Epic VP would "love" annual Gears of War like Call of Duty

Epic Games would love to release a Gears of War title every year, a la Call of Duty, according to the developer's vice president Mark Rein.

"I think if we felt we could and do justice to it, who wouldn't want to have a yearly [Gears of War]?" he told Eurogamer at this year's Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco, before explaining how much he admired Activision's FPS business model.

"I really envy what they have with Call of Duty. Every year they put out something really great and they sell crazy stupid amounts. Anybody who says they wouldn't want to emulate that shouldn't be in business.

His Comments on good old Bobby Kotick

While on the topic of Call of Duty, Rein went on to stick up for the man gamers love to hate – rabble rousing Activision top dog Bobby Kotick.

"I've talked to him once or twice – I don't know him that well - but he seems like a really nice guy. The times I've spoken to him I was very impressed. He seemed very smart to me.

I like gears 2 year model, they shouldn't change it

yeah who wouldnt?

As much as I love Gears of War,no...no.Every year is a no-no.

Lol, time let the money train fly and let a series be pile driven into cement. From the empire state building.

ofcourse they would. money money money monnnneeeeyyy.

in gears single player games u never want them to end. in cod single player u never want to start them:lol:

Of course they would :|

"I really envy what they have with Call of Duty. Every year they put out something really great and they sell crazy stupid amounts. Anybody who says they wouldn't want to emulate that shouldn't be in business."

Diviniuz

right there. it's the money he envies. it doesn't serve gamers.

what i like is a proper sequels with new game engine. an actual improvement. you don't do that in a year.

as long as quality is maintained i don't see the problem with a yearly franchise.

as long as quality is maintained i don't see the problem with a yearly franchise.

dog_dirt

as long as quality is maintained i don't see the problem with a yearly franchise.

dog_dirt

when you release the same game twice, is the quality maintained? i suppose so.

Of course they would...but I hope they don't. It will only lead to saturation and eventually I would stop caring about GeOW.

Gears of War 3 is about to be filthy and Im completely content with an Epic trilogy (pun intended) in 1 generationshadow8585

Yeah, 3 Gears for this generation is enough.

They wanst that billion dollar in sales COD enjoys..never going to happen. Heil68

Nah, just make a Gears prequel as a launch title for the next MS console and then get creative making a new IP.

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as long as quality is maintained i don't see the problem with a yearly franchise.

Animal-Mother

Gears2 was a huge step in the right direction, hope Gears3 is as good as gears2.