While the availability for all these pre-order DLC items varies by country, you don’t have to check all your local retailers, because Epic will make everything available in paid DLC packs. PS: After finishing the game, I do believe you also unlock the Insane Difficulty Mode. This is where they went and what they did on that mission.” Then at the very end they show up with helicopters. But the basic gist of it is that when they’re at the fort, Marcus sends Baird and Cole off to find supplies and reinforcements, and then he goes off to Azura. Obviously we don’t want to give away too many spoilers in how it’s going to end or what you’re going to see. So you’ll see when you go in there some people you recognize, some places, maybe even some enemies and then see how the two storylines weave together in the context of the whole franchise. To quote lead level designer Jim Brown: “We wanted to do something that added context to the game, so you had that beginning part, but then this ties everything together with the main trilogy as well. It tells the story of what Baird and Cole were doing while Marcus was taking down the Locust Queen in Gears of War 3.
The second campaign is titled “Aftermath” and takes place during the final hours of Gears of War 3.