Xbox developer The Coalition has confirmed that Gears of War's legendary characters Marcus Fenix and Dominic Santiago will be voiced by their OG actors in Gears: E-Day.
Yep - John DiMaggio and Carlos Ferro will be reprising their roles as Marcus and Dom, respectively, as the studio goes back to the roots of Gears in its upcoming prequel. Here's the two of them posing as the news is announced by the Gears team:
We always assumed that this would be the case with how heavily Xbox's reveal trailer focused on these two characters, but given that neither of them actually talk in the short clip up above, it's good to get this confirmation from the team nonetheless.
At this point, we simply have to wait for more footage on Gears of War: E-Day to see how John and Carlos will perform - but we have no doubt that they'll absolutely smash their roles as Marcus and Dom once again. We're officially on the Cole-train hype-train, baby!
Excited about this news, Gears fans? Give us your immediate reactions to this reveal down below.
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This is YUGE!! I cannot wait for this game man!!
As expected standard practice what should be expected the game better be good though gears 5 was especially a big disappointment! And especially because they have done F all since then!
i thought gears 5 was better than 4 but its not been the same since the original trilogy
That awesome to see… but I still feel like this will be a fall 2026 game 😭
I didn’t know Bender was Marcus Fenix 😆 I need to pay attention to the credits more often!
Very nice! Some of the best parts of the OG Gears of War trilogy was the banter between Marcus, Dom and the boys!
You cannot be on the 'Cole-train' hype, @Kezelpaso, because unless they are making two entirely separate campaigns within E-Day wherein you switch between two sets of leads, Cole will not be in E-Day! And nor will Baird for that matter.
Cole actually has a very er... interesting E-Day due to his entire family being killed.
Also, Marcus and Dom were not really friends to start with. Marcus was actually friends with Carlos, Dom's brother, and Dom used to basically just tag along. It was only after Carlos was killed during the Pendulum Wars that Dom and Marcus became firm friends. E-Day took place 6 weeks after the Pendulum Wars, so it is possible that we will see a very early friendship between Marcus and Dom.
Lastly, Anya Stroud, Bernie, Hoffman and Prescott could all be in the game as they were in the Pendulum Wars with Marcus and Dom, so they at least could potentially return the the franchise.
The question that I really have is whether there is another Carmine that they can kill off... 😜
"We're back baby!" -Bender
As if you could make a Gears game and have any other v/o doing Marcus. Without DiMaggio, why even bother?
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