I hate fenix, not a real character at all. A steroid using football blayer that acts like he has a stick up his ass all the time.
I can see why he's commonly requested as he is just another kratos, except microsofts version
Quite contrare, Fenix has a whole hell of a lot of depth to him: He grew up rich and his parents neglected him, causing him to become sort of a problem child and being shuffled from school to school. Carlos Santiago (Dom's Brother) was the first person to actually stand up to him, and as such Marcus considered himself to be more Santiago than Fenix. He was just a lad when his mom disappeared, and because his dad didn't do anything with him he became a gear. He had the schooling to enlist as an officer, but he became a front line soldier for two reasons: One of which was to piss off his father, the other was because he wanted to bleed in the trenches with his "brothers" Carlos and Dominique.
When his father was reported missing, Marcus went AWOL to try to find him, eventually getting thrown in jail for desertion of duty and being left to rot in a Locust attack, until Dominique busts him out at the beginning of Gears of War 1.
All of the gear series takes place after the Pendulum Wars, where Dom (He was Spec Ops at the time) and Hoffman stole the plans for the Hammer of Dawn, and Marcus and Carlos battled on the front lines, where Carlos gets killed and Marcus goes bat shit crazy, hijacks a tank, and starts laying waste to everything in his path to Carlos' body.
He's got plenty of character, but I don't honestly see how you can say he is "Microsoft's Kratos" when Kratos is a whiny ***** and Marcus barely talks.....
BAD ASS!
Isaac is... as much as I love Dead Space, is a character with no personality that has no habilities if you remove him his guns (well tk pulse maybe...)
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