I'm hellishly curious what type of content will Obsidian put in a game without any actual publisher restrictions. I just hope they will not rush things up and end up with another cut up crap-of-a-game just because 'holidays are coming and we need to put something on the shelves'. Fingers crossed for Eternity! (pun intended =] )
Can't stand this retailer-exclusive crap. Skins and additional weapons don't mean squat for me. If I'm going to preorder, it will only be when there is something tangible in the box.
Since there was a lot of time and space between each of Gears of War games, I'd say novels, or at least some additional backstory, was obligatory. And to my surprise, the books came out quite well, actually, some characters are depicted better than in the actual game, where they had little or no part at all. Hoffman and Prescott recieved so much depth in the books that it's almost confusing to remember how they behaved in the games.
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