Gears of War 3 to support stereoscopic 3D

Epic Games’ executive producer Rod Fergusson has confirmed that Gears of War 3 will include a display mode for stereoscopic 3D TVs.

Microsoft may not have quite the same level of commitment to 3D gaming as Sony does but the technology is there and when the question of whether or not to put it to use in the upcoming Gears of War 3 came up, the answer, according to executive producer Rod Fergusson, was quite simply, why not?

“It felt like something we wanted to have. It was a feature we didn’t want to be deficient in. When you look at Gears 1, it was what people used to demo HD at the time,” Fergusson said.

The Xbox 360 doesn’t support the same HDMI 1.4 stereoscopic 3D that the PlayStation 3 does, resulting in a lower resolution than what you would see in a regular high-definition display. Fergusson admits that “it’s a little bit jaggier in certain areas” but that the difference is “not huge.”

“It was something that came in really late in our process. It wasn’t something where we said, OK, we’re going to design the game from the ground up for 3D. It was more of a post-process 3D, where we’re like, OK, certain things need to be adjusted, but for the most part it generally works.”