Gears of War

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Gears of War is a third-person shooter video game franchise developed by Epic Games and later The Coalition, first released in 2006 for Xbox.

The series follows soldiers fighting subterranean alien creatures called the Locust on a war-torn planet.

Known for its cover-based combat system and cooperative gameplay, it became one of Microsoft's flagship Xbox exclusives: We played Gears of War all weekend.

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