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. Akk3d1s
    Sep 21, 2019
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Fanboyism aside go and look on STEAM to see what people that actually own the game think. Spoiler alert, its not good. Makes me also really wonder why the critics gave it such high scores...Something fishy is going on.

    My review: Its better than Gears 4 and the graphics is really top notch. However, the characters are extremely shallow and sometimes it feels like I am watching a bunch of teenagers stuck in big adult bodies.

    The story is immature when it needs to be mature. Sometimes a little maturity comes through, but as you enjoy the fresh air, it gets poisoned by some idiotic line or action a few seconds later. Its a lot of up and down weirdness that just makes you go. "Really?". Example: One scene Dave the robot receives love and care from a fellow team mate and then the next scene he is replaced by another robot and then suddenly nobody gives a **** about Dave. Sometimes it tried too hard to be deep, but instead, came off as pretentious.

    Levels look great, but its basically just that. Invisible walls, doors that can only be opened by a robot, and then suddenly the same door, just around the corner can be opened by the player makes you just go, "wtf?". It seemed they tried to combine some action types of sequences like we have seen with other major titles like Uncharted and God of War for example, but it feels half baked.

    I enjoyed the cutscenes, the explosions and all that. But boy, I hated the characters, the story in general and the annoying little things in the level design as mentioned above. One would think with all the money that goes into making the game look beautiful, at least some decent amount would be put aside for a proper writer...but that is clearly not the case.

    It has made some improvements and I think the idea was right. However, the execution is poor and I do not recommend paying full retail price. Get it on game pass or with a 50%+ discount.    … Expand
  5. leSange
    Apr 11, 2020
    9
    +супер кинцо
    +очень оптимизированно
    +очень красиво
    +хороший сюжет
    -мало механик
  6. Soultraker
    Sep 15, 2019
    5
    El juego es muy bueno pero lamentablemente en pc funciona horrible. Si lo jugas solo es pasable. Se ve hermoso pero los bugs son insoportables en ciertos momentos. EL gran problema lo tiene en coop, prácticamente se vuelve injugable, los bugs no te dejan avanzar, teniendo que repetir varias veces algunas misiones hasta que se desbuguee. En resumidas cuentas, si lo juegan en pc esperenEl juego es muy bueno pero lamentablemente en pc funciona horrible. Si lo jugas solo es pasable. Se ve hermoso pero los bugs son insoportables en ciertos momentos. EL gran problema lo tiene en coop, prácticamente se vuelve injugable, los bugs no te dejan avanzar, teniendo que repetir varias veces algunas misiones hasta que se desbuguee. En resumidas cuentas, si lo juegan en pc esperen varios meses hasta que arreglen todos los bugs para poder jugarlo coop y en online.… Expand
  7. 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
  8. GameLord
    Sep 15, 2019
    5
    5 for 5, it's the same like the fourth episode. Great optimization but boring gameplay.
  9. 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
  10. LoadOfBollocks
    Sep 15, 2019
    5
    It lacks weight and intensity. Play Gears 2 Bois it's better it has all the trimming also Vanilla Sky is the worst film ever
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. GabrielWars
    Sep 10, 2019
    5
    The Game is awesome, runs smooth, but has GPU crashes, error GW502 all the time, the new NVIDIA driver made it worse, for me now its not playable...what a waste.
    While you were reading this review, the GPU crashed again...
    What a waste, the game is awesome, but its broken right now on PC.
  15. Skaamit
    Oct 20, 2019
    8
    «Gears 5» в целом ОК.

    Сюжетная кампания куда веселее и увлекательнее, чем в «Gears of War 4», которую прошел год тому назад. В целом всё куда разнообразнее в плане локаций, ситуаций и прочего. Есть пара-тройка новых механик, которые неплохо смотрятся, но реализованы довольно слабо, что стелс, что опенворлд. Остается надеяться, что условная 6-рка продвинется в этом аспекте куда дальше и    «Gears 5» в целом ОК.

    Сюжетная кампания куда веселее и увлекательнее, чем в «Gears of War 4», которую прошел год тому назад. В целом всё куда разнообразнее в плане локаций, ситуаций и прочего. Есть пара-тройка новых механик, которые неплохо смотрятся, но реализованы довольно слабо, что стелс, что опенворлд. Остается надеяться, что условная 6-рка продвинется в этом аспекте куда дальше и лучше. Ну и да, финал типичной трилогии или чего такого оставляет смешанные впечатления от оборванного клиффхэнгера и условного “to be continued”, которое придется ждать года 3. Ну и дизайн новой трилогии всё так же не цепляет.

    Неплохо освежили мультиплеер. Никогда не любил «Horde», к нему же отправляется «Escape», вроде любопытный новый режим, но не для меня. А вот классический «Versus» за счет повышенной скорости и TTK прям заиграл новыми красками, дико протащился с этого режима, хотя раньше не особо ценил мультиплеер серии.

    Спорная техническая составляющая ПК-версии периодически портила впечатления.    … Expand
  16. Jamesmakesgames
    Sep 18, 2019
    5
    Gears 5 is nice to look at and features the same tried and true cover shooting mechanics as its predecessors.

    Unfortunately a host of technical issues, gameplay bugs and poor design choices hold it back from being a great game. The PC version suffers exceptionally with instability, lackluster HDR implementation and broken vibration when playing split screen to name just a few issues. PC    Gears 5 is nice to look at and features the same tried and true cover shooting mechanics as its predecessors.

    Unfortunately a host of technical issues, gameplay bugs and poor design choices hold it back from being a great game. The PC version suffers exceptionally with instability, lackluster HDR implementation and broken vibration when playing split screen to name just a few issues. PC players are also treated as second class citizens yet again with no ability to play Horde, Escape or Versus modes in split-screen. These features are available on Xbox and it's unacceptable that the PC versions has such limited replay value by comparison (especially when the price is identical).

    As a game, Gears 5 tries to do a couple new things with limited success. Jack's abilities are a welcome addition, however the UI makes them a nightmare to use in the heat of combat. Long, boring vehicle sections ruin the flow of the game and become frustrating after a few hours. Instead of sticking to what it does well (3rd person shooting) the game tries to do too many things that just don't end up adding to the experience (open world).

    Play this game with a cheap subscription to Xbox game pass on PC, it's not worth your 60-80 dollars.    … Expand
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. 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.
  23. 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
  24. SuperkenGaming
    Sep 27, 2019
    7
    Gears 5
    I don’t see the hype.
    I’ve been a playstation guy my whole life, Ive never owned an xbox, but thanks to Microsofts decision to make their exclusives available on pc, im able to experience this side of the tracks, and I was so excited to do so, I never played a Gears of War Game, so I sat down on youtube, got a story recap and hopped in… This is a 3rd person shooter that takes    Gears 5
    I don’t see the hype.
    I’ve been a playstation guy my whole life, Ive never owned an xbox, but thanks to Microsofts decision to make their exclusives available on pc, im able to experience this side of the tracks, and I was so excited to do so, I never played a Gears of War Game, so I sat down on youtube, got a story recap and hopped in…
    This is a 3rd person shooter that takes places after the events of gears of war 3 and 4.. you get part of the story at the beginning of this game…
    I wasn’t too attached or interested after the intial run down, but still hyped for the gameplay, the tutroal starts, the game is having me look up to determine my input preferences, that alone had me excited for how neat this game was going to be…
    But I just never was blown away…
    The story telling and level design is just so bland.. nothing took my breath away or made me feel like wow, this is what ive been missing all of these years… I do love the weapon variety.. but when it comes down to combat, controls here are so unintuitive that it just constantly pulls you out of the game…
    its okay to have the same control scheme as call of duty… they have it down… I don’t want to hold a buttown down to run, let me just click my stick… the fast reload mechanic makes you take your eye off of the action.. all of the mechanic decisions just makes me feel like Im juggling as Im shooting.
    Throughout this 12 hour campaign yo udo have a little squad with you that changes as the story progresses.. and these members can be controlled by real people locally and online…which is what I highly advise…
    As the ai here is completely useless…
    Dels the type of guy to yell “nows our chance shoot his back!” And not do ****
    Amking these drawnout unfun boss battles even more unfun and frustrating at times as you die over and over…
    Does the boss know where I am Del?
    That’s probably because im the only one of use shooting any bullets.
    Who isn’t useless though is your robot companion jack…
    He sticks with you through the end as youre searching the world to upgrade his abilities that are unlocked as the story progresses…
    back to the mechanics issues though.. shuffling through jacks abilities mid combat or even post or pre combat is unintuitive and feels like a jumbled jumbled mess
    but jack is easily my favorite part of this game…
    Its just a shame that jack is the only incentive to explore though…
    The world and level design here in Gears 5 again is just so bland, so uninteresting and boring…
    there are a couple open world sections of the game where you can go explore a little if youd like.. but again.. nothing about this world made me care to do so…
    another giant issue I had with this games campaign is its awful progression indicators in story…
    don’t dare pause the game and com back to it later, because youl lhave no idea what youre supposed to be doing… Gears 5 does put little markers on the map for you to go to… but I would much prefer they put them on items im supposed to be interacting with instead of running around in circles looking for a switch or door with a footprint or hand print on it… it breaks the flow, takes me out of the world.. its just bad game design…
    And when it comes to performance, Gears 5 is awful on PC..
    I ran into constant crashes and Act 2 made the game completely unplayable.. literally… after searching the internet, ive discovered that this is not an uncommon issue.. updating all of my drivers did fix the crashing issue for me, but the game still stutters when too much is going on on screen.. I missed half of the final cutscene because it was stuck… I had to go to youtube to rewatch the ending.. and wouldn’t you know their cutscene video was lagging too.
    Online here is pretty typical fun third person shooter competitive stuff…
    Entertaining, nothing really wrong with it but nothing here to keep me hooked.. I felt no urge to play after playing for review purposes.. again like the campaign really bland.
    Gears 5 is a good game… But as a flagship exclusive from microsoft… I feel that xbox loyalists deserve better
    Theres nothing here to incentivize a purchase other than the continuation of a beloved franchise…
    And If you are buying to continue the story, I would recommend the xbox version over the pc so you can actually see it all.
    I give Gears 5
    a 7/10    … Expand
  25. 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
  26. passionne
    Sep 24, 2019
    5
    I never finished Gears of War 4 and Gears 5 has the same flaws :

    - commands are really bad : when I run, i am forced to use some keyboard keys to choose the direction instead of the mouse. Impossible to jump which made impossible to attain 2 upgrades for Jack ! - no liberty : sequence of corridors and large rooms. - the magazines weapons are far too low and no power feeling : the    I never finished Gears of War 4 and Gears 5 has the same flaws :

    - commands are really bad : when I run, i am forced to use some keyboard keys to choose the direction instead of the mouse. Impossible to jump which made impossible to attain 2 upgrades for Jack !

    - no liberty : sequence of corridors and large rooms.

    - the magazines weapons are far too low and no power feeling : the weapons feel underpowered.

    - your character is slow, which is made worse by the bad commands.

    - impossible to skip the intro scenes when the game is loading and loading times are far too long (on an Intel Optane 900p, around 1 minute to load the level !)

    Compared to other fast-paced FPS such as Wolfenstein or Borderlands, Gears 5 is bad : only the graphics are good and the game is well-optimized (60 fps at 4k, everything maxed on a RTX 2080 TI).    … Expand
  27. rfisha
    Sep 23, 2019
    5
    It was Characters and story were really lacking. I didn't care about the characters and the story was disappointing with poor writing.

    Your allies AI was really frustrating at times - I failed missions due to the AI running into enemies and such. I had the objective get stuck a couple of times so I couldn't proceed and had to start back at checkpoint.
  28. joshbreviews
    Sep 25, 2019
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This review is 90% campaign (on INSANE mode), and 10% multiplayer. Gears 5 is a good game.

    Easy stuff first. Soundtrack is okay. Sound design is very good (you never get tired of the meaty CRUNCH of headshot kills; guns sound good). Graphics are really really good - optimization is surprisingly good, too (ran at +80 FPS on my GTX1070 and i7-8700k). On top of graphics, world design is really really good - every place you visit is screenshot-worthy; there is so much detail to look at in the world around you. The bases, offices, and rooms you visit all look like they actually were functioning once. Gameplay is great - it never gets tiring to run, hide behind cover, and pop some monster heads. The story is...very meh. I'll talk more about the story below. All in all, this is a very fun single-player experience. The gameplay and the beautifully realized world the devs built keep you coming back for more...even if the story sucks. The multiplayer is icing on the cake, in case you want more Gears of War gaming even after you've finished the campaign.

    So the story. It's...not very good. There are many, many moments that really break your immersion. For example, why does Kait and her gang have so much freedom? They're part of a military organization! I'm not a military employee or something; but even as a civilian, I look at the things that Kait and co. are free to do and I'm like "WTF? Don't they need clearance to do that? Can't they get court-martial-ed for disobeying orders?". Additionally, the things Kait and company are doing are actually EXTREMELY important for the survival of mankind, so...where is the rest of COG? Why don't they help? Why doesn't the chain of command bother to know or even care about what's happening?
    More story issues. In chapter 2, Kait decides to go AWOL and they just...let her? Don't get me wrong, Kait clearly has telepathic links to the Swarm, so yes, THE AUDIENCE knows that she has a good reason...but in the game, she literally does NOT explain this to JD and the gang. She effectively just says "I'm going and that's THAT! Because reasons!!!" and JD kinda just goes..."But!...okay, I guess.". It's really, really, dumb writing. And then there's this weird decision to make you play chapter 1 as JD...only to shift the story to Kait at chapter 2. The narrative disconnect between chapter 1 and 2 is MASSIVE. The only meaningful thing that happened in chapter 1 is that JD took a tactical risk that got Carmine killed, which made him a stone-cold, by-the-books kind of soldier. This stuff about JD's character development sounds good, until we see him again in chapter 3 and...he's pretty much the same? Throughout chapter 2, Kait and Del are saying stuff like "man, will JD ever be the same again?...", "JD took Carmine's death really hard..."; but when you see him again he is LITERALLY the same again. He is the exact same JD from chapter 1. The only thing different about him now is his arm is burnt and he's bald, which is cool, I guess? Basically once you hit chapter 3, you realize chapter 1 was a wasted narrative.
    And then!!! You hit chapter 4. You have to make a terrible choice - save Del or JD? But...why? Literally, why??? This choice scene starts with an earthquake which robs Del, JD, and Kait of all NINE OF THEIR MAG-LOCKED WEAPONS. After all the tumbling, rolling, and falling you have done for THREE CHAPTERS, YOUR WEAPONS HAVE NEVER EVER FALLEN OFF YOUR BACK OR HIP. So now the audience is just supposed to accept that "oh no! all are magnetically-locked weapons on our armor were shaken of by an earthquake! we are weaponless now! the tension is SO HIGH!"...stupid stupid writing. So yeah, defenseless, the Swarm Queen (using Kait's mom's body) or something approaches Kait. Swarm Queen attacks Del, JD, and Kait. She has her deadly tentacles around their necks, and she has them cornered. She can kill them now, easily, if she wanted. But for some reason, when she sees you have a knife, she gives you a choice? Save JD or Del? And then after you make your choice, she says "you made your choice! NOW DIE WITH IT!". Huh??? She made you choose who to save, then will kill you BOTH anyway? So many questions! Why did she give us a choice in the first place, only to leave us to die anyway? Why approach Kait without making her intentions clear? What was the point of all of this? This whole scene was so abruptly stupid that I scoffed when I watched it happen. It almost feels like some executive sat-in one day and had "this really cool idea for the story" and the devs were forced to implement it last-minute. It's so freaking dumb. To add insult to narrative injury, once you are buried by the earthquake, YOU AND JD/DEL HAVE PISTOLS AGAIN. My goodness!

    Anyway, yeah. The gameplay is SO GOOD that the game gets a hard pass for it's atrociously bad story. Play it. Turn off your brain, alt-tab when there are cutscenes, and just enjoy the gameplay.    … Expand
  29. 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.
  30. zNeverSleeping
    Sep 17, 2019
    5
    Mais um rush que não deu certo. Bugs graficos presentes em boa parte do game, IA completamente burra e falta de detalhes que jogos da mesma franquia há 10 anos atras tinham.

    Esse jogo deveria ter uma nota 9, se não fosse pela desatenção dos desenvolvedores. Primeiro temos os bugs graficos. Personagens mudando de cor, cenario DERRETENDO, caindo no limbo do mapa e por ai vai. Depois temos    Mais um rush que não deu certo. Bugs graficos presentes em boa parte do game, IA completamente burra e falta de detalhes que jogos da mesma franquia há 10 anos atras tinham.

    Esse jogo deveria ter uma nota 9, se não fosse pela desatenção dos desenvolvedores. Primeiro temos os bugs graficos. Personagens mudando de cor, cenario DERRETENDO, caindo no limbo do mapa e por ai vai. Depois temos a IA do jogo, que é estupida. Gears 5 da a impressão que os inimigos são inteligentes, quando na realidade, tudo é simplesmente escripitado. Joguei a maior parte do jogo na dificuldade "experiente", e após morrer, percebia que os inimigos faziam sempre os mesmos movimentos, sempre as mesma granadas. A IA verdadeira, que é a da sua equipe, prova sua inutilidade. São mortos e capturados facilmente, e detalhe: quando isso acontece, perdemos o jogo. SIM, agora temos de ser baba de outros gears. Fora bugs onde não conseguimos prosseguir de uma etapa pra outra pq o jogo não percebeu que eu tinha matado todos os inimigos, ou aliados travados em partes do mapa.

    Enfim, assim fica dificil. Jogar numa dificldade elevada é frustrante pelo fato de que seus aliados são inuteis e os inimigos possuem muitas armas hitkill e 129081 de HP, se tornando muito entediante visto que você não tem o sentimento de que melhorou para passar de tal parte, só teve mais sorte. E a jogabilidade padrão gears - jogador pesado, armas que atiram nerf, tiros na cabeça ineficientes e mobilidade desengonçada - se mostra defasada cada vez mais, evitando a modernização como o proprio HALO 5 fez, tendo a melhor gameplay da franquia. Qual é, galera. Mesmo botão ser responsavel por rolar, correr e pegar cover é, no minimo, deprimente.

    Os graficos são bonitos, mas nada que realmente impressione - joguei no ultra, numa resolução acima de 2.5k -, a falta de detalhes num jogo deste orçamento incomoda. Jogos como Gears 2 eram mais destrutivos e mais intensos.

    A historia é bacana. Não há plots ou demais aprofundamento nos personagens, e desanima um pouco pro final, prolongando muito os atos, mas ainda sim prende um pouquinho.

    O jogo tentou ser mais dinamico, mas falha. O robo é legal e ajuda mais que seus aliados. Ademais, os combates ainda são repetitivos, onde ordas e ordas vem te atacar.    … Expand
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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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