Unfortunately, the Gears don't just have to contend with the Locust Horde: a new faction, the Lambent Locust, have emerged from the underground and are hostile to both sides. The story picks up 18 months later when the COG leadership (what is left of it) approaches Marcus with some new discoveries about the Locust. Anya Stroud has joined the team as a soldier, Dom has grown a Beard of Sorrow and the approaching summer has the squad wearing lighter versions of their normal armor. Released on September 20, 2011, the ending of the second game has left both sides decimated, with Marcus and Delta Squad trying to keep their head down as there's no place left on Sera that is safe. The multi-player set-up has also been cheered, with the new "Horde" mode receiving the most attention while it didn't invent the concept, Gears of War 2 is the reason most shooters have a wave-based mode now. However, it still holds many slight flaws, but that doesn't reduce the amount of fun there is in playing the game. The graphics are better than ever, a larger weapon variety is given and the story is epic while more personal. The second game received similar accolades, with many complaints of the first game addressed. COG forces return to action in an attempt to make an assault on the enemy's home turf, while Dom embarks on a personal mission to find his missing wife Maria, putting him in conflict with his other responsibilities as a member of Delta Squad. Released on November 7, 2008, the Locust re-emerge several months after the events of the first game, except more desperate and far more dangerous, while on the surface, many human refugees and Gears have fallen sick with a disease known as Rustlung, an Imulsion sickness. When Microsoft bought the rights to the franchise from Epic Games in 2014, development of further games was taken on by The Coalition. On the way, they do manly things like blowing stuff up, delivering one-liners and growing beards.ĭue to its success, the game was followed by four sequels, the first three developed by Epic Games. Alongside that, the games are about building atmosphere and drawing you into the moment, investigating abandoned warehouses and exploring a labyrinth of underground tunnels. Alongside them are fellow soldiers from another squad who they seem to frequently join with: Augustus "Cole Train" Cole and Damon Baird.īesides dealing with the humanoid footsoldiers there is a great deal of focus on monstrous creatures you have to face such as the dinosaur-like Brumak (with a cannon on its back and chainguns on each arm), the crab/spider-like Corpser and the "monkey-dog" Wretch. When in cooperative play, the second player takes control of Fenix's best friend and fellow soldier Dominic "Dom" Santiago. The player assumes the role of Marcus Fenix, a battle-hardened former war hero. The Locust are relentless, vicious, can pop out of the ground almost anywhere and seem to be numberless, but the COG have superior technology and the capital city of Jacinto is located on a plateau of solid granite, making it the one place the Locust can't tunnel up. The Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) is fighting back with their own soldiers they call "Gears" ( hence the name). The general story centers on the soldiers of Delta Squad as they fight to save the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless subterranean enemy known as the Locust Horde. There isn't a jump button, and everything is angled towards making the combat as personal and violent as possible (the main gun used has a chainsaw built into the grip, called the chainsaw bayonet). The game uses a "stop and pop" approach that heavily emphasizes the use of cover. Gears of War is a tactical Third-Person Shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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