As Fenix, a growling musclebound soldier, you managed to stop them. They featured grim, sprawling battles against the Locust, a seemingly infinite horde of monsters from the bowels of Sera, a sort of martial rebellion from an over-industrialized planet on the brink of destruction.
Gears of War 4 has the unenviable job of following a trilogy of war epics. More frightening horrors await underground. Overhead, unrelenting lightning storms buffet the planet so violently it tears villages apart. And that's just the problem on the ground. Without an existential threat distracting them in Gears of War 4, they’ve gone from kinda fascist to totally fascist, and from the start they're on your tail. The most pressing threat comes from the COG, remnants of the militaristic government player-protagonist Marcus Fenix served in the first three games. On Sera, the Earth-like setting for the Gears of War franchise, everything wants to kill you.
