Gears of War isn't even that brown. It's mostly gray except when the yellow-green "immulsion" provides some highlights and in some levels it has a pink/purple tint.
Gears of War 2 is a lot browner in certain levels, but it's also a lot more colorful overall. And it's from after the trend had already died again. The so-called "trend" wasn't really much of a trend anyway. It was mostly a phase when web comics and people made fun of certain brown games and even then it was probably more because of the heavy use of bloom (which looked brownish at the time) than the actual color scheme of the games.
The big brown game that people made fun of was first and foremost Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Also a game that had crazy bloom syndrome.
Drab looking, colorless games/shooters definitely go back much farther. Ghost Recon 1 is another great example of a deliberately colorless game.
Gears of War 2 is a lot browner in certain levels, but it's also a lot more colorful overall. And it's from after the trend had already died again. The so-called "trend" wasn't really much of a trend anyway. It was mostly a phase when web comics and people made fun of certain brown games and even then it was probably more because of the heavy use of bloom (which looked brownish at the time) than the actual color scheme of the games.
The big brown game that people made fun of was first and foremost Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. Also a game that had crazy bloom syndrome.
Drab looking, colorless games/shooters definitely go back much farther. Ghost Recon 1 is another great example of a deliberately colorless game.
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