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Chris Esaki
A Japanese-American game designer, best known for developing the modern third-person cover system, as the lead designer of Kill Switch, and then a lead design director for Gears of War and Mass Effect.
While working at Namco (Company), he led the development of Kill Switch, the game often credited for setting the template for the modern third-person cover system. Esaki later left Namco and joined Microsoft, where he worked on Gears of War (Game) as a design director, working with Epic Games (Company) and lead designer Cliff Bleszinski (Person) on the game's cover system. Gears of War improved on, and popularized, the cover system he initially designed for Kill Switch. He subsequently also worked as a lead design director on Mass Effect (Game) and Gears of War 2 (Game), both of which used similar cover systems to the original Gears of War.
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