TechGamingXbox surprise reveal of landmark game’s return leaves fans confused – and I’m tornE-Day looks great, but what happened to the ongoing Gears story?When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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E-Day looks great, but what happened to the ongoing Gears story?
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It’s already being widely agreed thatXboxlaunched itself right back into the spotlight with a really successful showcase of its many upcoming games at the Xbox Games Showcase – with a whole heap of long-awaited titles shown off in more detail than was expected.
One of the biggest surprises of the show was the return of theGears of Warfranchise – one that we knew was broadly on the way, but wasn’t rumoured to be appearing so soon.Gears of War: E-Dayis the new game, with no release information yet attached to the title.
Crucially, it’s a prequel, set as the title suggests on the day that the Locust threat invaded Earth – Emergence Day. It’ll star series mascot Marcus Fenix again, alongside his pal Dom Santiago, revived thanks to that backward time skip.
Gears of War: E-Day | Official Announce Trailer (In-Engine) - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 - YouTubeWatch On
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Gears of War: E-Day | Official Announce Trailer (In-Engine) - Xbox Games Showcase 2024 - YouTube
The trailer has the all-important boast that it’s entirely created using in-engine footage, so it should hopefully be fairly representative of how the game might look when it does come out.
That’s not hopelessly optimistic, either, given thatGears 5still looks pretty ravishing to this day – and that’s nearly five years old now.
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The principal thing to remember is thatGearswas (and is) very much in the middle of a story when the fifth game and its DLC ended – it’s not as if we reached a major conclusion and can now jump backwards to explore another part of the timeline.
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Gears 5ended with a major choice that could take the story in two directions, and it would have felt safe to assume we’d get to see which one of these was the official canonical ending, or even to get the option of playing with either choice’s consequences in a sequel. That day may still come (and the developers say they’re not done with the story of Kait and crew), but it won’t be for some time.
There were plenty of players expressing a little surprise at this on social media in the Showcase’s wake, like one user whowrote on X: “Gears of Warretreating to Emergence Day and not finishing the JD/Kait trilogy was a HUGE shock for me”.
Many of these have been tempered nonetheless with optimism for the game, though, so it’s not like the overall sentiment is negative overall or anything like that.
I can’t wait to get my hands on some more chunky, bloody third-person action, speaking for myself, but there’s no doubt that I’m torn over the way an ongoing story has been placed on what might be a really, really long pause to enable this slightly indulgent return to the series' roots.
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