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While no future Gears of War games have officially been announced, Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski says he'd like any new instalments to sell on a par with shooter market leader Call of Duty.

Gears of War 3 shifted over three million copies in its first week on sale, cementing its position as "the biggest game of 2011", according to publisher Microsoft, but speaking to Develop, presumably just prior to its release, Bleszinski said he's not satisfied with the franchise's performance to date.

"We can do better. We can always do better," he said. "The number of gamers playing the game online - I'm hoping Gears of War 3 has more than Gears 1 or 2 ever did, especially considering how competitive the market is.

"You look at the numbers that Call of Duty and Halo pulls and we're not at that point yet. I'm hoping Gears of War 3 brings us closer to that point. People forgot also that we're only the third game of the series.

"There's been a couple more Halo's and a few more Call of Duty's so who knows, maybe we'll be able to build upon that success," Bleszinski added.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/321172/epic-would-like-cod-level-success-with-gears-of-war-4/



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Halo and COD are popular thx to the ability to play Free for all while Gears of war is an team based shooter.   Nothing is so annoying as coming home from a day of work trying to play some Gears of war match that you and and couple of randoms put you up to an team that always plays together and fucks up your team.



 

maybe he would like to consider go multiplatform for next gears series...?? xD



Counter-question: Who wouldn't want CoD's level of success?



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Silver-Tiger said:
Counter-question: Who wouldn't want CoD's level of success?


sony?  they measure sucess in units of failure.



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Well to do so he would have to make Gears multi...



           

Yeah good luck with that!



the best 3rd person shooter ever made hands down. he better go multiplatform with the next GEARS if he wants to see halo sells.



In other news, every other game company states they want CoD level success for their games.



Well if Gears 4 is out for the next Xbox, the install base will be pretty low so your gonna pull numbers between Gears 1 and 2 and go up from there.



Xbox: Best hardware, Game Pass best value, best BC, more 1st party genres and multiplayer titles.