Horde 3.0 co-op mode in Gears of War 4 has emergent gameplay.
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Gears of War 4’s Horde 3.0 co-op mode features new emergent gameplay

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gears of War 4 is one of the major games of the fall season, and one way Microsoft is keeping the franchise fresh is a new twist on the game’s co-op play mode, known as Horde 3.0.

Horde 3.0 embraces a new style of defensive gameplay, where the optimal way to play will emerge over time, depending on what happens in the early part of the combat. In Horde 3.0, a five-player co-op team has to try to survive 50 waves of Swarm and DeeBee attackers, said Ryan Clevin, lead multiplayer designer at Microsoft’s Gears studio, The Coalition.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.