De website Complex had dit interview met niemand minder dat Clifford 'i kissed a girl, and i liked it' Bleszinski over Gears of War 3, en daar vertelde de Clifster dat hij graag Master Chief in de game had gehad maar dat Microsoft daar niet zo blij mee was. Daar naast is ook bekend geworden dat naast rapper Ice-T nu ook Lil' Wayne de stem van een karakter zal inspreken.

Is there any chance we could see Master Chief or Commander Shepard join Marcus Fenix fighting Locust in a Heroes Pack DLC?

I'll let you in on a secret. I actually approached Microsoft on getting Master Chief into the game, but those guys are kind of squeamish. One of Halo's successes is that it's a soft M [rating]. Gears pushes it further. I'm creatively comfortable with that, though it can limit what you do. If you had to break it down, I'd say that Gears is like Mortal Kombat and Halo is like Street Fighter. [Laughs.]

But if we were to get Master Chief, we'd get his model, put him in a COG suit, make it blow up, and do some test animation work. We'd have to see what his head looks like being blown to smithereens or how his arm would look getting sawed off. Then we'd package up the test footage, put it on YouTube, and let the fans get a kick out of it because everything is meta these days. That's why Gears is packed with Easter eggs. That's the kind of metagame we have to think about in a post-Red Dead Redemption world.