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Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Hands-On: It’s So, So Good to Be Back With Marcus and Dom En hands-on-forpremvisning af Gears of War: E-Day tegner et positivt billede af spillets kampagne. Den klassiske skydemekanik er bevaret, men udvides med våbenmodifikationer, taktisk udstyr og mere vertikale baner. Samtidig erstatter spillet Gears 5's åbne områder med mere fokuserede, flerstammede sektioner med valgfrie mål og samleobjekter.

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Gears of War: E-Day's Story Director Gets Unceremoniously Laid Off Just Days Ahead of Game's Release Juan Vaca, story director på The Coalition, er blevet opsagt som en del af Microsofts seneste fyringsrunde, hvor 268 medarbejdere mister jobbet. Opsigelsen sker en uge før Gears of War: E-Day åbner for early access og kort efter, at spillet er gået guld. Samtidig er Halo Studios' fremtid ændret, da Activision overtager ansvaret for seriens kommende hovedspil.

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'He Needs to Be Like Five Feet Tall' — Wolverine's Narrative Director Explains Why Logan Needed to Be a Short King in the Game Marvel’s Wolverine-spillets narrative director, Walt Williams, forklarer, hvorfor Logan er markant lavere end Sabretooth i Insomniacs spil. Højdeforskellen skal understøtte tegneseriernes udtryk, mens forholdet mellem de to mutanter skildres gennem sorg, længsel og sårbarhed frem for kun vrede og aggression. Spillet er udkommet eksklusivt til PlayStation 5.

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'These Changes Will Not Impact the Game's Launch' - State of Decay Developer Undead Labs Responds to 'Significant' Layoffs Following Independence from Xbox Undead Labs bekræfter, at studiet har afskediget et betydeligt antal medarbejdere efter løsrivelsen fra Xbox og Microsoft. Studieleder Philip Holt oplyser, at State of Decay 3 fortsat er under aktiv udvikling, og at fyringerne ikke forventes at påvirke spillets planlagte lancering i 2027. Studiet vil fremover arbejde som uafhængig udvikler.

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GTA 6 Will Lead to a 'League-Wide' Drop in Performance for NBA Athletes, Says Steven Adams NBA-spilleren Steven Adams joker med, at præstationerne i NBA, NFL og andre sportsligaer vil falde i november, når GTA 6 udkommer. Han forventer også dårligere coaching og scouting, fordi spillere og trænere vil blive optaget af spillet, men regner med, at niveauet vender tilbage i december. Udtalelserne kommer samtidig med en GTA 6-reklame på Miami Heats arena.

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'Pretty Wild' — Halo Studios Cinematic Director Promoted and Laid Off Within the Same Week as Xbox's Brutal Restructuring Continues Halo Studios’ tidligere cinematic director Josh Daniels fortæller, at han blev forfremmet og afskediget i samme uge som led i Xbox’ omfattende omstrukturering. I alt er 268 stillinger berørt på tværs af Halo Studios, andre førstepartsstudier og centrale Xbox-funktioner. Samtidig har Activision overtaget udviklingen af det næste Halo-spil, mens Halo Studios fortsat skal understøtte eksisterende spil og fællesskabet.

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GTA 6's Miami Takeover Has Begun Following the Completion of a 'Welcome to Vice City' Sign in the City Rockstar Games har opsat et stort "Welcome to Vice City"-skilt på toppen af Kaseya Center i Miami som led i markedsføringen af Grand Theft Auto 6. Ifølge lokale oplysninger betaler selskabet knap en million dollar for installationen, mens flere mulige kampagneaktiviteter i byen stadig er uafklarede. GTA 6 udkommer 19. november 2026 til PlayStation 5 og Xbox Series X|S.

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Garfield's Newest Game Is a Sarcastic Slog, an Overly Familiar 3D Platformer Dragged Down by Bad Jokes and Sluggish Action IGN anmelder Garfield - Escape from Monday som en skuffende 3D-platformer med 40 baner og en spilletid på omkring ni timer. Spillet har en charmerende, PS1-inspireret grafik og fantasifulde madtemaer, men platformingen beskrives som simpel, og Garfield fremstår mest som en konstant brokkende figur. De ekstra kostumer og samleobjekter giver kun begrænset dybde.

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Wardogs Season 2's Release Date Has Been Revealed and It Will Add New Weather Effects Such as Rain Wardogs sæson 2 udkommer 15. oktober og tilføjer vejreffekter, blandt andet kraftig regn, som kan påvirke spillets synlighed og køretøjer. Opdateringen nulstiller samtidig spillernes oplåsninger og ranglister, hvilket skal skabe en mere lige start, men allerede har mødt kritik. Spillet har solgt over to millioner eksemplarer i sin første weekend, mens en konsoludgave først ventes i 2028.

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'I'm Cautiously Optimistic' — Halo Fans Can't Decide if Activision Takeover Is a Good Thing or Not Activision overtager udviklingen af det næste Halo-spil efter en større omstrukturering hos Xbox, der også har medført massefyringer hos Halo Studios. Fans er splittede: Nogle frygter mere aggressiv mikrotransaktions- og DLC-fokus, mens andre håber, at Activision kan revitalisere serien efter flere års skuffelser. Den endelige retning for spillet er endnu ikke kendt.

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Sea of Thieves Fans Are Concerned for Rare's Future Amidst Xbox Reset Rare er blevet lagt under Activisions paraply som led i Microsofts omfattende ændringer af Xbox’ førstepartsstudier. Det har skabt bekymring blandt Sea of Thieves-spillere, der frygter, at studiet fremover primært skal fungere som støttehold for Call of Duty og Halo. Rare’s konkrete fremtid er endnu ikke fastlagt, men fans håber fortsat på nye selvstændige projekter.

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MANHATTAN UNDER SIEGE - IGN IGN bringer en fiktiv rapport fra Manhattan, hvor en lækket video angiveligt viser mennesker, der svæver i luften omgivet af rødt lys. Vidner forbinder hændelsen med den paranormale enhed Hiss, mens Federal Bureau of Control afviser det hele som massehallucination. Historien fungerer som markedsføring for action-rollespillet Control: Resonant, der udkommer til konsoller og pc den 24. september.

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A Minecraft Simulation Proved That The Game Can Beat Itself After Nearly Two Billion Years En Monte Carlo-simulering viser, at Minecraft kan gennemføre spillets mål helt uden en spiller. YouTuberen RedLogic fandt en verden med de nødvendige ressourcer og lod spillets tilfældige væsner arbejde videre, indtil dragen blev besejret. Simulationen dækkede 1,97 milliarder år, fordi endermen, sne-golems og creepers kun meget sjældent udførte de nødvendige handlinger.

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Best Buy is a Great Spot for the Latest Pokémon TCG Drops, If You're Looking to Beat the Scalpers En sponsoreret IGN-artikel beskriver Best Buy som en mulighed for at købe Pokémon-samlekort til vejledende priser. Forhandleren fremhæves for køsystemer, invitationsadgang, købsbegrænsninger og beskyttelse mod bots og scalpers. Artiklen gennemgår også medlemsfordele, forhåndsadgang til forudbestillinger samt muligheden for at bestille online og hente varerne i en butik.

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Undead Labs Becomes Employee-Owned After Xbox Separation and Confirms State of Decay 3 Is Still In Development Undead Labs er blevet selvstændigt og medarbejderejet efter at have skilt sig fra Xbox. Studiet bekræfter samtidig, at State of Decay 3 stadig er under udvikling og aktuelt befinder sig i alfa. En lukket betatest er planlagt inden udgangen af 2026, mens spillet efter planen udkommer i 2027 til Xbox, Game Pass, pc og PlayStation.

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'You're Going to Take a Hit': Rainbow Six Siege Director Bracing for GTA 6 Launch Impact, Promises Players Who Stick Around Will Be Served 'Like Kings and Queens' Ubisoft forventer, at Rainbow Six Siege vil miste spillere midlertidigt, når Grand Theft Auto 6 udkommer i november. Spillets kreative direktør Joshua Mills siger, at holdet vil fokusere ekstra på de spillere, der bliver, blandt andet med en ny sæson og hidtil uannoncerede overraskelser. Han understreger samtidig, at spillerne sandsynligvis vender tilbage efter interessen for GTA 6 har lagt sig.

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Rayman Legends Retold Doesn’t Feel Like a Necessary Remake, But It’s Still a Good Time | IGN Preview En forhåndsvisning vurderer, at Rayman Legends Retold stadig har et stærkt og velfungerende platformspil i centrum. Genindspilningen byder på nye musik- og baner, en opdateret Kung Foot-tilstand samt hele Rayman Origins: Enhanced Edition. Anmelderen mener dog ikke, at den nye visuelle stil overgår originalens 2D-grafik, men fremhæver den store mængde indhold og den attraktive pris.

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Nodusfall Is Hoyoverse’s Darker Pivot from the Bright, Anime World of Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail | IGN Preview En hands-on-forpremiere af HoYoverses kommende actionspil Nodusfall tegner et billede af et mørkt, postapokalyptisk univers inspireret af mytologier fra hele verden. Spillet kombinerer holdbaseret co-op med forskellige roller, evner og kampe mod enorme monstre. Selvom det har stamina, undvigelser og tunge angreb, beskrives det ikke som et klassisk soulslike, men som et mere dynamisk actionspil.

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Blizzard Developer Says World of Warcraft Forever Must "Hold the Line" on Not Implementing a Quality-of-Life Feature From Retail WoW Blizzard vil ikke indføre delt tagging og delte loot-belønninger i World of Warcraft: Forever. Udvikleren Josh Greenfield siger, at den ekstra friktion er vigtig for spillets sociale Classic+-identitet, selv om den kan skabe konkurrence om fjender i den populære beta. Spillerne opfordres i stedet til at gruppere sig. Den fulde version lanceres 4. november og bliver inkluderet i World of Warcraft-abonnementet.

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Microsoft Signals Intention to Close Down Ninja Theory After Deals to Save the Hellblade Developer Fall Through Microsoft har indledt en konsultation med medarbejderne hos Ninja Theory med henblik på at lukke det britiske spiludviklingsstudie. To aftaler, der skulle redde studiet, er faldet igennem, men Microsoft undersøger fortsat andre muligheder for en redning. Lukningen skaber samtidig usikkerhed om udgivelsen af Senua, det annoncerede tredje spil i Hellblade-serien.

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Handing Halo to Activision Makes Business Sense, but Will the Slick Call of Duty Development Pipeline Be Enough To Save Master Chief? Det næste hovedspil i Halo-serien skal udvikles af Activision, mens Halo Studios rammes af betydelige fyringer. IGN vurderer, at beslutningen forretningsmæssigt kan give mening, fordi Activision har erfaring med at levere store spil effektivt gennem flere studier. Den kreative retning er dog mere usikker, og artiklen peger blandt andet på Treyarch som en mulig udvikler.

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CONFIRMED: Microsoft Hands Halo to Call of Duty Developer Activision as Part of Huge Xbox Studios Shakeup Microsoft bekræfter, at Activision skal udvikle det næste hovedspil i Halo-serien som led i en omfattende omstrukturering af Xbox-organisationen. I alt 268 medarbejdere mister jobbet, størstedelen hos Halo Studios. Samtidig flyttes Rare og World's Edge under Activision, mens flere andre studier omorganiseres, sælges eller risikerer lukning.

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Here's Your First Look at 3 Cards From Pokémon TCG: Mega Evolution — Delta Reign, Due to Launch This November Pokémon TCG-sættet Mega Evolution — Delta Reign lanceres 6. november med over 135 kort. IGN har offentliggjort de første designs, blandt andet Sprigatito, Floragato og Meowscarada ex, samt kort med Mega Malamar, Mega Golurk og Mega Rayquaza. Meowscarada ex får 320 HP og et angreb, der kan ramme både den aktive og en beskadiget Pokémon på bænken.

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How Long Is Silent Hill: Townfall? We Tasked Five Players With Five Different Playstyles To Complete Konami’s New Survival Horror and Find Out IGN har sammenlignet gennemspilningstider for Konamis survival horror-spil Silent Hill: Townfall på tværs af forskellige spillestile. Den hurtigste gennemspilning tog 12 timer og 37 minutter, mens den længste varede 15 timer og 15 minutter. Spillet indeholder flere slutninger, samleobjekter og et New Game Plus-modus, som giver mulighed for yderligere opdagelser.

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ASUS klar med sin første WiFi 8-router i Danmark - recordere.dk ASUS lancerer gaming-routeren ROG Rapture GT-BN98 i Danmark og resten af Norden fra midten af oktober til en vejledende pris på 7.190 kroner. Routeren er baseret på et udkast til den kommende WiFi 8-standard og har en samlet teoretisk trådløs kapacitet på op til 25.000 Mbit/s. Den har desuden to 10 Gbit/s-porte, fire 2,5 Gbit/s-porte og funktioner til trafikstyring og netværksovervågning.

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Injustice 3 Features 1 Character Fans Will Expect and 1 Who Perhaps Comes as a Surprise, According to a Fresh Leak Et nyt læk antyder, at det endnu ikke annoncerede kampspil Injustice 3 vil indeholde Supergirl og Batwoman som spilbare figurer. Supergirl vender tilbage fra Injustice 2, mens Batwoman i så fald får sin debut i hovedserien. Lækket kan også pege på en genstart eller en ny tidslinje, men Warner Bros. har endnu ikke bekræftet spillet.

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Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Hands-On: It’s So, So Good to Be Back With Marcus and Dom

En hands-on-forpremvisning af Gears of War: E-Day tegner et positivt billede af spillets kampagne. Den klassiske skydemekanik er bevaret, men udvides med våbenmodifikationer, taktisk udstyr og mere vertikale baner. Samtidig erstatter spillet Gears 5's åbne områder med mere fokuserede, flerstammede sektioner med valgfrie mål og samleobjekter.

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Key Preview Takeaways:

Playing the beginning of Act 2 of Gears of War: E-Day's campaign immediately gave me a healthy dose of everything I love about Gears of War.
Weapon and combat mechanics have been nicely evolved through the weapon mod system.
Gears 5's open-world aspects have been reined in with something smarter: a multi-path downtown area with optional secondary objectives and plenty of hidden collectibles.

[Editor's Note: Mild spoilers ahead for E-Day’s campaign, so turn back now if you don’t want to know any more…]

I’m a massive fan of Gears of War, as I have been since the very beginning. But I have to be honest: something about Gears of War: E-Day’s campaign reveal at the Xbox Showcase a couple months ago just didn’t quite land right with me. It wasn’t bad, by any stretch of the imagination. But I just wasn’t as fired up as I thought I’d be after seeing the first new Gears of War campaign footage in seven years (OK, six if we’re counting Hivebusters).

When I finally sat down to play E-Day’s campaign, though, it took all of about 30 seconds to turn my tepid feelings into joyful smiles. My one-hour preview, which covered the early parts of Act 2, featured plenty of everything I want from and love about Gears of War: Marcus Fenix, Dominic Santiago, lots of story cutscenes, a sweet mix of old weapons and new ones (including the origin story for a signature Gears firearm known for its sharp teeth), some evolved gameplay mechanics, killer setpieces, new Marcus Fenix one-liners, subtle references to characters we know and love, and did I mention Marcus Fenix saying and doing cool sh*t?

I was so fired up by what I played that when I got hit with the “demo complete” screen it actually hurt. I suppose The Coalition got the reaction it wanted from me, because all I wanted to do was keep going. And I’m now not only more fired up to finish Gears of War: E-Day’s prequel story than ever, but I’m also more confident than ever that, at least based on the small slice I’ve played so far, E-Day has struck the exact right balance of tried-and-true old stuff and compelling new stuff.

Playing Bridge

Act 2 picks up with Marcus and Dom still in their civvies, scavenged Mark-1 Lancers in hand. They’ve arrived with fellow civilian-dressed COG soldiers Carter and Reyes at a makeshift command center with the mayor of Kolona, whom they’ve no doubt rescued in Act 1. COG officer Colonel Trench and the mayor face off about whatever the heck is happening out there – you and I both know darn well what it is, of course – and how best to handle it, leading the angry Colonel to yell at our heroes to get some armor on. And then Awesome Moment #1 happens: Marcus and Dom suit up in their familiar COG garb, flanked by Carter and Reyes in the newly christened Bravo Squad. “Guess we’re back to it,” Marcus says, and he might as well be speaking for players as well. My grin could not have been any wider.

Gears of War’s core combat has aged remarkably well over the past 20 years. However, E-Day introduces a welcome new evolution in the form of unlockable weapon mods.

Venturing out into the city of Kolona, we see ash raining from a cloudy sky and remnants of once-proud buildings around us. This moment definitely hearkens back to the “destroyed beauty” aesthetic of Gears 1. We soon find our way to the heart of this chapter of gameplay: a massive suspension bridge that raises and lowers in multiple sections in order to let large ships pass underneath it. All of that was in the Before Times, of course, before actual Hell started erupting from the ground beneath the people of this city. We’re making our way towards Oria Stadium, home of the Kolona Eagles thrashball team, where civilians are being routed to in the event of the citywide disaster. But we’re going to have to fight our way there.

Combat Evolved

This straight-ahead bridge section certainly isn’t the combat bowls we’re used to with Gears, but it’s a great way to warm up – not to mention climb up, meaning: to get a feel for using E-Day’s new verticality, i.e. you can now mantle up and over cover, including the cars that the Locust are using to shield themselves. The Mark-1 Lancer, Gnasher shotgun, Snub pistol, and frag grenades all work exactly as you remember them. Gears of War’s core combat has aged remarkably well over the past 20 years. However, E-Day introduces a welcome new evolution in the form of unlockable weapon mods. Each firearm has four total mod slots, and mods vary by weapon, of course. Every reloadable weapon, by default, gets the classic damage bonus if you nail a perfect reload; it’s called Full Metal Jacket now. But there’s a heck of a lot more than just that. For instance, on the aforementioned Gnasher – which, yes, is still your best point-blank bet for turning low-level Locust Drones into chunky-style soup – has an Auto Pouch mod that automatically reloads the shotgun when you stow it (i.e. switch weapons).

This also seems like a good time to mention the new Tactical Gear, which I unlocked at the very end of my demo build. (You got to experience these in the Versus beta weekend, if you participated.) These are short-duration (45-second) buffs with a cooldown, and they also have unlockable mod slots, none of which were available in the preview. But even without mods, the Adrenaline Injector immediately refills your health when triggered and also increases your damage dealt while decreasing damage taken. Choosing the Sonic Disruptor Tactical Gear, meanwhile, nets you a more defensive bonus: stunning low-level enemies in a cone in front of you, interrupting their attacks. With tons more of all of these left to unlock over the course of the campaign, they should add a welcome bit of personalization and gameplay customization to your playthroughs – emphasis on plural there, because I’ll be shocked if there isn’t a New Game+ available that lets you run the campaign again with all of your Tactical Gear and weapon mods available from the jump on higher difficulties.

Revved Up

After battling our way up and across the massive Allfather’s Legacy Bridge, including fending off a couple of Boomers along the way and getting some reps in with the Breechshot (last seen in Gears of War: Judgment), we arrived at Oria Stadium, where the COG was coordinating a stressful civilian rescue operation, with lines of the city’s residents waiting to be processed and allowed into the massive facility. We entered and caught up with the quartermaster, Russ, who took a liking to Marcus because he knew his father, Adam. He asked what Bravo Squad needed, and after Marcus complained about the bayonets easily breaking off of the Mark-1 Lancers, that’s when one of the COG in our party set the chainsaw used to save Marcus’ life in Act 1, as seen in the Xbox Showcase demo, on the table. The quartermaster looks at the chainsaw with a twinkle in his eye, and, yeah…you can probably see where this is going. Awesome Moment #2: Marcus and Bravo Squad get handed the first prototype Mark-2 Lancers with chainsaw built right in. Again, the smile on my face was almost Joker-like.

We headed out from the stadium with the goal of getting across the downtown section of the city to the train station. It’s here that Awesome Moment #3 began to unfold: environmental freedom. The linear path of the bridge we’d fought across had finally given way to a larger combat space. This seems to deliberately rein in Gears 5’s huge open-world areas by instead giving you room to clear Kalona’s streets block-by-block in whatever order and fashion you choose. It’s a smaller-scale version of what we got in the last game, but based on my initial impression, it’s a more effective one. In fact, I ran through the preview build again to take a different route through Kolona, and I’m glad I did. This approach also allows for higher hidden-collectible potential (because yes, of course there are collectibles in a Gears campaign). I also enjoyed the optional secondary objectives in this section that you can opt into. In one, a family was trapped inside a convenience store, and I had to fight off a wave of Wretches before finding a way inside to free them and radio in to get them an escort to the stadium.

This was also when E-Day introduced Supply Caches, which will be scattered throughout the city and allow you to change out your weapons and mods. It’s an organic and straightforward way of letting you change up weapons on the fly without having to kill an enemy to get what you’re after.

Don’t Need No Credit Card to Ride This Train

The all-too-soon end of my demo came in the Octus Way train station. This was a pretty sizable combat bowl, with three levels of verticality to contend with plus a left, right, and center area of the room to be keeping an eye on, lest the Locust manage to flank you from the side or from behind. It was a frantic but not overwhelming fight; we didn’t face off against the Corpser that was teased while we were clearing Kolona city blocks on our way to the train station, meaning that encounter is no doubt waiting for us later. But Octus Way Station was a good chance to try out all of the weapons (thanks to the Supply Cache in the corner of the upstairs entrance) and rev up the Lancer’s chainsaw for a few good ol’ fashioned Locust executions. Once I loaded up and stepped out of the cleared-out train station, that’s when I got the aforementioned “demo complete” message and reluctantly put down my controller.

One final note: as I mentioned, I ran through the preview twice – once on Performance graphics mode, and once on the 30fps Quality graphics mode. The latter was not running well on Xbox Series X in the preview build. It wasn’t unplayably bad by any means, but it was noticeably sub-30 in a lot of spots. I expect most people will opt for Performance mode anyway, but it’s worth noting and hoping that The Coalition is able to squeeze a few extra fps out of it in the remaining few weeks of development.

That minor complaint aside, I can’t say enough about how much I loved what I’ve played of Gears of War: E-Day’s campaign so far. Does it completely rewrite the rules of Gears? No, but I don’t think anyone – myself included – is looking for that. Besides, this prequel was never about that. It’s about getting Marcus and Dom back together and getting Gears back to its roots. And in the incredibly short slice I’ve seen so far, it absolutely accomplishes that with the highest of marks. I am now chock-full of the hype that the Xbox Showcase demo failed to give me. In the words of Marcus Fenix, sweet.

While you're here, check out these previews of other big upcoming games we've played recently!

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's executive editor of previews and host of IGN's weekly Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, and a co-host of Next-Gen Console Watch. He's a North Jersey guy, so it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.

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