| wilco said: That gears of war 1 screenshot just reinforces my point. Look how badass it looks compared to gears 3. You could have gotten a better gears 2 screenshot. Odd choice. Its not so much the technical graphics in gears 3 that I have a problem with, it is more the art direction. There were improvements made in lighting and other features with gears 3 but the art direction was a step down from the gothic atmosphere of previous games. And the new armor was not well designed. |
The Gow1 is more badass because of the moment the screenshot is, of course. Staring at a monitor is not as badass as holding a lancer.
The screenshots were mainly to look how Marcus has improved. It had nothing to do with the backround or the rest of characters.
While the art direction got more colourful, it's a better step. The other games did not have a gothic atmosphere, but they were rather more dark, given the fact that you spend more time in Locust caves and cities at night rather than in forests or fighting in daylight. The new armor design is the same as previous ones, but they removed several parts because of the temperature (This is said in the game), and there was way too heat. I don't know, small things like these contributed to the atmosphere in the third one.
The second game was colourful too whenever it was during daylight. Perhaps not as much as three, but hey:
