[Terminator2206]

Es ging mir auch nicht um die Klamotten ansich. Es geht darum das GoW3 ja ungeschnitten hier erschienen ist, wir aber wieder bei neuen GoW "Sachen" außen vor sind. Also alle bekommen es nur Deutschland eben nicht. Ich hatte erwartet das es nach GoW3 da ein umdenken bei den Verantwortlichen gibt und man davon ausgeht das GoWJ auch durch die USK Prüfung kommt.
Das hier sieht aber gerade eher danach aus als ob man nicht davon ausgeht.

[Core2TOM]

kleines interview von gameinformer

Game Informer: What was your approach when designing Gears of War: Judgment’s visual theme, and how does it compares with what the series has done in the past?

Chris Perna: I think one of the things that we want to get across is a lot more brutality of the Locust, a lot more fear. I think visually, it’s probably a darker theme than the other games as far as the Locust being scary again. We kind of got away from that a little bit over the course of the series. We’re trying to bring some of that back...some of the intensity, some of the fear. You know when we really concepted these things, they were stealers of children in the night. They were these ghostly figures. It was almost a survival horror game at one point. We kind of wanted to get back to the roots of the Locust and emergence day and show them as more vicious and fearsome.

What kinds of tweaks went into making the creatures scarier?

I’m not sure it’s so much an exact visual thing as an overall, encompassing thing with darker levels and scarier behaviors. More dark AI, things like that...they all come together to make them a bit more fearsome and brutal.

Tell us a little about designing the look of Halvo Bay.

I guess the overarching theme of Halvo Bay is sort of a San Francisco-type area. It was an older city that was built on armaments from the Pendulum War days and it gets destroyed. We wanted it to have that destroyed beauty look and carry that theme over, yet with a slightly darker tinge to it because emergence day recently happened.

We’re four games into the series now, and it features a wide range of enemies. How do you go about making a new enemy instantly identifiable when there are so many existing types with drastically different behaviors and looks?

Part of that is the dinosaur chart. We constantly refer to that. We got a bunch of little guys, now we need medium sized guys, and a giant guy. It just adds this palette to the scene when you see these big lumbering guys and fast moving guys. They all orchestrate together to create a really cool combat experience, and we try to think of those things when we design characters. In the past, we developed the Lambent to break cover. They had a specific purpose and that purpose was to break cover and break that game mechanic. They had tentacles and they could reach over cover and grow tall, that kind of stuff. Whether or not we really needed that or whether it was successful or not is debatable, but that is kind of the genesis of those ideas. Moving forward with Judgment, we tried to make the Locust feel scary again and give them a little bit more brutality...give them a little bit more aggressive AI behaviors and teamwork. Things that might surprise some people.

The RAAM’s Shadow DLC also took place prior to the trilogy. Did that serve as any indication of what we can expect from the world?

Yeah, and I think we really learned a few things from RAAM’s Shadow as far as quality and visual bar and things like that. I think that visually, this will be more of an enhancement from that. We’ve tweaked the engine a bit and added advanced bloom and different types of effects, and it’s really pushing things in a different direction. So, I think it will be an evolution from RAAM’s Shadow.

At no point has the series taken a drastically different art direction. The characters look like Gears characters, and the world looks like Sera. How do you stay within that world and use those characters and make it look distinctly like Gears while still making it seem fresh?

Yeah, that’s tough. Because you want to kind of evolve it. Gears of War 1 was Grays of War, right? I mean it was gray and brown and it was very desaturated. In some ways it changed the industry, because people tried to copy it and then everybody did it. We had to look at evolving that a little bit. So what we did with Gears of War 2 was push a little more color into it. It was subtle, but there was more color in it. If you go back and look at it, we tweaked the lighting and stuff like that. With Gears of War 3, we said “how can we evolve this further, and what should we do?”. We looked at engine tech and things that we wanted to do there. We said “wow, we can do this whole global illumination system and have this dominant directional lighting and make our shadows better, but it doesn’t work so well with desaturation. Let’s increase the colors even more. Let’s add some vibrancy to the environments and the characters and stuff like that.” So Gears 3 is the biggest jump. I think if you fire up Gears 3 and then go back and look at Gears 1, there is a pretty drastic shift in color and palette from 1 to 3 and that was done on purpose to evolve the franchise. Another thing we looked at doing was playing around with characters. For 3 we put them in their summer armor because the planet was hotter and stuff like that. How do you change these characters, yet still keep them recognizable in silhouette? That was a big challenge. We found that if we kept the circular breastplates, then what they wore in Gears 3 was kind of the under armor. That was the stuff that was under the stuff in Gears 1. That kind of worked for keeping things the same yet a little bit of an evolution.

Can you tell us a little bit about the process of designing a younger Cole and Baird?

Yeah, sending him back was kind of tricky. Baird is actually an officer when he starts out. He’s cropped and trimmed. What we did was take a look at Baird in Gears 1, and he was acne-scarred. Denis Leary was part of the inspiration for Baird. You know, just this wisecracking, kind of *** guy. If you’ve ever Denis Leary’s stand up he’s smoking and drinking and just kind of ripping. So, that was Baird to me anyway. So we took him and we gave him some acne scarring and some battle damage and dirt and that was Gears 1. Pretty much throughout the whole Gears series, his fiction was getting busted down to private, and he was pissed about it and taking orders from Marcus. We took a look at where he was and then we said “well, what is he like as an officer? Well he’s fresh and he’s confident and he’s cropped and his hair is a little different, a little neater. His face doesn’t have acne. It isn’t dirty. And he’s a little bit younger and he doesn’t have the lines on his face and the battle wear.” So that’s what we did there. And Cole was an athlete, so he’s thinner and more agile. We kind of took him and made him a couple years younger and made his body a little more fit.

Quellen:
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/gears_...rview.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/p/gearsjudgment.aspx

[xHUMAN ABSTRACT]

Die sollen mal lieber was über'n MP erzählen.

[TheShadows666]

Die News sind interessant. Schön das sie wissen was sie mit Gears of War eigentlich mal gemacht haben (Story-Technisch).

MP? Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob die das noch juckt. Die schaffen es nicht mehr die Community zu bewegen und die Leute die viel Spaß mit Teil 1 und 2 hatten vergraulen Sie mit unnötigen Neuerungen oder Verschlimmbesserungen (Beschützer).

Selbst ich komm langsam auf den Geschmack Battlefield 3 oder COD online zu spielen. DA hat man auch menschliche Gegenspieler, auch mittags!

[NaticX]

Selbst ich komm langsam auf den Geschmack Battlefield 3 oder COD online zu spielen. DA hat man auch menschliche Gegenspieler, auch mittags!

Du musst stark bleiben. Erliege nicht der Versuchung der kommerziellen Seite der Macht.

Ich wollte eigentlich dunkle Seite schreiben, habe mich dann aber doch dazu entschlossen, einen kleinen Seitenhieb einzubauen.

[xHUMAN ABSTRACT]

Die News sind interessant. Schön das sie wissen was sie mit Gears of War eigentlich mal gemacht haben (Story-Technisch).

MP? Ich bin mir nicht sicher ob die das noch juckt. Die schaffen es nicht mehr die Community zu bewegen und die Leute die viel Spaß mit Teil 1 und 2 hatten vergraulen Sie mit unnötigen Neuerungen oder Verschlimmbesserungen (Beschützer).

Selbst ich komm langsam auf den Geschmack Battlefield 3 oder COD online zu spielen. DA hat man auch menschliche Gegenspieler, auch mittags!

Warum sollte sie das nicht jucken?
Ich hab ganz ehrlich einen MP wie Gears 3 in dem es Neuerungen gibt , wenn auch nicht alle toll sind, als mit jeden weiteren Teil einer Spieleserie die gleiche stagnierende Scheisse vorgesetzt zu bekommen.

Ich kenne niemanden der sich Gears wegen der Story kauft, die interessiert doch imo keinen Schwanz.

[TheShadows666]

Klar interessiert die Story! Genau so trashig und schlecht synchronisiert erwarte ich eine Gears. Teil 3 hatte sogar Frauen. Was will Mann mehr? Aber du hast natürlich auch Recht, ohne den MP freut man sich nur halb auf ein Spiel und genau so verhält es sich auch mit dem neusten Gears-Ableger.

Ich bleibe auch stark! Zumindest bis die ersten Infos vom MP zu Judgement kommen

[Core2TOM]

Ich kenne niemanden der sich Gears wegen der Story kauft

hallo ich bin tom
ich hab mir gears 2&3 sogar HAUPTSÄCHLICH wegen der story gekauft. gears judgement werd ich mir zwar erstmal gar nicht kaufen (nur ausleihen) aber das auch nur wegen der story. der verkorkste multiplayer kann mir gestohlen bleiben, mich interessiert nur die kampagne und das coop zeugs

[Terminator2206]

Ich kenne niemanden der sich Gears wegen der Story kauft

hallo ich bin tom
ich hab mir gears 2&3 sogar HAUPTSÄCHLICH wegen der story gekauft. gears judgement werd ich mir zwar erstmal gar nicht kaufen (nur ausleihen) aber das auch nur wegen der story. der verkorkste multiplayer kann mir gestohlen bleiben, mich interessiert nur die kampagne und das coop zeugs

Hallo ich bin Termi

Habe mir Gears 2 u. 3 eigentlich auch nur wegen der Story gekauft ( und Horde ). Und um noch mehr zu erfahren habe ich auch noch alle Bücher gelesen ( incl. The Slab ).
Ich freue mich schon auf GoW Judgment da die Story schon im 4. Buch Coalition's End kurz angesprochen wird ( also Baird und Cole im selben Squad kurz nach dem E-Day )

[xHUMAN ABSTRACT]

Gut, dann kenne ich ja jetzt doch Leute die sich Gears hauptsächlich wegen der Story kaufen