Gears of War 2 to be More Emotionally Affecting than Bioshock

[CSN NewsBot]

Voice actor for Dominic Santiago, Carlos Ferro, told the UK branch of OXM that "Gears of War 2 will be more emotionally affecting than Bioshock."

Beyond it, I said it. It's going to be more emotionally effecting than Bioshock. A lot happens.

It is only a voice actor that's saying this, but you have to wonder: Can a game that has large, brutish men violently cutting creatures in half with chainsaws really make you think or question your very purpose of existing? I suppose anything is possible!



This news comes courtesy of Team Xbox.

[Ryosuke T]

emotional?? i never knew that emotion plays when im shooting and killing the hell out of that person.

[pwnedbyIbanez]

Probably as emotional as Haze...



Well, that game can tell you about how far a company could go to make a profit.



Still, they probably should've just worked on TimeSplitters 4. I Iiked the story, but I thought it could've had better dialogue and a better ending- I guess it kinda ticked off the fps community for the attention it tried to get.

[Kira_zRo_]

BiA was really the only emotional game. Bioshock was epic and had a story that was cool and made you think, but it wasn't anywhere near as scary as Doom3.

[Linux]

Kira_zRo_ wrote..

BiA was really the only emotional game. Bioshock was epic and had a story that was cool and made you think, but it wasn't anywhere near as scary as Doom3.

Doom3, in the dark, with 7.1, with your friends all playing it... Now that was fun and scary crap coming out of no where lol.

[displayroxs]

Just PR imho.



You never know though.. GoW just doesn't seem like that kind of game though... (basing that off of GoW 1, so yeah, there could be a possibility!)

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Really, it all depends on what you mean by 'emotional.'



Rage, frustration, hatred, anger and wrath are all emotions.



So are sadness, grief, pity, compassion, empathy and denial.



I've played completely different games that were incredibly emotional for very different reasons.

• Tribes II was emotional when they took a game I loved and screwed it over. That emotion was a mixture of grief and rage.
  
  
• Portal gave me the emotion of giddy excitement as I realized the possibilities it unlocked.
  
  
• The sounds in Doom III scared the crap out of me the first few hours of playing it in the dark. So the emotion was fright for that one.

...just a sampling of a few instances of a game evoking emotion.



Point being the type of emotion can be quite different, but many games affect us emotionally. What that effect is, however, will vary greatly from game to game and genre to genre. Hopefully GoW2 won't be 'more emotionally affecting' because we'll be left screaming "I spent $60 for this?!?"