With Gears of War 5 right around the corner, we here at Suggestive Gaming figured now would
be a great time to take a look back at the previous installment to get caught up to where
we are now.
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Now without further ado, this is what you need to know about Gears of War 4.
Our story picks up 25 years after Marcus Fenix and the Coalition of Ordered Governments,
or COG, destroyed the Locust using his father Adam’s ultimate weapon, ending their war
with Humanity on the planet Sera.
Mina Jinn, the new head of the COG, commemorates the anniversary of the victory, but laments
the absence of Marcus, who had become a recluse after losing his wife, Anya.
Meanwhile, Marcus’ son JD, a former COG Lieutenant, has joined a group of his friends
and fellow Outsiders, or those who live outside of the COG restored city states.
These friends include Del Walker, Kait Diaz, and her uncle Oscar.
The group are planning to raid a nearby COG settlement to steal a device called a fabricator
that can create various weapons and defenses.
However, they are met with opposition from robotic security forces called DeeBees.
Fighting their way through the city, they are seemingly aided by the cities machinery
until they reach and retrieve the fabricator.
During their exit, they are accosted by Jinn, transmitting via a surrogate DeeBee, who accuses
them of kidnapping her people.
However, the city’s railcar destroys the DeeBee and the group is able to escape back
to their village with the fabricator.
There, they are attacked by the security force, but they are able to hold them off using the
fabricator.
Although they escaped the threat, village’s leader, and Kait’s mother: Reyna, reprimands
them for angering Jinn and bringing attention to them.
The group try to explain Jinn’s claim of kidnapping, but Reyna is too angered to listen.
Later that night, the village is attacked by a group of unknown creatures who begin
to capture its inhabitants.
Reyna barricades JD, Del, and Kait inside a barn and takes on one of the humanoid creatures,
cutting off it’s hand in the scuffle.
Oscar attempts to assist her, but is incapacitated and abducted by one of the “snatcher”
creatures.
Reyna is then taken by the creature she was fighting.
Oscar is not killed by the Snatcher, however, and is able to cut his way out of the creature
sometime later, leaving him alone to search for his comrades.
After the creatures leave with the villagers, JD, Del, and Kait exit the barn to examine
the wreckage.
JD finds the disembodied hand, and removes a crystal from it.
Del recommends taking it to be examined by an expert: JD’s father Marcus.
JD initially refuses, but eventually concedes that he might be the only way they can figure
out where this new “swarm” of adversaries came from, and the trio head off to his estate.
There, Marcus, still angry at JD for both joining and subsequently abandoning the COG,
recognizes the crystal, but shortly after, Jinn’s DeeBees arrive.
The four escape, and head to Fort Reval, where Marcus explains they’ll find a dumping ground
where the COG left thousands of Locust corpses that were covered in the same crystals.
On their way, the group come across a series of “pods” containing mutated COG soldiers
inside, revealing that the abductions Jinn was referring to was the Swarm, who were using
these pods to harvest humans and transform them into creatures for their army.
The group guess that the Swarm is an evolved version of the Locust, who instead of dying
in the explosion produced by Adam Fenix’s weapon, instead underwent a slow metamorphosis.
Shortly after this discovery, the group is ambushed and Marcus is captured by a snatcher
and taken away.
The group then chase the snatcher into a mine to find that the Swarm have converted it into
a hive.
There, they fight their way to find a pod containing Marcus.
They cut him out, but unfortunately he is unresponsive.
Luckily, he is able to cough up the fluids in his lungs and regain consciousness.
After he comes to, Marcus reveals that while in the pod, he was connected to the Swarm’s
network and could hear their communications.
He explains that they were treating Reyna differently, and are keeping her at a nearby
dam.
The group make their way to the second hive, but after seeing it’s size, take Marcus’
advice to call in backup from a friend of his by heading to a radio tower in the nearby
city of Speyer.
On the way, they encounter the Elite who captured Reyna, who proclaims that she is “right
where she belongs”, before the group kill it and reach Speyer.
There, they call in Marcus’ friend, Damon Baird, the founder of DB Industries and creator
of the DeeBee units.
He is revealed to be the one who helped out JD and the group with their battle with Jinn
a few days prior.
Baird, along with Augustus Cole and Samantha Byrne, help the group infiltrate the Swarm
hive in the dam, including taking down a giant Swarm creature with the help of Baird’s
mech.
Inside, the group eventually find Rayna, who is in the process of being absorbed into the
Swarm’s network.
Knowing she’ll die, Rayna asks Kait to release her so she can die before becoming one with
the Swarm.
Rayna gives Kait a medallion before bidding their final goodbye, and Kait cuts her down,
killing her in the process.
Outside, the group reunite and console Kait.
She holds up the medallion, claiming that it belonged to her grandmother, whom she had
never met.
Upon examining the back-side of it, however, we see that it bears the symbol of the Locust,
revealing Kait to be the granddaughter of the Locust Queen Myrrah, whom Marcus killed
shortly before the end of the war.
This ominous note is our last before we pick the story back up with Kait Diaz taking the
helm in Gears of War 5.
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