Gears of War Realm

I noticed a new article today over at Kotaku and FlickerGaming talking about a new feature being added to Gears of War multiplayer.

It appears they are adding some cool voice mapping features, so that your character appears to be speaking using your voice. It’ll even be able to tell if you are whispering or yelling, and animate the character’s face accordingly. This is a first of it’s kind feature, and I’m sure will add even deeper immersion to the multiplayer games than has been seen before.

I personally can’t wait to use this feature, as I am normally the one trying to organize my team sometimes I have to resort to yelling to get their attention. Having my character reflect that yelling in his facial expressions is going to help add to that realism. It does leave me to wonder how the little kids talking funny, using lame catch phrases or singing will look if their characters reflect that as well. Maybe the game will paint clown makeup on those kids’ characters? That’d be funny.