Gears of War 3: Female Character Added, Game Ruined

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49 Comments

• Podtech said:

  (sigh....)

  April 14, 2010 8:42 PM

• Ben said:

  @Am I sad that the only reason Anya is allowed to be in Gears of War's army is because she can't make babies?

  Really?! Have you guys even read the books!? If so then you would know that Anya's mom served as a gear while Anya just enlisted in the C.O.G This was before Emergance, hence before sex camps.

  Get your facts strait!

  April 14, 2010 9:15 PM

• brent lawson said:

  shouldent she be in a kitchen makeing marcus a sandwitch or somthing.....

  April 14, 2010 10:26 PM

• Joe said:

  Looks like a fun game...

  April 14, 2010 11:08 PM

• David said:

  I'm glad that Anya is in gears 3 for the past two installments of this franchise of a game she had very small parts not really being included almost known as a nobody but glad to hear shell be a big part as one of the many main characters added to gears of war 3 and I hope they take ever map from first one and second one and install it into the gears 3 installment

  April 15, 2010 12:27 AM

• Carl said:

  Women aren't allowed to serve on the front lines of combat in real life because they're not physically and psychologically adapted to warfare. Popular media (movies, tv shows, video games) likes to depict women beating up men with karate moves and mowing down bad guys with machine guns to make people think women are just as tough as men. The inclusion of Anya as a playable character in GOW 3 is feminist propaganda.

  April 15, 2010 1:16 AM

• osoblanco said:

  Wow how did they let you write a article or even publish it. your article is annoying like a middle grade school kid trying to explain pride and prejudge

  April 15, 2010 8:07 AM

• C0STANZA said:

  I think the addition of a female character is perfect. What guy doesn't love a woman with a gun kicking some ass? What girl doesn't love seeing a female have a central role than just a voice that Marcus Screams so eloquently throughout the games while walking dramatically slow as if his legs get paralyzed when he talks to her or he is trying to hide something else from the cameras as the very thought of her voice speaking into his ear makes the blood flow (ANYA!). Hands down I am damn excited for this game. I waited a year for the first game and I'll wait a year for the last game!

  April 15, 2010 9:30 AM

• Dennis Scimeca said:

  Um, excuse me...rape camps?

  Hyperbole police, anyone?  Provide a link, please, to the existence of "rape camps" in the Gears of War world.  Someplace in the fiction, please.  If it's true, so be it - but please prove it.  Those are really, really strong words, and completely inappropriate ones if you can't prove it to be factually correct.

  April 17, 2010 2:29 AM

• Maddy Myers said:

  "Alex Brand was born in the city of Jilane[2]. After E-Day like many other women were sent to the breeding farms in Jilane to produce more children for the COG to maintain the war effort. It was not a happy time in her life. At the age of 12, she was raped by the facility's Director. At the age of 14, they tried to artificially inseminate her so she would produce offspring. The attempts failed and they attempted to impregnate her with more traditional methods. At the age of 18, she was declared barren and sent to boot camp to become a frontline gear. "

  -- from here:

  gearsofwar.wikia.com/.../Alex_Brand

  You don't have to call them "rape camps" if you don't want to (the Gears universe has supplied you with "breeding farms" to use instead), but the sex isn't consensual. If you want to read more debate on the subject, this forum thread talks about it, but if you don't like the term "rape camps," then you may not like how often it's being thrown around here:

  forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php

  April 20, 2010 2:36 PM

• littlerowley18 said:

  If you dont think anya (or who ever she is) wont be a great addition to the COG army then deal with it. I think its going to be awsome and will be a great addition to the COG army and a great help to Marcus Phinex, Dominic Santiago, Damon Baird, and Augustus Cole. Which I think personally is going to be so sweet in the game itself and will be the greatest game of the century.

  April 24, 2010 7:29 PM

• Contra said:

  I do think anya in the frontline would make a good addition to the Gears of War, however, I don't understand how she will keep up with the males (just compare her to cole and you get the idea). In Gears one and two, she's a skinny Control operator who looks like she couldn't lift a snub pistol but in the trailer she dons the super heavy gear armor with a lancer. How did she do that? Did she take massive amounts of advanced steroids that make muscles that don't show?

  May 2, 2010 12:50 AM

• Dennis Scimeca said:

  Maddy -

  Thanks for the details on the rape camps...kind of...you know what I mean.

  I have to say that it reminds of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. I'm not sure that I would go after him for depicting women as being vessels for bearing food for starving humans in post-Apocalyptia. It's an effective method to describe just HOW horrible things have gotten.

  So, if I turn this around on Gears of War...can I hold them to a different standard?

  My biggest problem with the Gears of War franchise is the lack of adequate story within the game itself. I don't want to have to step outside the game to get the backstory. This idea of breeding farms is bloody horrible...but it does drive the point home as to just how desperate the situation is for humanity in the GoW universe.

  It certainly also makes the COG much less sympathetic, however, which is a no-no for anything that wants commercial success...

  Argh. I'm glad I got the details, but it left me feeling dirty. :(

  May 3, 2010 3:41 PM

• lobozebra said:

  Holy crap! My friend just got me a bunch of pre-release codes for the new Gears of War 3 Beta! I have a bunch so if you want one here: gears3beta.tk

  May 14, 2010 7:54 PM

• Brady said:

  Point blank, Gears 3, i dont give a damn about some story line, is the best shooter out there.

  May 14, 2010 9:10 PM

• gearsguy2010 said:

  Why would you be mad if ayna cant have babies?? that means marcuss could tapp that al day every day with no accidents! :)

  May 18, 2010 6:15 PM

• Xildin said:

  I'm like the dude stated above... Who doesn't like a girl that can pick up a gun and kick ass!? I find it quite badass to make it different with a female character on front lines. Oh, who ever compared real life with women not being able to be on the front lines is stupid! This is Gears of War not WW2, stupid. Half of the things in the game doesn't make sense, like Lambient, Locust, Chainsaw Gun, etc... Your criticizing something your going to buy, therefore stop the contradiction. In Fort Hood a woman displayed that they can take action and kick ass with no WAR experience. Sit back and let Anya show you how it's done.

  May 31, 2010 9:25 PM

• Luis said:

  tis game is cool :D

  June 1, 2010 5:27 PM

• Travis Webb said:

  I think adding women to Gears of War doesn't make it such a sausage fest i mean bulging men running around with each other come on i mean they need women and plus marcus would have lost anya and that adds distractions for him and i think that Alex is a pretty damn good fighter and could beat the piss out of any lambent asshole so women were really a good add on for gears or war but take the fucking Carmines off i hate picking that jackass up when he falls fuck the Carmines they are nothing but pusses.

  June 15, 2010 11:31 PM

• Lolwut? said:

  This game looks beast. It pretty much gave meh goosebumps.

  June 25, 2010 10:29 AM

• CodyMill1 said:

  I agree with you to this game has needed a female on the battle field!!

  July 12, 2010 12:36 PM

• GotGubs? said:

  QUOTE: Women aren't allowed to serve on the front lines of combat in real life because they're not physically and psychologically adapted to warfare. Popular media (movies, tv shows, video games) likes to depict women beating up men with karate moves and mowing down bad guys with machine guns to make people think women are just as tough as men. The inclusion of Anya as a playable character in GOW 3 is feminist propaganda.

  This aint WW2 dude, this is the 21st century, sorry to break it to ya, but women are serving in the military right now. Yes, it is fact that the average women is less physicly fit than the average man, but that doesn't mean that there arnt women out there who are more physicly fit than men.

  July 22, 2010 2:13 PM

• Jake said:

  Wasnt Anya a girl who helped the cog now all of a sudden she gets a lancer and starts fighting with cog thats unrealistic and stupid because you cant just go into a war and not know what your doing right? Or you will just get shot in the face and die a very painful death no one would save you if there getting shot at unless they love the girl.

  August 4, 2010 4:19 PM

• Cole said:

  Quote:Wasnt Anya a girl who helped the cog now all of a sudden she gets a lancer and starts fighting with cog thats unrealistic and stupid because you cant just go into a war and not know what your doing right? Or you will just get shot in the face and die a very painful death no one would save you if there getting shot at unless they love the girl.

  You Do Realize that its there last chance and are out numbered greatly and are doing everything possible to win war its been 18 months since gears 2 she could learn and if you think thats not realistic theres locust running around every where

  August 19, 2010 12:57 AM

• Brian said:

  GOW2 sucked,now gears 1 was te shit bitches

  September 3, 2010 12:00 PM

• Nick is a tick said:

  Ok first of all Travis (guy who posted a comment above) your a Jack ass for not liking the Carmine bros! If you read the newest book you would know that Danial Carmine the father of Anthony, ben, clay, and Joseph was in the cog and almost stopped the war althogether! He singlehandedly killed the locust king with nothing but a t-shirt, a proto-type chaisaw gun, and cleets! And to top that off: he was psychic! He predicted all but one of his sons would die and the remaining one would help rebuild the world when it was over!!! SO GO TO HELL!!!!!!!!!

  October 4, 2010 11:00 PM

• Nick is a tick said:

  You guys Do know that Anya isn't the only girl in this game right? Know there's Samantha Bynes and honestly I think she's more of a badass than Anya

  October 4, 2010 11:16 PM

• Kainn said:

  something tells me that if Carmine doesn't die, she will

  October 12, 2010 4:20 AM

• guardian63 said:

  i think its cool to gets some female kicking some aass

  October 13, 2010 5:39 PM

• guardian63 said:

  dude i agree if carmine doesnt she will defintiely not to be sexist or anything

  October 13, 2010 5:42 PM

• RY said:

  You people chill the fuck out who cares about all that shit. its all about the game coming out what happens happens thats up to the writers when you get the game go the fuck home get a bag of fucking chips and a shit load of soda and play the fuck outta that game!!! am i right?

  November 4, 2010 10:43 AM

• Courtney said:

  You guys are idiots! Did you ever stop and think "hey, maybe they added a female for the females who play videogames" LOSERS!

  November 7, 2010 5:54 PM

• фйбй said:

  As long as it isn't Mataki... I never liked her in the books... And I didn't like the books either... I don't think Karen Traviss is a great writer, but I'd suggest the books to people who want to undersatnd Gears of War more...

  I'm guessing Mataki is Karen Traviss by the way...

  November 12, 2010 6:04 PM

• baird said:

  alex is hot. and anya is clearly a lesbian. and ofcourse carmine would win the war, while marcus is blowing dom. idiots!!  

  November 16, 2010 3:12 PM

• works4me said:

  Its about time for female character! Maddy Myers you little idiot go fuck yourself!

  December 3, 2010 5:48 AM

• paradox4 said:

  Well I've heard it's "confirmed" there's a Sam Byrne in Gears 3, and the blonde girl doesn't quite look like Anya, so maybe it's Sam. And Bernadette Mataki is "Bernie." Sam Byrne is not. So there should be 3 girls in the game but Bernie probably won't be seen in a combat role due to the 3rd book (not saying more about that so I won't spoil anything hopefully), and also it's a 50/50 shot with Anya. Sam is definitely in a combat role though so I think it's her. Also the "rape camps" aren't mentioned in any of the games so not everyone considers them "core canon" and they don't have to affect your opinion of the Gears universe people. It's your choice if they do or don't. They also aren't in the books so I'm ignoring them unless they're mentioned in Gears 3. ^.^

  December 5, 2010 11:02 PM

• JJ said:

  Brent Lawson , you´re a fu asshole!!! go screw yourself !!!!!!

  Women can be just as capable as men out on the front line, fighting ...The world would be so much better of without people like you and if you angry because your world just ending now (I´m guessing games are your life) because of this , then take it up with the ones who made the game...And I really hope that they don´t listen to you , it´s impossible to take you serious!!

  January 2, 2011 1:47 PM

• Taylor said:

  hey you sexist bastard ummmm women play gears of war too we would probably love to be a girl for once..some of us probably play betterr than u dont touch me you just might get chainsawed...dont let me see u cause u just might get a tork bow in your head

  February 8, 2011 11:57 AM

• Gurl Got Gam3 said:

  Hmmm LoLz wow its called a video game guys all of you need to chill you can say a movie is unrealistic but a gam3!? And Maybe they added a female character so female gamer can play as them... ^_^

  March 4, 2011 1:53 PM

• charlie said:

  wow, just wow. all of you guys (and girls) sound like complete morons. the rape camps are needed, when the human race is facing extinction the women need to take one for the team and just fucking deal with it. btw, taylor you sound like a complete dumbass.

  April 6, 2011 3:30 PM

• Lala said:

  @Charlie.. Were you born in the middle of a Locust/Human war so your mother had to "just fucking deal with" rape camps? Come ooon! There's been wars in the name of raped women..

  Maybe you should be there.. just to help the rest of the young men "practice" how to rape :)

  April 20, 2011 3:29 AM

• Logan said:

  I agree with Charlie and I think they also need to have a sandwich camp so the women can make sandwiches for the men saving the world

  April 21, 2011 3:12 PM

• Louis said:

  "Women aren't allowed to serve on the front lines of combat in real life because they're not physically and psychologically adapted to warfare." What do you mean "psychologically adapted?" To say woman are physically inferior due to genetics is one thing but to say woman are mentally incapable of handling the war is easily sexist. Besides, war is horrible and no one is truly psychologically prepared.

  May 12, 2011 11:59 PM

• sean said:

  wow you guys truly are retarded

  women are not allowed on the front lines of war because they arnt physically or mentally the same as men. The military doesnt want men to get attracted to the females and is is a fucking fact that women are more emotional then men and are more prone to act on their emotions THIS is a fucking fact that you can't dispute. THEY ARE NOT MADE TO BE SOLDIERS. Clearly noone here knows shit about the military. you all bought into feminist propaganda that is shoved down our throats by the liberal media. God you guys are dumb. Why do you think women have separate sports leagues because they aren't physically the same men are faster and stronger.

  the reason why she is in the game fighting is because the COG are desperate and running out of men.

  June 21, 2011 4:02 PM

• AmazingAmazon said:

  OMG, I have to chime in! If you grew up female in the 60's, you were told that women were not psychologically adapted to be astronauts, athletes, engineers, lawyers, judges,cops, firefighters, surgeons (being a doctor was OK if you were a pediatrician). Women were certainly not suitable to be heads of state - we don't want a WOMAN sitting with her finger on the button - heaven forbid! Especially if it is her "time of the month"! (Regardless of what one thinks of her political philosophy, Margaret Thatcher eliminated all doubt about women being capable to run the world). For all of the troglodytes who insist that women are emotionally inferior to men, science has proven the only real difference between women and men is physical strength. Ironically, the "weaker" sex is just that - physically weaker; but technology is negating the need for brute strength. Making decisions based on emotion is a training issue, NOT a biological one. (Consider the number of men who stalk their ex wives and girlfriends, obsessed to the point of killing. Now argue that women are the emotional ones). Women WILL see combat eventually; they will fly as combat pilots initially. To Sean who said: "THIS is a fucking fact that you can't dispute. THEY ARE NOT MADE TO BE SOLDIERS." You are right - it is pretty difficult to argue with a bigot. Or to dispute sexism since it is not based in reality. Your reasoning is no more sound  than those who argued that blacks were not made to be officers. Or that gays could not serve honorably. The bottom line, however, is that just bc you say it doesn't make it so. "(Y)ou all bought into feminist propaganda that is shoved down our throats by the liberal media." Turn off Fox, Sean, step out of your man-cave and maybe read a BOOK... There is a thing called a LIBRARY where you can have access to real facts. Here are a few that even one such as yourself cannot dispute:  This is a video game, not life. Even if it were true that women were not suitable to be soldiers, there is no reason why they are not suitable to play a game, which is fantasy. The only thing that game producers care about is selling their product. ME/ME2 included the ability to play Shepherd as a female or male. Last I heard, the only real complaint about ME is that it will not have a ME4! ME is a RAGING success. The fact that the lead character can be female demonstrates that gender is a non-issue. All of the whining is for naught. A few final facts: You guys have gotten awfully "emotional" about a non-issue. As ever, there will always be men who are threatened by powerful women. Science has shown us that women have the SMARTS to be anything they want to be. Modern day combat requires smarts, not muscle. That is a FACT that you and your cavebuddies will have to wrap your skulls around.

  June 28, 2011 5:51 PM

• Greendog said:

  All the women haters are stupid little douche bags, u would think gamers (mostly a male populace) would welcome females into the game world.  If u sausage-festers love being surrounded by penises then go find your local man on man bukkake or get a job doing gay porn, I hear the pay is great, I'm assuming most of these biggot dried up stinky dicklickers don't have jobs.  These cockgobbling imbeciles probably hate Cole Train too cuz he's black, I've run into plenty racist pieces of cow pie in gears2 MP & gears3 MP beta. So how bout all the women haters & racist degenerates get together so that all you can mouth hug eachothers baby dicks so that you can feel empowered with a dick in your mouth, & while you cream puffs bathe in one anothers semen, take comfort in knowing that you fear life....as for the rest of us we'll be pointing Gnashers, Boltoks, & Hammers at y'all as you plunge your face or ass into another biggots crotch.  In the words of Baird, "Eat shit, and die!!"   Everyone else c ya on battlefield in Gears3

  August 17, 2011 5:37 PM

• TrainDodger said:

  None of you keyboard warriors know what real warfare is all about. It's not fun, and it's not exciting. It isn't Hollywood, and it certainly isn't a video game. About ninety-nine percent of actual modern warfare consists of:

  1) Mind-numbing grunt work. Do you think supply trucks load themselves? How do the missiles get onto a fighter jet's wing pylons? Who cooks and cleans?

  2) Endless treks through one barren waste after another, hoping that you don't get ambushed.

  3) Sitting around sweating your fucking ass off in full body armor, wondering when the next wave of mortar rounds is going to hit, or if your best buddy is going to get blown up by a roadside bomb while on patrol.

  4) Trying to stabilize a patient that is missing half of his head.

  5) Oh, look. A five-year-old girl's corpse, riddled with shrapnel. Looks like her eyeball's hanging out of its socket. Brilliant. Was that our fire that did that, or theirs? You don't know. You've stopped caring, actually.

  6) Seeing some muzzle flashes a few hundred yards away. Shooting back and hitting nothing even after expending over a hundred rounds. Call in an airstrike. Watch the fireworks. Rinse, repeat until your Humvee gets blown up by an IED and you're in a medevac C-130. Maybe you can hang out with the cockroaches at Walter Reed. Teach them some tricks.

  7) Pulling silly pranks on each other to ease the boredom and oppressive monotony of it all.

  8) Gun jams in a firefight. Re-seat the magazine, cycle the action, pull the trigger. Still not working. Take the magazine out. Pull the charging handle and try to shake out any brass that might be stuck in the chamber. Oops, looks like it's lodged in there tight. Won't feed another round, won't extract the spent cartridge case even though you've pulled the charging handle a billion times. Going to need to take it apart or ram it out with a cleaning rod or something. There are still rounds hitting the berm right in front of you, and your gun is non-functional. Aren't you glad you're wearing desert camo to cover up the poop stains? Oh, that's right. You're actually wearing that greyish ACU digital shit that doesn't work. Everyone's going to see it when you lose the contents of your bowels.

  9) All your equipment was made by the lowest bidder. Literally.

  10) Oh no, another one of the little local rugrats wants some of your [put essential supplies here]. What do you do?

  It's not fun. It's not cool. It's extremely banal.

  Furthermore, you people rambling on about how women are physically incapable of taking part in war need to read up on your history. What about female Soviet snipers, or British SOE agents, or pilots? Are you going to just pretend they never existed? That their service meant nothing? Shame on you.

  Lyudmila Pavlichenko killed over 300 Nazis with her bolt-action rifle. Nancy Wake - a New Zealander who led a massive French resistance group - strangled an SS sentry to death with her bare hands, and biked three hundred freakin' miles nonstop to replace radio codes that had been compromised in a raid. If you think women can't fight in wars or lack the physical or mental mettle for it, then fuck you. You're wrong.

  That said, there are a number of reasons why women aren't in front-line combat positions today:

  1) Nine out of ten times, a man will risk his life unnecessarily to save a female squad member if he sees her take a bullet. In other words, it's the GUYS who get emotional when they see women hurt or dying.

  2) Supply chain/logistics issues. Requires special hygiene products. Difficult to standardize one-size-fits-all gear that will fit both sexes comfortably. Added expenses involved.

  3) Lower upper body strength on average. Just because women are weaker on average, however, you shouldn't take that to mean that they are incapable of becoming any stronger than they are by default. Virtually any woman in good health can, with sufficient training, lift you or I above their head with alarming ease. I'm 220 pounds of solid muscle, so that's saying something. Individual members of both sexes are easily capable of surpassing a threshold where their strength exceeds that of 99% of the rest of the world's population. It doesn't take very much effort to be part of that top seventy million or so.

  4) Increased chance of physical and/or sexual abuse, by both friend and foe. I think a lot of folks out there haven't really got the memo; apparently, some people are still under the delusion that humans are in some special class all our own, separate and distinct from other animals due to our highly sophisticated civilization. No. We're creepy, hairless apes that walk on two legs. Base aggression and hormone-driven psychosis is our calling card, and governments exist only to regulate the inevitable side effects of this inconvenient truth. It is essential to factor this little detail into your overall picture of human social patterns. Why, war itself is merely an artifact of this phenomenon.

  5) Possibility of evading combat duty by getting pregnant, be it intentionally or... unintentionally.

  In the end, it mostly boils down to money. It is simply more cost-effective to field male soldiers, and you know how the GAO is about saving the taxpayers some bread.

  Quite frankly, I can't see why anyone - male or female - would want to partake in war. It's not a game. It's not a test of one's manhood. It's just plain shit, and it's not worth anyone's time. Not mine, not yours, and certainly not theirs. Women, I mean.

  That said, if any person belonging to either sex wishes to take on those sorts of responsibilities, I don't feel that anyone has a right to stop them.

  August 28, 2011 9:37 AM

• TrainDodger said:

  War - as much as I loathe it - is history in the making, and saying that women don't belong in warfare is tantamount to saying that they do not deserve to be the authors of their own lives. That is fundamentally repulsive.

  August 28, 2011 9:41 AM

• ??? said:

  no one complained when halo let you be a woman and who cares its not going to ruin the game and plus its not even a real world or anything its like a book who cares if a woman is in gears 3

  September 27, 2011 6:00 PM

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