Gears of War E-Day is coming out in a few more days, and it's not looking good, as people have found instances of LGBTQ propoganda. This is a textbook: "How to Kill Your Game" 101. As others say, it's a canary in the coal mine. Putting woke/DEI propaganda into the game means they are not confident that the game will stand on its own merit in terms of gameplay, story, and game mechanics... and of course, how can we forget that Trans developer Kate Rayner. There have been VERY FEW games where these kinds of things were added, and the game was still very good... and already there are some red flags about the game according to early reviews from various outlets if you read between the lines. They say that there is open-world fatigue where the game's semi-open exploration is tedious and it disrupts the pacing of combat and gameplay. The story feels half-baked, focusing too much on emotional bonds between the characters that feel misplaced, especially when the franchise was built on stoic, hardened characters. Larger enemies don't react to gunfire, and many of them are undynamic bullet sponges, which makes combat 'less fun'. On consoles like the Xbox Series S, there are a lot of performance issues and frame drops, especially when there are a lot of effects on the screen. Another complaint is that there will be missing features at launch, making the game feel unfinished, hinting at later large patches that "finish the game". The only highlights are the visuals and graphics fidelity, but some of them are saying it's too cluttered and feels hard to focus on the core gameplay, and you end up fighting the camera, the effects, and the environment more than fighting the enemy. So far, it sounds like the game is suffering from the classic case of "style over substance". Now the mainstream critics are calling it a "return to form"... hmmm, where else have we heard that? Yet another red flag of the game failing.