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Things that Matter in Life: A Conversation with Milton Glaser

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Gears V Finally Realizes The Series’ Trademark “Destroyed Beauty”

“Destroyed Beauty” was something I vividly remember bringing up as a design philosophy of the visuals of the original Gears of War, only I think it was fully achieved this year with the release of Gears V, and in a big way. Sera was so roundly decimated by the time the first three Gears of War games took place it was impossible to envision it as anything other than the war torn hell it had been reduced to. Gears V (and 4 to be fair) show a world on the mend and prove that in the absence of swarming underground creatures, lasers firing into cities from space and a general brown color pallet, Sera really did have that “Beauty” part of it’s identity on lock before, you know, the first part of the phrase took hold.

Gears V not only gives us an excellent look at the world on the mend, with grand cities like New Ephyra evoking what it must have been like to live in the monolithic Jacinto of old. It also manages to make the places still in ruin look like downright picture-esque memories of the past. The two best places of note for this are of course, two places we visited in previous entries of the series: New Hope Medical Facility and the ruins of Ephyra itself.

New Hope is frozen solid, something the people who worked there likely wouldn’t really mind given it’s history, and the area in which it’s found is almost completely transformed. In Gears of War 2 New Hope was in a fairly open area, with mostly flat plains and a smattering of trees bordering the facility. Fast forward twenty something years and New Hope is smack in the middle of a new growth Redwood forest in the middle of a harsh winter. Nature moved in and reclaimed the area around it, highlighting the devastation inflicted on this isolated place via the immense natural beauty surrounding it. The Ephyran ruins on the other hand, don’t have the benefit of natures contrast. Long since deliberately sunk into a crater in the events of Gears of War 2, Ephyra lacks the beauty and color pallet to be found in the more nature oriented sections of the game, but highlights the concept of “Destroyed Beauty” incredibly well. The sheer increase in fidelity that the Xbox One allows over the 2005 launched Xbox 360 allows for so many more small details to be present. Mausoleums sit unattended, streets have crumbled into nothing and navigating what used to be this ultra modern city is a nightmare of twisting alleys and fallen buildings. This place feels like it was a paradise to be it at one point it’s history, but is now nothing better than a hole in the ground, and somehow that doesn’t stop it from being a breathtaking sight.