Info on Gears of War 3 has so far been sparse. We've had an announcement trailer to draw wild fallacious conclusions from and now courtesy of the fine people at IGN we have some screenshots to do the same. Click through for the screenshots below and check out some of the strange new features hinted at in Gears of War 3.

I'm eagerly awaiting the first feature that gives us some concrete detail on the next instalment of what has so far been a fantastic series.

Here's our mysterious female character again who appeared in the trailer, proving the COG are equal opportunity employers

No idea who this guy is, he looks a but lean compared to the steroid jacked likes of Marcus and Dom

This area looks quite a lot like the final levels of Gears 2, particularly when you were defending COG HQ from the Brumak attack

Here's that weird ass thing from the trailer, so no question they appear in the game and are an enemy

Dom Packing a new model Lancer, same as the ones from the promo image at the start of the article, note the bayonet isn't a chainsaw but a regular knife. Most odd

This guy looks like a regular COG grunt, but with lighter gear, maybe a scout?

Note that in this and previous screens everyone's rocking a tank top under their armour. Are they battling the Locust in more tropical climates or is the global climate changing?

Here's an easy one, Mr. Wilderness here (who's beard looks creepily like my own) carries the new double barrel shotgun

Swamp Thing makes an appearance in Gears? Clearly these are Locust (or humans) infected by whatever those spindly things are. Interesting that Epic seem to be throwing a third faction into the mix when we still know next to nothing about the Locust Horde