The announcement of a brand new Gears of Battle sport, titled Gears of Battle: E-Day, was simply one of many highlights of the latest Xbox Video games Showcase. It’s standing as a prequel, nevertheless, means followers are nonetheless left wanting for a follow-up to Gears 5‘s storyline, nevertheless it appears like Microsoft and The Coalition haven’t dominated out a brand new sequel for later executed the road.

In an Xbox Wire weblog publish discussing Gears of Battle: E-Day, collection model director Nicole Fawcette assures that the workforce at The Coalition are “tremendous proud about Gears 4 and Gears 5” and are “not retreating from that storyline in any means.” As for why The Coalition has opted to do a prequel subsequent relatively than a Gears 6, Fawcette solely says, “In [this] second, we had a possibility to jot down our subsequent step, and this one simply felt too good to overlook.”

Set 14 years earlier than the occasions of the primary Gears of Battle sport, E-Day will depict the Locust’s first assault on humanity, and function an origin story of types for protagonists Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago. As such, Microsoft insists that E-Day isn’t a spin-off, however a full-fledged entry within the Gears of Battle collection, saying, “Every part that occurs in E-Day will form the way forward for Gears of Battle for the higher.”

Hopefully, this implies Gears 6 will occur finally and proceed the storyline that started with Gears 4. Possibly E-Day will even arrange just a few plot factors for it? It’s only a disgrace that the await it’ll be even longer than anticipated. Gears 5 got here out in 2019 and with E-Day missing a launch window, there’s no telling when any hypothetical Gears 6 will launch and resolve Gears 5‘s cliffhanger ending. Particularly with how lengthy improvement instances for big-budget video games are these days. Even so, E-Day has received followers excited, if solely to expertise a brand new Gears of Battle on trendy {hardware}, and spend time with Marcus and Dom as soon as extra.