Gears of War 1 was notorious for it's color palette which heavily feature greys, black and browns. It made the entire tone and atmosphere of the game incredibly claustrophobic, foreboding and very bleak as it leaned more towards horror elements.


Gears of War 3 meanwhile was the first entry in the series that started adding more to the color palette and was a huge change in tone/atmosphere compared to 2 and especially 1. By the time you reached gears 4 & 5, the game was rather colorful while still maintaining the overall action-y tone of the game which was brought about with GOW2 but it was clearly more "gen-z"/Marvel inspired with its characters.

Do you want to see E-Day lean more towards the older color palletes of gen 7 where was everything was grey and brown or do you want to see them lean into the current gen where everything can still be colorful, but still maintain horror elements?

Personally for me, since Gears of War E-day is a prequel, and not a numbered sequel from GOW 5. I'd actually like to see them go back to the original color palette with more horror elements focused. I absolutely detest the drab and boring grey/brown color palletes that infested the 7th gen, but just a small palette cleanser I'd like them to emphasize the older color palette more while leaning into the bleak sci-fi elements. The numbered sequel can actually continue on with more colors and what not lol.

E-Day is supposed to be scary, intimidating and filled with uncertainty so it makes sense for the game to harbor more horror elements as we meet the locusts for the first time and since it's a prequel. The trailer for E-Day actually captured all that quite well so hopefully it can maintain the tone and how the locusts are dangerous as fuk to the cogs.