Gears of War 3 comes out April 2011 for the Xbox 360. It is the second installment of the Gears of War series, with lead design by Cliff Bleszinski. defenders ran out the clock, surviving our attack and forcing us to replay the wave and slaughter more efficiently.Įven in this early state, it's easy to tell that Beast mode will be as appealing to co-op gamers as Horde – which, I might add, is being refined and tweaked for Gears of War 3 as well. Gears of War 2 is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. A Mauler, with its giant flail, can smash human barbed-wire fences with a single swing.ĭestroying humans isn't as easy as it sounds, though. One of the behemoths totes a new gun called The Digger that launches burrowing missiles underground and beneath cover.

Within the Humanoid and Drone categories, players can opt to spawn as a gun-wielding locust or play as a Kantus healer.īig beasts like the Boomers prove a real hoot to play. Other categories will be familiar to anybody who has played Gears of War. I racked up more kills as this monster than as any other.) (As this critter, I squirmed around the feet of humans, clamping their legs between my electrically charged tentacles. Beasts are nasty little creatures like the Ticker and a new, slithering insectoid called a Serapede. In this early stage, the creatures were split into four categories. When the game ships, players will have to earn the ability to spawn as bigger, meaner monsters by getting kills and causing damage.įor the demo, we had free reign to spawn as almost anything we wanted.

Beast mode is still being tweaked, Gears of War 3's Rod Ferguson told me.

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