Talking with Industry Gamers about being busy with the Gears of War franchise since just about forever, Epic Games’ Cliff Bleszinski admits that he’s been “itching for a while” to do something totally new.
“When we finished Unreal Tournament I wanted to do another game,” he says. “It’s just a matter of opportunity and figuring things out. So all hands are on Gears right now, in the foreseeable future. But, we’ll see how things go.”
He explains that going to work at Epic’s Raleigh office pretty much means “you get sucked into the Gears vortex. That’s why Chair’s able to do Infinity Blade, because they’re in Utah. So that’s one thing that we need to be sure of as a new developer. If we want to do a new Gears game, we need to be sure that we find a way to quarter off people that can work on different stuff.”
The guy who invented the chainsaw gun is also interested in moving brands between console and iOS and other mobile devices, although persuading Microsoft, Sony, and Apple to play nice with one another is something else entirely.
“What I would like to see moving forward is if we were to make a new IP or a new Gears game, I would like to figure out a way to get some sort of ancillary thing that ties in with mobile that ties in with the game directly. The future of the game is always with you. And those who are the platform holders, such as Sony and Microsoft and Nintendo, hopefully will understand that …to open their mind and have an iPad app that talks to Xbox, that talks to the PlayStation. So then maybe there’s a mini-game that I can do when I’m in the pub… things like that that contribute to the greater good. That’s where things need to go.”
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