Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Preview - Gearing Up For War

Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Preview - Gearing Up For War

Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Preview It has been six long years since the last mainline entry in the Gears of War franchise, and finally, the franchise is making it’s much anticipated return. The upcoming Xbox console-exclusive Gears of War: E-Day is arriving in a couple of months and I had the opportunity to give the campaign a brief test. Here are my thoughts on the upcoming third-person shooter. It’s worth noting that this preview allowed me …

After 2 Hours, Gears of War: E-Day's Campaign Goes BRRRR In All the Right Ways

This is not meant as an admonishment. If anything, it’s praise: Gears of War: E-Day, at least based on a two-hour Xbox Series X build of its campaign I recently played, seems to have fully understood the Gears of War assignment. After all, this series — myopically, where each game is about a group of soldiers engaged in a testosterone contest to see whose mountainous biceps can save humanity the most — is heralded as the progenitor meathead shoo…

Gears of War: E-Day somehow feels exactly like a direct continuation of the original Xbox 360 trilogy, for better and for worse

Marcus Fenix says something gruffly, his squad laughs, then a horde of Locust enemies rushes the team. The hulking figure of Marcus roadie-runs towards the nearest hip-high bit of cover, slams his muscly shoulder into the concrete, and starts laying down suppressing fire with his Lancer machine gun. Enemy bodies fall apart in meaty chunks, blood spatters on the stone floor. A grey-skinned drone breaks through the defensive line and levels his Gn…

Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Hands-On: It’s So, So Good to Be Back With Marcus and Dom

Key Preview Takeaways:Playing the beginning of Act 2 of Gears of War: E-Day's campaign immediately gave me a healthy dose of everything I love about Gears of War.Weapon and combat mechanics have been nicely evolved through the weapon mod system.Gears 5's open-world aspects have been reined in with something smarter: a multi-path downtown area with optional secondary objectives and plenty of hidden collectibles.[Editor's Note: Mild spoilers ahead…

Even just an hour with Gears of War: E-Day's explosive campaign left me hungry to fill more E-holes across its semi

I’ve played about an hour of the Gears of War: E-Day campaign, which is shaping up to be a brilliant Xbox 360 throwback. Does E-Day reinvent the wheel? No, at least if the two missions that I’ve played are anything to go by, but everything that makes Gears of War good is present and accounted for.My hands-on kicked off at the start of Act 2 of the campaign, with the fictional city of Kalona still grappling with the early stages of the mutant Loc…