Gears of War is a video game franchise created by
Epic Games, developed and managed by
The Coalition, and owned and published by
Microsoft Studios. The series focuses on the conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the Locust Horde, and their mutated counterparts, the Lambent. The franchise consists of four third-person shooter video games, which has also been supplemented by a comic book series and five novels.