For those who fought hard to unlock the various achievements in the previous two Gears titles, your struggle has not gone unnoticed as old achievements will unlock freebies in Gears of War 3.
“It’s mostly around weapon skins in terms of tying into historical stuff,” Epic’s Rod Fergusson told MTV.
“Two of the ones…I guess we haven’t announced this but we have to announce it eventually, right? Two of the weapon skins are based on historical weapon skins.”
“So if you want the gold lancer and the gold hammerburst in ‘Gears 3,’ you get them by owning the gold hammerburst and the gold lancer in ‘Gears 2,’ so those skins transfer over.”
He went on to tell MTV that their will be numerous “Chrome” weapon skins given to gamers who have unlocked past achievements.
“If you did something in ‘Gears’ PC you get a chrome skin, if you did something in ‘Gears 2’ you get a chrome skin. The chrome set is sort of our thank you to people who played our games in the past.”
“Generally whenever we do unlocks, we do it based on achievements. That’s why I’ve been trying to tell people about the level 100 thing. No, it’s not about getting level 100 [in ‘Gears of War 2’ multiplayer], it’s about Veteran Gear.
“Get that achievement and that’ll get you something. I don’t care if you’re level 100, you have to have the Veteran Gear achievement.”
This news will be welcomed by gamerscore hunters and massive Gears fans alike, it will be interesting to see how many gamers will be using these freebies and how many fall short of the mark.
What do you guys and gals think of this new reward system?
