The team behind the best emulator for Xbox 360, Xenia, has released a new version that can finally run the classic Gears of War games. Leafnation has shared three videos from a DirectX 12 hack build that shows Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 and Gears of War Judgement running on the PC. And since Microsoft does not plan to bring these games on our platform, this may be the only way via which we can play and experience them.

Now obviously these classic Gears of War games are not running perfectly on Xenia. There are numerous graphical glitches and artifacts, and performance could have been better. Still, this is the first time the emulator can go in-game and run them.

It will obviously take time until Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3 and Gears of War Judgement are playable. Still, it’s really great witnessing the progress of both this and the Playstation 3 emulators.

Gears of War 2 is the direct sequel to Gears of War that came out in 2008. Gears of War 3 was released in 2011. In both of these games the protagonist was Marcus Fenix. On the other hand, Gears of War: Judgement came out in 2013 and its main protagonists were Baird and Cole.

All of these three games are using Unreal Engine 3, so my guess is that they will become playable on Xenia at around the same time.

Enjoy the following videos and stay tuned for more!

John Papadopoulos

John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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