With the growing trend of making everything open world, it was obvious that the community waiting Gears of War E-Day immediately began to question the route the game would take, especially after hearing rumors before Summer Game Fest 2024 arrived, and We already have the official response from The Coalition.
Gears of War E-Day will be a linear game
Goodbye to the idea of the open world: similar to the first games in the saga, Gears of War E-Day It will be a completely linear gameThis was confirmed by The Coalition in a recent interview. This obviously won’t be to absolutely everyone’s liking, but the majority reacted very positively to the news.
As for the reason, The Coalition explained that, just as Gears of War E-Day is a return in time with its history, the team also wanted to reflect that in its gameplaymoving away from the mechanics and additions that the saga added as it evolved, choosing to return to the basics and deliver a game that would make us travel to the past in every way.
The Gears of War community reacts
As we already mentioned, the return to the linear format with Gears of War E-Day was, for the most part, well received by players; Many of them exclaimed fatigue from playing so many open-world games, exclaiming that this is not only something that was missing in this series, but in the entire industry.
“Thank you! Not all games need to be open world”
“Not choosing the open world is a big decision”
“This is how I want my Gears of War games”
Gears of War E-Day It will be an exclusive (for now) for Xbox Series X/S and PC, but the game It does not yet have a release date. The cinematic trailer will have left us wanting gameplaybut if you analyze it in detail, you will see that it hides more than a couple of secrets.
