Gears of War 4 Launching on October 11th 2016; Here is How to Try It First

The news is out! Gears of War 4 is launching on October 11th, and the most exciting part of the series is that you will get to see new set of heroes who will mark the beginning of an epic new saga which happened long back. Gears of War have been one of the most popular celebrated franchises, and the fans have waited way too long for its announcement.

Those who don’t know, this series is set post 25 years of the trilogy. The cover art for the game, which gives a closer look at the three main characters JD Fenix, Kait Diaz, and Del Walker, and also reveries some new new weapons.

That said, I am sure most of us would want to try it out way before that, and Microsoft is making sure the fans will be able to get the multiplayer experience. The beta testing of the game beings on April 18th for who’ve played Gears of War: Ultimate Edition on Xbox One or Windows 10. This will later expand to all Xbox Live Gold members on April 25. Xbox team should drop the codes or make the beat straight away accessible to download once it is ready.

Gears of War 4 made its global debut at E3 2015, and today’s announcement is set to ignite a chain of upcoming revelations about what’s in store for JD Fenix and the next generation of Gears Heroes. In an interview to Entertainment Weekly,  Fergusson, who has worked on every Gears of War shared why the company chose a prequel and not a post trilogy scenario :

The feeling was that, the prequels for Gears would’ve been pre-Locust, and so it would’ve been more the human wars, what we call the Pendulum Wars. We felt like human-on-human conflict was not a Gears game. You have to have a monster to be a Gears game. So we felt like that was a problem. And you kind of run into the problem where you have with the Star Wars prequels where you have the Stormtrooper, and you go like, “OK, what was the predecessor to the Stormtrooper?” And you end up with the “Roger, Roger” robots, right? We felt like the prequel wasn’t the right way to go.

So go ahead, and read his full interview here