We hope you used pencil when you marked up the August 26 quadrant of your Burly Men of Sera calendar with the following info: "Gears of War: The Pendulum Wars by Steven L. Kent today!" Turns out the preorder info on Amazon.ca – even the cover image! – was a tad premature; Epic and Del Ray Books announced that the Gears of War prequel trilogy of books will be written by sci-fi veteran Karen Traviss, and the first installment will be called Gears of War: The Battle of Aspho Fields (there's a joke here ... what's an Aspho?). No word on why Kent's out – an Epic representative tols us, "While we think very highly of Steven L. Kent's work, we are not working with him at this time."Here's a snippet from the presser: "Marcus and Dom can take anything the Locust Horde throws at them – but will their friendship survive the truth about Dom's brother Carlos?" Well, will it? We just don't know, but you can find out when it roadie runs into your neighborhood bookstore on October 28, just in time for the sequel's November 7 Re-mergence Day.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Traviss
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Yeah, it was lame. But it had to be said.
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jk, but this novel prob. will suck, considering its story.....
It';s story was not.
Okay, you know I'm kidding...but seriously, they should throw in side stories that follow more current events (i.e., intersect with Gears 1 or 2 stories) and skip the prequel garbage. If Dom cared enough about Marcus to get his ass out of an abandoned prison, then yes, their friendship DID survive.
GAY JOKES AHOY
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This seriously sounds like some sort of soap opera.
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That's like a teaser trailer for Revenge of the Sith asking "Can Obi-Wan save Anakin from the Dark Side?".
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It's just not fleshed out very much in the first game.
Creepy lizard guys that come up out of the ground and wreak havoc on a world full of people that have already torn themselves apart fighting amongst themselves? That's pretty cool... and there's a great motivator behind the locust uprising with the discovery of "juice". It's just not spelled out in the game to the point where people understand it. You have to pick up bits and pieces of story here and there and put them together.
So any opportunity for them to correct that gets a chance in my book.
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Marcus: "Yeah."
Carmine: "Cool!"
Marcus: "Not really."
Cole: "Look at all dat juice!"
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Dom: Will-my-friend-ship-with-you-sur-vive????
Marcus: You-will-always-have-in-me-to-confide!
Dom: on!
Marcus: our!
Dom: loss!
Marcus: of!
Dom: our!
Marcus: fathers!
Dom: and mothers!
Marcus: and sisters!
Dom: and brothers!
Marcus: and............
Dom & Marcus: MA-RIA! MA-RIA! MA-RIA! MA-RIA! MAAAAAAAAA...... RIA!
Dom: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Dom & Marcus: MARIA!!!
*applause*
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Doesn't that make it a new book?
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