SEGA PS3 title Valkyria Chronicles is strategy RPG meets Ghibili anime meets third person shooter. Producer Ryutaro Nonaka told us that he wanted to try something new using the PS3 hardware — such as the hand-drawn style art. The game is set during the Second European War, and Nonaka said they kept the art unrealistic so war would see less grim. What games influenced Valkyria Chronicles? According to Nonaka:

The third person shooting element was very much influenced by Gears of War.

See, people in Japan have played Gears of War.