Gears of War 3 will have Some RPG Elements

Posted May 14, 2010 by Nick Proud in Industry News, News.

 

According to Epic’s Cliff Blezinski has gone on record and said something none of us were expecting. Gears of War 3 will have ‘RPG elements.’

Shooters with minor or more overriding RPG elements are not exactly a new thing if the success of Borderlands is anything to go by, but applying character development features to an iconic franchise like Gears of War definitely takes us into uncharted territory. Blezinski believes that role-playing will become a key element within shooters in the future.

I’ve gone on record before, and I said the future of shooters are RPGs, and the shooters that I’ve liked the most lately are ones like BioShock, which had some light RPG elements, as well as Borderlands,” said Cliffy, before musing “Maybe you’ll see elements from more RPGs, or Heavy Rain style narrative elements, start bleeding into the genre

Well, taking away the RPGs and having the narrative is kind of what Gears is in many ways, right? And you’ll see a little bit more RPG elements in the next Gears game that are very light. That’s a total aside

It’s hard to believe that the narrative progression of Gears ‘aches’ for player involvement in the development of characters, but Blezinski seems to believe the two go hand in hand. I can admit it would certainly be interesting, but we can’t ignore the fans in this instance. There are a lot of people out there who will just want more of the same game-play, but are buying this game to finish the story. It may seem counter-progressive, but a Gears of War game with RPG elements could certainly be controversial to say the least.

Source: IncGamers

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