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Prequel ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Announced for Xbox Series and PC [Trailer]
Developer The Coalition are returning to the Gears of War franchise after 2019’s Gears 5, this time with a prequel in Gears of War: E-Day. Announced during the Xbox Games Showcase, E-Day will take place fourteen years before Gears of War, and sees the return of Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago. Accompanying the announcement is a new trailer.
Currently in development for the Xbox Series and PC, Gears of War: E-Day is set during Emergence Day, and will have Fenix and Santiago facing off against the Locust Horde. In an interview with Xbox Wire, The Coalition aims to recreate and improve the series’ trademark third-person action, set within an explosive campaign that combines satisfying gameplay and “emotive, character-led storytelling.”
“It’s going to feel like a new Gears game, because that’s what it is,” says Creative Director Matt Searcy. “It’s us revisiting the tone and the feeling of what makes Gears great, but we’re tapping into new techniques, new processes, and new technology that’s going to make the gameplay feel better than ever. It’s going to be awesome, a game that feels both truly new, and authentically Gears.”
As such, The Coalition are looking to recast the Locusts as living nightmares that are mysterious and formidable creatures. “The design brief was pretty simple,” explains Searcy. “Locust are the ‘monsters under the bed.’ What would happen to the people of Sera in seeing this overwhelming army of monsters and trying to figure out…what are you going to do?”
Seeing as this is a prequel, E-Day will be a “story of many origins,” for the characters and series. That also includes the iconic Chainsaw Lancer, which is briefly glanced at during the trailer. And speaking of the trailer, it uses Gary Jules’ haunting cover of “Mad World”, calling back to the trailer for the original game.
Gears of War: E-Day is currently in development for Xbox Series and PC. No release date has been announced.
The long wait is over. The Chinese Room and publisher Secret Mode’s first-person narrative horror title Still Wakes the Deep is available today on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series and PC via Steam. The customary launch trailer gets right to the point with showing glimpses of the aquatic horror that awaits players, set to Maggie MacInnes‘ haunting “Fath Mo Mhulaid a Bhith Ann” (“Being here has caused my sorrow”).
Set aboard the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland in the North Sea in 1975, Still Wakes the Deep has players fighting for their lives while they’re stalked by an unknowable horror that has come aboard. As Cameron “Caz” McLeary (voiced by Alec Newman), players will navigate the collapsing rig, desperately searching for a way home.
Still Wakes the Deep is a return to the first-person narrative horror genre from The Chinese Room, creator of critically acclaimed games such as Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, and Dear Esther. They’re also currently at work on Paradox Interactive’s long-awaited Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2.
And just in case you missed it, check out Harrison’s review of Still Wakes the Deep, which he refers to as one of the best horror games released this year, evoking the claustrophobic chaos of Neil Marshall’s The Descent “in the best possible way”.
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