Those cowards should’ve killed Carmine
Here’s a fun what-if scenario for your Tuesday afternoon: What ifGears of War, one of Xbox’s flagship franchises, made it over to PlayStation?
We may have an example of what that looks like. YouTuber Proto (who, appropriately, specializes in videos of game prototypes) uploaded an early build ofGears of War 3running on a PlayStation 3. It’s a full playthrough — complete with lots of dev text, a frame counter, and myriad bugs and glitches.
Proto claims that this build was a part of the2011Gears 3source code leak. They say it wasprecompiled in that leak but not functional, and that it has gone unplayable for so long “due to how difficult it is to make it work.” Also, this is said to be running on a PS3 dev kit, which has extra RAM available that’s necessary to play the build. To strengthen its case, Proto releasedanother videowhere they launchGears 3from the PS3 XMB.
For what it’s worthGears of WarcreatorCliff Bleszinski tweeted“99% sure this is fake,” but added that Epic founder Tim Sweeney would know for sure.Gears 3was published by Microsoft Studios as an Xbox exclusive, but Epic owned the rights to theGearsproperty. It’s possible that the exclusivity would eventually end and Epic planned on shopping the game on different platforms. Microsoft ended up buyingGearsin early 2014.
So, is this real? I legitimately have no idea, and I’m not going to pretend I have the technical chops to lean one way or the other. But it’s fun to think about.
