Did MGS invent the Cover System that is known as "Gears of Wars" CS?

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I was just wondering if MGS created the cover system that has been popularized by Gears of War? Gears of Wars' cover system is probably more complex - compared to the other mgs games. But the whole cover system in MGS works the same as it does for Gears.  So did Gears of war take from - games like MGS.

I know the over the shoulder view is Gears, so I can see that MGS had taken that idea - which I really enjoyed in MGS4 and MGO. 

 So what do you think?