Gears of War 5 reworked to quit, apparently never had

In the campaign continues against the "cool" representations of tobacco consumption, Armament of war apparently will no longer include smoking scenes – but there is some confusion because apparently he would not have any.

According to a report by Variety, a group called Truth Initiative has approached Turner, whose Esports Eleague team broadcasts Armament of war. It was apparently the catalyst to eliminate smoking images in the new game, Gears of War 5.

It's a strange choice: from memory, I only remember a character who lit up Armament of warand it was Michael Barrick. In my opinion, he skates because he is not a very sweet player, he is an older guy who nibbles a cigar. I do not think this representation is colder than, say, Sully's Unexplored. In both cases, the character does not look cool because of smoking – he looks like my Polish grandfather.

It's been my way for a long time to ask: why go after Armament of warif indeed someone was "gone after" while there are so many smokers in the games? What about Solid Snake? Or the aforementioned Sully? Or YakuzaKazuma Kiryu, who has been smoking like a fireplace for seven games now?

Whatever it is, fear one for clean lungs, right? Well, sort of. Rod Fergusson, the head of gears developer The Coalition, said on Twitter that there was no smoking to withdraw from the game at all. Fergusson said that he had beaten for the smoking pictures to be excluded from the series, Barrick being an exception that he allowed for suffering.

It has never been removed. It was never there in the first place.

– Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking) July 12, 2019

It was a fight that I especially won and became a compromise. RAAM's Shadow had to start by lighting his cigar, but I said "no," so they left it off for the duration of the mission. Then, as a symbolic gesture of Jace, he ends up lighting it. I wanted it to be extinct but lost.

– Rod Fergusson (@GearsViking) July 12, 2019

He also stated in a statement to Variety"It has always been important for me not to use smoking as a means of storytelling. That's why we deliberately chose to avoid highlighting or glorifying smoking in "Gears 5" and in the Gears of War universe in the future. "

This comes a few days after Netflix's proclamation of the need to reduce the number of smokers in its emissions after a report (also commissioned by the Truth Initiative) showed that smoking had increased after characters from these shows were smoked.

There is a kind of humor in the situation – gears is a series of games that has been proven with a pretty exaggerated gore, including creative uses for a chainsaw. But smoke? Oof, this is the part that will mislead young people. Nevertheless, I will concede that with the prevalence of tobacco and the relative lack of chainsaws in body size, it is more likely that young people will seize one or the other .

We contacted the Truth initiative for clarification on its potential role in game development.