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Female Characterization Gears of War 2

May 13th 2008 22:34
Gears of War 2 Female Characters
As a female gamer a couple of things irk me about the hobby I love and number one is quite possibly not being taken seriously by game developers. Brian from Kotaku and Stephen Totilo from MTV Multiplayer were at a dinner with the guys from Gears of War 2 when Stephen asked an interesting question (and good on him for thinking of the female gamers!) "What are they doing for the ladies this time around. Are they going to make it more accessible or interesting to women somehow."


Now at this point the correct answer from my perspective would have been "actually there's a kick ass female marine this time around", but no, of course not. For female gamers like me that loved Gears of War and were really hoping for a female character in GoW2 we get this 'there would be a love interest this time around.'

YAWN!!!!!!! Romantic interest, how totally and utterly lame!!!!!! This really yanks my chain, what a total and utter cop out. Where's my Vasquez like character?!! (yes it's an Aliens movie reference).

"Hey GeekGrrl you ever been mistaken for a man?"
"No Tsunoda, have you?"
(for those lost Tsunoda is Microsoft's General Manager for Gears of War 2).
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Comment by I RedMage I

May 15th 2008 12:17
Well a love interest will certainly help the games story line and give the characters more depth. And hopefull make us more emotionaly attached to them.

I still think there will be a female character, the offical forum are flooded with people asking for one. they could just ignore that many fans. I think they are just keeping it quite.

and who knows, maybe Maria (Doms girlfriend) will don a COG suit and a lancer

Comment by GeekGrrl

May 15th 2008 22:06
Well that would be awesome obviously. I heard she's just there as a tool for the storyline though sadly. She'll probably get killed so there can be some macho revenge thing going on lol

Still, if that many people are indeed begging for it, it would be really lame of the developers not to listen.

Thanks for commenting!

Comment by Anonymous

January 22nd 2009 05:26
Sadly, the book Aspho Fields (which is really bad) said that the COG bares all women form the Gears in order to breed and replace the numbers loss.

yeah no one told the writer about all those female King Raven ploits and Tank crews

Or that Jacinto has weapons planets

or that weapon developments does not equal war crimes

Comment by Pissed off fan

March 9th 2009 04:17
As a female gamer I can't get enough of Gears of War 2. Every chance I get I play online using my brother's profile, but I'm disappointed that there are no female gears. Like come on guys, girls are games too. Give us strong, bad ass heroine character.

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