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Gears of War (also known as just Gears) is a Third-Person Shooter video game franchise previously developed by Epic Games and currently developed by The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios. By Word of God, gameplay emphasizes tactical maneuvers rather than More Dakka, and is the recent Trope Codifier for Take Cover!-style gameplay, forcing you to shoot carefully and outflank as much as you can (though Regenerating Health makes it a little easier). There isn't a jump button and everything is angled towards making the combat as personal and violent as possible (the main gun used has a chainsaw built into the grip, called the chainsawbayonet). You can give your squadmates orders, but if one them goes down, you have to pick them up and get them back on their feet. Finally, there is an Active Reload system that buffs your damage output if you hit the right timing window but jams your gun if you mess up.
The general story centers on the soldiers of Delta Squad as they fight to save the human inhabitants of the fictional planet Sera from a relentless subterranean enemy known as the Locust Horde. The Coalition of Ordered Governments (COG) is fighting back with their own soldiers they call 'Gears'. The Locust are relentless, vicious, can pop out of the ground almost anywhere and seem to be numberless, but the COG have superior technology and the capital city of Jacinto is located on a plateau of solid granite, making it the one place the Locust can't tunnel up.
The player assumes the role of Marcus Fenix, a battle-hardened former war hero. When in cooperative play, the second player takes control of Fenix's best friend and fellow soldier Dominic 'Dom' Santiago. Alongside them are fellow soldiers from another squad who they seem to frequently join with: former pro athlete Augustus 'Cole Train' Cole and smart-mouthed Damon Baird.
Besides dealing with the humanoid footsoldiers there is a great deal of focus on monstrous creatures you have to face such as the dinosaur-like Brumak (with a cannon on its back and chainguns on each arm), the crab/spider-like Corpser and the 'monkey-dog' Wretch. Alongside that, the games are about building atmosphere and drawing you into the moment, investigating abandoned warehouses and exploring a labyrinth of underground tunnels. These are not games to play in the dark.
On the way, they do manly things like blowing stuff up, delivering one-liners and growing beards.
In January 2014, Microsoft officially purchased the rights to the Gears of War franchise from Epic Games, officially becoming an internal, first-party property. They handed the reins of the franchise over to Black Tusk Studios, which would go on to rename themselves The Coalition (a reference to in-game mythology, following the trend of official Halo developer 343 Industries). Their first work on the series was a remastered version of the first game titled Gears of War: Ultimate Edition was released August 2015 for Xbox One and PC (via the Windows 10 Store) March 2016. The first original work from The Coalition was Gears of War 4 and launched worldwide on October 11, 2016.
At E3 2018, The Coalition revealed three new games: Gears Pop, Gears Tactics and Gears 5. The first one will be a mobile game where players will battle the Locust as the series' characters in Funko Pop! form, the second is a PC release that will focus on epic cover-based battles that the series is known for and the final one is a direct sequel to Gears of War 4. It will star Kait Diaz as the Player Character rather than JD Fenix and will focus on Kait's personal quest to discover her family's connection to the Locust Horde and promises to take the series “back to where it all began”. All three games are set to be released in 2019, with Gears 5 releasing on September 10th, 2019.
Released on November 12, 2006, the Locust Horde has been rampaging across the planet for about 14 years. Marcus Fenix was imprisoned for dereliction of duty four years earlier, but was pardoned when the Locust assaulted Jacinto Plateau and invaded the prison. Marcus was reinstated and assigned to Delta Squad alongside Dominic Santiago. His first assignment involves a priority mission to assist another group, Alpha Squad, to deploy a device that would help deliver a final strike against the enemy.
The game was praised for its beautiful visuals and innovative gameplay system. The most common complaints were a dull color palette but most especially an uneven storyline.
The game was remastered for the Xbox One under the title Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, with a graphical overhaul to bring it up visually to the later games in the series, done in the same vein as the work for The Master Chief Collection. The remaster even got a new 'Mad World' trailer.
Released on November 7, 2008, the Locust re-emerge several months after the events of the first game, except more desperate and far more dangerous, while on the surface, many human refugees and Gears have fallen sick with a disease known as Rustlung, an Imulsion sickness. COG forces return to action in an attempt to make an assault on the enemy's home turf, while Dom embarks on a personal mission to find his missing wife Maria, putting him in conflict with his other responsibilities as a member of Delta Squad.
The second game received similar accolades, with many complaints of the first game addressed. The graphics are better than ever, a larger weapon variety is given and the story is epic while more personal. However, it still holds many slight flaws, but that doesn't reduce the amount of fun there is in playing the game. The multiplayer set-up has also been cheered, with the new 'Horde' mode receiving the most attention; while it didn't invent the concept, Gears 2 is the reason most shooters have a wave-based survival mode now.
Released on September 20, 2011, the ending of the second game has left both sides decimated, with Marcus and Delta Squad trying to keep their head down as there's no place left on Sera that is safe. AnyaStroud has joined the team as a soldier, Dom has grown a Beard of Sorrow and the approaching summer has the squad wearing lighter versions of their normal armor. The story picks up 18 months later when the COG leadership (what is left of it) approaches Marcus with some new discoveries about the Locust. Unfortunately, the Gears don't just have to contend with the Locust Horde: a new faction, the Lambent Locust, have emerged from the underground and are hostile to both sides.
With the added benefit of a multiplayer beta to iron out the kinks (including dedicated servers), Gears of War 3 ended up the best reviewed of the trilogy with a very bright color palette, crisp visuals and fluid gameplay. A very full game release, it has a very long campaign where you can play with four characters at all times (including a co-op online arcade version), Horde Mode 2.0 (with some Tower Defense-like strategy), Beast Mode (a reversed Horde Mode where you play as Locust creatures attacking the COG), loads of features to track your gaming history and a single leveling system that works under all modes. The game was also built to be heavily modifiable, with a Downloadable Content pack called 'RAAM's Shadow' containing an entire mini-campaign.
The final Gears of War installment developed by Epic Games, released March 19, 2013. It is a prequel from fifteen years before Gears of War with Baird taking over as the lead protagonist. The game focuses on his time as a lieutenant in Kilo Squad, with Augustus Cole and others under his command. In the tale, taking place early in the Locust War, the squad is accused of treason for stealing COG experimental technology on a mission. The game uses In Medias Res as Baird explains what they were doing and why, and along the way the campaign has various 'Declassified' segments that adds a new wrinkle to the gameplay that are optional but provide a replay bonus along with a player competition. The characters are younger and (slightly) less cynical than what they later become, with a focus on the specifics of Baird and Cole's backstory that is only hinted at in the main games.
The reveal trailer can be found here. Development was being outsourced to Epic's subsidiary studio People Can Fly, the makers of Painkiller and Bulletstorm. The gameplay was shifted up, as while Take Cover! is still vital the speed of the characters is increased significantly and there is a more vertical factor with the maps. Multiplayer will get another new mode called 'OverRun', a sort of Horde-meets-Beast mode-meets regular multiplayer, where you switch off between player teams of Locust creatures and COG soldiers with an objective goal and uses a class-based system. Horde Mode was technically removed but replaced with a new, related gametype called Survival, which integrates the same class based system as Overrun and introduces vital new objectives to maintain as you hold out for 10 waves.
Announced at E3 2015 with a release date of October 11, 2016, it is the first original work of official Gears developer, The Coalition. Like Gears 3, it will have a multiplayer beta, which will be available on April 18 to anyone who has played Ultimate Edition, April 25 to the general public, and will end on May 1.
The game is set 25 years after Gears 3. The main character is James Dominic 'JD' Fenix, the son of Marcus and Anya, who first ran away from home to join the COG against his father's wishes and later went AWOL from the COG after being involved in some kind of Noodle Incident that will apparently be explained in the game. He is joined by his Black Best Friend and obvious Dom-Expy Delmont 'Del' Walker, who went AWOL along with him after being involved in the same incident; and Kait Diaz, a young girl who is one of the Outsiders, essentially the new version of Stranded, though it's confirmed that the COG-Outsider relationship will be different from the COG-Stranded one. The campaign will have 2-player co-op, with the second player getting a choice between either Del or Kait. Other confirmed characters are Reyna, Kait's mother and leader of the Outsiders; and Oscar, Kait's uncle, a former Gear, and an expert survivalist (level of craziness not yet confirmed).
The enemy faction is the Swarm, a suspiciously Locust-like race that has shown up out of the blue and started kidnapping people. The COG will function as secondary antagonists, as they think it's the Outsiders who are kidnapping people and are sending their new Mecha-Mooks, the DeeBees, to deal with the situation. DeeBees were developed by the COG to maintain order and peace within their walled colonies following the wake of the Locust War, as well as do dangerous jobs such as construction that have a high risk of injury or death so that humans don't have to do them and can focus on repopulating. However, the biggest enemy in the game is probably going to be the weather. Adam Fenix's weapon at the end of Gears 3 apparently had the nasty side effect of turning Sera's already-deadly weather Up to Eleven, and throughout the game the trio will encounter 'wind flares', essentially fire and lightning inside a tornado. The strong winds will even affect the trajectory of bullets and thrown grenades, and the wind flares contain deadly 'storm walls', Mother Nature's answer to the Hammer of Dawn. Also, it's been implied that they can happen at random, as well as at predetermined points in the story. Multiplayer, however, seems safe from deadly weather (at least for now).
The game is bringing back some of the horror and suspense elements of Gears 1, rifles such as the Hammerburst and Lancer now have stocks, and the latter has an attached flashlight to assist in navigating through dark areas (looks like Dom got his wish). Also, the Gnasher now has a rack of shotgun shells on it, which serves no purpose other than looking cool. New weapons include the Dropshotnote , the Buzzkillnote , and the DeeBee arsenal: the Enforcer SMG, the Tri-Shotnote , the RL-4 Salvonote , the Overkill shotgunnote , and the Embar sniper riflenote . There is also the new ability to grab an enemy from across a piece of cover and pull them over to your side, then stab them to death with a knife. The knife can also be used after a vault kick. It's also now possible to quickly vault over cover in the middle of a roadie run by tapping B as you approach it.
The story takes place over the course of a single night.
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A film adaptation is currently in the works, though plagued with Development Hell, and the third game will be the last to feature Delta Squad. A series of comic books expand on the backstory and what happens between the games, alongside a collection of five novels by noted sci-fi scribe Karen Traviss.