The game has since sold over five million copies by September 2008. It currently stands as the 4th best selling Xbox 360 game of all time. Gears of War sold over three million copies in just ten weeks and was the fastest-selling video game of 2006 as well as the second-most played game over Xbox Live during 2007. The game also features several online multiplayer game modes for up to eight players. The game is based on the use of cover and strategic fire for the player to advance through the scenarios a second player can play cooperatively through the main campaign to assist. The player assumes the role of Marcus Fenix, a former prisoner and war-hardened soldier. The game focuses on the troops of Delta Squad as they fight a desperate, last-ditch attempt to save the remaining human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless and virtually unstoppable subterranean enemy known as the Locust Horde. Despite the initial statements of Xbox 360 exclusivity, a Microsoft Windows version of the game was developed in conjunction with People Can Fly and released a year later, featuring new content including additional campaign levels, a new multiplayer game mode, and Games for Windows Live functionality. It was initially released as an exclusive title for the Xbox 360 in November 2006 in North America, Australia, and most of Europe and includ a "Limited Collector's Edition" with added content and an art book titled Destroyed Beauty that detailed much of the game's back-story. Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios.
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