New Gears of War Will Be A Prequel?

New Gears of War Will Be A Prequel?

The next game in the Gears of War franchise will be announced Monday during Microsoft's E3 press conference, but we already have a pretty good idea what the game will be about...

By NateBest - Jun 01, 2012 07:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Gears of War Exile

GameInformer released a sneak peak at their upcoming magazine cover (see it here).

Who's the gear in chains? What's the game going to be about? We're positive that it relates to Marcus Fenix's court martial, which we learned about in the first Gears of War. The GameInformer cover leads us to believe this is true, but the recently released Gears of War: the Slab novel is really the best indicator. Each of the games in the Gears of War franchise have had a novel associated with them, and it seems that this one will be no different.

Marcus Fenix. War hero. Decorated Gear. Loyal son. Traitor. As the Locust Horde advances into one of humanity’s last bastions—Ephyra—after ten years of a bloody global war that has seen billions die, Marcus does the unthinkable: he defies Colonel Hoffman’s orders and abandons his post in the middle of the battle in a bid to rescue his father, weapons scientist Dr. Adam Fenix. But Adam is buried in the rubble of a ferocious assault on the Fenix estate, and Ephyra falls to the enemy. As the Coalition of Ordered Governments struggles to defend Sera’s surviving humans from the invading “grubs,” Marcus faces a court martial. Deserting his post in wartime means the death penalty. But his sentence is commuted to forty years in the COG’s most notorious prison—known as the Slab—where a prisoner’s life expectancy is less than two years.

In the Slab, there are no rules and no mercy. As Marcus begins a nightmarish day-to-day existence, it will finally be revealed why his sentence was commuted and who intervened to save his life. While his friends and fellow Gears Dom Santiago and Anya Stroud try to secure a legal appeal for him, Marcus learns to survive in an institution populated by the most dangerous dregs of society—not just the criminals imprisoned there, but also the corrupt guards.


We revealed last year that a new gears of war title was in the works (see it here) thanks to new trademark applications and logos. This gives us a pretty good idea of what the next Gears of War installment will be called...

Gears of War: Exile Logo


The real question is how many more Gears of War games will Epic Games and Microsoft be able to create after this... Are there any more stories left, or will they find new characters and enemies?
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