinect Gears of War? Maybe they recreated some stuff or changed things?
#29
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 5:53 pm
Aaaah right, you mean that AAAAA game or whatever, it sounded ridiculous,lol. Ah well, i’m holding my excitement for surprise games, only to avoid dissappointment. MS has been a let down when it comes to E3 conferences lately.
A brand new Conker sounds too good to be true, so that won’t happen
.
#30
Monk
31/05/12, 5:54 pm
Meh
#31
Da Man
31/05/12, 6:04 pm
So they’ve announced another one, in about three years it ‘ll be released and then there will be another one (probably) in three years or so. What milking, a circle of doom.
I’ll take the amazing Binary Domain over this any day of the week.
#32
Zana
31/05/12, 6:10 pm
Not needed. At all.
#33
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 6:25 pm
If People can Fly is behind this, count me in!! It could mean that the game will feel different from the other three games. I hope it does.
#34
polygem
31/05/12, 6:29 pm
seriously i just don´t get some of your comments here. you can say what you want about the charakters, general cheesyness and whatnot about gears. i am fine with that. but to say gears of war is a shit GAME is just…well…a huge lie, utter shit, crap, nonsense, bullshit, let´s say: simply wrong. this has nothing to do with opinion. if you cannot see the quality in the gameplay department you must be blind. gameplaywise it is among the best games in this console gen.
#35
pukem0n
31/05/12, 7:12 pm
pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase announce some new IPs
i love Forza, Halo and Gears, but seriously. its gonna get stale someday
#36
manamana
31/05/12, 7:22 pm
Oh great, another prequel then. Oh well, hopefully its an UE4 demo based on the gears franchise for nextgen. Love me some Gears, would really prefere a new IP from Epic though.
#37
OrbitMonkey
31/05/12, 7:27 pm
@31, No-one is going to fall for that *looks at #2 & #5* Oh… Maybe they will…
#38
OrbitMonkey
31/05/12, 7:30 pm
I wonder if this will be totally exclusive to Microsoft? Obviously the first trilogy was, but this could just be a timed exclusive…
#39
minxamo
31/05/12, 7:34 pm
It’s official, we’re now announcing announcements of announcements…
#40
OlderGamer
31/05/12, 7:40 pm
I guess the only differences is that those games you mentioned G1GA will all play differently to warrent new releases.
The next gears is going to be absolutly like the last three, and prolly the next three to come. Unless it really is Kinect only, then it would prolly be a mess.
And I am not trolling or being a fanboy or whatever:
“pleaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase announce some new IPs
i love Forza, Halo and Gears, but seriously. its gonna get stale someday”
–pukemOn
I am not the only one either. I am sure, at this point, a lot of gamers are tired of the same old game selections.
#41
Hellhound30x
31/05/12, 7:45 pm
@Da Man actually Naughty Dog has already said that part of their inspiration for Uncharted’s cover mechanic came from Gears of war… stop talking nonsense dude.
#42
polygem
31/05/12, 7:49 pm
he´s just kidding
@Ireland Michael: halo and gears are great games. i really can´t understand why you always say otherwise. see i love jak and daxter, so i have a soft spot for naughty dog. i like uncharted, i can see that it is a good game. still i dislike lots about the uc franchise. i would never ever say it is a bad game though, because it just isn´t. with gears or halo it is the same. you definiteley must not like em but failing to see the quality is just failing in general imho.
#43
Da Man
31/05/12, 7:49 pm
http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/31/next-gears-of-war-unveiled-as-next-game-informer-cover/comment-page-1/#comment-377538
#44
Ireland Michael
31/05/12, 7:53 pm
@35 @40 It got stale years ago.
#45
Da Man
31/05/12, 7:54 pm
0.59 k/d got stale in 1998.
polygem, what’s so surprising? This is internet. Do you know how many people think Bayonetta is a piece of rubbish and a sexist rehash of same old Dmc? I lost count. People tend to dislike something they can’t handle.
#46
JRNO
31/05/12, 8:06 pm
So much for ‘Finishing The Fight’ and being ‘Brothers To The End’.
Why can’t MS just give these guys a minute to come out with a new IP?
I’m going to break something if all 360 is getting next gen is Gears, Halo and Forza.
#47
Moonwalker1982
31/05/12, 8:13 pm
@ 46
This is gonna be a prequal. Marcus and his team’s story is over. But i agree, i wished they would come with a brand new IP for a change. But a brand new IP ain’t a guaranteed success, and a game with Gears of War in its name….is.
#48
reask
31/05/12, 8:17 pm
I enjoyed 3 the least by a long shot,sp.
Too easy imo and it felt like you were been led by the hand for the most part.
I played it on highest level you can do on first play.
1 was such a revelation for me shortly after getting my 360 it just said next gen imho.
It looks dated now but at the time it held its own really.
2 was a brilliant game imo played it on same diff as 3.
I mean 3 was a lovely looking game and I remember at times thinking it looked as good as uncharted 2 in certain parts.
I just felt epic like others had moved in to the casual market for easy bucks.
I know some might say play it again on top setting and then say that.
Not the point really though as lots of folks play a game and move on to new games.
Second highest diff should not be that easy end of.
Even the final boss was more of a pain than a challenge I just wanted it over at that stage.
Anyway just my honest opinion of it as a fan of the series who was not impressed with it and I will finish by saying uncharted 3 was an equal disappointment after 1 and 2.
#49
daytripper
31/05/12, 8:23 pm
@47 dont understand that logic, all successful franchises once started as new i.ps or do you mean releasing them at this stage of a generation?
#50
G1GAHURTZ
31/05/12, 8:33 pm
@OG:
Come on OG, be serious.
New Super Mario Bros Wii is basically an HD SNES game.
Mario Kart stays almost exactly the same, year after year, and each version of Zelda copies and pastes the same puzzles again and again.
And those are for the new versions!
The old versions get re-released, with or without an HZd upgrade.
The worst company in the world for releasing the same old games, again and again is Nintendo. No doubt about that at all.
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