Gears 5

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  1. robogeisha
    Oct 24, 2019
    3
    This is the first Gears (Of War) game that I've played so I can't say how it compares to previous entries, but by god it is boring. It's essentially a long cut scene interspersed with occasional bursts of frustrating shooting - frustrating if you're playing with a controller, anyway, since there is no aim assist unless you set the difficulty to minimum, and no cursor when you're in coverThis is the first Gears (Of War) game that I've played so I can't say how it compares to previous entries, but by god it is boring. It's essentially a long cut scene interspersed with occasional bursts of frustrating shooting - frustrating if you're playing with a controller, anyway, since there is no aim assist unless you set the difficulty to minimum, and no cursor when you're in cover to give you a clue where you'll be aiming when you pop up to fire. Unless you've marked the centre of your TV with a pen the chances of you actually hitting anything when you pop out of cover without a tedious interval of nudging the thumb sticks (whilst you get peppered with bullets) is virtually zero. I would have expected a series that originated on the XBox to have shooting mechanics that were well tuned for an XBox controller, but it feels like it is built for keyboard and mouse.

    Beyond the barely present gameplay the story and characters are profoundly uninteresting (as far as I've progressed so far anyway ... some way into Act 2). I'm so tired of wise-cracking Americans in games, give me something different. Or at least try to make the wise cracks interesting or amusing?

    The game is beautiful, of course, can't deny it that, and it runs at a rock solid 60FPS on my rig. Unreal Engine certainly shines and the artists have put a lot of work into getting the most out of it.

    By god it's boring though.    … Expand
  2. 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
  3. Valance23322
    Nov 3, 2019
    3
    This game is extremely bad. It fails at almost everything it tries to do, from a quasi open world level structure that just wastes time and development resources while adding nothing to the experience, to technical glitches that make it one of the least polished games of the year (sound, graphics, gameplay, AND progression glitches). Narratively it's a mess with new enemy designs notThis game is extremely bad. It fails at almost everything it tries to do, from a quasi open world level structure that just wastes time and development resources while adding nothing to the experience, to technical glitches that make it one of the least polished games of the year (sound, graphics, gameplay, AND progression glitches). Narratively it's a mess with new enemy designs not really making sense within the world, with one of the main characters from the previous game being effectively ruined then unceremoniously being killed off. Adding to the poor quality it is also by far the shortest gears game of the main series.

    I would not recommend that anyone go out of their way to play this game.    … Expand
  4. Sepherim
    Dec 16, 2021
    3
    Jugué en su momento al Gears of War 1 y me pareció que su jugabilidad era aburrida y su historia poco interesante. Ahora, con la quinta parte, y tras haber disfrutado de Gears Tactics, decidí darle otra oportunidad a la saga y ver qué tal había evolucionado, y ha sido un error. La jugabilidad está algo mejorada, pero en buena medida sigue siendo el mismo coger cobertura-disparar-moverse aJugué en su momento al Gears of War 1 y me pareció que su jugabilidad era aburrida y su historia poco interesante. Ahora, con la quinta parte, y tras haber disfrutado de Gears Tactics, decidí darle otra oportunidad a la saga y ver qué tal había evolucionado, y ha sido un error. La jugabilidad está algo mejorada, pero en buena medida sigue siendo el mismo coger cobertura-disparar-moverse a siguiente cobertura y poco más. Añade a eso que, si lo juegas en singleplayer, tienes que lidiar con que la IA de tus compañeros es extremadamente estúpida, a niveles de pegarse un tiro. La historia no está mal, pero tampoco es nada del otro mundo. El multijugador me ha parecido más interesante, especialmente el modo hordas y el sistema de progresión, pero acaba haciéndose repetitivo muy rápido.

    Gráficamente el juego cumple, pero personalmente nunca me gustó demasiado el diseño de personajes ni enemigos del universo Gears. El sonido también cumple bien. Y entonces llega la peor parte: los bugs. En PC, la optimización es nefasta, haciendo que el juego consuma una cantidad de recursos locos, se buguea de vez en cuando, los personajes se traban, etc. Y llegó al punto absurdo de que la cinemática del comienzo del acto 3 literalmente me cuelga el juego, aunque cambie la configuración y todo, haciendo imposible avanzar en la campaña pasado ese punto. Añade a eso unos controles que, en el mejor caso, se podrían definir como "caprichosos" y tienes un juego que, sin duda, se queda muy lejos de ser un buen juego.

    Por todo ello, yo recomendaría no acercarse a él. Un 3.    … Expand
  5. Top1saraya_
    Mar 24, 2023
    3
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  6. tdebug
    May 31, 2020
    2
    Incredibly clumsy controls make the most of the game difficulty. Last boss is difficult only because of terrible controls, character stuck and fail to run properly. This makes it annoying and not challenging experience.
  7. 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
  8. soldiermxdeath
    Feb 23, 2022
    2
    The game was broken on launch date, till today there's some achievements don't track properly. Many of them are too much time consuming and very boring, repetitive, doesn't enrich the gaming experience.

    Putting that aside, the campaing was only ok, the open world areas are a waste, trying to be a filler to an uninteresting campaing. It has some good firefights but overall aren't worthy.    The game was broken on launch date, till today there's some achievements don't track properly. Many of them are too much time consuming and very boring, repetitive, doesn't enrich the gaming experience.

    Putting that aside, the campaing was only ok, the open world areas are a waste, trying to be a filler to an uninteresting campaing. It has some good firefights but overall aren't worthy. The difficulty on this game is based on how many want to screw/punish you on Campaign/horde/escape.

    Graphics are good but the general performance at least on PC is irregular, random stuttering during matches 'cause probably it loads custom weapon skins when they're pick up, if the game is on HDD like on Xbox One, there's a high time response causing such stuttering, also when bosses spawns, is annoying. The first years was horrible with random crashes and most sometimes BSOD, alongside the GW502 error, the only game with worse performance was Gears of War 4, common denominator: TC poor programming.

    Campaign DLC is very short, tasteless, you're about to get action too late. Too many sections where you only walk without sprint, you can't skip some of those dialogues ingame.

    Escape mode is entertaining but abuses on pretty generic assets, if isn't on ice levels, are factory levels, too boring see the same maps accommodated in different ways. The majority of claases aren't suitables for many hives, forcing you use some specific classes, for those skilled players isn't a issue, but actually if you like for example some class and want to use it on hives with huge disavantage, it won't be enjoyable after all. Those who beat all hives with the "worst" classes doesn't represent the average player trying to have fun in a sense not everybody have the same skill.

    Horde mode with daily modifiers present the same problem with only using certain classes to beat it more easily, despite that, is a disaster play a team based game with people that play the opposite, for example, an assault class that uses explosives, some players use it entirely as engineer, all because this bad game design is so open causing any player do whatever they want, not matter if they do it to the detriment of the team.

    Versus is a total mess, I didn't mention that PVE had several changes, some positives, other were for worst, in versus was the worst, the gunplay doesn't feel enjoyable, all related with competitive like earn rewards, rankings, etc. feels more like a full time job than actually enjoying a game.
    Maps designs only improved with the latest released, the rest are just generic artistically.

    The service model on this game is predatory, exclusive expensive skins and the majority of them are incomplete due the scorcher was added after. If you don't buy them, you can earn coins in an insane grind. The Iron is useless, only if you want to get the skins asap 1 week before the rest can earn them through playing, and you can't use it to get those exclusive skins like Chrome Steel.

    Talking about coins and iron, TC made something called boost, mainly to make more players addicted on focus only on level up asap, they made less events to make players buy this boost, otherwise it'll take a lot of time to level up, and there's some achievements for level up, so, basically pay for earn it.

    The grind to level up classes and cards are ridiculous, some necessary cards are unlocked after a lot of hours playing, if you want to go on faster, you need to play on Master, but of course if you play it without cards you'll be punished horribly, so playing in lower difficulties doesn't help due the horrible reward system, giving you repeated cards you don't need. In the first years of this game it was worse.

    Overall game only can be enjoyed with a close group of friends, but after all disasters there's no real incentive to play. TC made a bunch of players only focused on unlock stuffs, play for rewards instead of play for fun.

    In conclussion, is a irregular game, but with a very bad developer behind, poor costumer support, poor treatment to the user, random stuttering/crashes on high end PCs but being a minority, who cares? And finally the constant changes since the game was launched, different versus tuning, the change from heroes to classes, adding/removing stuffs in skill cards, etc. It just shows they have no f#@!cking idea on what to do. One of the worst studios I ever seen. I'll never confident    … Expand
  9. WreckWren
    Aug 17, 2022
    2
    Pretty mediocre rip-off of gears. 4 was pretty bad, relegating all the good characters we like to 2nd rate support roles, but this one which replaces big gruff wise cracking Marcus with a whiny annoying passive aggressive girl is just offensive. Who can honestly say they thought this character was likeable?
    Gameplay is uninspired and adds only gimmicks while cutting down on the core cover    Pretty mediocre rip-off of gears. 4 was pretty bad, relegating all the good characters we like to 2nd rate support roles, but this one which replaces big gruff wise cracking Marcus with a whiny annoying passive aggressive girl is just offensive. Who can honestly say they thought this character was likeable?
    Gameplay is uninspired and adds only gimmicks while cutting down on the core cover based tactics of the series Visuals are nice, but not very gears of war at all. The aesthetic is gone now.

    Feels like a bad fan project. Also, many technical issues such as being incompatible with headset mics. Never fixed of course.    … 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. 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
  12. Exela
    Apr 27, 2020
    1
    Management is terrible, the game is terrible, the game is disproportionately light and heavy, there is no balance, skirmishes with the bosses are long necessary and monotonous. A very bad game.
  13. Sandre
    Sep 7, 2020
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Full of bugs Full of micro-transaction and other licenses items. Dull game play. Horde is now one of the big shame in any gears of wars history. This game is awful avoid like hell N°4 is way way better and N°2 and 3 are the best. I was a fan, now i will avoid this franchise like the plague. As usual devs take us for goats and sell an unfinished product with an awful game play and say to the player it is one of the best game ever. And by the way devs do not care at all about players. Look the forum you will understand.… Expand
  14. Oscillus
    Aug 22, 2020
    1
    I give it 1/10 because that which I got to see of the story, I liked. But I've never seen graphical glitches this sever not this aggressive, ever, in all my years of gaming. Every now and then an object would glitch hard and suddenly exist 5 times at once slightly shifted over eachother with different transparencies. But then Act 2 Chapter 5 happened and it applied to my entire screen. TheI give it 1/10 because that which I got to see of the story, I liked. But I've never seen graphical glitches this sever not this aggressive, ever, in all my years of gaming. Every now and then an object would glitch hard and suddenly exist 5 times at once slightly shifted over eachother with different transparencies. But then Act 2 Chapter 5 happened and it applied to my entire screen. The whole screen was just getting teared up and pasted 5 times over and over itself slightly shifted each paste and it also came with extreme flickering. After 3 reboots I had to uninstall the game while suffering sever headaches from this glitching. Never in my life, have I seen something like this.… Expand
  15. CJIaBa
    Mar 7, 2022
    1
    Поставщик услуг не выполняет свои обязательства на территории России и Белоруссии отключи сервера игры.
  16. Imhonest
    Jan 23, 2021
    0
    I remember playing gears 1 ... This one is worst on every aspect. Wtf is wrong situ Microsoft games these Daysi ??? Halo is Another example of the same history
  17. djball
    Jul 16, 2022
    0
    Preteen demographic, horrible writing. Gameplay is unbearably clunky. Not even worth the free download on Gamepass. 4 hours deleted.
  18. Destrukt
    Jul 12, 2020
    0
    This game is broken on PC, avoid. Rotating camera using mouse causes huge stuttering and makes it unplayable in already lag, glitch and microtransaction infested multiplayer. This is reported by many players and I tried proposed fixes, (except uninstalling GPU drivers and installing some 2 year old, seriously though). I tested it on PC far surpassing recommended requirements and withoutThis game is broken on PC, avoid. Rotating camera using mouse causes huge stuttering and makes it unplayable in already lag, glitch and microtransaction infested multiplayer. This is reported by many players and I tried proposed fixes, (except uninstalling GPU drivers and installing some 2 year old, seriously though). I tested it on PC far surpassing recommended requirements and without rotating the camera the game runs 100+ fps on highest settings. Supposedly it is not present when playing on gamepad but I do not want to play PC game on a controller. As others said, single player is boring and unsatisfying. I did not finish the campaing but from what I played I could tell that the story writing is bad.… Expand
  19. parallax_84
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    the game is full of options but it runs like crap... you lower settings and barely makes a difference except with shadows but the game without them looks awful, also you can't use the damn resolution scale because it crashes all the time., it has serious stuttering issues and fps drops that completely ruin the experience and even worse there are people saying that this is one of the bestthe game is full of options but it runs like crap... you lower settings and barely makes a difference except with shadows but the game without them looks awful, also you can't use the damn resolution scale because it crashes all the time., it has serious stuttering issues and fps drops that completely ruin the experience and even worse there are people saying that this is one of the best ports ever made, of course those are paid reviews.… Expand
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  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. pavel2
    Apr 11, 2020
    0
    Game was unplayable on my Windows 7 computer. It ran as slideshow. If I ever buy a Microsoft game, it will have to be on Xbox, not on PC.
  25. 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.
  26. 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
  27. nurii29
    Nov 13, 2020
    0
    **** game i ever played so glad i played with gamepass wouldnt wanna spend 1 cent on it
  28. matheusgrb
    Sep 26, 2019
    0
    Mais do mesmo TODO JOGO. É sempre o MESMO jogo. Palhaçada tem limite Microsoft!! Não aguento mais isso
  29. 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
  30. 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.
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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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