Clearly not one for hyperbole,Gears of Warfrontman Cliff Bleszinskiclaims thatGears of War 2will have “the best cover system ever seen in the videogame industry.”
Cliffy B admits that the system seen in the originalGears of Warwas not perfect, suggesting that “about 90 percent of the time, it worked exactly how gamers wanted it to work. About 10 percent of the time, players were going into cover when they didn’t want to.” Cliffy states that tweaks put into the cover system for the PC version ofGoWhave been further developed into something that gamers “are really going to love this time around.”
Microsoft’s Kudo Tsunoda has talked about the story aspect ofGoW, admitting that he felt the original game’s plot “wasn’t necessarily as robust as it could have been.”
“I think that’s stuff that we’re really going to blow out inGears of War 2,” Tsunoda expounds. “We’ve got Josh Ortega, who’s like a great comic book writer, totally focused on the story and we’ll want to do a much better job of that.”
He also promises that there will be more depth to the characters, and a more varied cast than the set of ‘roid freaks that made up the original. I somewhat liked the plot of the first one in a “big dumb action flick” kind of way. It’ll be interesting to see how Ortega influences the game’s writing this time around.
