{"id":77763,"date":"2026-05-11T07:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T11:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77763"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T13:37:04","slug":"gears-of-war-creator-lays-out-vision-for-a-new-game-and-it-sounds-intriguing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77763","title":{"rendered":"Gears Of War Creator Lays Out Vision For A New Game, And It Sounds Intriguing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has laid out a vision for a new game that he says is essentially &#8220;John Wick meets Carrie by way of Lovecraft Country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Posting <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/therealcliffyb\/status\/2053147814872637623\">online<\/a>, the retired game developer said he still wants to make this game, which he is calling &#8220;Hollow Point.&#8221; The game would take place in a &#8220;rustic New England town&#8221; during the fall, and that&#8217;s familiar ground for Bleszinski as he was born and raised in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Hollow Point would be a two-player game. Player 1 would be an ex-Marine &#8220;with all the guns\/boom stuff,&#8221; while Player 2 would be a young woman with psychic\/telekinesis powers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A hurricane is coming and stirring up all sorts of Cthulhu inspired madness and monsters,&#8221; Blesinzki said of the narrative setup.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s story, as Bleszinski envisions it, would feature five main acts, including &#8220;Calm before the storm,&#8221; &#8220;Landfall,&#8221; &#8220;Eye of the Storm,&#8221; Latter half of the storm,&#8221; and &#8220;Aftermath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Hnn65B0mGck\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FHnn65B0mGck%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHnn65B0mGck&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FHnn65B0mGck%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p>As for the game&#8217;s enemies, Bleszinski said there would be two main categories, including &#8220;corporeal ghosts\/demons&#8221; who take bullet\/explosive damage and a second type that can only be hurt with magic. As such, Players 1 and 2 would need to cooperate and coordinate,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has laid out a vision for a new game that he says is essentially &#8220;John Wick meets Carrie by way of Lovecraft Country.&#8221; Posting online, the retired game developer said he still wants to make this game, which he is calling &#8220;Hollow Point.&#8221; The game would take place in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77763"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77766,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77763\/revisions\/77766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}