Gears Of War: Judgment – An In-Depth Look at the New Overrun Game Mode and Classes

Gears of War: Judgment, People Can Fly and Epic Games’ newest addition to the Gears of War franchise, gets some brand new multiplayer footage.

This video of the upcoming Xbox 360-exclusive third-person shooter shows off the new Overrun game mode and gives us an in-depth look at their new classes feature:

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A brief run-down of the Overrun game type, only available in Gears of War: Judgment:

• Overrun pits two teams of five to fight against each other over a generator in the map.
• The Locust have to attack the generator and the COG have to defend it from the Locust.
• In every match, you will get to play as both COG defenders and Locust attackers.
• Each match consist of two rounds.
• When the round is over, both teams switch sides.
• The game is won by which ever team destroyed the generator the quickest.
• Overrun is a class based game type, meaning that every character, regardless of  it being the COG or Locust, will have a specific specialty with a pre-set loadout and a role in this game type.
• The Locust, unlike the COG, have to earn points in order to use different classes.
• Every Locust player starts out as a Ticker and slowly works their way up to a Grenadier/Kantus and finally, a Mauler.

A look at what each class has to offer:

COG Faction

Engineer

Weapons:

• Gnasher
• Blow Torch

Abilities:

• To repair fortifications and deploy temporary Sentry guns, to help fight off the attacking Locust.

Soldier

Weapons:

• Lancer
• Boomshoot

Abilities:

• Able to drop a ammo crates, for their team mates can replenish on ammo.

Medic

Weapons:

• Lancer
• COG Pistol.

Abilities:

• Able to throw Stim-Gas grenades at team mates that does not only replenish their health, but also revives downed team mates in it’s vicinity.

Sniper

Weapons:

• Sniper Rifle
• COG Pistol

Abilities:

• Able to climb to special “Sniper” only areas.
• Throw grenades that automatically tags enemy teams in it’s vicinity. Even if they’re behind cover or a wall.
• All tagged enemies receive extra damage from your weapons when they are tagged by the grenade.

Locust faction

Ticker

Abilities:

• Able to destroy fortifications.
• Self Destruct when their near a COG player.
• Dash.

Wretch

Abilities:

• Climb over fences.
• Leap onto a Scout-only perches.
• Stun opponents with its scream.

Grenadier

Abilities:

• Able to throw frag grenades.
• Armed with a Hammerburst.
• Able to mount on a Bloodmount.

Kantus

Abilities:

• The Locust medic.
• Ability to heal all near by Locust players in its vicinity with it’s healing ability.
• Able to mount on a Bloodmount.

Bloodmount

Abilities:

• Can carry the Grenadier and Kantus players on its back.
• Quicken the charge of it’s passengers special abilities.

Corpsers

Abilities:

• Armored front legs makes it hard to kill.
• Able to bypass the COG fortifications by going underneath them.

Serapede

Abilities:

• Attacks with its mandibles .
• Rear up and spew poison at near-by COG players.
• Only way to kill it is by shooting it in it’s rear end.

Mauler

Abilities:

• Wields a giant spinning shield and flail.
• Shield is able to protect him from ALL incoming enemy fire.
• The spinning shield is able to slice and dice through any COG players, instantly killing them.

You can expect Gears of War: Judgment to be released on the Xbox 360 in early 2013.

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