Gears Of War 4 – It Could Be Coming
Gears Of War 3′s executive producer might not have said the actual words, but anyone with a knowledge of the series sales and an ability to read between the lines will know there’s still more to come from the Gears series.
Given the ridiculously high sales of the previous two games in the Gears Of War series, and the fact that Gears Of War 3 already has close to 1.4 million pre-orders in America (that’s some 600,00 more than even Modern Warfare 3) then it shouldn’t really come as any surprise that there’s likely to be a Gears Of War 4 in the future. But still, it’s nice to hear industry professionals confirming the potential existence of such titles nevertheless.
Speaking to VG247 at this year’s Gamescom, executive producer of Gears Of War 3 at Microsoft, Chris Kimmel, said, “Gears is a huge universe that Epic has built. Not only the game, but in the US, we also have comic books and novels that talk about different characters. For example, Jace is a new caharacter in Gears 3 that came from the comic books. So there’s a rich universe there, there’s plenty of potential to do more, but right now we’re only talking about Gears 3.”
So there you have it. Kimmel might not have mentioned new titles directly, sticking to the PR line of books and comics and other such transmedia, but anyone with a knowledge of the sales and an ability to read between the lines can easily extrapolate from this that Microsoft isn’t done with the series, and we can likely expect more in the future.
So, Epic could be working on Gears Of War 4, or it could even be working on a spin-off in a new genre. Perhaps even a new studio could be drafted in to give a fresh perspective.
What would you like to see? A People Can Fly developed Gears Of War FPS? A more action-adventure based take on Gears Of War? A Gears Of War cart racer? Let us know…
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i think it would be great if they not only created another gears of war but if it was the ending of the pendulum wars and the moment the locust first striked
It was mentioned before that Gears 3 would be the last we would see of Delta Squad, but I wouldn’t doubt they wouldn’t have another one with Marcus Fenix. There is so much that is in the books, but not in the game they could easily flesh out.
I do know CliffyB said no to the Pendulum Wars saying, “The Pendulum Wars isn’t Gears of War because Gears is man vs. locust, not man vs. man.” Of course, CliffyB just quit from Epic, so we’ll see…
They really should make at least one more game for the next gen, and they should make it more like gears 3 with locust in multiplayer and add ons once in a while to get people back on it and actually Only Multiplayer and put it on the xbox market or something. Of course they should put some Judement parts in it like free for all and people can fly only on some parts cuz sometimes its ridiculous. And keep Horde damn it and add lambents and skorge too. Also that weapons especially boomshot dont spawn really Fast.