Gears 5 is an upcoming third-person shooter video game being developed by The Coalition that will be published by Xbox Game Studios for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One as part of Xbox Play Anywhere.
The sixth installment of the Gears of War series, is the sequel to Gears of War 4 and is scheduled to be released sometime in 2019.
Development
Unlike previous games in the Gears of War series, the game is simply titled Gears 5. Xbox marketing boss, Aaron Greenberg, explained that the new title was "cleaner" and that it was a natural change because most people had been cutting out the "of War" part for years.
For Gears 5, The Coalition decided to shift player focus from JD Fenix to Kait Diaz. According to studio head Rod Fergusson, "It was a natural choice. When you play through Gears 4, think of it as Mad Max: Fury Road. It was really Furiosa's story, and Max was the sidekick. That's how it felt in Gears 4, the whole game is about saving Kait's mom, and really JD is there to help her."
Santiago Sandoval and Luis Lozano, Step 9.
