The new mode is designed to encourage team-based play

Feb 27, 2013 10:48 GMT  ·  By

Video game developer Epic Games says that it plans to launch a new game mode called Execution and a new map, named Haven, for the multiplayer side of the upcoming Gears of War: Judgment.

The new content will be free for all and will be available on launch day, according to Maxim.

Haven is set in an ancient monastery that sits in the middle of a frozen wasteland and the layout is asymmetrical, allowing gamers to chase each other around the margins or meet for battle in the middle of the map.

Jim Brown, a producer working on the game, states, “It makes for especially hectic Domination games because the rings are easy to access and difficult to defend.”

Execution is a team-based deathmatch mode where a player needs to be executed in order to stop him from being brought back to the fray once a countdown ends.