The next Gears of War game, entitled Judgment, will be released next March, according to a Tweet from the official X-Play account (that’s how the cool kids release their details these days).
No other details were revealed. As you’d expect, with only 140 characters.
You heard it here! Gears of War Judgment will be released in March… But @GearsViking won't let us say more yet. #ComicConG4
— X-Play (@xplay) July 12, 2012
Judgment was revealed at E3 this year, and is a prequel to the first game. It’ll feature Baird and the Cole Train again, along with three new characters.
The five of them will make up “Kilo Squad”. It’s expected that the game will revolve around Emergence Day, the first Locust sighting, and will have new multiplayer modes.
Sony’s God Of War: Ascension releases in the same month.
FRUIT0FDOOM
This is an easy call – Gears of War will sell loads and be a great blast with mates. It will be more of the same but hidden behind a “prequel shield” – so it’s different right?
God of War will be great, great story to tell, new extra violent moves, loads of gore, dark and glorious visuals and a few intimate interactions (bit like a night out in Newcastle).
I love both and will get both, but if I could get only one? Well I always did enjoy a good bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale ;-)
KeRaSh
“God of War will be great, great story to tell…”
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ohmikkie
I will buy both and enjoy both too.
LTG Davey
Looking forward to it. Had grown a bit bored of the series for a while but I am having a great time playing through the trilogy at the moment :)
Taylor Made
See the thing about Xbox owners they actually buy & support their exclusive, ps3 owners they brag about exclusives but never buy them.
Gears will sell more, kratos will have higher ratings & better everything such a shame.
ThatGamerGuy
Come on be fair, God of War games do sell amazingly. The first sold 4.62m, the second sold 4.25m and the third sold 5.20m making it the best selling game in the genre of all time.
Remember that God of War III launched during a PS3 shortage, when the install base was still small, had horrendously bad advertising and was hardly bundled and it still became the best selling game in the genre of all time with plenty of time to sell more, it will be the first in the genre to reach 6 million!
God of War: Ascension will almost definitely sell more than God of War III and I’d bet it will sell more than Gears of War: Judgement since that is releasing so soon after Gears of War 3 and a lot of people found Gears 3 disappointing.
Taylor Made
I’m not saying God of war won’t sell, I’m just saying ps3 exclusive sell wise they poor compared to Xbox 2 big exclusives Halo & Gears am sure Forza too is selling better than most ps exclusive.
Gears 3 I’m sure did better than uncharted (I’m not sure) and these 2 games released near or same month as each other. God of war will do just fine but Gears will sell more. Sales don’t define quality but people gotta get paid
djhsecondnature
@Taylor – One could argue that is due to the fact that the PlayStation 3 has a wider array of strong exclusives than the Xbox 360 which focuses around Halo, Gears, Forza and Fable.
SpikeyMikey23
Lookin’ forward to a new Gear, thoroughly enjoyed 1-3. Yet to finish God of War 1…….. (as per usual)
fs
Didn’t even bother completing GODoW 1 2 and 3 because my backlog just go so big I had to start making decisions. I’ll re-buy them all once the backlog is low, much like Assassins Creed these games seem to be quite similar but each have a must have appeal to them. I’d argue that with GEARSoW: Judgement they have gone down the wrong route in terms of storyline. I was expecting the Pendulum wars to be the main focus of the next game after Gears 3. I don’t think the emergence day really needs a whole game based upon it. We will see, i’d say both will do well but i’d also say that both will probably be very similar to each of their predocessors.
The Lone Steven
I really hope retailers won’t be lazy and use GOW when advertising instead of using the full name as it will confusing people. However i may pick up GOW but which one do i mean?
It will be interesting to see if the Spartan can defeat the bloke with a massive gun that has a chainsaw in the chart.
FigmentedReality
so hyped for GOW but not so much a fan of GOW mind you
skibadee
GOW day one for me.
skibadee
Ascension^
djhsecondnature
I’ll be picking up GoW… :-p
The Lone Steven
But which you? YOU’VE GOT TO TELL US MAN! *shakes Davs and then dies due to Dav’s abitily to kill anything he touches* :p
The Lone Steven
EDIT:*Which one are you getting? Bloody lag.
Forrest_01
Neither for me – Pretty much bored of Kratos & his moods now (seriously, its like its his time of the month all the time!) & um, don’t have an Xbox!