As teased by various rumors, a new Gears was indeed announced at the Xbox Games Showcase 2024, but it’s actually titled Gears of War: E-Day. The in-engine trailer shows Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago dealing with the Locust menace for the first time ever on Emergency Day. As such, it can be considered a prequel to the previous games.
Experience the brutal horror of Emergence Day through the eyes of Marcus Fenix in the origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas.
Fourteen years before Gears of War, war heroes Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago return home to face a new nightmare: the Locust Horde. These subterranean monsters, grotesque and relentless, erupt from below, laying siege on humanity itself.
Developer The Coalition was one of the first triple-A gaming studios to switch to Epic’s Unreal Engine 5. However, the studio tinkered with some side projects that were only fairly recently set aside for Gears 6.