A Gears of War remastered collection may be in development at Microsoft.
That’s according to journalist Nick Baker ofXbox Era, who this week claimed that a “Master Chief Collection” style game was in the works for theGears of Warfranchise.
“A while back I said there is anotherMicrosoftfranchise that’s getting the Master Chief Collection-type treatment, I am of the belief that that is coming this year,” Nick said on the podcast.
He then said “everyone has guessed it,” before adding, “if you go from November 2021 to November 2022 and you look at Microsoft’s big game output, it could wind up beingHalo, Gears,Forza,” confirming that the rumoured collection would be from the Gears of War franchise.
One source recently told VGC thatThe Coalitionis in the early stages of developing the next Gears of War title. Whether this is Gears 6 or a spinoff title isn’t clear, however Gears 6 was listed as part of theNvidia GeForce Now database leakwhich has so far proven to be accurate in many cases.
Halo: The Master Chief Collectionis a collection of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, Halo 2: Anniversary, Halo 3 and Halo 4 which was released forXbox Onein 2014.
Featuring improved graphics and every multiplayer map from all 4 games, the collection would later receive two further campaigns, Halo 3 ODST and Halo Reach.
While the game was praised for the visual and audio improvements to the classic games and the sheer volume of content, The Master Chief Collection faced massive matchmaking issues which saw it need years of post-release support.
Four Gears of War third-person shooter titles released on theXbox 360, Gears of War 1-3 as well as Gears of War: Judgement, a spin-off prequel featuring some of the main franchise’s side characters.
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Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, which is a remastered version of the first game, launched for Xbox One in August 2015. Gears of War studio The Coalition’s last game,Gears 5, was released on Xbox One andPCin 2019.
The Coalition is also said to be working on anew IPaccording to job listings posted in July of last year.
