Here's how Gears of War 4 rewards you for playing the previous games

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Gears of War 4 will decorate series veterans with a unique emblem and give them an extra helping of loot to boot. Developer The Coalition revealed on the game's official forums that any Xbox Live Gold member (or Silver member who has logged in within the last 12 months) who has previously played a Gears of War game will get these special goodies:

If you've started any Gears of War game while connected to Xbox Live, you're eligible for the rewards. The emblem will be unlocked automatically, while a code for the Operations Pack should arrive via Xbox Live Message by the end of the week.

Gears of War 4 is a new beginning for the series, but it's still paying plenty of homage to what came before. Though I'm not sure it's totally appropriate to call a pre-order exclusive Zombie Dom skin "homage".

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Connor Sheridan
Connor Sheridan

I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar.