Gears of War 3 Campaign Trailer Debuts

This little piggie chainsawed all the way home...

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So you’ve shotgunned dudes to pieces in the beta, you’ve eagerly read every word of every preview and you’ve drooled over the teaser; but you still haven’t seen it all just yet. The full Gears of War 3 campaign trailer finally debuted today Saturday — it was originally scheduled for Friday — and it’s quite a doozy. The in-game footage lasts about a minute and gives us some interesting insight into what we can expect this fall.

In the trailer, Marcus meets up with his dad and they reconcile their splintered relationship after years of isolation from one another. They then discuss plans for a peace treaty with those poor, misunderstood Locust gents over a couple of hot cups of tea. After achieving world peace across Sera, the most brilliant scientific minds from both sides of the conflict come together and work on a clean and efficient energy alternative to immulsion. No, of course they didn’t do any of that; this is Gears of War. Black Sabbath’s War Pigs blares loudly as COGs and Locust shoot the hell out of each other while crap gets blown up. Watch it.

[Image courtesy of G4.]

Nick Santangelo
Nick Santangelo
Nick Santangelo

MASH Veteran

Nick has been a gamer since the 8-bit days and a member of the MTB editorial team since January of 2011. He is not to be interrupted while questing his way through an RPG or desperately clinging to hope against all reason that his Philly sports teams will win any given game he may be watching. Seriously folks, reading this acknowledges that you relieve MTB of any and all legal liability for his actions.

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