Artwork & Design
The Heavy Gear books are notable for their heavily illustrated content. Each book features highly-detailed plans and cutaways of the machines, along with flags, insignias, maps and other visual information to help players' immersion. Most of the artwork was done by illustrator Ghislain Barbe, who was also responsible for the artwork of Jovian Chronicles, another Dream Pod 9 game line with similar anime inspirations. Although he left Dream Pod 9, Ghislain produced book covers for the Heavy Gear franchise until Heavy Gear Blitz! Locked & Loaded.
The main themes of many artworks include the Heavy Gears themselves, with distinctive backpacks for the V-engine, single eye head units, and at least a small area of the machine painted with an alternating yellow and black warning stripe paint scheme.
Northern military combat machines are typically shaped with square armor plates, and are usually named for predatory mammals such as bears and large cats.
Southern military units are likewise given a distinctive look. They usually include numerous rounded and spherical shaped armor plates. They are usually named for reptiles, often snakes.
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