Much of Gears of War 4’s themes are inspired by the original game's, and some of what players will see in the new Gears comes from ideas that went unused in the first game. One of those is choosing the gender of the character for the second player.
“When I first joined Epic, one of my first ideas I had for Cliff
was ‘Hey, how about we get to pick the gender of your co-op player,’” The Coalition Studio Director Rod Fergusson told IGN. “So there’s Dominic and Dominique and you get to pick whether you want to play as male or female. Cliff laughed at me and we never did it.”
Fergusson said that having that the player choice he suggested could have hurt the original trilogy in the long run due to the importance of Dom’s story with his wife, and that offering that choice would have been technically challenging.
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“When I first joined Epic, one of my first ideas I had for Cliff
was ‘Hey, how about we get to pick the gender of your co-op player,’” The Coalition Studio Director Rod Fergusson told IGN. “So there’s Dominic and Dominique and you get to pick whether you want to play as male or female. Cliff laughed at me and we never did it.”
Fergusson said that having that the player choice he suggested could have hurt the original trilogy in the long run due to the importance of Dom’s story with his wife, and that offering that choice would have been technically challenging.
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