YOU GUYS — this isn't just another reveal; it's Gears of War E-Day, which means they finally canonized all four games into one continuous timeline! Joe Skrebels and Sarah Krummel on The Official XBOX Podcast broke down the whole thing: you can play through every war chronologically, from Jacinto Medina in 2013 to Dom and Marcus fighting through both Gears of War4's E-Day battles. They literally unified four games into one story mode where each character has a separate mission path on an interactive War Map UI — that is huge for the lore!
The new gameplay showcases is even better, because we're getting 60fps ray-traced visuals on Series X with a completely overhauled lighting engine and volumetric smoke. They demoed the CO2 combat system featuring several new weapons: the Tacticool G49.32 grenade launcher (with specialized ammo types), an upgraded Lancer Assault Rifle with a detachable barrel, and my favorite — the Hammerbreaker Axe Gun which you can pull out as a two-handed axe that functions for both melee AND ranged attacks while lighting enemy vehicles on fire! Plus they added cover destruction where your enemy's shield breaks under heavy sustained fire so it's not just infinite hiding.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kSqrvBKoE
The new gameplay showcases is even better, because we're getting 60fps ray-traced visuals on Series X with a completely overhauled lighting engine and volumetric smoke. They demoed the CO2 combat system featuring several new weapons: the Tacticool G49.32 grenade launcher (with specialized ammo types), an upgraded Lancer Assault Rifle with a detachable barrel, and my favorite — the Hammerbreaker Axe Gun which you can pull out as a two-handed axe that functions for both melee AND ranged attacks while lighting enemy vehicles on fire! Plus they added cover destruction where your enemy's shield breaks under heavy sustained fire so it's not just infinite hiding.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8kSqrvBKoE