George_Wrisley July 21, 2008 Features, Xbox 360 2 views Comments Print This Post  Email This Post

According to Videogaming247 :

Ballantine Books is to release a set of three Gears of War novels,
the publisher’s announced, the first of which will hit the US in
October.

Gears of War: The Battle of Aspho Fields, written by New York Times
bestselling author Karen Traviss, will go on sale on October 28.

“After finishing the first Gears of War game, players were left
wanting to know more about Delta Squad and the events leading up to
Emergence Day,” said Epic Games’ boss Michael Capps.

“This trilogy of novels opens up whole new worlds of storytelling
opportunities, and will add even more context to the upcoming comic
book series, game sequel and motion picture. We loved Karen Traviss’
work on the Republic Commando series, and we can’t wait to get her
Gears book to our fans.”

This sounds really cool to me. I really enjoyed reading the Halo novels; they really filled in some details and made the gameplay more interesting and meaningful. Hence my taking umbrage a while back here. So I can only hope that these Gears novels will do the same.