Interviewed by journalist Jez Corden, the developers of Gears of War: E-Day spoke about the possibility that the prequel is or is not the beginning of a new trilogy.
Jez Corden asked in an interview with creative director Matt Searcy and brand director Nicole Fawcette whether Gears of War: E-Day will mark the beginning of a new trilogy , and although plans for the series are evidently not yet solidified at beyond a basic idea, the response was interesting.
“We are focusing on E-Day and putting everything we can into the game – we will decide the next project in the future,” Searcy said. To which the brand director was quick to reassure that the team is not moving away from the stories of Gears 4 and Gears 5, as declared at the time of the reveal.
An understandable position, if we consider that the story of Kait Diaz, JD Fenix and Del Walker has remained sensationally unfinished , moreover with a twist that could change many things in a possible Gears 6.
“We’ve just spent time thinking about the stories we want to tell, and we can actually flex the franchise on both sides. We’re excited to tell this story and hope the fans love it too,” Fawcette concluded.
Fourteen years is a long time
We knew that Gears of War: E-Day postponed Gears 6 to a later date , but the fact that the prequel is set fourteen years before the initial chapter of the saga gives the authors a wide margin of maneuver on a narrative level.
Precisely because of this large space, the idea of a prequel trilogy would make perfect sense, but there is precisely the “problem” of Gears 6 to be resolved in a reasonable amount of time: perhaps The Coalition will organize itself into different teams in order to carry both timelines forward?
It’s difficult to say for the moment, but you can read a special with Gears of War: E-Day will make us experience the Locust invasion minute by minute, the team explains and form your own idea.