Gears of War

Roadie run, active reload, chainsaw duel — cover shooting perfected and then imitated for a decade.

Released 2006 Developer Epic Games Publisher Xbox Game Studios Platform Xbox 360 Genre Third-person shooter Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics this game introduced

These are recorded as first appearing here. Each links to a full history of where the idea went next.

Combat & Conflict · 2006

Contextual Execution

A contextual execution is a scripted close-range kill triggered against a weakened or unaware enemy, trading a moment …

Origin: Gears of War

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Gears of War inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Regenerating Health ~~2001~~Drop-In Co-op Campaign ~~2001~~Snap-to-Cover Combat ~~2003~~Over-the-Shoulder Aim ~~2003~~Automated Skill Matchmaking ~~2004~~

Descends from

kill.switch ~~2003~~

The Gears of War series in this dataset

2006

Gears of War ~~this page~~

2008

Gears of War 2 ~~2008~~

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~~Next in series →~~Gears of War 2