"Gears 5" Boss says the game is an opportunity to do something new

The last generation, Weapons of war, now simply called gears, was one of the most popular series not only by the Xbox 360, but by all systems.

That said, when the series continued with a gradual reboot in the form of Gears 4 with a new developer, The Coalition, there was a lot of skepticism if the studio could recreate the same highs and capture the same magic that Epic Games had done with the original trilogy.

then Gears 4 published, and this did not dispel the skepticism that the series could live with a new trilogy. The game was far from bad, but it did not enlighten the world like the previous three versions. In addition, he slightly dipped into criticism, reaching 84 on Metacritic, 10 points lower than the original game.

However, the somewhat mediocre response to Gears 4 was not enough to prevent the series from moving forward and Gears 5 to be revealed during the E3 2018 earlier this year.

The details of the project are still a bit rare, but recently, the boss of The Coalition, Rod Ferguson, talked about the game at Nerdbunker, revealing that Gears 4 was the studio proving that he could make the series justice, Gears 5 will be the opportunity to do something new, and show where he wants to take the series.

"Basically, it was a reaction to what we wanted to do with the franchise," Ferguson said of Gears 4. "We were a new team, a new studio, Gears was coming back after being on the shelf for a while, and we did not want to play with the formula, we did not want to change it too much because we wanted to prove that we can build an authentic Weapons of war experience. Now that we have done this and that people have accepted Gears 4 now it's an opportunity with Gears 5 bring in the new. "

Ferguson continued:

"We really want to show what we want to do with the franchise and what we want to do: that it's about changing the basic mechanics, the way we tell stories, or how to make certain aspects of controls and touch new types of game and mobile tactics on PC. "

Gears 5 is about to come out next year via PC and Xbox One.