2023 will be a momentous year for Xbox Games Studios: Bethesda will launch its first exclusives, including Starfield, Age of Empires will land on consoles and the driving proposal Forza will have its triumphant return. And what about sagas like Gears of War? Well, for now the fans of Marcus Fenix are not going to get bored: the saga in charge of The Coalition will have your own official card game.
To the saga Gears It is one of the most distinctive Xbox since its first installment. And we are not going to deny it, the original Gears of War transformed the way of approaching shooters and action in video games. Offering a card experience based on those ingredients is not easy, of course, but the project of adapting gunfights to a new medium is in very good hands.
So much ad as the initiative comes from Steamforged Games, a UK company that really specializes in bringing video games to boards and cards. To them we owe the adaptations of Dark Souls, Monster Hunter: World, the Resident Evil saga and Horizon Zero Dawn among many others. Games that, everything is said, have not only taken advantage of the pull of the license, but have integrated its essence in to the games.
we know the game will be available from 2023, Although no further details have been given, such as the creators of the game system or if the entire saga and spin-offs will be addressed or will focus on the original video game. In any case, both The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios are involved in the process.
Let’s talk about the future of Gears of War
To the saga Gears it’s a priority for Microsoft, Xbox Game Studios and, by extension, Xbox Game Pass. We know that The Coalition is currently shaping the sixth installment of the saga and there has also been talk, without official confirmation, that this 2023 a new IP (Intellectual Property) will be shown by those responsible. What we don’t know is the degree of relationship that the latter will have with the shooter saga. If it has.
In any case, both in June 2021 and in April of last year, the studio already offered two appetizers of what they are achieving at a technical and visual level when using the Unreal Engine 5 on Xbox Series X. It will most likely not take too long to have one. new ration of news about it.
Commitment to the brand Gears of War It does not end here, of course: Xbox Game Studios and Netflix have reached a double agreement to produce both a series and a film based on the shooter saga. What’s more, now that Dave Bautista said goodbye to the MCU after Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (and has shown his intention to join the project on countless occasions), the expansion of the brand beyond video games is a really wise move.
To the saga Gears of War it has its own legacy beyond consoles. The first board game arrived in 2011 from Fantasy Flight Games and since then it has had several novels (signed by Karen Traviss) and an extensive series of comics. Netflix productions will be a strong boost for the franchise for the general public and, logically, Microsoft hopes that this will translate into a new wave of Game Pass subscribers.
For now, Xbox has already put its first card on the table in the face of this great deployment. Or better, your own card game.
