Journalist Nick Baker from Xbox Era claimed that a Master Chief Collection style game was in the works for Gears of War. He went on to say “if you go from November 2021 to November 2022 and you look at Microsoft’s big game output, it could wind up being Halo, Gears, Forza…” If he’s right then that would be a huge game for Xbox this year.
As for what it would include? It will probably include remasters of Gears of War 2 and 3. It should also include the Ultimate Edition, which is a remaster of the first Gears game. If it is like the Master Chief Collection then it’s possible that we would get Gears of War Judgement either included as part of the collection or as a DLC later on. Would it include Gears of War 4 and 5? I doubt it for a few reasons. The first being that Gears of War 4 and 5 wouldn’t get much out of remasters for the Series X. Second, both games have already received updates for the Series X/S. I think it’s just a matter of time before we get a collection of Xbox 360 Gears games. The real question is will it be in 2022?
What about Gears of War 6?
Last year Nvidia GeForce Now database was leaked. The leak included a list of unannounced games including God of War, Detroit: Become Human, Gears of War 6 and many others. The two former were announced for PC in the subsequent months, but Gears of War 6? That’s still unannounced. Nvidia did confirm that the leak was real, but that the games listed were purely speculative. Gears of War 5 released in 2019, so a new game releasing in 2022 would make sense. In July 2021, the Coalition announced they were winding down development of Gears 5 and would be working on new projects using Unreal 5.
While that may not seem like enough time to create any game, Epic developed Unreal Engine 5 with forward compatibility in mind. This means that developers can create games in Unreal Engine 4 and move them to the next-generation engine later. It’s possible that the collection or even Gears 6 started on Unreal 4 and moved to 5 in the past few months. Is it really that easy though? Epic makes it seem very easy to switch from 4 to 5. With Fortnite chapter 3, they switched from Unreal 4 to Unreal 5’s engine. How many other released games will be changing engines though? That remains to be seen.
What else was leaked?
Here is the full list of what was leaked, but it’s important to take these with a grain of salt:
- Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Edition
- HELLDIVERS 2
- Horizon Forbidden West
- GT7
- Déraciné
- God of War
- Returnal
- Demon Souls
- Ratchet and Clank (no specified game)
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Gears 6
- Oxide Unannounced
- *Project Holland (FABLE according to Jez)
- *Project Typhoon (Contraband according to Jez)
- *Project Woodstock (Forza Jez believes)
- Untitled The Initiative Game (presumed Perfect Dark)
- Halo 5: Guardians
- Avowed
- Kalimba
- Indus
- Gravity
- Chrono Cross Remaster
- FF Tactics remaster (Tactics Ogre Reborn) = trademarked
- FF7 Remake
- FF9 Remake
- FF 16 = Coming to PC later
- Tomb Raider Anniversary
- Unannounced title by Square Enix (could be like four games) — Tomb Raider on Unreal Engine 5 announced
- Kingdom Hearts IV
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Street Fighter 6
- Dragons Dogma 2
- Monster Hunter 6
- GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas Remasters
- Bioshock RTX remaster
- Bioshock 2022
- Mirrors Edge RTX Remaster
- Untitled Respawn Game (Three Star Wars games)
- Titanfall 3
- Tekken 8
- Human Fall Flat 2
- The Talos Principle 2
- Crysis 4
- Earth Defence Force 6
- Bayonetta 3
- Judgement (this one seems odd to me due to legsl disuptes with SEGA and actor agency)
- Catherine Full Body
- Shin Megami Tensei V
- Batman: Arkham Knight RTX Remaster
- Half-Life 2 Remastered
- Project FPS
- Xcom 3
- Injustice 3: Gods will Fall
- Destroy all Humans 3
- MGS 2 & 3 HD (no shot in my opinion)
- Mario and Rabbids
- Death Stranding Directors Cut PC
- Sniper Elite 5
- City Skylines 2
- Total War 9
- Payday 3
- Hangar 13 Unannounced (Cancelled Superhero game)
- Fight for Middle-Earth
- Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (PC)
- Mortal Kombat Next Gen & Mortal Kombat XII
- Moss – listed on Steam (PSVR Timed Exclusive it seems)
- Space Punks (for Steam)
- Hitman Pro
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Remastered
- Goat Simulator 2
- Wreckfest Sequel
- Worms Next =X
- Titan Quest 2 =X
- Outcast
- Viking by Criterion.
- Metro Next
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R Android
- As Dusk Falls and As Dusk Falls Season 2 (ERSB Ratings confirm)
- Ultra Street Fighter II: The Final Challengers (Switch Exclusive)
- Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order
- Ruined King
Summer Game Fest
If there is a new Gears of War game coming this year, then it will more than likely be announced at Summer Game Fest. The question is what else could be announced? It depends on how many of these titles are supposed to be released in the next year. I’d be very excited for remasters of the Gears games, but there is so many other games listed I’d be excited for. Ultimate Alliance 3 would be fun, I know it’s on Switch, but putting it on PC would be great. It would be even better if they could get the license to list 1 and 2 again, I’d love to go back and replay them.
Are you excited for the possibility of a Marcus Fenix Collection? What about Gears 6? What else on the list are you excited for?
