Epic reveals 10-year plan for Gears Comments by Robert Purchese

if they're just as committed to this 10 year plan as their plan to make a year-marked Unreal Tournament every year, then GoW 2 is the last GoW game.

@ zuljin

I would normally sympathize with someone in your position, but those sections really aren't that difficult. I mean, you could probably get by some of them on the 1st try without dying.

I'll give you the teeth part, because that frustrated me as well - but I hardly thought it was a flaw in game design. Not every section should be so easy a monkey can do it.

zuljin: fair enough. I just don't see it that way. I've finished both on insane and even though the game can sometimes be really hard, I've never experienced what you describe nor have I ever felt that the games where unfair. When I died a lot it was either because I played carelessly or didn't have the skill (but once adapted it showed that with skill the section was manageable).

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Release it all on PC, pretty please, with sugar on top.

I m trying to take on board all the criticisms of GoW1/2 in the same sense I hope others does when I tanked Resistance 2 for being one of the more disappointing game due to being generic and using antiquated poor game designs (cant shoot man fish etc!).

Yes some fair comments re instant deaths and too confident AI, the fucking defending the radio level in act 5 solo was impossible on hardest mode but acheiveable in co op.

However, still consider the game most easy to have fun with, I mean its overtly macho, and simple gameplaying pleasure of getting cover, flank/kill and advance. Opponents put up enough resistance and occasionally overpowers you. The series is one of the highlight on X360 and my PS3 owning mates have asked if it will appear on PS3 after seeing the game session.

Though I have to say am concerned at how they would push the franchise forward? Halo Wars (you MUST try the demo) is a great addition to the franchise and with ODST, so need to keep it fresh and adding different take or new features. GoW4 with same game design would be boring I think but I do believe GoW2 was a great sequel and a better one than the first.

Screw Gears... where's my Jazz Jackrabbit sequel, huh? huh!!?

"zuljin: fair enough. I just don't see it that way. I've finished both on insane and even though the game can sometimes be really hard, I've never experienced what you describe nor have I ever felt that the games where unfair. When I died a lot it was either because I played carelessly or didn't have the skill (but once adapted it showed that with skill the section was manageable)."

I've not done the second game on insane yet, but doing gears1 on insane was probably no more difficult than on hard- apart from the final battle with raam,I could have done with doing that on co-op i think, but even then it only took numerous attempts before getting it done, but that was mostly down to raam killing me and not dom, i never found the AI that frustrating- certainly not to game-breaking levels. Mostly it was due to my stupidity, or requiring adaptation of tactics.

Is this an article from The Onion, it's difficult to tell.

on and on and ariston, who cares about gears of war after you get that stuck in your head again.

Hope they can do a better job on GoW 3 than they did on the second.
Need a bit more content plz.

Raam is impossibly hard: until you adapt and realise how you can defeat him. After that, he can be easily defeated, even on insane.

@Xerx3s
Raam is impossibly hard: until you adapt and realise how you can defeat him. After that, he can be easily defeated, even on insane.

Sheesh, enough with the "wax-on, wax-off" already! How? ;)

"No Marcus...I am your father"
From Dom.
At the end of the second film.

Good for them. As long as there's puberty, Gears of War will always sell.

@ronuds
"I would normally sympathize with someone in your position, but those sections really aren't that difficult."

I didn't say it was difficult (did I?), just frustrating. Most of those are one off occasions, but throughout the game. I play most games on easy, because I don't care about the achievements, I want to finish the story, and any challenge I usually get if there is an online component.

I do know people that don't mind trying a section a bazzilion times over, but personally I'd much rather race through a game, get all the wow factor and story, then hit online and get killed over and over.