The Order: 1886: Sony's Soulless Answer to Gears of War - IB Times

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Nem said:

Fusioncode said:
Threads like this always remind me that Gears of War invented the TPS genre.

Gears invented the cover based 3rd person shooter. You had plenty of third person shooters before it came out. For example, Resident evil 4.

I don't think Gears of War was even the first cover based 3rd person shooter. But it definitely made the mechanic popular though.