Gears 5

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6.9

Mixed or average reviews- based on 845 Ratings

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  1. Visitbr
    Sep 8, 2023
    8
    a performance é muito boa, os gráficos são incríveis e a história é muito legal, melhor gears
  2. Renatospada
    Sep 6, 2023
    10
    what can I say, one of the best games of the last gen. a true masterpiece. especially the plot took me a lot. absolutely recommend
  3. JackFrostyG
    Aug 29, 2023
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I must admit, when this game released in 2019 I slept on it. After gears 4 I wasn't really as interested in Gears as I had been during the original Trilogy. After playing it again in 2023 here are my takes:

    Pros:

    - The campaign is structured well. You begin act one in a linear classic Gears style following mission objectives. Act 2 onwards turns into a semi-open world adventure but keeps the main story linear and it still feels like gears of war.

    - The camera and model sizes of both you and enemies are scaled much better than they were in Gears 4. Everything feels bigger.

    - The story directly follows Gears 4's ending.

    - Horde mode has had a massive rework, it adds locust, lambent and swarm to the enemy pools and gives us plenty of classes and subclasses to work with.

    - Versus is still as clean as an arena-shooter can be, it leaves behind the arcade-y gnasher brawl for a more grounded and strategized game, with plenty of game modes.

    Cons:

    - The amount of additions to horde mode can feel somewhat overwhelming. The cards, map layouts, defences, enemy types, round modifiers, round objectives, classes and scoring can all become a bit confusing to a newer player.

    - The choice towards the end of Act 4 feels a bit redundant as it's clear one decision will be cannon with the release of a sequel. This also takes away from the choice in the first place. I'd rather they just made a choice of who to kill and went with it rather than have us choose.

    - The 'escape' game mode seems to get rather stale quickly. Once you've done it once it's more or less the exact same. it's a good concept but hasn't been built on enough for variation.    … Expand
  4. XB_Miss-Sniper
    Aug 28, 2023
    8
    This game is a step back from Gears 4, I know most people say Gears 4 is worse but I disagree, while some scene does look good here, the story is a bit of a mess.
  5. Richard_dias
    Aug 15, 2023
    8
    Best XBOX first party in the whole 8th generation. That is not too good, if I'm being honest, but Gears 5 itself is a great game. I really hope that Gears 6 can improve what we saw here as much as Gears 5 improved on Gears 4.
  6. AGCR
    Jun 25, 2023
    5
    Solo me he jugado el 4 y el 5, personalmente este me gusta más y no comprando sus malas críticas, de los juegos de Xbox que más horas le he echado, 9/10
  7. nietzfk
    May 20, 2023
    8
    It has fun and satisfying gameplay. It's really fun to play with your friend.
  8. davitolucena
    May 12, 2023
    8
    Eu conheci a franquia a partir desse jogo achei bom mais poderia ser melhor não tenho como testar os jogos do 1 ao 3 porque não tenho um Xbox mais também deve ser bons assim como o gears 5
  9. realWhiteMan
    Apr 8, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. My rating is based on my impressions of the game. This is not an objective review. I play quite a big number of titles per year and decided to review them as a peace of art and not as a product.… Expand
  10. Top1saraya_
    Mar 24, 2023
    3
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  11. HiFi-RUSH
    Mar 13, 2023
    10
    Here are two beginner guides for beginners for gears.

    https://youtube.com/shorts/pif2N99Nr20?feature=share

    https://youtube.com/shorts/pif2N99Nr20?feature=share
  12. Joe2539
    Jan 6, 2023
    10
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  13. AgentLvi
    Dec 27, 2022
    8
    Great game. The story is decent. The scoring is great, visual is really amazing, the voice & sound is also amazing
  14. Anthony1319
    Nov 15, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. La innovación es buena pero hay personas que no le gustan los cambios y viven de la nostalgia y eso paso con gears 5… Expand
  15. TeensierPilot02
    Oct 24, 2022
    10
    Xbox siempre dándonos lo mejor, teniendo en cuenta entregas pasadas. Ojalá agreguen un Battle Pass en su próximo GOW
  16. 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
  17. agent13
    Aug 13, 2022
    6
    I've been a playstation fan since ps1 and I had never played a geras game but thanks to microsoft for releasing xbox exclusive on windows I had the opportunity to play and finish gears 5. overall this game is very mediocre and not even comparable with ps exclusives. as some other people here mentioned, the controls are clunky and the covering system is weird. the graphics are more likeI've been a playstation fan since ps1 and I had never played a geras game but thanks to microsoft for releasing xbox exclusive on windows I had the opportunity to play and finish gears 5. overall this game is very mediocre and not even comparable with ps exclusives. as some other people here mentioned, the controls are clunky and the covering system is weird. the graphics are more like early 8th gen graphics. the characters except markus and his son are bland and are not developed. generally the story isn't really exciting and it gets boring gradually, specially in semi open world levels it becomes very tedious. however at the last chapter the story becomes more exciting and amends the borefest that the semi open world chapters were but I don't care about and won't play any sequel to this story as it lacked enough emotion and excitement.… Expand
  18. SaeedZer0
    Aug 12, 2022
    9
    GOOD
    + Good story line
    + Good characterization
    + Great Gunplay
    + Great visual graphics
    + Pleasant music
    + Diverse design of main and secondary missions
    + Attractive driving
    + Fun multiplayer mode
    + Encourage to do side missions

    BAD
    - Escape mode is boring
    - Hivebusters is very similar to escape mode
    - Duplication of side missions
  19. george_bondo
    Jul 24, 2022
    8
    this game is just perfect with that beautiful music , characters and atmosphere
  20. djball
    Jul 16, 2022
    0
    Preteen demographic, horrible writing. Gameplay is unbearably clunky. Not even worth the free download on Gamepass. 4 hours deleted.
  21. Zeneko90
    Jun 2, 2022
    8
    Nettes. Spiel es hat echt viel Spaß gemacht. Mehr davon! Nicht zu lang, nicht zu kurz. Genau richtig.
  22. JaDm
    May 31, 2022
    7
    Good game, great graphics for its time, interesting plot. not a masterpiece, of course, but it's interesting to go through.
  23. breakfastmonkey
    May 13, 2022
    6
    I give this game 6 enthusiastic "Mehs" (playing on PC w/ 6600xt) reviewing CAMPAIGN ONLY (on a harder setting)

    Voice Acting is great. Graphics are great. Gameplay physics and general mechanics are also great/smooth. Generally speaking this game, with a bit more creativity, could be great. Now...for the not-so-great. While the mechanics run well there's no depth to them. When you die    I give this game 6 enthusiastic "Mehs" (playing on PC w/ 6600xt) reviewing CAMPAIGN ONLY (on a harder setting)

    Voice Acting is great. Graphics are great. Gameplay physics and general mechanics are also great/smooth. Generally speaking this game, with a bit more creativity, could be great.

    Now...for the not-so-great.
    While the mechanics run well there's no depth to them. When you die it doesn't feel like you have to rethink the situation. You don't need to flank or switch guns or use any sort of 'better' strategy. You just need to get more headshots. The gun variations don't seem to play a particularly useful role. Basically, defeating enemies is rather boring and when/if you die it's probably because you've just been lulled into complacency by the lack of challenge.

    Compare this to the combat/gameplay of Mass Effect 3 / Androm you have to wonder if the Gears devs just kind of gave up.

    Story wise it's a bit slow, big generic. I'm at the beginning of ACT 3 so I'll update this if I end up changing my mind.    … Expand
  24. Daniielgg
    Apr 9, 2022
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Para mim este game vera a perfeição, ele veio para inovar a saga de Gears.… Expand
  25. StarkAgentos
    Mar 27, 2022
    4
    Поиграл 1,5 часа. Игра очень скучная. Сюжет никакой, музыка тоже, геймплей неоригинален и однообразен. Не понимаю, почему эта игра такая популярная.
  26. CJIaBa
    Mar 7, 2022
    1
    Поставщик услуг не выполняет свои обязательства на территории России и Белоруссии отключи сервера игры.
  27. Crocodyldo
    Mar 7, 2022
    0
    Russophobes and nationalists Russophobes and nationalists Russophobes and nationalists
  28. 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
  29. Metr72rus
    Feb 21, 2022
    9
    Один из лучших эксклюзивов майкрософт! Прошёл с большим удовольствием. Техническое состояние очень порадовало , передовая картинка и та же приятная стрельба
  30. safari
    Jan 7, 2022
    6
    sürekli update edilebilen bir oyunda hala saçma sapan hatalar görmeye devam edilmesi can sıkıcı
    tamam sandbox bir oynanışı yok ama bir kaya çıkıntısının öteki tarafına geçerek gideceğim yere kayanın üzerine çıka bildiğim halde çok yüksek olmamasına rağmen üzerinden inmeye izin vermiyor
    açık söylemek gerekirse karakter geliştirme sıfır sadece bir robot var onu geliştiriyoruz tamam robot    sürekli update edilebilen bir oyunda hala saçma sapan hatalar görmeye devam edilmesi can sıkıcı
    tamam sandbox bir oynanışı yok ama bir kaya çıkıntısının öteki tarafına geçerek gideceğim yere kayanın üzerine çıka bildiğim halde çok yüksek olmamasına rağmen üzerinden inmeye izin vermiyor
    açık söylemek gerekirse karakter geliştirme sıfır sadece bir robot var onu geliştiriyoruz
    tamam robot gelişiyor farkediyorsun ama bu özellikler karaktere verilebilir olsa oynanış daha zenginleşirdi.
    genel olarak sıka sıka ilerliyorsun vuruş hissi pompalı türü silahlarda güzel sadece
    grafikleri iyi ara sahneler kaliteli oyunun o sebeplede 6 verdim    … 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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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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