Subsequent Gears of Battle Sport Formally Revealed at Xbox Showcase 2024

Almost 4 years after the launch of Gears 5, The Coalition has formally revealed the subsequent mainline Gears of Battle recreation with a brand-new trailer, and a title: Gears of Battle: E-Day.

You possibly can 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 put up shortly after the showcase, the place they described E-Day as “an origin story that depicts the horror of Locust invasion on Emergence Day via 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,” Artistic Director Matt Searcy stated within the Xbox weblog put up. “It’s us revisiting the tone and the sensation of what makes Gears nice, however we’re tapping into new methods, new processes, and new expertise that’s going to make the gameplay really feel higher than ever. It’s going to be superior, a recreation 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 gorgeous Unreal Engine 5 tech demo that gave a glimpse into the way forward for what video video games may turn into. And right now’s announcement does not come as an enormous shock, because it’s in step with a earlier report that it might debut in the course of the showcase.

In accordance with that report from Tom Warren’s Notepad publication, Gears of Battle: E-Day will doubtless solely be for Xbox and PC, not rival consoles just like the PS5.

In our Gears 5 evaluate, we stated, “What was surprising [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 circulate.”

For extra, take a look at the information that The Coalition can 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 record of the most effective Xbox Collection X/S video games. And for all the pieces introduced in the course of the Xbox showcase, take a look at our roundup.

Editor’s notice: A earlier model of this story known as the sport Gears of Battle 6. The official title is Gears of Battle: E-Day, and it’s an origin story.