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Gears of War Visual Exploration
Shacknews has images from a small product information piece about Gears of War. The scans show off a booklet full of beautiful imagery and some interesting insights into the game. From the booklet: "Since Emergence Day, the residents of Sera have been paying the price. Crumbled buildings and ruined monuments loom over the battlefield as somber reminders of what the Gears fight for. The glory of Sera and everything that mankind has struggled to achieve collapses in upon itself, yielding to an unstoppable force. A brutal and protracted war has dashed this planet's veneer to pieces, and left the shattered bits to be picked up by the most unlikely few. The Gears of War continue to turn."
Err...I think the trashing probably has more to do with the fact that the "article" is just a bunch of pretty pictures without any information whatsoever. There doesn't seem to be any point other than "ooh, lookie the screenshots. Sure, they're screen caps of cutscenes, not actual game play, so they don't mean jack shit. But they're pretty."
The laws of probability forbid it!
No wonder, Eric Nylund is listed as a writer of the texts. He's the one responsible for the novels based on Halo. "The Master Chief runs down a corridor, then the Spartan kills a Grunt dead, and so the supersoldier saves the lives of his team."