{"id":84268,"date":"2026-06-10T11:00:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84268"},"modified":"2026-06-10T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:36:30","slug":"gears-of-war-e-day-modernizes-movement-without-going-full-parkour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84268","title":{"rendered":"Gears Of War: E-Day Modernizes Movement Without Going Full Parkour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Popping Locust heads and active reloading has never looked better than in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/gears-of-war-e-day\/\" id=\"557964\">Gears of War: E-Day<\/a>, but this prequel is also making some big changes to <em>how <\/em>you&#8217;ll move through the campaign. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/gears-of-war-e-day-is-drastically-changing-movement-for-the-first-time-in-the-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Movement has received a massive overhaul<\/a> in the prequel, as Marcus Fenix and the rest of his squad can get around all manner of obstacles to reposition themselves while in combat. The game <em>technically <\/em>has a jump button for getting over larger obstacles like display cabinets, but don&#8217;t expect Gears of War: E-Day to turn the series into a platformer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking with GameSpot, The Coalition studio creative director Matt Searcy\u00a0explained how Gears of War: E-Day fuses the traditional sticky cover-based systems established in previous games and evolves them to feel more organic. This was on full display in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\">Xbox Games Showcase<\/a>, as the gameplay preview for Gears of War: E-Day showed Marcus Fenix moving between chest-high structures, mantling over taller structures, and using the environment to his advantage in surprising ways.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dk2Uf2Th9aM  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;How you move in, out, and along cover is a lot more natural,&#8221; Searcy said. &#8220;We still kept cover like it was in Gears, and having that heaviness was important. But being able<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popping Locust heads and active reloading has never looked better than in Gears of War: E-Day, but this prequel is also making some big changes to how you&#8217;ll move through the campaign. Movement has received a massive overhaul in the prequel, as Marcus Fenix and the rest of his squad can get around all manner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":84270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84271,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84268\/revisions\/84271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}