SEGA PS3 title Senjou no Valkyria 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 unreali so war would see less grim. What games influenced Senjou no Valkyria? According to Nonaka:

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

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