Gears of War 3 trailer bristles with manliness

So Gears of War 3 (or as Epic’s Cliff Bleszinski likes to call it now: “the worst kept secret in gaming history”) has been given it’s first official trailer, premiering on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.  The trailer, titled “Ashes to Ashes”, gives a brief glimpse of what Sera has become after the destruction of Jacinto.  Head on over to the Late Night site to take a look, and feel free to skip Fallon’s usual sub-par banter to around 2:30 for the relevant stuff.

So now I’m excited to be returning to Gears, although as Cliff points out it’s still over a year away at this point, but there’s something that’s got me even more excited in this trailer:

How fucking epic does Dom’s beard look?  He’s sporting a chin-piece that would make Grizzly Adams weep a Californian Redwood to life.  No wonder the new female soldier is helping him up, you couldn’t just leave a jaw-curtain like that to die, it would show you’d truly given up on humanity.

Damn, even Will Riker would be blushing over this baby.

Looks pretty brutal, Epic, I look forward to seeing more!  Who knows, maybe you could give Cole a Wyatt Earp…

Oh, and for anyone wondering about the song the trailer is scored to, it’s Heron Blue by Sun Kil Moon.