I climb into the machine and walk to the crate, which I have to carry to a drop-zone. On the way to the main supply camp, we find a crate of supplies and a front-end loader mech in a nearby garage. The bloody combat is punctuated by lighter moments and one-liners: Cole says when dealing with the leviathan: 'Put scientifically, we need to blow its brains out his ass'. At one point during combat three of us chainsaw the same unfortunate locust, the bayonet chainsaws fitted onto our lancer rifles filling the screen with blood and smoke. It seems the same imulsion that is spawning the lambent locusts is also making survivors sick.Ĭar wrecks and debris litter the streets glowing imulsion flows through the cracks in the road. 'We're looking for the grocery store,' mutters one. The quartet are searching refuge camps housing Stranded – survivors from the fall of Jacinto – for food.

We are now playing the same sequence but from the viewpoint of Damon Baird, Augustus 'Cole Train' Cole, Clayton Carmine (the younger brother of Anthony and Benjamin Carmine) and Samantha Byrne. It's the sequence where at the end we see a crate containing explosive tickers tipped onto the lambent from an overhead bridge. This is the sequence where you can drive a silverback – an armoured mechanised battle suit bristling with weapons – to shoot the lambent locust and the leviathan. I could dwell on the first part of the session in length, but most Gears fans have seen it before either in E3 coverage or online. Jace Stratton and Anya Stroud join Marcus and Dom taking on the leviathan, which is attacking the Sovereign, giant tentacles whipping the ship. The main focus of the hands-on session is an attack by a lambent leviathan – again, those who have finished Gears of War 2 will be familiar with thisF creature. 'You're coming between me and my radishes,' remarks Dom to Marcus at one point. He's the ship's gardener, too, tending to vegetables. Dominic Santiago – he's looking older now, has a beard and looks thinner. The old guard is slowly introduced: Marcus, still as gruff as always. Our session opens on the CNV Sovereign, a ship that is the base for former COG soldiers. It also seems that the imulsion that helped power human cities has somehow infected and mutated the locust, creating freakish and terrifying mutations. We played through the game's first act: society is in disarray and Jacinto, the capital, is no more (those who finished Gears of War 2 will know that).

Something new for the series is four-player co-op and that's how we played the single player campaign – me and three companions.

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