Speculation on GoW "Missing Story/Levels" - spoilers probable

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I think its fair to say Gow Changes pace in the story in chapers 3-5 from being a fairly average story to, well none what so ever.

I think there are two reasons for this:

1) Developers ran out of time and had to cut any "unfinished" levels out and put an ending in place

2) Play testing feedback


I'll address 1 first (may as well work in a logical order):

I think this game had probably been earmarked for the PS3 launch for some considerable time, since halo 3 was never going to be complete by then. So it is likely that there was more of a story and more levels in the design, however due to these time constraints Epic probably did not want to and "unfinished" content to the game, things like ropy FMV sceens, unballanced/incomplete levels, or anything that looked a bit rubbish.

Chapter 4 and especially chapter 5 were shorter (imo) than chapeters 1 and 2, & 3. They certianly had a lot less story in them too. I think that it was about this time that Epic started to panic, removed the majority of the "story" planned for this area, and focused on getting to a end for the game.

Now it might just be my perspective of the majority of games, but you usually fight the final boss twice (or at least in 2 incarnations) or have a strong under boss before the final boss level. This was not the case here, which is probably why the game felt "incomplete". Bezerkers were the level 1 boss and really felt like an average enemy after that point, and the nemises were more of an irritation than any thing else. So I do not class either of these "Battles" as a pre-final boss encounter.


With regards to point 2 I suspect that there was a boss battle at the end of Chaper 4 when you leave in the junker (or what ever vehicle it is) and are chased by that monster (no Idea what its called), However I suspect you were in the vehicle for that fight. As with a lot of people I thought the junker section of the game was **** to be blunt. I suspect that fighting a boss in a vehicle would have been even worse. So it could have been removed.

What do you guys reckon?
 
I didn't think Act 4 was all that short. 5 definately but 4 for me is the hardest level. The first time I saw a beserker I thought that she was cool, but easy. So the others were repetitive.

The story was poor, but like watching empire strikes back without knowing there is gonna be an ep 1 or 3.

Clearly we are the plague on their planet not the other way around. No doubt they wanted to give a sample of that but not give too much away.

I think your right a lot was cut which is why the story doesn't flow from act 3 onwards.
 
I completely agree, the story is amazingly weak, I expected it to go into some kind of battle with that woman who does the voice overs.

The final boss just seemed to pop up out of nowhere and I beat it first time by throwing all my grenades at it.

Multiplayer is good though.. :)
 
just my 2 cents but didnt anyone wonder why the whole mapping system was found at his old home without his knowledge until he found out about it in the game?
 
dustiestrat said:
just my 2 cents but didnt anyone wonder why the whole mapping system was found at his old home without his knowledge until he found out about it in the game?
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Was it not his dads, although his dad some how betrayed the whole government or the government believed he had and had hide this in a secret study in his house? :confused:

I didn't actually find the game all that great and if it wasn't for co-op I prob would have never completed it! :o
 
I think this is gonna be the middle part of 3, the first part will explain what was so bad he ended up in prison, maybe while in prison his dad was doing his experiments hence he didnt know?

Or have we already been told what he was jailed for, we know the court bit was rigged as such - when they enter the room early on in the game and there is banter about what history it holds.

The last part will lead on from what the Queen (im guessing) says at the end...
 
dustiestrat said:
yeah thats what i figure. leaves big hole though in story line hopefully the sequel will explain some of missing bits.
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Prequel not sequel ;)

I reckon they will make a film of this with a more in depth story. Maybe a film would be the best format to cover what happens leading up to the game GOW.

My money is on us becoming a plague of their planet, nicking their emulsion to paint our houses. They thought enoughs enough and came out of the earth to eradicate us. The station where you first encounter the theron guards is whats left of the dulux factory ;)

They emerge try to kill us and we fight back.

I think this story will progress in books and film etc and make them more money than the game ever will.
 
im pretty sure the story ran as follows:

Locust lived under Sora in the ground (the place all the gears lived) undisturbed for years, until there was a massive energy crisis on Sora, this caused them to dig into the crust where they found emulsion (which is supposedly a brilliant power source) locust got a tad annoyed they were stealing the imulsion and started a war

not sure where i read that though :p
 
I also think that the GoW 2 will be a prequel, showing how Marcus ended up in prison and why he had to go help his dad etc.

There are loads of snippets of what could be a decent story line but it just doesn’t pan out.
 
I think that they did rush the final chapter so that the game could be released when it was. On the other hand I think the story was always suppose to be a bit vague to allow for sequels or prequels and all the guessing of the story is exactly what Epic were after.
 
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