Gears of War 3 campaign DLC will focus on different cast

by David Hinkle on Sep 28th 2011 10:00AM

We know to expect the voice of Aisha Tyler in upcoming Gears of War 3 campaign DLC, but the rest of the cast remains a mystery. Posting in a NeoGAF thread, designer Cliff Bleszinski shared some additional details, explaining that the story won't be focused on the game's core cast.

And though it won't be based on the Gears of War graphic novels either, former Stranded-turned-COG Michael Barrick will appear. "No, it won't be the graphic novel, but it will have all new campaign content that doesn't have Marcus, Dom, Cole and Baird in it," Bleszinski wrote. "Expect Barrick and more..."

We're assuming Aisha Tyler won't be the one playing Barrick.

Via: IGN
Source: NeoGAF

Tags: cliff-bleszinski, dlc, epic-games, Gears-of-War-3, microsoft, microsoft-studios, xbox

Reader Comments (50)

If Aisha Tyler is in it, how about getting Jon Benjamin, Chris Parnell, and Judy Greer to round out the team? Add in Jessica Walter as Col. Hoffman's mom, and I'd buy it at a high price.

@baby sea tuna

Damn you, dude, beat me to it.

Only we need Jessica Walter as the Locust Queen.

And, yes, I'd pay a very, very high price for what you just described.

@baby sea tuna

"Stomp the humans till the streets run crack whore red!"

Archer style Gear after getting headshot

"I guess someone should have warned you you were in the... "Dangja Zoneeee""

DANGER ZONE

@baby sea tuna

Whoooooooo!!!

I'm hoping Aisha will be playing Archer's Lana Kane in the campaign DLC. Every time she takes down a grub, she can let out a "Nnnope."

@copa

DANGERRRR ZONE!

They should hand out the GOTY award to Gears 3, no other game will top this game this year!

@(Unverified) can't tell if serious.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed GoW3. But with all of the amazing games coming out in the next few months, it's hard for me to imagine a grey-brown roidrage shooter coming out on top.

Skyrim and Rage and Arkham City and Battlefield 3 and Deus Ex:HR would like to have a talk with you about that GotY business

@(Unverified) Gears 3 is fun but it ain't GotY. That's like saying The Expendables should receive an Oscar for best picture.
Gears deserves an 8 out of 10. Anything above that and the reviewer isn't being honest with themselves.

@(Unverified)
grey-brown roidrage shooter and then you list Rage....
I'll give you the point that there's tons of games coming out that might, or will likely beat it, but Rage will probably be similarly grey-brown from it's nuclear fallout styled landscapes. I think if iD does it right, Rage will probably win, but since only one of the games is out right now, who can tell?

@Skywalker Jade

I suppose, I mean it has "rage" in the title. Which is pretty much "roidrage", right?

It is impossible to judge the "bro"-ness of RAGE before it releases, but at least iD is utilizing blue in their color palette, from screenshots I've seen.

I guess I was referring more to the stereotypical characters that Epic is known for, thick necked muscle men who drip testosterone and machismo, and thrust their crotches in alien faces.

At least I'm anticipating RAGE will not have any face to crotch thrusting of aliens.

@(Unverified)

Oddly, I've never noticed crotch-thrusting to be a big part of the series... are you sure you're not just googling Gears of War with safesearch off?

@(Unverified)

I don't think you played Gears 3. You might say that about the previous game, but this one is most definitely not 'grey-brown'.

@Uncle Jesse

Nah, it's just easier to troll using age old insults from 5 years ago.

@Uncle Jesse

I honestly never had a problem with the "grey-brown" style. The world is meant to be dark and gritty.

I wanna hear Lana say 'Scratch one grub'.

I may have to give the season pass thing a second look

(spoilers below)
I think what would be great would be to play as Carmine. Throughout the last few acts I was wondering what the hell had happened to him, if I had mistaken a regular cog death for his own. Then he comes back as a badass in a helicopter. Where the hell did that come from? Show me, Epic!

@Slixshot

(SPOILER WARNING)
Agreed, I mistook him for dead when the lambent berserker spawned.

I kind of figured the DLC would include the scenario for how the hell Cole/Baird got the navy involved, and another DLC pack involving Griffin since they kind of left that open / unfinished. They hinted at another meeting with him, but obviously that never happened. But now they're saying it's going to be an entirely new cast?

Here's to hoping the DLC doesn't become an expansion, then become a next year "Gears 3.5" ala Halo ODST. I have my fears though.

@Slixshot
I agree! Carmine's story would be great. After the first part of the game, they leave his story up in the air until the end.

i hope "differant cast" is carmine.

sucks that he dissapeared right up till the end of the game

@Kibbles XIII

Anyone else confused when a cog that looked exactly like Carmine got his arm ripped off? The way the focused on it I thought it was him, but then none of the other characters seemed to care so I wasn't sure.

@Kibbles XIII

Maybe Aisha will play a female carmine.. hard to believe the brothers don't have a sister.

Am I the only one who thought that Baird sounded more like John DiMaggio than Marcus? Had me fooled until I finally looked up the voice cast, and was completely shocked that DiMaggio really voiced Marcus, and someone I'd never heard of voiced Baird. Seriously, I used Baird in MP because I thought it was hilarious he sounded so much like Bender.

@the barking dog

That's why he's a voice actor, because he can do various voices that all sound different. Not everyone is Nolan North who just talks, most actually make their character (like Billy West doing Fry, Zap Branigan, Prof Farnsworth, and Zoidberg).

Dunno though, Marcus always sounded like "bad ass Bender" to me. Baird is just written like Bender (being a smart ass), the voice never sounded like him to me though.

@the barking dog

He voiced Wakka and Kihmari (those are the names right?) in Final Fantasy X

The job of voice acting requires exactly that, not to make the same voice as bender in everthing. lol

I really hope the include Alex Brand. That'd make me happy. I also hope some of the other cast members have the balls to call her "foxy".

@DaRabidDuckie I hope she is in it as well. This will be an instant buy as soon as they include her character in any capacity. I was really surprised she wasn't at least an unlockable MP skin. She's one of the only Gears characters who actually had a very well written story.

Play out the newgrounds version of this game :D

Look Nolan North up on IMDb, he's got a pretty vast range. His Nathan Drake just got absurdly overused in games a few years back so that particular voice kind of got attached to his name. You know he be playing the Penguin in Batman: AC?

Sheesh, how come no one told me that the guys behind Sealab and Frisky Dingo did two whole seasons of a new series? I had to imdb Aisha Tyler to find that out!

@freaparn

You owe it to yourself to get on board immediately.

@baby sea tuna

Currently being rectified, I assure you.

I'm actually somewhat surprised at this. I was thinking that the first DLC would feature Baird and Cole's trip to go find the reinforcements while Marcus and co. obtain the sub.

Can't wait. My buddy and I just beat the game on Hardcore last night. After banging our heads against the wall with just he and I, and the 2 AI playing, we were getting no where. He decided to open the game to the public and when a 9 yr. old and his 5 yr. old brother joined, I thought we were in trouble. But we beat it. That's right. Two kids below the age of ten were more helpful than our AI brethren.

@StormEagle

I beat the game on HC last night with just the AI helping me out, and to be honest they did better than I did.

Baird revived me like 7 times in that last battle.

I like this idea. When your universe achieves that "critical mass" that it becomes more than the sum of its stars, then you can investigate the nooks and crannies of side characters. As much as I like Marcus, Dom, Cole, and Baird, there are other stories to tell, and different characters give you practically a carte blanche to tell it.

I'm tuned in.

Would this new team be an introduction of sorts or way to establish a whole new Gears of War series?

@Uncle Jesse Well it won't be a gears 4 because the ending wrapped up the story. They said there will be a pendulum wars prequel if gears 3 sold well

This is a brilliant idea - almost enough to convince me of purchasing the Seasons Pass. We've had three awesome adventures with Fenix and crew - time to give someone else the spotlight, albeit in a DLC form. This would also expand to the multiplayer component by inevitably adding new characters to choose from and (hopefully) new weapons.

My fingers are tightly crossed that of the 4 promised DLC packs within the next year - at least 2 are dedicated to adding single player/co-op campaign. Maybe the first campaign add-on will take place with a new crew just before the events of Gears 3 and the second pack could follow the same crew during the events of Gears 3.

The other two packs would be multiplayer DLC.

@Axcalibur

I think Epic finally realize that they can't do just 2 dlc packs. Gears is big enough on the xbox to rack in crazy money on DLC, they just need support the game better and keep multiplayer under control.

I have to say I was actually a little disappointed with the campaign. Yes, it was good fun, but it wasn't satisfying. Spoilers follow:

We find out Adam Fenix new about the Locust before E-Day, but where did they come from? I was expecting it to tie in to the New Hope Research facility, I wanted to find out what all the research collectibles about the girl called Ruth were about. I expected her to turn out to be the Locust Queen, and that scientists created the Locust some how... but nothing. I was hoping for a nice solid ending that wrapped up all the niggling questions.

Then the last boss fight was pretty dull as well, just the same attack methods for 5 waves. All you had to do was stand behind the pillar and switch between your lancer/HoD with occasional trips for ammo.

I'm probably being too picky, but I've always been into Gears mainly for the campaign, and I felt it didn't really deliver for me in the end :(

@Shadowise
Yup, disappointed it didn't answer the big questions about the Locusts. MAybe the DLC will address them? Baird even asks at one point "Why does the Queen look human?" and Adam Fenix told him to STFU. (more or less).

But there was also that data disc that Baird was given... so there is still hope for answers in DLC.

Are they going to do something else Griffin? I can't think they brought in Ice-T just to have him curse the player out for 5 mins in that one scene. I also woud have like to seen a Baird and Sam mini-adventure.

@Slight of Ham

Don't forget to do an awesome out-song during the credits. Body Count ftw

they should make the campaign around the new cogs and carmine as the leader since all his brother looked up to him.

I hope we get more Carmine love. I was so stoked about Carmine's story, only to not see him that much during the campaign.

Barrick Died saving Marcus and Dom in the hollow, This is going to be good.

When Marcus shouts, he sounds sort of like Brad Garrett.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Garrett

Out-freaking-standing! Just bought the Season Pass then hopped online to check what the DLC might include. Not only am I pumped to have new campaign content, maps and skins, but now Aisha Tyler is gonna be a COG?! Awesomesauce. If they end up giving her character up as a new skin to play in MP, I know who I'll be using to finish getting my Battle Mistress Onyx Medal with. -After executing a kantus via lancer chainsaw bayonet, the hysterical laughter of Aisha Tyler is heard, followed closely by a single syllable- "Nnnnnnooooooope!"

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