GEARS 5 came out four years ago

The GEARS franchise, previously known as GEARS of WAR, is one of the main directions of Xbox since the time of Xbox 360. With six main games and cult characters, she equalized with such games as Halo, as one of the most cult game IP owned by Microsoft.

After the release of Gears of War Judgement in 2013. The franchise has undergone cardinal changes: the development has passed to The Coalition studio. The studio released two GEARS games for Xbox One and PC, and the last part is already four years old.

As in GEARS of WAR 4, in GEARS 5, the main attention is paid to the new generation of the characters of the franchise. The main role went to Kite Diaz, and the talisman of the series Marcus Phoenix also appeared throughout the game.

The game appeared new weapons and ability to Jack Jack. This flying robot allowed players to interact with the environment during the battle, performing actions such as the revival of allies, the destruction of enemies, etc.D.

Although the gameplay was not too different from the company’s previous games, The Coalition experimented with a half -open level design in some parts of GEARS 5, giving them a new look.

In various parts of the game, players were given the opportunity to explore the levels and move on them at their own pace, stopping and performing side tasks against the background of an exciting main plot.

In addition, the GEARS 5 was the first game in the series to be released on the first day on the popular Subscription service Xbox Game Pass.

The subscription helped the series to fly up again in popularity, and just a week after the release of GEARS 5 scored more than 3 million. players, which has become a noticeable improvement compared to the predecessor.

After the game is released in the announcements of vacancies, there was a hint that The Coalition was working on GEARS 6.

It is expected that the next part of the franchise will become the most ambitious project today thanks to new technologies, such as Unreal Engine 5, and the release of powerful Xbox consoles S | X series.

The latest rumors also claim that GEARS 6 can go even more into the open world design used in the last game, and become a completely open world, as happened in the last part of the Halo franchise.