That or you could chainsaw an enemy to death. Your units have a set number of action points - though this varies depending on equipment & more - and you have to choose to move, attack or use abilities like overwatch or whichever you've selected while levelling up your characters. The core gameplay is very much what you expect from a game in the genre. It's up there with any other turn-based tactic game you could think about. I've teased talking about the gameplay for too long now. You can paint your equipment all sorts of vivid colours if you want to, letting your characters truly stand out as a fashionista in this drab, dull, world of death, despair, and Locusts. I mention this now because I want to highlight that the dullness of the greys and browns can be broken up, thanks to character customisation. The textures are fantastically detailed, character, enemy, and building models are all top-notch and the animations are - for the most part - brilliant. It's brown and grey in traditional gritty-Gears fashion. Even XCOM can't be praised for its story, with the best being from emergent gameplay above anything else.īefore I get to gameplay, let me expand on the 'looking great'. That's the real selling point of these games, the gameplay. Gears Tactics looks great, sounds great, and plays fantastically. Will it make sense and is it backed up by some fantastic voice acting, enhanced by characters that I can't help but find more relatable than others in the series? Yes to all of the above. Will you get invested in the story? If you've found yourself interested in the franchise so far, yes.
There's nothing here that will make the game stand out as a beacon of storytelling and scriptwriting. Secrets, abilities - everything you've encountered before in similar games. Some surprises happen, there are some twists and turns along the way.
Related Story Alessio Palumbo Gears 5 Map Builder Functionality Removed as the Studio Focuses on New Projects I would argue that The Coalition, who have contributed to Gears Tactics with developers Splash Damage, are better at writing Gears of War games than Epic. Indeed, there's even some character development with Michael Dorn Mikayla Dorn. Some of the characters, particularly Gabe, seem to have actual personalities. I've already told you that the story is standard Gears of War, so mostly poor. You know what, I'm not going to try to explain. You'll also find yourself meeting up with some of the Stranded - people left behind after. I didn't know this before playing Gears Tactics, because I don't know if Ukkon was covered in one of the five core games or if it was in one of the comics or books, but I know now and so do you.Īs you progress through the story you'll find yourself fighting the Brumak, the Corpser and so many other recognisable members of the Locust Horde as well as quite a few lines you've heard many times before ("scratch one grub").
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That is Ukkon, who you may know as the Locust scientist that created big creatures from the series like the Brumak and the Corpser. This isn't a simple kill all the baddies story though, here you have to kill one particular baddie.
Not a ghost though, this is Gabe twelve years before the events of Gears of War, two years after emergence day. I mean Kait Diaz, and in traditional Gears fashion, you're a big burly hulk of muscle. So rather than having a character that is whining about a dead relative, here you take on the role of a dead relative - you are Gabe Diaz, father of Gear of War 4 & Gears 5's protagonist, Nate Diaz. On the subject of dead relatives and bad storylines, Gears Tactics subverts the former and mostly continues with the latter. That and the story of Gears, what I remember of it, is just bad. The talk of dead or missing relatives juxtaposed with the ooh-rah macho nonsense, the glib one-liners or the foiling of Locust or Lambent plans with nary a thought towards character development made my brain crave more alcohol than my liver could handle. Whenever they got to the talky bits in the past, I found it easier to just zone out. Yep, that's about the gist of it, because let's face it - the series is notoriously terrible at any form of real development. So we've got big burly men in suits fighting off an invasion.
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