While this DLC will set you back $15 (read: 1,200 Microsoft points) when it debuts, the press release goes on to urge players (via journalist proxy, I guess) to buy the game’s Season Pass, a $30 option that essentially pre-pays for the game’s “first four” downloadable add-ons. In addition to fighting as a new squad of Gears, players will step into the boots of RAAM himself, and for the first time storm the human stronghold from the perspective of one of the series’ most legendary bosses. Minh Young Kim (“Gears 1”) and Tai Kaliso (“Gears 2”), and also includes a new female comrade, Alicia Valera.
Taking on the infamous Locust leader from “Gears 1,” General RAAM, Zeta is led by Michael Barrick (from “Gears of War” comics fame) and comprised of familiar faces such as Lt. “RAAM’s Shadow” drops players into the events of Sera post-Emergence Day, as Zeta Squad is enlisted to evacuate Ilima City and protect the citizens against a Locust Kryll storm. Alongside a chocolate-themed weapon skin pack and six new multiplayer characters, the add-on features a 3-hour storyline that takes place before the original Gears of War. On December 13, Microsoft and Epic Games will release RAAM’s Shadow, a new DLC pack for Gears of War 3. She was killed by RAAM during the evacuation. She was a member of Zeta-Six during the Evacuation of Ilima.
Valera was an expert recon soldier who was assigned to watch squads backs. Remember that ugly dude you killed at the end of Gears of War? Come December you’ll get a chance to see his side of the story. Private Alicia Valera, often called 'Val' by her squadmates, was a Gear soldier in the Coalition of Ordered Governments army.
