Rumor Has It That Next Gears of War Will Have a Playable Female Character

Speaking with '1 vs. 100 LIVE' host Chris Cashman, Epic Games' designer Cliff Bleszinski hinted that the next entry in the 'Gears of War' series will have a female protagonist -- specifically the one featured in one of Jim Lee's cover art for the 'Gears of War' comic.

[Elven6]

If this will be for the main series I hope it will be a "bonus" mission that is optional from the main game. Similar to the recent episode released for Gears of War 2.

A spin off game could also be cool,

[Blaze929]

well surprise. No ****

/sarcasm

Anyway I suspect she'll play like all the other characters and just be that, a character. Nothing special, nothing to be excited over besides just having a new character. But maybe thats me.

[Microsoft Xbox 360]

This lady qualifies for Gears of War.

[Bnet343]

That hurt my eyes. :(

[JokesOnYou]

I think it would be cool if this new chick used two auto pistols, and her other weapon was a ninja sword, if they balanced the gameplay right although she doesn't pack alot of firepower from long distance, should would be a bit quicker so her advantage would be taking pop-shots from distance and running from cover to cover to get up close where she'd be deadly enough to take your head off...and she would revive teamates with a kiss, OK I'm j/k, lmfao it was just a thought.

JOY

[Jaces]

Hopefully she won't be as annoying as the "Cole Train".

Jeeze..

[el zorro]

As long as she has a nice *ss that I can look at from that nice 3rd person view... ha, ha /jk

No but seriously, I think it would be nice to have a female character. Especially if she is a bad *ss like Private Vasquez in the Aliens movie. A character like that would be pretty cool.

[Jaces]

really, 4 disagrees.

Wow, didn't know Cole had so many fans. =P

[Bennosaur]

Dude, Cole is awesome.

[CaptainKratos]

Yeah that would be cool, you meet half way through the game and you'll be all "what are you doing here?" and she'll be all "i have a sword! throw me so i can slice the enemy in two!!!" :/ oh wait never mind that's Quantum.lol.

[EVILDEAD360]

Wipe your mouth out with soap. Cole train is the -ish! In fact, I'll take Cole Train in Gears over any supporting character in Killzone 2.

Female character would be an awesome add for Gear 3.

Coolest Gears character ever : TAI!!!!

[Tony P]

I read the comic and she's a cool character imo. Bit of a dark past and a daredevil type of soldier. A lot like BSG's Starbuck/Kara Thrace first glance.

I dunno if she should be a main character, but it would definitely be worth it to see her in action.

[PirateThom]

That's funny, since Cole is basically the same character as Rico who is basically stock "black marine in a sci-fi movie". Neither character is interesting, they just shout a lot which highlights the problem with non-white characters in video games, they're all cliches that have existed in movies for years. Rico was still a few years before Cole though.

[badz149]

both gears and quantum will have a female character! but in gears, she'll be playable like sheva in RE5

[PirateThom]

The female character, Fillena, is playable in Quantum as well.

[njr]

Cynthia Carmine, now wouldn't that be a big wtf

[Grandreaper9999]

I can see her being impossible to shoot at compared to the playable male characters.. If they suit her up just the same then cool, but if she's in some sort of skin tight armor outfit then... yeah. She'll be the most evasive thing going! It would be a welcomed addition though.

[The Matrix]

Pretty sure it won't. Can you imagine the outrage of a FEMALE character getting blown to bits, have her head smashed off and torso ripped apart by a shotgun. Not to mention the fact that people would go crazy when she got downed and do some...non-kosher things.

[LordMarius]

This will make all their fans shy away
hinty hint hint

[KILL-ALL-CURE]

THis will totally ruin the game, because one, skinny girls fighting off 300 hundred pound locusts with a machine gun and gear that probablly weights more than they do, and two, bots only like dirty, muscular men.

[Atomic]

Female on roid? , no thanks.

[dachiefsman]

it doesn't make sense, and doesn't seem like it would even fit.

But I have been wrong before.

[Saaking]

A female and Gears of War don't fit (by that I mean a female character not a female playing gears).

[Mo0eY]

Lol, I love how you covered your bases for all these females on N4G. :p

[Bnet343]

A female could be wearing a carmine suit. Carmine isn't roided up like the others.

[Mo0eY]

She must have the following traits:

1. Steroid-enduce muscles
2. Grunt and look mean all the time
3. Tiny legs
4. Be a space marine
5. Have 10 glitches avaiable for online multiplayer

[Saaking]

Looks like Epic like the idea after looking at the PS3 exclusive Quantum huh. Typical of the bots stealing ideas from the superior PS3 exclusives.

[Mo0eY]

Hey, Mart and Murderdolls, they are looking for someone with a girly face to model after so I signed you guys up.

No need to thank me.

[Saaking]

they probably already did. You know how they'd love to be in Marcus' arms.ahaha

[presto717]

Is gears now taking inspiration from Quantum? Hmmm.

[sunil]

might be interesting :)

[Obama]

Will probably look like this.

http://farm1.static.flickr....

[Saaking]

Bots like em dirty, stupid bots

[Mo0eY]

Dang, Jason 360's mom really let herself go. Must be because she didn't swallow thirteen years ago, and now she has to hear Jason 360 wah wahhh all the time.

[Saaking]

The looks more like The MArts mom, explains why he's a physically, emotionally, and mentally scarred bot

[Obama]

nah..she looks around 40 years old..the same age as Mart. She's probably his woman even though I am not even sure if she is one.

[NotSoSilentBob]

Great instead of having 2 guys running around gunning behind Chest high walls, were gonna have a chick get stuck crouching down when her chest gets caught on those CHEST HIGH WALLS!!!!

[dachiefsman]

isn't that a win especially since they will be heavy on top!

[Erotic Sheep]

And..?

[dirthurts]

If they use standard armor, and don't shape out the chest because it's a woman and junk. If they take the character seriously, it could work.

[MetalGearBear]

girl make boy(xbot) look bad!!!!

[shutupandplay]

Lol, why do droids get so defensive when anything about gears of war is brought up? Oh, that`s right, because their crap console is yet to have game or games nearly as successful as gears. Oh well, I`m not the idiot that supports a console that has overhyped games that die in two weeks.

[cmrbe]

go buy yourself a sense of humor

[FlipMode]

classic xbox fanboy

only teh sales

never quality

because thats the only thing that matters now

especially with no games

because ico and psychonauts were horrible games by xbox fanboy logic

[cmrbe]

THis is this is the closest bots will get to a girl. Lord knows they need it.

[cmrbe]

The dialog will be better if they add a girl.

[terrandragon]

I guess it is fun for droids to make fun and the people they are making fun of are never going to see it.

[Mo0eY]

They'll be here eventually. They'll bend over for anything Gears-related.

[Saaking]

So true mooey they love their sales

[tehReaper]

^^^

Something tells me you're already bent over for Sony since you're here trolling.

[Saaking]

And here's the first bot.

[shutupandplay]

Damn right we`ll bend over for gears. It is still going strong. In your case, games like resistance 2, killzone 2 pump you then dump you.

[tehReaper]

"And here's the first bot."

It's a 360 related article you moron. Why the fck are you even in here?

[Saaking]

um, cause I have a 360. And isn't this the open zone?

EDIT: When did I diss Gears of War? I'm just making fun of the stupid bots.

[tehReaper]

And yet you diss Gears? Yeah okay.

I just think it's sad that the first TWELVE comments in the open zone were made by PS3 fanboys.

[LilMissGoddess]

the reason you don't see them in here is because some people actually do play games and don't sit on n4g like the droids do on here.

it's funny how they can use other users names on here and not get banned, but let someone use a droids name and they are banned quick.

the mods on this site are terrible, in the 2 yrs i have been on this site, it has went to hell really fast. it use to be alright, but that didn't last long, that's why half of them have found other gaming sites to go to for the REAL news.

terrandragon- bubbles up to you dude, the droids will be droids on here and get away with it.

[tehReaper]

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Looks like Epic like the idea after looking at the PS3 exclusive Quantum huh. Typical of the bots stealing ideas from the superior PS3 exclusives."

Right there. EPIC didn't steal anything. The fact that you called Quantum superior when you haven't even played it shows me the kind of respect you have for Gears.

[LifesABeta]

imagine playing as a playable female character online... it's just asking those retards to rape you from the get go.

[aueslander]

....to come on here and say gears 3 will suck due to playing as a female, then Killzone 3 will come out and you play part of the game as a female (say like halo 2 switchimg) and they will say how innovative and fresh the idea is......

Anyway, as long as she fits into the story, it would be ok. Also, considering in the Halo-verse there were female Spartans (though only in the books) why is it all future FPS war games do we always see men anyway? I mean there HAS to be female soldiers and not just field observers like Anya in Gears 1 and 2 and that one chick in KZ2 (who doesnt do much but you gotta baby sit her).

Anyway, like someone said as long as they dont go overboard and do the stupid thing of having female body armor that makes her specifical stand out, it should be fine.

[kraze07]

KZ1 had a playable female character. I was actually kind of disappointed that KZ2 only had one playable character. Not hating on the game or anything, but it felt watered down compared to the first game IMO.

But NEwayz, I think a female character in Gears 3 would be pretty cool.

[DoctorXpro]

She looks ready to Kick ass.

[topdawg122]

I love my ps3 and I would love to have this game for ps3. One of the few good games on the xcox 369

[Xtremist]

It will be a welcome change, however Epic needs to bring back the Survival-horror feeling of the first game. Its absence was the only let-down in Gears2, an otherwise perfect TPS.

[IronFistChinMi]

There was a female gear who featured heavily in that book. Close ties with Marcus & Dom, and Dom's dead brother Carlos. She trained them all before Emergence day, went missing for ages, then came back to help fight the Locust.

[Makk_Mizzy]

I think that a girl featured as a playable character in Gears of War would be unreal, because 1. Ever since Gears of War there never was a woman fighting in the fight only men and even if she had some kind of intruiging story plot as to her purpose it would be a waste and I feel it would cripple the franchise. Okay now for 2. Now here comes Gears of War 2 there is still men fighting the war, no women operating outside of the GEARS to give a new approach in this war with the locust! Now 3. It will be such a waste because I can only think back to RE5 with Sheva Alomar as your partner she was some piece of Eye Candy I tell you, but still she just was something to look at my opinion, every other second all I heard was ''Chris help'' and she just loved being the center of attention always running into swarms of zombies like she wanted to be a bunny for Hugh Heffner more than a hardcore marksman, this new chick for the Gears of War franchise is someone's idea of testing the waters and let's hope that this plan works!

[KionicWarlord222]

Think about if she had some cool armour .

[cyberwaffles]

now that i think about it, this is how gears of war should've originally been. a female protagonist akin to Private Vasquez or Lieutenant Ellen Ripley from Alien, a mixture of Major Kusanagi from ghost in the shell, and some bad assery from Sarah Conner of Terminator.

that would be sweet! female protagonists are hardly seen in shooters but some of the most bad ass movies/shows has female protagonists (Alien, Terminator, Ghost in the Shell, etc.)

[Makk_Mizzy]

I don't have any thing against females, but every game that includes females they always seem to get in the way no matter how much good they do, and ugh they can never shut up either, they always got their mouths open, I bet Marcus Fenix would say ''DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM THROW ME YOUR FRAG GRENADE, IM GONNA CLOSE UP HER GRUB HOLE''! It seems like they don't want the guys to kill the locust queen, they wanna watch a cat fight or some mud-wrestling! Gears of War is a man's world, and the women that are in the franchise have great supporting roles like the locust queen, maria, or the chick that Marcus Fenix talks to thru out his mission for his intel,and these roles don't interfere with the way the GEARS and the locusts tear thru one another like Michael Vick and Pitbull fights, LOL!

[KionicWarlord222]

This would be great .

I Hope she has sexy armor .

*winks*

Carmine armour would probably be better then some heavy armour .

[N4G king]

they'll add female Locust
and instead of the chainsaw battle
there will be a pillow fight
looks coooooooooool

[KionicWarlord222]

There`s a Queen in Gears of war 2 .

Also in Gears of war 1 the Beserker (locust boss) is a female .

Locust Qu