Some like the latest in the Carmine line help cap off the franchise’s running joke about the ill-fated family, while others like Sam and Jace barely get the focus needed to cement something greater than a simple and straightforward personality. New members of the main cast are added to Gears of War 3 in greater measures than the previous titles as you can now play the main campaign mode with up to four players cooperating, meaning the squad needs some people to fill it out as the team splits or characters meet unfortunate fates. Baird, on the other hand, is there to be the same sarcastic and grumpy foil to Cole and the others, and while we get some emotional moments devoted to Cole, Dom, and Fenix, Baird’s only real advancement is a possible budding romance with a new girl named Sam who even gets a bit more background added to her than Baird does. Augustus Cole returns, The Cole Train’s enthusiasm and humor perhaps needed more than ever in this increasingly bleak scenario, but his history with the fictional sport Thrashball is given more spotlight then ever as the story takes the player to his old stomping grounds to contrast his current grim reality with his glory days. Anya, a side character in previous titles who usually provided updates from the COG’s higher ups, has now been forced into combat herself, looking surprisingly different as she lets her hair down and abandons her old professionalism. While Marcus Fenix is as angry and determined as ever, the once friendly and jovial Dom definitely shows his wear.
The shift to a far more desperate scenario really gives Gears of War 3 a sense of finality, the resources you can draw on thinner than ever and the characters worn down from years of fighting for survival in a world with no safe refuge. However, there is a light at the end of the tunnel, as Marcus Fenix receives a message from his father who he had thought dead, the scientist promising a means to eliminate the Lambent if his son and his allies can save him from the lingering Locust threat. These mutated creatures are intelligent and explosive, whittling down their opposition and leaving the familiar protagonists of Gears of War on the run.
In the previous two titles, the glowing yellow substance of Immulsion was always identified as a highly valuable resource, but its corruption of living life forms has progressed to such a degree that those infected by it have created a grotesque new player in the battle for the planet: the Lambent.
COG has collapsed as an organization and the Locusts only exist in pockets that are still guided by their Queen, and with their forces diminished and scattered to such a degree, a new threat has finally cemented its hold in the alien world of Sera. The incredible Gears of War 2 is a tough act to follow, but when it came time to wrap up the trilogy, Gears of War 3 had plenty of plot threads and story elements from the previous two titles bubbling under the surface it could snag onto to make for an impressive finale.įollowing the conclusion of Gears of War 2, both the Coalition of Organized Governments and their monstrous enemies, the subterranean humanoids known as Locusts, are in disarray.
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