Rather, Carmine's death could serve as a fitting turning point in the overall narrative. There's no happy ending here for anyone - and that's part of the reason that Carmine must die.īut believe me, friends, I don't say this because of maliciousness and I'm definitely not looking forward to Carmine's death - in order to satisfy some kind of perverse gratification. Above all, Gears of War is a story of survival, dependence on your friends and loyalty in the face of inevitable destruction. But the former just isn't how the Gears universe works. I'd just as soon sit down with a group of Locusts and play a rousing game of Scrabble in a show of positive bi-species interaction as I would stick 'em with grenades and run like hell. I don't enjoy being a voyeur to suffering. While message boards and comment sections across the vastness of the internet have been filled with the ravening blood-thirsty rabble expected of 21st century online mob-ocracy, in this case there also seems to be an equal number of compassionate online warriors dedicated to the proposition that even pixelated lives are sacred.Įpic's solution to this moral quandary is a partnership with Child's Play that launches a three-pronged attack on our hearts and minds. Surprisingly, this seems to something of a polarizing decision for the Gears faithful - a group of gamers who have been weaned on a steady dose of slicing countless locust hordes apart with a lancer. Specifically, the developer has placed the fate of the eldest Carmine brother, Clay Carmine, in the hands of Gears fans. It should come as no surprise that, when the decision needed to be made as to whether or not an admittedly insignificant character should be shuffled off his digital coil in the upcoming Gears of War 3, Epic chose the road less traveled. While other developers have been focused on proving that videogames can be art, Bleszinski and the Epic Games team were combining chainsaws with automatic weapons and redefining dismemberment physics. Say what you want about Cliff Bleszinski - but the man has style.
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