This morning, Microsoft and Epic announced that players will be able to decide the fate of the latest rookie Carmine brother in Gears of War 3. While previous brothers Anthony and Benjamin Carmine both met pretty gruesomely grim fates in the previous titles - this is one of the few opportunities where Epic is giving the community of gamers a chance to play a direct hand in what happens to Clayton Carmine - the third of the four Carmine boys. In what may be an awesoem effort to garner a few bucks from fans for Child's Play, each vote will be tabulated by the purchase of Avatar apparel on Xbox Live or t-shirts at San Diego Comic Con.
Full details below:
"Keeping with the series’ tradition, Clayton Carmine will be introduced in the trilogy’s final chapter, and like Anthony and Ben, the newest rookie brother runs the high risk of meeting an early death. However, unlike in the previous games, the Xbox community will choose whether Carmine lives or dies by purchasing special “Gears of War 3” avatar gear on Xbox LIVE Marketplace. Starting July 29 two new avatar t-shirts will be available on the Avatar Marketplace on Xbox LIVE – one shirt reads “Save Carmine” and the other reads “Carmine Must Die.” By purchasing the “Save Carmine” shirt, you’re casting your vote to let Carmine live in “Gears of War 3.” Conversely, purchasing the “Carmine Must Die” shirt means you want to see Clayton follow in the fate of his brothers.
Fans attending Comic-Con International in San Diego this week will also be able to cast their votes early by purchasing real life limited edition “Save Carmine” or “Carmine Must Die” t-shirts at the NECA booth (#3145) for $20.00. “Gears” fans can also visit the Xbox 360 booth (#5153) to be amongst the first to play “Gears of War 3” Beast Mode throughout the show. Finally, the team from Epic Games, including design director Cliff Bleszinski, executive producer Rod Fergusson and lead writer Karen Traviss, will be signing Comic-Con exclusive posters at the Xbox booth on Saturday, July 24 at 12:00 p.m. PDT."
If you're lucky enough to make it to SDCC, I can stress enough that it would be awesome to get your hands on one of those "Save Carmine" shirts. After all, with two out of the four brothers that are known to be in the series, what better way to top this off than to actually see one live to see another day. But then again, rookies have a problem lasting for that long.
Gears of War 3 is slated to release early 2011.
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