Blog #5

During my spring break I did 2 main things 1 game 2 work. I got Gears War 3 during my spring break and I would like to tell you about it. I will start with the Gears of war time line

approximately 80 B.E. (before emergence)-A long-running global conflict begins the Coalition of Ordered Governments (C.O.G.) and the Union of Independent Republics (U.I.R.) fight over  imulsion the only fuel source  on there planet Sera the war becomes known as the Pendulum Wars.

 17 B.E.-U.I.R. forces attempt to capture Anvil Gate a C.O.G. fortress that was never breached until 15 A.E. (after emergence) but are beaten back by the C.O.G. forces commanded by infantry lieutenant Victor Hoffman. Adam Fenix a weapons physicist leaves the army to work on an orbital laser weapon to end the Pendulum Wars.

9 B.E.-Adam’s wife, Elain, a biologist, goes missing in the underground caves of Jacinto, leaving him with a young son to care for Marcus Fenix.

4 B.E.-Marcus Fenix enlists in the C.O.G. against his father’s wishes to follow his boyhood friend Carlos Santiago.

3 B.E.-Carlos’s younger brother Dominic or “Dom” enlists.

2 B.E. - Intelligence reveals the U.I.R. is close to building there own satellite weapons system. A commando raid commanded by Hoffman is sent Carlos Santiago and Helena Stroud (Anya Stroud’s mother) are killed in the battle Hoffman, Marcus, and Dom are decorated for gallantry. The data recovered Adam Fenix perfects his orbital laser.

6 weeks B.E. - U.I.R. surrender and the war comes to an end but a hand full of small U.I.R. states do not surrender.

Emergence Day-with no warning or motive an unknown species of sentient creatures the locust horde erupt from under ground caverns attacking cities across Sera simultaneously. A quarter of the population is killed in the first day.

            Gears of War 1 you play as Marcus Fenix and you fight to get mapping data on the locust tunnels so the C.O.G. can deploy lightmass bombs to wipe out the locusts. After deploying the lightmass bombs the locusts return a week later in greater numbers. In Gears of War 2 you play as Marcus Fenix the C.O.G. plan an all out assault on the locust warrens. You reach the locust stronghold learn that this lambent life form thing drove the locusts from there warrens and you meet the queen but she escapes the C.O.G. flood the locust stronghold by way of destroying the human Stronghold of Jacinto. The C.O.G. chairman Richard Prescott disappears and is presumed dead and the C.O.G. falls apart and becomes nothing more than refuges. They head for a small island that the locusts never reached Vectes. A worse threat than the locust the lambent start to show up in the waters around the island sinking ships and an imulsion drilling platform the only source of fuel left. In Gears of War 3 some of the C.O.G. decides to live on the remaining ships and others head back to the main land and take Anvil Gate. 2 years later Prescott returns and Sovereign is attacked by lambent which sink the ship Prescott is killed in the fighting. The locusts are found to be setting up a knew home in the deadlands in an attempt to hide from the lambent. Marcus learns of Azura a secret C.O.G. research facility hidden bay a “maelstrom barrier” which it a generator that creates a hurricane around the island. Azura is where they evacuated all the C.O.G. elite and top scientist to hide out the war. Adam Fenix was believed to be dead but just kidnapped by Prescott was taken to Azura. But the locusts found a way past the barrier and killed every one but Adam Fenix. On your way to Azura you need a sub which needs fuel so you stop at mercy to get fuel but you get ambushed and Dom sacrificed him self to save the rest of them. You learn that imulsion is not a fuel it is a parasitic organism that turners all living things into lambent and is about to reach a critical stage in its life cycle and wipe out all life on Sera. Adam sets off a weapon that kills all lambent cells on Sera but harms the locusts which tried to stop from happening but couldn’t. After setting it off the weapon he tells you he injected him self with imulsion to learn how it progressed over its life cycle and all his cells started to break down and kill him then you kill the locust queen Myrrah. My favorite gun is the retro lancer.

Queen Myrrah                              Retro Lancer

Marcus Fenix                            Adam Fenix                            Dom Santiago