Cliffy: GoW2 has best cover system ever, trilogy talk

by Dustin Burg { May 14th 2008 at 12:30PM }

Adding to what we've already learned about GoW2 (thanks to the media's poking and prodding of Cliffy B), the Eurogamer crew got the chance to chat with Cliffy who was more than happy to gloat about the newly reworked cover system in Gears 2 and even talked about the possibility of doing a trilogy.

As far as cover is concerned, Cliffy admitted that, in the original Gears,"10 percent of the time, players were going into cover when they didn't want to" so they reworked by doing "some of those [cover system] tweaks in a patch for Gears 1, we iterated on them for Gears PC, and now we're bringing it full circle for Gears 2." Simply said, GoW2 will feature what Cliffy calls the "the best cover system ever seen in the videogame industry". Can you say oh-freakin-yeah! Finally, when talking about a sequel to the upcoming sequel, Cliffy wanted to make it clear that he "never announced a [Gears of War] trilogy" no matter what any journalist says, but also wanted everyone to know that if "Gears 2 has a wonderful ship-in, if gamers buy it, then we'll consider a sequel." Confirmed. We get a trilogy if 3 million GoW2 units ship ... start pre-ordering NOW!

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war-2, gow2, spring-showcase-08

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

AL7AIR @ May 14th 2008 12:34PM

I believe when I actually use it! To be honest I was one of the few (?) gamers who liked the cover system better before it got tweaked.

Nick @ May 14th 2008 2:20PM

JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ May 14th 2008 12:34PM

In before Cliffy haters. And imo,I agree with him. I've seen waaay to many games with a mediocre cover system.GTA4 as one of the offenders.

Unless it's a 20 vs Niko or I'm low on Health, I prefer to have an all-out fight.

ryan @ May 14th 2008 5:25PM

you can't have an all-out fight in GTA4 without some cover. it's not the best cover system but for a Rock Star game it's pretty good.

homerj312 @ May 14th 2008 12:39PM

Good luck being better than Rainbow 6's cover system. I didn't mind Gears 1's cover system but Rainbow 6's is infinitely better.

Dirty @ May 14th 2008 12:52PM

I couldn't get used to Rainbow 6. While technically more sophisticated it just wasn't fun. Gears cover system was functional, simple, and fun.

Also the cover system in GTA... sucks.

Vcize @ May 14th 2008 1:09PM

The R6 cover system was OK (and I would say 2nd best behind Gears imho), but it was just too slow. I'm not sure which programmer decided that trying to blind toss a grenade from behind cover meant you wanted to go stand in the doorway for two seconds, build up some courage, and then slowly chuck the grenade out there but it wasn't the wisest decision.

Peaking in and out from cover is just too slow for a game where bullets take you down so quickly as well. From what I've seen of most of the good R6 players online (and I am certainly NOT one of them) they use cover strictly as a means to see around corners. Once they actually get shooting you're better off just moving back and forth behind the wall yourself and ignoring the LT button altogether.

ANt @ May 14th 2008 12:40PM

Go away Cliff. please.

FAR.
FAR.
FAR.
FAR.
AWAY!!!

Stephen @ May 14th 2008 4:15PM

i think that the RSV has the best cover stystem, although i do agree it is kind of slow. i like how you never go into the cover accidently because the cover is on LT not the A button or something. Its also a seamless transition into cover. it just feels the best out of other cover systems

DBoyFlex @ May 14th 2008 12:48PM

Speaking of cover systems, I hope they patch GTA to be a bit more like Gears.

Dom @ May 14th 2008 12:50PM

Trilogy confirmed, the game is selling at least 6mill this time around. It sure is going to be moving alot of consoles come this Christmas.

Vcize @ May 14th 2008 1:10PM

The *ONLY* problem with Gears' cover system is that there are too many actions mapped to one button. The core cover mechanic itself is pure genius, and light years beyond anything else any other game has tried.

ccc @ May 14th 2008 1:10PM

Well, the cover system is indeed better in Vegas.

But you can put me down for a copy Cliffy!

Only 2,999,999 to go!

webster1990 @ May 14th 2008 2:28PM

out me down for one too
2,999,998
yay, sequel here we come

StLouisRibs7734 @ May 14th 2008 4:14PM

lol, not getting it here!

Trogdor @ May 14th 2008 1:23PM

Considering there are few games out there that have what can be considered a good cover system, they don't have a lot to beat.

That being said I'd say the GOW cover system was really good, but it had several slight flaws. Hopefully this means those flaws are gone.

Ghaleon @ May 14th 2008 1:46PM

Well since MGO and Uncharted have significantly LOWERED the "cover system" bar, this shouldn't be too hard to achieve.

ZEBRA NINER @ May 14th 2008 2:06PM

It's funny to think that they wouldn't make a 3rd GOW. This is a given. GOW2 will sell, even if it sucks, based on the first one. That said, it will have good sales, and most likely we will see a 3rd.

I do really like the cover system in Gears, straight forward and simple. Rainbow Six has a great one also. I will agree with the others here and say that GTA4 leaves something to be desired. The cover is a little "sticky" and not as responsive as I would like.