Almost 4 years after the launch of Gears 5, The Coalition has formally revealed the following mainline Gears of Battle recreation with a brand-new trailer, and a title: Gears of Battle: E-Day.
You may watch the trailer beneath, which debuted throughout right now’s Xbox Showcase and reveals youthful variations of the collection’ unique heroes, Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago. No launch date or window was revealed.
Xbox revealed much more concerning the newest within the Gears franchise in a weblog submit 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 recreation, as a result of that’s what it’s,” Inventive Director Matt Searcy stated within the Xbox weblog submit. “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 know-how that’s going to make the gameplay really feel higher than ever. It’s going to be superior, a recreation that feels each really new, and authentically Gears.”
Gears followers have been ready to lastly see the way forward for the Gears franchise, particularly after The Coalition’s gorgeous Unreal Engine 5 tech demo that gave a glimpse into the way forward for what video video games might change into. And right now’s announcement would not come as an enormous shock, because it’s in step with a earlier report that it will debut in the course of the showcase.
In keeping with that report from Tom Warren’s Notepad publication, Gears of Battle: E-Day will seemingly 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 method and circulate.”
For extra, try the information that The Coalition could be donating 1% of all future internet income from Gears of Battle video games and merchandise to suicide prevention charities and the place Gears 5 landed on our listing of the very best Xbox Collection X/S video games. And for every thing introduced in the course of the Xbox showcase, try our roundup.
Editor’s observe: A earlier model of this story referred to as the sport Gears of Battle 6. The official title is Gears of Battle: E-Day, and it’s an origin story.
