The following Gears sport, Gears of Warfare: E-Day, is being billed because the collection’ subsequent mainline entry, but it surely’s going to be a prequel set earlier than the unique Gears of Warfare, fairly than following up on Gears 5 because the collection’ subsequent numbered entry. Curiously sufficient, nevertheless, as revealed by former franchise boss Rod Fergusson, if issues had gone in a different way, the following Gears sport could be quite a bit completely different.
Talking lately throughout IGN’s Unlocked podcast, Fergusson – who has been the Diablo boss at Blizzard Leisure since his departure from The Coalition in 2020 – revealed that whereas he was nonetheless accountable for the collection on the studio, the tough define that he had put in place for Gears 6 was for the collection to go to a brand new planet fairly than persevering with to be set on Sera.
“Gears 6 was to go away Sera,” he mentioned (transcription through GamesRadar). “That was one thing we have been constructing to. For those who paid consideration to the story in Gears 5, you come throughout the UIR [Union of Independent Republics] sort-of rocket expertise. We have been kind of laying the seeds and the groundwork that in taking on that UIR territory, we’ve adopted their house program. So what I wished to do with Gears 6 is take you off Sera to come across what that might imply to the remainder of the galaxy or, no less than, the remainder of the photo voltaic system. Not that you simply’d be hopping [between planets], however… it was outdated, Russian-era, sputnik-type tech, so we weren’t going to begin Mass Impact-ing this. It was actually about, ‘let’s get you to a brand new place to come across what this appears like.’”
In fact, with the following Gears sport set to be a prequel, it stays to be seen whether or not that’s nonetheless what The Coalition intends to do with the franchise with its subsequent numbered entry- although clearly, we’re going to have to attend fairly some time to seek out out.
Gears of Warfare: E-Day is in improvement for Xbox Collection X/S and PC. A launch date hasn’t been introduced, however reviews have claimed the sport is focusing on a 2025 launch.
