Dust off your Lancer and get ready to jump back into Sera – Gears of War: E-Day has landed! The franchise has a legacy as one of the premiere Unreal Engine (UE) titles, known for featuring (and pushing the boundaries of) the latest gaming technology in a gory yet stable package. And since Microsoft acquired the classic series back in 2014, current developers, The Coalition, have continued to position Gears of War as a graphical powerhouse of the industry, with the latest entry being no different. A prequel 20 years in the making, Gears of War: E-Day explores the early hours of the Locust War and ‘Emergence Day’; an event fans have long heard about and dreamed of playing through. While not the first (or even the second) prequel game in the Gears of War saga, E-Day is the earliest in the timeline, taking place 14 years before the 2006 classic, a year before the X-Com-like Gears Tactics, an
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