
The players who play as the Maulers can reflect incoming bullets at opponents with their Boomshields while the Theron Elite wields a Retro Sawed-Off Shotgun that comes with two blades allowing players to retro-charge opponents and shoot them off the blades.

RAAM uses his massive sword in close-quarters combat he can either swipe it like the Cleaver or charge/impale enemies Retro-Lancer style. Players will never run out of Kryll, but swarm ability acts on cool-down. RAAM can "blast" a column of Kryll at targets, which rips them down to the bone in seconds. He is surrounded by an aura of Kryll which acts as a bullet sponge while explosions and fire deal the same damage. RAAM's gameplay is drastically different from the average soldier.Clayton Carmine and Jonathan Harper were then switched out with Tai Kaliso and Minh Young Kim. When the focus was changed to Zeta Squad, it was originally going to be Michael Barrick, Alicia Valera, Clayton Carmine, and Jonathan Harper. The second campaign, defending Fenix Estate, was used in the Troubled Past chapter in Gears of War 3. The first and third campaign were essentially combined, but focused on Zeta Squad evacuating people during the Evacuation of Ilima. The third campaign was about the Kryllstorm invasion in Tollen instead of Ilima. The second campaign was to follow them to East Barricade Academy, which ended with Marcus, Dominic Santiago, Tai Kaliso, and Jace Stratton defending Haldane Hall and would explain why he went to prison. The original campaign was to be about Marcus Fenix, Tai Kaliso, Jonathan Harper, and Michael Barrick trying to hunt RAAM. Originally, RAAM's Shadow was going to have three separate campaigns during the Fall of Ephyra.Players eventually encounter a young, skinnier Jace Stratton armed with a baseball bat during a COG portion of the campaign, before taking up Valera's Lancer.And of course, players take control of the rest of Zeta in Co-op. Michael Barrick is the main character despite Minh Young Kim's role as Zeta Leader.You literally control the Hammer of Dawn satellite from up in space using the Mobile Command Center. Instead of the standard Hammer of Dawn mechanic, RAAM's Shadow introduces a new top-down view for targeting.

Elite Sawed-Off Shotgun (First appearance).Ilima Savings and Trust (First appearance).Children's School of Hope (First appearance).Hammer of Dawn Counterattack (Mentioned only).Unidentified Theron Elite (First appearance).Unidentified Ilima Boy (First appearance).Unidentified Gear (Ilima) (First appearance).

Unidentified Gear (Armadillo Driver) (First appearance).
