

A full-fledged spinoff called Gears Tactics is in development, Gears 6 is almost a certainty, and the IP is still spreading via comic books, novels, and (maybe) a movie. Gears 5 is actually the sixth game in the series, counting 2013 prequel Gears of War: Judgement (and excluding Gears of War: Ultimate Edition and mobile spinoff Gears Pop!). Its initial success guaranteed a slew of sequels: Less than three weeks after its release, Mark Rein, the vice president of original Gears developer Epic Games, responded to a rumor about a Gears trilogy by boasting, “Why would we have to stop at three?”

The first game in the gory third-person-shooter franchise displaced Halo 2 from its top spot on the Xbox Live playlist when it debuted in 2006, sold more than 5 million copies on Xbox 360, and moved a few million more when it was remastered and rereleased on Xbox One in 2015.

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