Gears of War Writer Says Epic Has '10-Year Plan,' Suggests Single-player GoW2 DLC
by Chris Faylor, Feb 10, 2009 9:17am PSTDuring a panel at this year's New York Comic Con, Gears of War 2 writer Josh Ortega revealed that developer Epic has "a ten-year plan" for the action-centric franchise.
"Gears is long-term. The lancer is the new lightsaber," he added, according to IGN. The statements came in response to a question about a potential prequel.
Along with two video games, the series has spawned a comic book and a forthcoming feature film, which director Len Wiseman hopes will be the first of a trilogy. The initial game hit PC and Xbox 360, while the second has only appeared on Xbox 360.
Ortega also hinted that downloadable content may expand the single-player portion of Gears of War 2. After being asked about the possibility of single-player DLC, he told fans to "keep watching" and assured the crowd that they "won't be disappointed."
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Each and every page was absolutely filled with scrawled guns and weapons.
One particularly impressive drawing - properly coloured in and everything - caught my eye: a gun the life size of a man, positively bristling with spikes, ammo pouches and photographs of ladies in the nud. A jet of flame, easily thirty foot long, spews forth from the seventeen barrels, incinerating a stick Locust who cries "Ahhhhhhh! No!!!!" The original label of "Deathbringer" was been thoroughly crossed-out and beneath it sat the final name "Killsprayer XL17".
Marvellous. Just marvellous.
Josh had apparently been visited by the muse for, as I looked on, he unfolded the dog-ear on a busy page and began to write:
STORY:
LOCUST HAVE A THING
SAVE PRINCESS
ALIENS COME + LOCUST HELP YOU? POSSIBLY KICK ALIEN BOSSES'S EYE OVER GOAL
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Ortega should probably eat a few bowls.
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That is an all new brand of near-incalculable military grade hubris that would make even Cliffy B blush.
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I'm already disappointed. Gears 2 multiplayer is still the cheap chainsaw, grenade tag frag, smoke grenade camping, inconsistent shotgun, two-piece multiplayer craptacular.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M315M9GHAW0&feature=channel_page
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Oh, maybe they are talking about campaing, because even that mode its multiplayer.
Also we need more coop variants , because horde its great, but why not add a new one? (deathmatch modes sucks)
Gears is no StarWars, even a goldfish knows that.
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keep the damn dlc maps and just give us non-ranked match making so we don't have to sit forever waiting to play online.
Point is my circle of friends all had interest in gears of war the first time around.. but that was it. Good luck selling it for the next 10 years ;-)
They better remember to put the right timestamp on their self destruct DRM this time if they really want people playing their games in 10 years time. I know I won't be buying any of them at any rate.
That said, the lancer is awesome and all- but lightsabre is going a bit far!