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Another Gears of War Is Coming, But Who’s Making It?

Epic Games won't say whether People Can Fly is involved.

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Game Informer is teasing another Gears of War in development with a cover image of a man in chains.

If you’ll remember, the original Gears of War started with Marcus Fenix in chains, suggesting this latest installment could very well be a prequel.

The next question is who’s making it, and it’s not necessarily Epic Games. The company purchased a majority stake in Painkiller developer People Can Fly in 2007, and released Bulletstorm through Electronic Arts in early 2011. I deeply loved the mechanics in Bulletstorm, but the sales were disappointing and a sequel was canned. People Can Fly’s next project has yet to be announced, and Epic Games is keeping mum on any connection to this game.

When asked this morning, Epic Games was unsurprisingly cagey.

“No additional details are available at this time,” said the studio in a statement.

Either Epic Games and the internal team who made the other Gears of War games are making this new one--or they aren’t. It’s an easy question to answer, and if the company isn’t prepared to say one way or the other, I’m willing to bet money People Can Fly’s logo will show up at the Microsoft press conference next week.

It helps that People Can fly creative director Adrian Chmielarz was chattering about the cover on Twitter.

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We’ll be at E3, obviously, and the Microsoft press briefing starts on Monday, June 4 at 9:30 a.m. PST.

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Edited By Suigyoken

Hey if People Can Fly can change up the gameplay, I'm all in.

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Marcus Fenix handcuffed and going to jail, which is where the first game took place.

Prequel!!! Fucking FINALLY.

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Cool. Gears of War is still fantastic, but it's hard to say if it's among my favorites interest-wise, but I do feel like the world that was established from the beginning to the end of three would benefit if it was shown off even more. If you think about it as you go through the games, it's pretty melancholy as you wonder what exactly was going on or what it had looked like when the war wasn't going, and how all of it will soon be under water, to then find yourself in a grand but hardly a place you can yet call home (which is Azura). In certain context, it makes the whole setting and story very sad.

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Massive Gears fan here, so looking forward to any new Gears content. Looks like an emergence day/pre-Gears 1 game from the picture.

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Gears of War didn't start with Marcus in chains, he was in a jail cell.

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I'm excited for this, but not if it's Kinect-related.

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Love the Gears series, when I lost interest in the multi-player the GoW3 Horde mode picked up the slack. Bulletstorm too I thought was great, so I'd be happy with either team working on the next Gears. And I can count myself excited to find out exactly what it's going to be.

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Totally going to be a Windows phone exclusive...

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Meh...I'd rather see a Bulletstorm 2 to be honest.

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@Ravenlight said:

@MisuseOfLasers said:

This had better be Gears of War but all Bulletstorm-y.

YES! That sounds like a sandwich made of pure amazing with am extra-large side of totally sweet.

Gears of Dick Tits.

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@fox01313 said:

Really enjoyed it when they took the Half Life game & had other studios make Blue Shift & Opposing Force (loved the idea of these alternate branching expansions) so hoping that they do the same with this (or what was done with Halo Wars in theory). The Gears franchise has a huge universe to explore with all kinds of options to try something a little different than what's been done.

Yes but at that time they were called expansion packs and priced at half of the full game price.

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Boring.

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But ... why?

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I don't really want to try a new Gears game after the crap story and finale to the trilogy that was Gears of War 3.

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I hope we get to play as a UIR solider, I;m sick of COG's

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The only possible way I will care about this is if it is titled: Gears of War: The Carmine Adventures.

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$20 Says it'll be multi-platform (Gears was only a MS exclusive for the trilogy). It might end up being announce at Nintendo or Sony's press conference.

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Bulletstorm was a great game so if People Can Fly is the one developing this game I hope they're given some freedom to do what they want with it. It doesn't just have to be a Gears of Wars skinned Bulletstorm but I would love to see something different done in the shooter genre.

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@TripMasterMunky said:

sequel fatigue

I'm feeling that way too much, especially with this news.

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@Jaytow said:

i'm excited to see more gears, I hope they take it back to the gears 1 style.

I'm not really sure what this means. Poorly written and grayer? Its not like there were significant gameplay changes in Gears 2 and 3.

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@Snigs: I remember people were saying it was a 2 game contract before Gears 3 came out. No way Microsoft's not publishing this.

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More Gears of War is a good thing. People that don't like it can skip it, but I'm pumped for this!!

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This should just be Gears: Subtitle. No one says the "of War" part anyways.

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Jeff gave Bulletstorm 4 stars; do we think this is his other anticipated unannounced game (along with Injustice)?

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@BeachThunder: That would make it a whole lot more interesting.

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I hate prequels.

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I would like to see prequel to gow to see the beginning of the end. And to see how the queen became the queen.

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Sorry, but 3 soured me on the whole series. The story was so overly serious and sucked the fun I was having right out of it. Oh, and "that Dom scene" made me laugh. I seriously thought it was a joke. If it IS People Can Fly, I'll be a little more interested. Honestly though? I'd rather they put out something that was just horde mode for half the price. I'm just so not interested in the story anymore.

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I LOVE Gears, own all 3 of them, season pass holder (though i did say "fuck you" to the gun skins) but this seems WAY too soon for another Gears game. I really hope for all our sake that this is just a new DLC chapter, or chapters. another Gears game by 2013 would really put off this fan. I would think the Epic would of learned their lesson about brand over-saturation with what they did and how it turned out with the Unreal Tournament series.

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Knew they wouldn't let the Gears franchise die out. It'll probably be a prequel, dealing with E-day or what-not and Marcus's arrest and imprisonment.

I'm probably going to buy it, just for the co-op with my brother.

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It was a great trilogy, but it played out. It's over. Conflict was resolved.

Anything more now would simply add of the shame....

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Ah, Mr. Chmielarz, truly you are a master of subtlety.

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I'm kinda glad they've announced that there'll be an announcement at E3. That way I can ensure my body is ready well in advance.

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this might be for the next xbox

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Oh please, People Can Fly! Make Painkiller 2!

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I would very much like a Gears of War prequel.

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@GenocidalKitten said:

I expected them to make a prequel.

I thought it would be on E-day but, by the picture it looks like it's already a full on invasion and that seems like it would be Marcus.

Unless they make it a first person shooter RPG with an Elder Scrolls style introduction, but, somehow I doubt that.

I'm hoping for a prison game, Marcus has to survive prison, and the odd locust attack.

Idk why but I've always wanted a prison game, it could be really interesting if done right.

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@RedRoach: Wasn't that game already made? Manhunt or something.. I think I remember something about pigs and prisons.

Part of Bullet-storm's problem was people never even bothered.

The story was ridiculous, but no more or less so than Gears. An off the chain(gameplay wise) gears would be great.. but would they be allowed to make that game? I don't think it can be called gears and be crazy insane like bullet storm was. But if this is just a way to make bullet storm 2 and actually make money.. well then that's awesome.

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Maybe they'll finally explain what the fuck the queen is.

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"Dom, stop fucking crying over your motherfucking slutfeatures whorebag wife, eat a fucking shitballtickling bag of fucking cement, and harden the fuck up, you dicktits!"

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I'm 100% sure that People Can Fly are making this. Epic said in a statement a couple of months back that People Can Fly weren't working on a new Bullet Storm due to lower than expected sales and that they (Epic) had put them on a project they thought was a better fit. Clearly new Gears of War

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Space handcuffs. Because oldtype handcuffs didn't have enough blue leds.

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I did not like Bulletstorm at all but i'm hoping that this turns out good.

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Not thank you, I might feel like a slice of gears pie in 5 years time, but at the moment I full.

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@Tim_the_Corsair said:

"Dom, stop fucking crying over your motherfucking slutfeatures whorebag wife, eat a fucking shitballtickling bag of fucking cement, and harden the fuck up, you dicktits!"

Dom's wife cheated on him did she?

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I think there is something to that. I would be very excited about a new Gears game on a new console and with new tech and systems but as another game on current systems it seems kind of "meh".

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I wish piblishers/devs had the balls to make new games again......

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"Bulletstorm, but the sales were disappointing and a sequel was canned."

Well, that ruined my day. :C

The general shape of whoever is in chains reminds me of Ice-T's character. Additionally, and it's a really small detail, but the helmet design those dudes have is first seen in Gears 3.

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Good, maybe this one will actually come out on PC for once because People Can Fly don't have some retarded grudge against PC gamers like Epic do because we hated UT3.