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11 Lucas Reyes is one of two new playable characters introduced in Gears of War: E-Day, alongside Mags Carter. He is voiced by Jake Ryan Lozano.
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33 At a Glance
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5-FieldDetailRolePlayable member of Bravo SquadVoiceJake Ryan LozanoBackgroundA young cadet and communications officerCombat recordNever reached the front lines of the Pendulum Wars, despite wanting toStory framingA back seat character, per the studio's own description of the squad
5+FieldDetailRolePlayable member of Bravo SquadVoiceJake Ryan LozanoBackgroundA young cadet and communications officerCombat recordNever reached the front lines of the Pendulum Wars, despite wanting toStory framingA back seat character, per the studio's own description of the squadNext of kinNone listed
66 Who He Is
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88 Lucas is the rookie of the group. He trained as a communications officer and never saw the war he had been preparing for, and the studio describes him as confident with dreams of glory that reality never gave him a chance to test. Where Mags has seen the most fighting of the four, Lucas has seen the least.
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1010 That inexperience is the point. When Emergence Day begins he is in plain clothes like the rest of the squad, with no unit and no orders, and he turns toward the danger with the other three before any of them have met properly.
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1212 The Corpser Sighting
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1414 One campaign beat has been described in detail. When a sky train collapses, Lucas is the one who spots the legs of something enormous underneath it. He tries to call it out and nobody else saw it, so nobody believes him. The moment pays off later in the same mission, once the creature is in full view and there is no longer anything to argue about. The unit itself is listed on Enemies.
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1616 It is a small scene, but it does a lot of work for the campaign structure: because the story never leaves the squad, the player only ever knows what these four know, and a warning nobody acts on is one of the few tools available for building dread inside that constraint.
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18+No Next of Kin
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20+When Bravo Squad reports for duty and gives details and next of kin to Captain Akila Grey, Lucas has no name to put down. Neither does Mags Carter. Marcus and Dom both have someone to list; the two new characters do not, and that shared absence is what bonds the pair of them.
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22+For a character introduced as the one who never reached the war, it is a quiet way of showing how little he has behind him.
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1824 Front Seat and Back Seat
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2026 The team frames the squad as two characters in the front seat and two in the back. Lucas and Mags are the back seat, which describes their position in the plot rather than their importance: the brief for both new characters was that they had to stand on their own rather than duplicate the returning leads.
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2228 Playing as Lucas
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2430 The campaign can be played start to finish as any of the four from the start. Player counts and split-screen limits are on Co-Op and Split-Screen, and the squad roster is on Bravo Squad.