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PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy?

Posted Jul 19, 2011 at 8:29AM EST by Mabie A.

Listed in: Xbox 360 Tags: Cliff Bleszinski, Epic Games, gears of war 3

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Gears of War is set to close the franchise with the third installment coming out later this September. However, despite this possibility of closure, could there be room for more?

Asked this very question, Cliff Bleszinski replied, "Well, there's always the Peter Jackson route, right? Do The Hobbit or something like that. I mean, we're business people. Gears 1 and 2 sold about 6 million copies, so if this game comes out and, God willing, sells 8 or 10 million it would be completely dumb to not do another one, right

It's just business 101. So, I mean, the key is figuring out what's appropriate. What makes sense for this connected world that we're moving ito? So that remains to be seen. That's the million dollar question..."

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It would make sense for them to wait for what players have to say about Gears of War 3 first before deciding if they want to run the franchise for longer. It's been common practice in the industry, after all, to see how a game performs in the market first before deciding if they'll be continuing on with it.

But since it's Gears of War, I have much confidence that this will be received well by the gamers. After all, who wouldn't want to get back to the adventure with Marcus and the rest of the gang? For as long as they keep the story interesting, and the gameplay moreso, Epic Games shouldn't have a problem milking this cow for as long as they see fit.

Question is, would you prefer to close down the trilogy at this junction?

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Hell no.
It's got a reasonable story but that's not the selling point of Gears, it's just a generally all round good FPS and keeps improving each time, if anyone's gonna kill a franchise after a trilogy it should have been Halo because after the second one it just never changes and just forget about any real entertainment value in campaign mode.

+1 # .. — Musev 2011-07-19 11:36

Gears of war an fps? the first one wasn't, Ive haven't played the second.

# RE: .. — Teflon02 2011-07-19 12:48

its not and honestly, each one gets better but not enough to justify keep making games for it. unless microsoft, just lets unreal do what they want with it and make it multi platform, cuz then they'll have new ideas, since they got a new platfor to work with

+1 # RE: RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — Jsamp81 2011-07-19 23:39

Its a 3rd person shooter there genius.

# agreed — Plaztek98 2011-07-21 00:02

Quoting Jsamp81:

Its a 3rd person shooter there genius.

Finally a great change from the same boring @ss 1st-person-shooters over and over again.example(cod)
If you played 1 first-person, then you've played them ALL

+1 # RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — lordrand11 2011-07-19 10:23

Why continue with one IP when you Epic Games have several different ones you can continue on with? Yes Gears of War is a great game but its greatness will be even better if you finalize it.

# RE: RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — Teflon02 2011-07-19 12:49

amen

# RE: RE: RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — lordrand11 2011-07-19 16:43

Quoting Teflon02:

amen

Yes greatness earned but it's always closed out. You make too many games with the same theme or storyline people will take those for granted and start to hate on them (better known as Call of Duty syndrome :P). Just if you decide to finish it completely off make sure the story ends where it began and not somewhere in between.

# I'd love to see it continue. — max235 2011-07-19 11:18

If Epic released a real-time strategy game based off the Gears franchise (like Dawn of War or Starcraft), I'd totally pick it up. Even a side-scroller for XBL would be awesome.

# RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — Mickle 2011-07-19 11:21

Well yeah maybe they should end it as Gears of War after a trilogy, but they should keep the basic universe surrounding the game because what's best about the game is the characters, weapons, landscape and basic feel of the game so it'd be criminal to just totally kill it off, so if they can do a spin-off then i'd be happy.

# RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — PS360 Owner1 2011-07-19 12:24

I was hoping Uncharted 3 was the last of the series but to my surprise there's still plenty to come.

To this, yeah.

# RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — AkaiOtoko 2011-07-19 13:42

Unless they add tons of features each game, I don't see why they shouldn't stop. It'll end up like Call of Duty if it keeps going.

# RE: PoV: Should Epic Games close Gears of War as a trilogy? — Bleep 2011-07-19 17:50

No! I love the Gears of War series. If there is a series that needs to be closed it is Halo, but not Gears.

# GoW — Rayn 2011-07-20 08:48

Has gone on long enough and maybe epic should put something better then Fags of war.. A 3rd person shooter that has gore fine but its the same shit over and over. Go whoop their ass "they should have no other grubs". Go down in their home blow it the hell up "Thats it it's over". As all the cities have been collapsed. Then you have GoW3, Oh yeah umm.. destroy the whole planet and go into outer space and... Fuck off with this shit.

# None — SpartanEdge 2011-07-20 15:52

@Rayn Spoken like a true playstation gamer.lol If the game maintains the quality then why not more.They're great games at the end of the day..But if they were to do more,i thing something needs to evolve,like a defferent setting completely,a new planet even,with different enemies,& cool new features.but how do you improve on something like Gears?.. (The Campaign is the thing thing i like about Halo.Dont like the multiplayer).

# maybe — Plaztek98 2011-07-21 00:07

Even let this be the last,and just sell add-ons for it such as new maps,campaign add-ons & weapons

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