Gears of War 4 arrives in October. Take a look at the official box art and read up on the story details here!
Gears of War 4, the highly anticipated fifth installment in the third-person shooter series, will finally arrive on Oct. 11, developer The Coalition has announced. Fans will have a chance to get their hands on the game's multiplayer mode in a special beta that begins on April 18 for those who played Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and on April 25 for everyone else.
The sequel takes place 25 years after the events of Gears of War 3 and the death of the Locust Queen. The story follows JD Fenix, son of former protagonist Marcus Fenix, along with teammates Kait and Del. The narrative will unfold over 24 hours in the characters' lives, not unlike the short timespan of the original Gears of War.
Coalition studio head Rob Fergusson spoke to EW about the game's story and return to the structure of the original Gears:
The thing for us is, you know, we’ll never be a survival horror game. When you have guys this big with chainsaw bayonets, you can never disempower them enough. For me I really like the words “tension” and “drama.” It’s really where we’re trying to push. By the time you get to Gears 3, it felt a little bit like it could be a WWII game in the sense that the Locusts were well understood and you were fighting them like you would’ve fought the Nazi army in a WWII game. Whereas Gears 1, there was still a lot more discovery and still being scared and trying to understand this threat that you had never seen before.
That’s what we’re really trying to do with 4. We’re trying to go back to that feeling, so we’re taking the story down from — if you look at Gears 3 as this sort of planetary genocide or trying to save the human race from extinction — we wanted to get back to the story of three people and one night, and how can these three people survive this one night. Getting that intimacy back with story, and the intimacy back in terms of tone and to allow you to be afraid again.
EW also revealed the game's box art, which showcases the three protagonists:
Gears of War 4is coming exclusively to the XBO.
