


They’re young and inexperienced and lack the lovable world-weary cynicism of the characters they’re meant to replace. It’s a planet on which danger comes not from monsters in the ground but rather violent weather occurrences called windflares and conflict between groups of disparate people with opposing ideas on how to live and govern.

They live in a depopulated and slowly regenerating world in which small pockets of humans are trying to regain dominance of the planet. These three have no memory of the war their parents fought. Set 25 after the events of the first three games – in which the hardened military veterans of an Earth-like planet named Sera fought off an army of monstrous subterranean invaders called the Locust – the story tracks the escapades of a fresh trio of young heroes, one of whom is the son of previous Gears protagonist Marcus Fenix. It’s the first game in a new trilogy with an almost entirely new cast. Gears of War 4 probably could have just been called Gears of War: The Next Generation.
