21 November 2006
Ferry

Gears of War trilogy confirmed

Gears of War lead designer Cliffy Bleszinski, stated back in June that as soon as Gears of War is finished, he’d start work on Gears of War 2. Obviously with all the hype surround the game’s recent release Epic was confident that Gears of War would be a big hit.

Now Microsoft took that confidence a step further and has said they are expecting Gears of War to sell one million units this year!

In an interview with Jeff Bell, Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing for Interactive Entertainment Business, Gamedaily talks about the Xbox 360’s second holiday push this year. But you’ve probably seen the Gears ads on TV already, so here’s the interesting part…

“Gamers today demand an excellent story in their games; they need to know what’s at stake, and why they should care. Excitement tops the list of desired emotions, but they want to be scared, too. They want the rush that comes from being scared by an enemy or trapped in a dark room and escaping with their lives. The goal of this ad is to establish Marcus Fenix as the hero of the Gears of War trilogy. The intention is to create emotional connection with him that is lacking in typical third-person action title marketing, by communicating a sense of desperation, loneliness, overwhelming odds, and the ultimate futility of the situation he faces.”

Although Gears designer Cliff Bleszinski has hinted multiple times that he would like to make Gears into a trilogy, Bell’s comment appears to be confirmation.

21 November 2006 11:44
Anonymous

Gears Of War is a great game! Still not Halo… But it’s great no the less…it will sell 1 million units…i guarantee it!

21 November 2006 16:32
Hostriffic

Gears of War Realm has recently launched a wiki guide!.

22 November 2006 09:59
Reeteshinator

Oh Cool! A trilogy! Maybe Its Third Part will be something that others will be waiting for In the x360s Successor

22 November 2006 10:26
Reeteshinator

ANd In two weeks itself GeOw has already sold a Million

28 March 2007 18:53
Jon Lysons

So the GoW trilogy is going to happen..? Almost definatly will be the best selling game of all time… 3 million in 10 weeks.. !!?

9 April 2007 02:11
sam

to be owned at gears of war add Oo SaM O

17 December 2007 14:36
nick

gow is the best game on the 360 will b for a long time halo is no comparison becoz its the same thing over and over agen i thought it was borin gears is great i cant wait for the seconed 1 and deres gona b a film

14 December 2008 15:08
mike

to comment on the guy nick ^^^^^ halo has made 3 games and gears has made 2.

21 December 2008 18:42
Cj

Duh Mike, we all know that but if you
were reading the article you’d know
they are talking of a Gears 3 that’s
what this discussion is about….
How if gears makes a 3rd one it’ll
work unlike halo whose games are
all the same and repetitive.