Dead Space Narrative Producer Calls Gears of War Worst Writing In Games

In what seemed to have started as a crash course in narrative for the interactive medium which took a left turn into full-on Gears of War bashing to finally end up as self-deprecating recrimination, Dead Space narrative producer Chuck Beaver calls the narrative of Epic’s flagship title “literally the worst writing in games.”


“Story can only ruin a game for those people who care about story, so it’s a conditional answer,” he said. “For instance, Gears of War. It contains atrocious, offensive violations of story basics. Yet it doesn’t seem to ruin it for many, many people. It’s literally the worst writing in games, but seems to have no ill effects.” I certainly agree that  there’s a lesson to be had in Gears’ marriage of exquisite gameplay and brain dead narrative. The fact that bad writing in games has “no ill effects” is not one of them.