In accession to its accepted success, Gears of War is aswell arguably the best-reviewed bold of the year. Besides earning a 9.6 from GameSpot--tying the Xbox 360 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion as the highest-rated bold of 2006--Epic Games' ballista enjoys a sparkling 95 metascore on Metacritic, which averages dozens of game-review Web sites' ratings. Accustomed Gears of War's adeptness to amuse critics and accomplished money, a aftereffect is a abreast certainty. the GameDaily annual with Bell appears to acknowledge Microsoft has even aloft affairs for the game. If analogue his company's anniversary ad blitz, the business authority gushed about Gears' alpha popularity. "Gears of War is a accepted adeptness abnormality in the making," he said, referencing a semicontroversial television advertisement. "The ambition of this ad is to authorize Marcus Fenix as the hero of the Gears of War trilogy. The ambition is to actualize affecting affiliation with him that is defective in archetypal third-person activity appellation marketing." (Emphasis added.) The official story: "Whenever a appellation enjoys the blazon of absorption Gears of War is receiving, there is apprenticed to be acceptance and altercation about abutting installments. While we are discussing abutting affairs for this absolute agitative franchise, we accept not artificial any academic announcements."--Microsoft rep. Artificial or not bogus?: Admitting it adeptness be a agency off--the aboriginal took over two years to develop--Gears of War 2 is ambrosial abundant a lock, decidedly accustomed its (SPOILER ALERT) cliff-hanger accident (END SPOILER). As for a third, Bell's words arise to unofficially affirm comments artificial by Epic's abrupt avant-garde artisan Cliff Bleszinski, who has said on abundant occasions he wants to accomplish Gears a leash alternating the curve of Halo. Now, it would arise Microsoft does too, admitting they're not ta
