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Dead Space story producer Chuck Beaver has launched a scathing attack on Gears of War's narrative, describing it as contaning "literally the worst writing in games."

Asked whether story can ruin a good game, Beaver told EA's blog: "Story can only ruin a game for those people who care about story, so it's a conditional answer. For instance, Gears of War. It contains atrocious, offensive violations of story basics. Yet it doesn't seem to ruin it for many, many people. It's literally the worst writing in games, but seems to have no ill effects."

Gears of War 3 writing team was led by novellist Karen Traviss whose previous output includes various Star Wars, Gears of War and Halo novels.

Beaver was more partial to Valve's Portal, which he feels "succeeds at least as much on its writing as its masterful platformer level design."

Beaver conceded however that gamers, like film goers, have diverse tastes.  "Some people like brainless Michael Bay stuff, others hate it. The same thing will apply to us."

Dead Space 3 is unannounced but thought to be in development - the game recently became available for pre-order on an online retail site.

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While I love Dead Space, this is just another sad brainless attack on a franchise that's bigger than he's working on.

Also ''worst writing in videogames''? That's the biggest overstatement today.

I'm with Millenium, maybe I'm biased in that I really enjoyed Gears of War 3, but worst storytelling in games?

Maybe some people should just lern to focus on their own work, rather than criticize the work of others.

Its certainly up there.

Gears was laughable. Gears 2 tried to be emotional and was quite pathetic. Gears 3 had really bad writing too, the only "great" bit was actually nothing to do with the script - It was because Mad World started playing.

I must have missed the story in portal.

The worst part of the Gears 3 story was the lack of a 12-gauge enema for Griffin.

The actual story writing for Gears 2 & 3 was rather good I thought, but was slightly let down by the chatter as you were actually fighting, but definitely far far from the worst storytelling in games

ITS THE COLE TRAIN BABY! The plot was just 2 DEEP 4 him.

Gears 3 had Karen Traviss writing but maybe the quote represents the trilogy

If the sequels are anything like the first game then this is a highly accurate quote.