Gears 5

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  1. SedSays
    Dec 9, 2019
    0
    I would have enjoyed this game if it wasn't so buggy and broken. Got to the point where it won't load my save anymore in the final act. Very annoying. Your mileage may vary but for me, not being able to finish it means I can't give it any score, let alone a good one.
  2. sincubus
    Nov 21, 2019
    0
    Months in and still a train wreck of glitches and crashes. The shift from a great game into some micro-transaction nonsense really took away from the whole point of the series. I can not, in good conscienceless, suggest this game if you enjoyed the previous versions. Just remember the good games and leave this mosquito of a wallet drainer out in the cold where it can die an ingloriousMonths in and still a train wreck of glitches and crashes. The shift from a great game into some micro-transaction nonsense really took away from the whole point of the series. I can not, in good conscienceless, suggest this game if you enjoyed the previous versions. Just remember the good games and leave this mosquito of a wallet drainer out in the cold where it can die an inglorious death. For a franchise that started with a bang, this should be its whimper like death until better developers who want to make a great game over a quick buck can take the reigns.… Expand
  3. ByCesc
    Feb 5, 2020
    0
    Awfully optimized, there's a lot of performance issues which include fps drops and stuttering. Wallbounce is ruined since bullet magnetism is so notable which makes this game look noob-friendly ruining competitive. Gnasher consistency is nasty and unreliable, Campaign is boring (I didn´t even finish it) and characters are boring too. Gears used to be gold, but the Coalition killed it.
  4. psylife
    Sep 10, 2019
    4
    The game looks good, but nothing groundbreaking or up to the standards some have been advertising. Truth be told I find the material authoring and asset definition around the environment quite average, if not below expectation. Gameplay is pretty much the same as it has always been. There is really not much to say here unfortunately. Get it on game pass, play it and move on. Collapse
  5. yozuezito
    Sep 15, 2019
    4
    El juego tiene buenos gráficos, una buena optimización, y muchos tiros, pero como juego triple A, queda muy corto, sigue con sus mismos problemas que el gears 4, hay errores que persisten en este nueva entrega, pudieron haberlos arreglados, ya viendo su entrega anterior, pero no lo hicieron, hablando de la jugabilidad y los escenarios, muchas veces es lamentable, los escenarios de repitenEl juego tiene buenos gráficos, una buena optimización, y muchos tiros, pero como juego triple A, queda muy corto, sigue con sus mismos problemas que el gears 4, hay errores que persisten en este nueva entrega, pudieron haberlos arreglados, ya viendo su entrega anterior, pero no lo hicieron, hablando de la jugabilidad y los escenarios, muchas veces es lamentable, los escenarios de repiten mucho, sobre todo en la parte del desierto, parece que estas haciendo lo mismo una y otra vez, y en jugabilidad, quitando lo del robot, no hay nada de diferencia entre el Gears 4 y esta nueva entrega, como juego triple A se queda muy corto, pero ojo que la historio no es tan mala como la del 4, pero lamentablemente los errores que acarrea y lo repetitivo que es aburre, en el game pass vale la pena jugarlo, porque comprarlo a precio completo será botar su dinero, es lamentable porque se veía prometedor este juego y quedó corto y mal como la mayoría de las entregas de este año.… Expand
  6. Xennyxt
    Sep 11, 2019
    4
    El juego tendría un 8 (mas no, por que el mundo abierto le ha hecho mas mal que bien).

    La razón, el motivo por el que le doy un 4 es por una "cosita insignificante". Tras pasarme la campaña en locura, coger TODOS los colecionables, armas especiales, mejoras para Jack, y puntos de mejora (lleva tiempo, ademas de ser tedioso, y en las partes de mundo abierto, aburrido), el juego me dice    El juego tendría un 8 (mas no, por que el mundo abierto le ha hecho mas mal que bien).

    La razón, el motivo por el que le doy un 4 es por una "cosita insignificante". Tras pasarme la campaña en locura, coger TODOS los colecionables, armas especiales, mejoras para Jack, y puntos de mejora (lleva tiempo, ademas de ser tedioso, y en las partes de mundo abierto, aburrido), el juego me dice que los logros están incompletos, por que, por alguna razón, ciertas partes de cada logro están incompletas.

    No hay manera humana de saber que me falta, por que como ya dije, ya lo completé TODO, así que me toca volver a pasarlo ENTERO en locura, cosa difícil, para obtener el logro, y recoger TODOS las mejoras de nuevo, por que el juego no me ha marcado algunas.

    Me da igual que el juego sea de hace 4 días, es un fallo ENORME, que hace que tengas que repetirlo TODO.

    Como ya he dicho el juego se merecería un 8, pero la han cagado, y no se que pinta un mundo abierto en un shooter frenético, te saca de la tensión y el momento.

    LO BUENO:
    En los modos online no he encontrado problemas. Enfrentamiento esta muy bien, el modo horda.... es el modo horda, ¿que mas necesitas?, y el modo escape no es que me agrade personalmente, pero no esta mal, es distinto, y es una mecánica cuanto menos interesante.    … Expand
  7. srt8cat
    Oct 25, 2019
    0
    Lots of graphical glitches and bugs in the story mode and SJW politics all over the place.

    I'm a hardcore Gears fanatic. Well let me rephrase that, a hard core Epic Games Gears fanatic. The franchise pretty much died after Gears 3. Yet I was still pumped for Gears 5 as Gears 4 was alright, nothing groundbreaking but a good start for a new story arch, I guess. Gears 5's characters are    Lots of graphical glitches and bugs in the story mode and SJW politics all over the place.

    I'm a hardcore Gears fanatic. Well let me rephrase that, a hard core Epic Games Gears fanatic. The franchise pretty much died after Gears 3. Yet I was still pumped for Gears 5 as Gears 4 was alright, nothing groundbreaking but a good start for a new story arch, I guess.

    Gears 5's characters are so weird, especially Kait. While playing as her they make you question her. Why would you make the player question the character they play as?

    Oh and they try really hard to make you hate JD. You know, the ''white male bad guy''.

    I'm pretty much done with the franchise. Maybe I'm just getting too old for this. So is Marcus by the way, even though he and delta squad are about the only enjoyable part of this game.    … Expand
  8. P4inskiller
    Sep 21, 2019
    4
    Great graphics, good game..if it would work! Too many frustrating bugs and a ridiculous AI what causes only problems: in some levels I needed to revive all team members every 2 seconds! Gears 5 would be the best episode in the franchise. But with missing quality control this game is only frustrating. Also: the woman Kait is talking by far too much!! Why I cannot choose a male character,Great graphics, good game..if it would work! Too many frustrating bugs and a ridiculous AI what causes only problems: in some levels I needed to revive all team members every 2 seconds! Gears 5 would be the best episode in the franchise. But with missing quality control this game is only frustrating. Also: the woman Kait is talking by far too much!! Why I cannot choose a male character, why EVERY (!!) game in 2019 MUST have female main characters??… Expand
  9. PanzerFerraz
    Sep 12, 2019
    0
    Volta Cliff Bleszinski e a Epic Games por favor, para salvar esta magnífica franquia de uma vez por todas, a Dona deste magnifico jogo, está destruindo a mesma... Jamais vocês deveriam de terem saído deste inestimável jogo. Perderam a noção do que ser é ser uma empresa/criador criativa/criativo se inspirando em jogo da corrente que ganhou de melhor jogo do ano anterior. Porém não tem aVolta Cliff Bleszinski e a Epic Games por favor, para salvar esta magnífica franquia de uma vez por todas, a Dona deste magnifico jogo, está destruindo a mesma... Jamais vocês deveriam de terem saído deste inestimável jogo. Perderam a noção do que ser é ser uma empresa/criador criativa/criativo se inspirando em jogo da corrente que ganhou de melhor jogo do ano anterior. Porém não tem a mesma criatividade dos criadores que é do Cliff Bleszinski e da Epic Games. Só lamento.… Expand
  10. RapidasDaniel
    Sep 11, 2019
    2
    SÓLO TENIENDO EN CUENTA EL MODO CAMPAÑA:
    Puntos negativos:
    -De los primeros 40min de juego, 15min, son cinemáticas, aburridas y tediosas cinemáticas. -El gameplay está constantemente interrumpido por secciones de dar paseitos, charlas, o secciones largas aburridas, precedidas por una cinemática, o después de una de ellas. Pero es de forma tan constante, que se hace muy tedioso,    SÓLO TENIENDO EN CUENTA EL MODO CAMPAÑA:
    Puntos negativos:
    -De los primeros 40min de juego, 15min, son cinemáticas, aburridas y tediosas cinemáticas.

    -El gameplay está constantemente interrumpido por secciones de dar paseitos, charlas, o secciones largas aburridas, precedidas por una cinemática, o después de una de ellas. Pero es de forma tan constante, que se hace muy tedioso, destroza por completo la experiencia de juego... (tal vez si lo que quieres es ver videos sobre el gears, queda chulísimo, pero en cuanto coges el control es sencillamente aburrido).

    -No puedes moverte libremente por el mapeado. Se hace absolutamente frustrante. Todo son paredes invisibles, todo.
    ¿Ves que nada te retiene de seguir adelante? Pared invisible.
    Oye por aquí no hay ninguna pared, nada, ¿Por qué no puedo bajar del segundo piso a la calle simplemente saltando o dejándome caer? Pared invisible...

    -Para recargar hay una mecánica por la cual se crea una barrita debajo del arma, que si le vuelves a dar a la r en un buen momento recarga más rápido, si no, más lento. No sé en qué mundo en medio de un combate a tiros, tienes que estar apartando tu mirada de la partida para ver la barrita de recarga y darle. Recargamos todo el rato en un juego de estas características, y esto no es nada agradable tener que hacerlo constantemente...

    -Por último, me han derribado, y mientras espameaba el espacio para que me levantasen, el compañero decía: ya voy!, estoy yendo!, así todo el rato. Cuando él estaba a un metro, así hasta que morí (obviamente se había bugueado). Y aquí decidí parar el juego.

    Puntos positivos:
    Gráficamente el juego es una barbaridad, juego a todo en ultra, lo capo a 144fps y de ahí no baja (no tengo mal pc además, pero el rendimiento es bárbaro para lo bien que se ve).

    Conclusión:
    Para el que le guste todo el rollo gráfico con cinemáticas, películas de acción y demás. Seguramente lo disfrutareis mucho.
    Para los que os guste jugar, y si queréis ir a veros una película vais a ver una, no queréis que os interrumpan constantemente en la partida. Iros a otra parte, se hace demasiado aburrido.

    Nada de tonterías de hater, llevo pagando el game pass un tiempo y así seguiré, pero no para jugar al gears, al menos no el modo campaña (que era en verdad lo que me interesaba, me gusta más ese rollo). Seguramente pruebe el multijugador, que seguramente sea bastante mejor que la campaña... Y de ahí editaré la review con lo que vea.    … Expand
  11. P43YM
    Sep 10, 2019
    4
    What a waste ... I'm a longtime fan of the series. And the fourth part was good and promising, but this is a turn in the completely wrong direction.
    Yes, graphically it is excellent, but everything else is terrible. Characters do not cause any sympathy. They are not consistent, flat and boring. You cannot create a drama if a player does not give a damn about its participants.
    Fights are    What a waste ... I'm a longtime fan of the series. And the fourth part was good and promising, but this is a turn in the completely wrong direction.
    Yes, graphically it is excellent, but everything else is terrible. Characters do not cause any sympathy. They are not consistent, flat and boring. You cannot create a drama if a player does not give a damn about its participants.
    Fights are hellishly boring.
    Too many one-shots out of nowhere and too little enemy variety. There are a lot of enemies who are almost not dangerous, but require a long and tedious shooting at one point on their ass or somewhere else.
    Constant babysitting with ai companions, plus one-shots, plus checkpoints, plus boring shooting at large enemies at one point and you get at times the most incredibly hellishly boring repetitive gameplay.
    Open arenas are pointless timewasters.
    And oh god, hire good writers please.
     What is this miserable cliched “Luke I'm Your Father” plot? You destroy plot potentials for locusts! They could have had a centuries-old history, and now they have nothing.
    And, I laughed to the pain in my stomach over the choice that you suddenly give me. I see what you did here. You collect statistics and try to understand whether it is possible to bury old gears or fans are not yet ready to swallow your pathetic new gears. I'm not on your side on this    … Expand
  12. AceAscendus
    Sep 11, 2019
    0
    Terrible. Filled with bugs and glitches on top of HORRIBLE, anti-consumer, predatory micro-transactions. How far Gears of War franchise has fallen, no wonder they changed the name to Gears 5, this isn't true Gears of War and it doesn't deserve that name, this is just another terrible product from Xbox Games Studios.
  13. TheLelik
    Sep 11, 2019
    0
    Bought on Steam. And it simply wont work. I got CTD with GW502. They completely ignore to add latest Win10 build in system requirements! Don't buy this yet, if you have Win 10 build, early then 1903.
  14. unclefergie
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Very , extremely, put me to sleep story.... Seriously this is not Gears. .... it is a fun game for about 20 min and then its on to something else. such a damn shame.
    The maps are seriously the biggest joke ... they suck ass and are small and crappy.
  15. Mektu
    Sep 23, 2019
    4
    Having only played the single player I can say that from a technical and visual standpoint the game is fantastic, but that's where the positives end.

    Who thought it was a good idea to make the game semi-open world? Was it really the best they were able to come up with? It genuinely adds nothing to the experience other than to be an annoying, exhausting time sink. The dialogue... Oh    Having only played the single player I can say that from a technical and visual standpoint the game is fantastic, but that's where the positives end.

    Who thought it was a good idea to make the game semi-open world? Was it really the best they were able to come up with? It genuinely adds nothing to the experience other than to be an annoying, exhausting time sink.

    The dialogue... Oh god... Whoever was responsible for the dialogue: You're not funny. Your jokes are not funny and your writing is cringe-inducing. The protagonists act like characters out of a teen drama novel. God forbid there would have been a single line of dialogue where they don't apologize for something, act insulted, or attempt to show their gratitude in the most exaggerated manner imaginable.
    I got Mass Effect Andromeda flashbacks while playing this game; that should tell you something about the quality of the writing.

    It's time to bring Marcus Fenix out of retirement. I'm genuinely sick of the new protagonists.    … Expand
  16. Lotheravanti
    Oct 11, 2019
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So I was playing Act I, genuinely enjoying a solid Gears experience. The combat has been tweaked a lot better this time around compared to Gears 4. You no longer have to spend half an hour on a miniboss(that's what it felt like). Minibosses have health bars and take far less to kill than before. It's not all good, though. Jumpers can totally waste you with barrages unless you hide behind tall cover to gradually whittle their health. They weren't AS aggressive in Gears 4, here it's barrage after barrage with no delay between.

    So yeah, I was thoroughly enjoying just about everything, the gameplay, the graphics, the story, when the game went FULL WOKE. We had a character assassination moment, because men bad, then you start Act II with the girl and this REALLY bothered me. Del never shuts up about how great she is, constantly kissing her ♥♥♥ and praising her, the Great Feminist Savior.

    Also, tell me if you've heard this woke story before: she is the ONE, she is the KEY to EVERYTHING. The retcon in Gears 5 is mighty strong, they're insinuating the Locust were just a science experiment created by Men. Men BAD, do you get it? Oh and JD returns in Act 3 and starts kissing her ♥♥♥ as well. ALL PRAISE THE WOMAN.

    The first act is classic gears, but Act 2 and 3 are open world Ubisoft crap filled with.....filler side missions. Yes, side missions in a Gears game. So, rather than the well designed levels of past games, you now have your typical empty open world with around 10 side activities for Acts 2 and 3. It's utter ♥♥♥♥♥.    … Expand
  17. 4Cyberpunk
    Oct 5, 2019
    4
    Simply boring simple game.It's for kids maybe.Super lame characters and meaningless writing.Good optimization.Couldn't finish it because i didn't care about story or even enjoy the gameplay.
  18. WinrarDinrar
    Oct 1, 2019
    3
    70 hours in.
    Unfinished Game ☑
    Only 7 maps on release ☑ Micro-transactions ☑ Terrible De-sync on MP ☑ High Ping from connecting to the wrong server ☑ Unbalanced Multiplayer ☑ SJW Story ☑ No reward for re-uping after level 100 ☑ Incompetent Devs ☑ I really wanted to give this game a shot, It runs great, but its not a good game. Feels like a rushed game. Really miss gears 1 and    70 hours in.
    Unfinished Game ☑
    Only 7 maps on release ☑
    Micro-transactions ☑
    Terrible De-sync on MP ☑
    High Ping from connecting to the wrong server ☑
    Unbalanced Multiplayer ☑
    SJW Story ☑
    No reward for re-uping after level 100 ☑
    Incompetent Devs ☑

    I really wanted to give this game a shot, It runs great, but its not a good game.
    Feels like a rushed game. Really miss gears 1 and 2    … Expand
  19. djball
    Jul 16, 2022
    0
    Preteen demographic, horrible writing. Gameplay is unbearably clunky. Not even worth the free download on Gamepass. 4 hours deleted.
  20. CriticalEQ
    Oct 8, 2019
    2
    Pros: Improved fresh campaign compared to Gears 4.
    Cons: I've played every Gears game. And this game has made me decide I will instead be getting a PS5 next generation. Rod and Phil you guys are not smart and are failing at producing AAA must have 1st party games completely. This game is still just more corporate microtransaction bullsh*t. Do nobody should buy this game. The progression    Pros: Improved fresh campaign compared to Gears 4.
    Cons: I've played every Gears game. And this game has made me decide I will instead be getting a PS5 next generation. Rod and Phil you guys are not smart and are failing at producing AAA must have 1st party games completely. This game is still just more corporate microtransaction bullsh*t. Do nobody should buy this game. The progression system just like with Gears 4 is trash and not fun. TC and Rod lied to everybody that this game would be players first and it is 100% not. Fun should always be first but Microsoft continues to not understand that as a company. When a progression system pushes you hard to not enjoy the game or not make the best play but instead try to achieve a certain tasks in each multiplayer session you have f*cked the multiplayer. Also instead of Gears 4s grindy lootbox microtrasaction system they've replaced it with a convoluted microtransaction mess with nothing of value to unlock and with no reasonable or fun way to progress toward unlocking anything. The only way to unlock anything of value will cost you at least an extremely excessive extra $40. They clearly marketed this game and redesigned the microtrasaction system to confuse customers and make it difficult for reviewers to warn players all with the main goal to limit outrage during launch. This is unfriendly and unethical behavior. Like with Gears 4 this games player base will die massively as players are left with again a trash progression system that is not centered around fun and the multiplayer gameplay itself. Under no circumstance should you trust TC and Rod again and buy Gears 6 in the future. Gears of War is now a dead franchise that lies and manipulates you. Its not surprising at all that they made Gears 5 crossplatform with PC since they basically killed the franchises playerbase with 4s grindy lootbox microtransactions system. But after this I don't know what TC will do to trick players to buy 6. I believe this game just spent the last bit of trust players had with TC and Rod. For me this game was going to decide if I switched to PlayStation for next gen and this game has decided it for me Microsoft is not serious about creating Fun AAA games they are not PlayStation and they are certainly not a Nintendo. Microsoft has taken yet again another stupid pointless approach to gaming and blowing player trust. but for many this was Microsofts last chance. This game just one PlayStation 5 the gen console war.    … Expand
  21. Naddeist
    Oct 18, 2019
    0
    Juego incompleto
    Pesimo lanzamiento
    Solo 7 mapas en MP Micro-transacciones que te hacen preferir el sistema de sobres de gow 4 Terrible desincronización en MP, partidas llenas de bots Pesimo rendimento en Equipos de gama alta - En foros se reportan personas que solo pueden jugar de 10 a 20 min el juego se cierra sin informar el error o solucion Ping alto al conectarse al servidor    Juego incompleto
    Pesimo lanzamiento
    Solo 7 mapas en MP
    Micro-transacciones que te hacen preferir el sistema de sobres de gow 4
    Terrible desincronización en MP, partidas llenas de bots
    Pesimo rendimento en Equipos de gama alta - En foros se reportan personas que solo pueden jugar de 10 a 20 min el juego se cierra sin informar el error o solucion
    Ping alto al conectarse al servidor incorrecto
    Multijugador y sistema de Rank desequilibrado
    La i.a. en la campana tiene retrazo algunas misiones no las puedes completar porque tu companero se cae del mapa o se queda trabado en una covertura
    Historia aburridisima y predecible puedes verla en videos no compres el juego
    Lo mas interesante de toda la campana son los easter eggs "Para fans" y La muerte del unico personaje con sentido el Robot Jack

    Amaba esta franquicia pero Microsoft & TC lo mataron, No recomendaria a nadie comprar este juego desepcion total para Fans de siempre asi como nuevos, este juego mal desarrollado es un intento mas de sacar dinero basado en la nostalgia, no tiene identidad la nueva historia debio terminar con Gow 3, nada innovador un refrito o un dlc de gow 4, la mayoria de jugadores pierden el interes despues de 1 mes, inclusive a unos meses de su lanzamiento puedes comprarlo por menos de la mitad de precio en paginas de Keys en internet para el proximo ano costara $5 Usd, no pierdas tu tiempo ni dinero inviertelo en algo mejor este es solo otro intento por dar protagonismo a un personaje que no tiene sentido de existir solo para quedar bien con grupos externos y hacer lo politicamente correcto otra vez.    … Expand
  22. balddim0n
    Sep 15, 2019
    0
    Crashes during cutscenes (often) and during gameplay (not so often) playing single. Ok, let`s be honest — it crashes all the time. BSODS and sometimes just crashes to desktop.

    Coop is unplayable at all as it BSODS EVERY TIME every 5 minutes or more often. Crashes while loading, crashes while playing. Usually it is BSOD. Sometimes you just crash to desktop. Me and my buddy spent time    Crashes during cutscenes (often) and during gameplay (not so often) playing single. Ok, let`s be honest — it crashes all the time. BSODS and sometimes just crashes to desktop.

    Coop is unplayable at all as it BSODS EVERY TIME every 5 minutes or more often. Crashes while loading, crashes while playing. Usually it is BSOD. Sometimes you just crash to desktop. Me and my buddy spent time trying to play but just gave up. Unplayable in coop. BSODs.

    For now I`ve tried around some things hoping to fix it but nothing helped.

    While I was playing single I wasn`t expectin` the game to be in such a bad shape. I was mistaken.

    Coop is unplayable. It`s either a refund or you just have to wait hopin` for comin` fixes.

    Windows 10 last version. I7 4790s. DDR3 8gb. AMD RX 480 4gb last driver. Samsung Evo 860 SSD.

    Stop selling broken games. Give it for free or call it broken as it is otherwise    … Expand
  23. Steff86
    Sep 13, 2019
    0
    Very boring game! No improvements to the franchise and same loony toons graphics! There's nothing this game offers.
  24. matheusgrb
    Sep 26, 2019
    0
    Mais do mesmo TODO JOGO. É sempre o MESMO jogo. Palhaçada tem limite Microsoft!! Não aguento mais isso
  25. Kurrjur
    Sep 21, 2019
    4
    Campaign is amazing. Otherwise this would be a 0/10. Multiplayer is too broken to even go on a rant about it, because the game doesn't deserve the words. Also the game crashes periodically and doesn't keep accurate track of stats.
  26. Ditko
    Sep 17, 2019
    0
    I would have honestly put 7.5 to this game. It's not the best Gears 5 out there, it's a little bit better than GoW 4 but definitely not a masterpiece. Single player story is meh and the open world moments are dull. Overall it's a good game but not what I would expect from one of the biggest Microsoft exclusive series. Gears 1-2-3 were way better!

    Still, I need to give this one a 0    I would have honestly put 7.5 to this game. It's not the best Gears 5 out there, it's a little bit better than GoW 4 but definitely not a masterpiece. Single player story is meh and the open world moments are dull. Overall it's a good game but not what I would expect from one of the biggest Microsoft exclusive series. Gears 1-2-3 were way better!

    Still, I need to give this one a 0 'cause I read some of the fake 10 rating reviews (which show it as a perfect game) from Xbox fanboys. This needs balance.    … Expand
  27. yellowleo
    Sep 10, 2019
    0
    Unplayable on NVIDIA 1xxx Series. How can you make such a big over site. Just because AMD gave you money to make it for them doesn't mean you should make NVIDIA cards crash when trying to play.
  28. Unreal011
    Sep 10, 2019
    0
    Couldn't finish a single round in horde mode. Enemies spawn underground so you can't kill them,
    players get stuck in the ground or on walls, servers are a nightmare and frequently kick you out.
    Quests are bugged and don't count your progress, games don't start after minutes of loading time. Overall i wasted hours of progress on this The list goes on and on. This is a Beta at best    Couldn't finish a single round in horde mode. Enemies spawn underground so you can't kill them,
    players get stuck in the ground or on walls, servers are a nightmare and frequently kick you out.
    Quests are bugged and don't count your progress, games don't start after minutes of loading time.
    Overall i wasted hours of progress on this

    The list goes on and on.

    This is a Beta at best but not a finished game    … Expand
  29. BetaBrody
    Oct 13, 2019
    0
    It's sad to say, but this has to be the worst Gears game I have played (I've played all the games but GoW Judgement). The game was released over a month ago now and the game still feels like its in beta. The lag is high in this game nearly all the time, and the game is full of bugs that hurt game play experience and waste valuable time. This game feels like Gears of War 2 where to playIt's sad to say, but this has to be the worst Gears game I have played (I've played all the games but GoW Judgement). The game was released over a month ago now and the game still feels like its in beta. The lag is high in this game nearly all the time, and the game is full of bugs that hurt game play experience and waste valuable time. This game feels like Gears of War 2 where to play with low ping you would need to be host, in this case you would need to be very close to whatever random server is chosen. The movement is also very clunky especially with the current cover system which feels like it got worse from previous Gears as well. The character selection and map selection is the lowest I have ever seen, and the maps get stale quickly due to only 7 different maps to choose from. It is very hard to find good things to say about this game when I feel any other Gears of War did everything better.… Expand
  30. furyohfury
    Sep 29, 2019
    2
    WORST checkpoints ever. Even if you have beaten huge wave of enemies or one big enemy which takes a lot of time on hard difficulty (normal is boring because you don't feel any resistance at all) and die randomly from one grenade or rocket of last enemy (it oneshotes you no matter what which is REALLY frustrating) or there's another wave coming and you died at the end of it - you gottaWORST checkpoints ever. Even if you have beaten huge wave of enemies or one big enemy which takes a lot of time on hard difficulty (normal is boring because you don't feel any resistance at all) and die randomly from one grenade or rocket of last enemy (it oneshotes you no matter what which is REALLY frustrating) or there's another wave coming and you died at the end of it - you gotta start ALL of it again. There are many bugs when enemy just stops and does nothing and you can't go forward because he's alive and you have to search for him. I had a bug when in kraken fight it just didnt open last eye so i had to do all the fight AGAIN.
    Dumb matriarch fight. Everything what makes big enemies strong is their huge hp bar so you have to fire 300 bullets in one of them which is stupid old game design.
    People say graphics is good and most of the time it's true, but even with ultra textures its' ok but not everywhere.
    Plot is boring, relationships between characters are made SO BADLY that it makes no interest at all. And i know that we have this dumb feminism trend but playing 90% of the game as a boring girl in supposedly brutal shooter is't fun
    The only good thing in this game is optimisation, which is really good with this graphics, but game itself has so bad game design, plot, checkpoints and ancient gameplay.    … Expand
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#46 Best PC Game of 2019
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#22 Most Discussed PC Game of 2019

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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 24 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 24
  3. Negative: 0 out of 24
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Dec 6, 2019
    87
    Introduction of open world led to action slowing down a little, but new lore and world-building more than make up for it. [Issue#241, p.30]
  2. Giant Bomb
    Oct 23, 2019
    80
    Gears 5 plays around with the formula a bit, but it's still at its best when it's just being a solid-ass Gears of War game.
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  3. Riot Pixels
    Oct 12, 2019
    85
    This is an intense blockbuster which delivers its brutal action just as advertised.
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