Look, I know he prefers Cliff Bleszinski these days but when you're looking back at the original Gears Of War you've got t♋o play things old school.
CliffB's been tweetཧing a ton of old info on the first game with🍎 the hashtag #GearsFacts and it's a gold mine of trivia. Here's my favourite:
Rod snuck in the SP fatigue meter when I was on a biz trip to fix streaming issues. I💝 was furious. #𝔉GearsFacts
Elsewhere he reveals that he'd wanted a chainsaw gun fo💖r a while before he got it in GꦇOW, and the cover system was inspired by an old cult-ish shooter called Kill.Switch. That was the first game to really push the idea of cover shooting as a core third person mechanic.
He also covers pitching the original game:
Before I pitchꦬed it to Microsof꧋t I did a bunch of pushups in the hotel and listened to Eminem's Lose Yourself because dudebro. #GearsFacts
Pitching Gears 1 was hard. New IP, new ca🦂mera, new campaign, new MP, new cons🎐ole, etc...On paper it was set to fail. #GearsFacts
It's interesting to see how some of the stylistic ideas came about too. Anya's breast size was downgraded from her original "huge boobs", Carlos Ferro was cast as Dom because Cliff was "tired of hearing Speedy Gonzales voices in S🌺plinter Cell games", and laser guns were taken out to give the gaꦦme tech a more Vietnam feel.
He also admits that the idea of the Beserker being female and chained down for🐽 breeding was "pretty fucked up" in hindsight. Adding that he "was in a dark place". The game's tone apparently has an oddly personal source as welꩵl:
A lot of Gears 1's inspiration game out of my sadness from the fai🅷lure of my first marriage and a visit to London. #GearsFacts
Mad World was my anthem when 𒆙I was going through the failure of my first mar🐽riage. Somehow marketing felt this and suggested it. #GearsFacts
Finally there's some really nice insight🗹 into deꦐsign ideas that did and didn't make the cut:
In SP the last bullet iꦜn each magazine is 25% stronger so the chances of "oh shit" f🥂ighting a bad guy are high in the game. #GearsFacts
I wanted players to not drop weapons upon death unless yo🎉u execute them as incentive. @EpicRayD shot it down. ;) #GearsFacts
I always wanted a "long range revive pistol" in Gears📖 💎but Rod always thought it was a dumb idea. ;) #GearsFacts
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