Nearly 4 years after the launch of Gears 5, The Coalition has formally revealed the following mainline Gears of War sport with a brand-new trailer, and a title: Gears of War: E-Day.
You can watch the trailer under, which debuted throughout right this moment’s Xbox Showcase and exhibits youthful variations of the sequence’ authentic heroes, Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago. No launch date or window was revealed.
Xbox revealed much more in regards to the newest within the Gears franchise in a blog post shortly after the showcase, the place they described E-Day as “an origin story that depicts the horror of Locust invasion on Emergence Day by way of the eyes of Marcus Fenix.”
“It’s going to really feel like a brand new Gears sport, as a result of that’s what it’s,” Creative Director Matt Searcy stated within the Xbox weblog publish. “It’s us revisiting the tone and the sensation of what makes Gears nice, however we’re tapping into new strategies, new processes, and new expertise that’s going to make the gameplay really feel higher than ever. It’s going to be superior, a sport that feels each actually new, and authentically Gears.”
Gears followers have been ready to lastly see the way forward for the Gears franchise, particularly after The Coalition’s beautiful Unreal Engine 5 tech demo that gave a glimpse into the way forward for what video video games might develop into. And right this moment’s announcement would not come as a big shock, because it’s in keeping with a earlier report that it might debut throughout the showcase.
According to that report from Tom Warren’s Notepad newsletter, Gears of War: E-Day will probably solely be for Xbox and PC, not rival consoles just like the PS5.
In our Gears 5 overview, we stated, “What was sudden [about Gears 6] is simply how successfully it doubles down on story with a character-focused, consequence-filled story that performs to one of many franchise’s most underappreciated strengths and backs it up with enjoyable, welcome additions to each its gameplay components and circulation.”
For extra, take a look at the information that The Coalition can be donating 1% of all future web income from Gears of War video games and merchandise to suicide prevention charities and the place Gears 5 landed on our checklist of the perfect Xbox Series X/S video games. And for every thing introduced throughout the Xbox showcase, take a look at our roundup.
Editor’s notice: A earlier model of this story referred to as the sport Gears of War 6. The official title is Gears of War: E-Day, and it’s an origin story.
