Gears of War 4

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6.8

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  1. XB_Miss-Sniper
    Aug 28, 2023
    10
    I feel like this game got a lot of undeserved hate. It is absolutely beautiful and I love the design of it.
    It's a shame we're not following the same protagonist but at least the series live on.
  2. Richard_dias
    Aug 15, 2023
    7
    Gears of War 4 never manages to reach the heights the original trilogy did. That being said, it was one of the few saving graces for XBOX in the 8th generation. Good game, as Gears always is. Bad difficulty scalling, as Gears always have, that old story.
  3. apokalipto
    Aug 13, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
  4. realWhiteMan
    Apr 10, 2023
    6
    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
  5. 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
  6. xSlicK007
    Aug 23, 2022
    4
    The game is mediocre in every aspects
    Story? Not good not bad
    Gameplay? Soooo bad that I almost cried
    Graphics? Good
    Dialogues? Bad, in my experience the voice was ahead of the movement -_-
  7. Zeneko90
    Jun 2, 2022
    8
    Nettes. Spiel es hat echt viel Spaß gemacht. Mehr davon! Nicht zu lang, nicht zu kurz. Genau richtig.
  8. watchm824
    Dec 28, 2021
    8
    The game was played together on one PC. It turned out that first we went through the 5th part. Therefore, from the 4th part a little disappointed. Part 4 is not as fun as part 5.
    The company was also quite short, which was very disappointing. Visually, the 4th part is very beautiful, practically not inferior to the 5th.
    I think we would have liked the game much more if we had played    The game was played together on one PC. It turned out that first we went through the 5th part. Therefore, from the 4th part a little disappointed. Part 4 is not as fun as part 5.
    The company was also quite short, which was very disappointing. Visually, the 4th part is very beautiful, practically not inferior to the 5th.
    I think we would have liked the game much more if we had played before the 5th part (therefore +1 point).    … Expand
  9. tunahan43
    Oct 6, 2021
    9
    130 gbtı sanırsam .Bana göre nadir eksilerinden biri ama zamanında indirip bitirmiştim.Gerçekten değdini düşündüğüm bir oyun.
  10. silent_hell696
    Feb 1, 2021
    10
    Fantastic online play as always man this game rocks no different to any intense gears experience seen before
  11. TheoreticalHero
    Jan 31, 2021
    10
    No entiendo las malas notas supongo que son fanboys de PlayStation frustrados pero bueno el juego es increíble claro si eres algo malo para los multijugador te van a ganar muchas veces imagino que las personas que no soy buenas en competitivo le dieron mala nota
  12. VigilanteOito
    Jan 27, 2021
    9
    Belos graficos, gameplay otima igual aos anteriores .
    A historia dos anteriores é melhor.
    Novos personagens, porem são sem graça.
    Bem otimizado pra PC
  13. MeteorPolice
    Jan 12, 2021
    8
    I've only just gotten around to playing this after being in the PS4 camp last gen. As a fan of the original Gears trilogy, I thought Gears 4 was good.. but not great.
    *Playing on PC with an RTX graphics card and for a 5 year old game, the graphics are fantastic. (Despite some kind of caching buildup which saw the FPS progressively getting worse over time which could only be resolved by    I've only just gotten around to playing this after being in the PS4 camp last gen. As a fan of the original Gears trilogy, I thought Gears 4 was good.. but not great.
    *Playing on PC with an RTX graphics card and for a 5 year old game, the graphics are fantastic. (Despite some kind of caching buildup which saw the FPS progressively getting worse over time which could only be resolved by restarting the game every hour or so). Character models are starting to look a bit dated in 2021 but playing in 4K, you could easily mistake this for a PS5/series X game.
    *Gunplay is mostly decent and characters still transition to cover with a satisfying 'clunk' in typical Gears fashion. There's more of an emphasis on team AI in the single player mode.. sometimes that resulted in a lot of crawling around waiting for AI characters to revive me.. but then maybe I should just get better at not being shot in the face :-p
    *The game is nicely focused as a 3rd person tactical/arcade cover shooter.. it isn't pretending to be anything else. (I prefer Gears to Uncharted for this reason specifically.. it's not a pretentious Jack of all trades).
    *Story telling and atmosphere are above average.. but unfortunately lacklustre when compared to the original Gears trilogy which pioneered cinematic story telling in the medium leading to games like The Last of Us. The story in Gears 4 doesn't really do justice to the series' reputation IMO.
    *Atmospherically, the tone seems lighter than the original trilogy and many of the locations seem less believable somehow. For example, the opening scene in Gears 2 has the newsreel announcement, then follows a truck as it approaches the hospital with the main characters outside and it really grabs you and grounds the player in in the scenery of the world. In Gears 4, the locations feel like thematically unrelated game arenas - Square boxes randomly connected together by corridors. For instance, approaching a house in an open area, but when you enter the building, it becomes a series of corridors that don't relate to the architecture outside.
    *I can't comment on multiplayer as I don't play online games but I've heard it's pretty good from those who have.
    To summarise; Gears 4 didn't bring anything new to the table.. but it's still a good looking, competent shooter which I enjoyed playing from start to finish - It's a triple-A release and deserves credit for that much at least.
    Despite the game's flaws, I think the Coalition are clearly a talented developer and I'm very much looking forward to playing Gears 5.
    I honestly preferred Gears 4 to A Thief's End (Uncharted is overrated in my opinion). But I feel like we're still waiting for the Coalition to match Naughty Dog's creative efforts in The Last of Us and it's sequel which were both truly ground-breaking.
    Personally, I believe Microsoft have two Studios capable of matching Naughty Dog's best efforts right now- The Coalition are one of them. The other is Ninja Theory (Hellblade absolutely blew me away - Their character animations, sound design, voice acting and ability to draw a player to other side of the TV screen is easily on par with anything from Naughty Dog.. We just need them to produce a 'Bigger' game).
    I couldn't help but feel that Gears 4 came off as a little bit.. souless.. like the creative energy of the original games was lost somehow. I really hope Microsoft will give the Coalition the freedom to create a fresh new IP for their next game so we can all see what they're really capable of rather than chaining them to tired, franchised sequels.. Cash is money though I guess     … Expand
  14. ErayTellezi
    Nov 18, 2020
    7
    Gears of war serisinin oynadığım ilk oyunu. Teknik olarak iş görüyor. Eğlenceli.
  15. Sonyer
    Jul 2, 2020
    9
    I love this game is so fun, great graphics interesting enemie design everyone is almost perfect, just one problem I think the multiplayer is weak but for everything else this game is cool.
  16. Mayhem714
    Jun 19, 2020
    2
    Terrrrrible. So sick of the obvious new area battle layout which is just rinse and repeat. What’s worse is on the way back through the same areas they’ll start another boring fire fight. Should have ended this at 2. So milked.
  17. RaysOfGrey
    Jun 12, 2020
    10
    I have recently picked up this game (THANK YOU Xbox Game Pass) . I have only played GOW 1 and 2 back in the day and had to watch a youtube video to catch me up on the events untill GOW3.

    That said...I launched this game the day before yesterday and I just can`t stop playing. The story so far is very compelling (to me personally, I like it) I feel like I have a clear purpose and the    I have recently picked up this game (THANK YOU Xbox Game Pass) . I have only played GOW 1 and 2 back in the day and had to watch a youtube video to catch me up on the events untill GOW3.

    That said...I launched this game the day before yesterday and I just can`t stop playing. The story so far is very compelling (to me personally, I like it) I feel like I have a clear purpose and the objectives seem to make sense with the narrative. Overall I like the story is what I`m saying.

    I've read some reviews were people are complaining that the campaign is very short...but, so far I feel like i've been playing for atleast a 5 hours and I have not completed the game yet. Though, judging from the events on my last playthrough...I do think i`m getting close to the end.

    COMBAT is.....well, it`s fun. It`s your basic GOW Cover-and-fire mechanic. They say "If it ain`t broke, don`t fix it"and that is surely true...however, I could not help but get a liiiitle tired of the repetative nature of this playstyle.
    The weapons for some reason lack "PUNCH" as I would often have to empty an entire clip of my rifle into an enemy before he would be killed. Sometimes more.
    Also there`s no real "impact/response"when you shoot an enemy...I mean, I just emptied 3/4 of my clip into his FACE and he`s still walking around like *Meh, no biggie*
    Oh well.....

    I see people bashing this game a bit to harshly. But...then again, I didn`t pay $50> for this game. (again, xbox game pass)
    So maybe im being a bit mild on my review as I feel like I didn`t lose any investment.

    I think the story is Great! Loving it so far..and I ca`nt wait to get home today to (probably) finish the story.
    I`ll probably never touch it again after that though since i`m not a huge PVP kind of player.
    Maybe do some horde-mode for **** But thats it.

    So, take that as you will :-) Just leaving my 2 cents.    … Expand
  18. BasilZero
    May 16, 2020
    9
    Game: Gears of War 4
    Genre: Third Person Shooter
    Developer: The Coalition Publisher: Microsoft System: Xbox Game Pass for PC (XGP) Year of Release: 2016 Length of Playthrough: 11 Hours Total Score: 90/100 Value Score: 9/10 • Story: 8/10 • Characters: 9/10 • GamePlay: 9/10 • Graphics: 10/10 • Sound: 10/10 • Music: 8/10 • Length: 7/10 • Replay Value: 9/10 • Player    Game: Gears of War 4
    Genre: Third Person Shooter
    Developer: The Coalition
    Publisher: Microsoft
    System: Xbox Game Pass for PC (XGP)
    Year of Release: 2016
    Length of Playthrough: 11 Hours

    Total Score: 90/100
    Value Score: 9/10

    • Story: 8/10
    • Characters: 9/10
    • GamePlay: 9/10
    • Graphics: 10/10
    • Sound: 10/10
    • Music: 8/10
    • Length: 7/10
    • Replay Value: 9/10
    • Player Value: 10/10

    Pros
    +Great visual design and art design
    +Great cast of characters with a lot of dialogue
    +Allies can pick you up (unlike in GoW1 where once you are down, then its game over)
    +A lot of variety of enemies and weapons compared to Gears of War Ultimate Edition
    +Different game types throughout the campaign (Cinematic scenes with gameplay including motorcycle chase, etc) and Tower defense like aspects

    Cons
    -AI allies can be frustrating from the point where they do not follow you or try to save you/react as quick
    -Game freezes up/audio stops for like 4-5 seconds when achievement gained (and again when the achievement pop up occurs)
    -Shorter and ending felt rush    … Expand
  19. GoGSWarriors
    May 1, 2020
    7
    If a 10 is an all-time great game. A 9 is a game of a the year candidate. And a 5 is an average game that would cause about half of people to give up on without ever finishing. This game is a 7. The story is average and doesn't really move the over all gears plot as a whole forward until the final cut scene. The characters are likeable and there are alot of funny momements with intersquadIf a 10 is an all-time great game. A 9 is a game of a the year candidate. And a 5 is an average game that would cause about half of people to give up on without ever finishing. This game is a 7. The story is average and doesn't really move the over all gears plot as a whole forward until the final cut scene. The characters are likeable and there are alot of funny momements with intersquad banter (Marcus really like growing tomatoes) but beyond that the characters aren't really interesting. Marcus is back and hes as bad ass as ever almost to a fault but he does show some sadness and caring towards the end that make him more relatable. The graphics for a 2016 game absolutely hold up. Its a huge leap foward from GoW 3. I think I'm in the minority that saw hiccups and stuttering every 30 minutes or so and 1-2 times my system froze causing me to restart and im playing on a modern high end gaming laptop. Still the scenery is diverse and the overal design of the world feels lived in and real. Game play is the same GoW formula of action reloading and cover system. However the enemy AI and tactics are so much better. You can't rely on staying behind a single wall anymore as enemies are programmed to rush you and put pressure on you while fortified. I really liked that new dynamic as it required constant movement and avoiding enemy fire by exposing yourself from time to time. Some of the new guns are a little too complicated to figure out how to use effectively despite me trying so I sadly couldn't use them a ton because I played on the hardest difficulty leaving little room for experimentation. I didn't try out PvP so I can't comment on that. Overall campaign mode was enjoyable but its a 1 time non-replayable endeavor.… Expand
  20. MattchewHawk
    Feb 9, 2020
    7
    I've always had a soft spot for the Gears of War games. I remember playing the first game all those years ago and being blown away by the new cover shooting system. it was fresh and new, and a ton of fun.
    But like many titans of the past, it forgets to evolve to stay on top, and the same can be said about Gears of War 4.
    don't get me wrong, I played it all the way through did have a    I've always had a soft spot for the Gears of War games. I remember playing the first game all those years ago and being blown away by the new cover shooting system. it was fresh and new, and a ton of fun.
    But like many titans of the past, it forgets to evolve to stay on top, and the same can be said about Gears of War 4.
    don't get me wrong, I played it all the way through did have a great time but it just feels a bit predictable. every time you see the super obvious cover points, you know there's going to be a firefight. it just doesn't feel as dynamic and unpredictable as other similar games.
    what I did like however was the main character J.D. as he brings a sense of humor to the franchise which has for the most part been void of in the previous games. The dynamic between the new characters is also more interesting that the gruff hardened soldiers of the other games.
    the audio for the most part is also excellent, punchy gun sounds, and creature noises that give it a cinematic feel.
    Graphically I can't fault the game, it's stunning to look at. I managed to play it on a smooth 60fps with ultra and high settings on a 5 year old GTX 970 OC thanks to some of the dynamic resolution options and the general optimization employed.
    I did encounter one issue, where one of the buddy characters would die suddenly during a boss battle and it would send you all the way back to the start of that chapter, and you would have to go through the whole things again. a manual save would have solved this issue, but unfortunately wasn't implemented in the game.
    Hopefully the next game (which I'm about to start) will have a little more flavor, keep the humor up and add better checkpoints or a manual save option.
    so in summery, it's definitely worth a play through, but you may not be in a hurry to play through the story again.    … Expand
  21. VmsCritic
    Feb 8, 2020
    8
    First gears of war I've played, the performance was great at full HD/60fps steady. it's a game to play only for the intense action, it remembers me of a mix between Uncharted and Doom. The history is weak but its still very fun to play. I'll go straight ahead to Gears 5!
  22. Jckovacks
    Nov 18, 2019
    6
    Análisis y puntuación de la campaña
    Las comparaciones son odiosas y la calidad de t la trilogía original como Gears 5 no ayudan a este Gears 4.
    La entrada de nuevos personajes (sin renunciar a los veteranos) fue un acierto, aunque JD no tenga el carisma suficiente (personaje mucho más desarrollado y sorprendente en Gears 5 donde es escasamente jugable). Otro punto positivo a mi parecer    Análisis y puntuación de la campaña
    Las comparaciones son odiosas y la calidad de t la trilogía original como Gears 5 no ayudan a este Gears 4.
    La entrada de nuevos personajes (sin renunciar a los veteranos) fue un acierto, aunque JD no tenga el carisma suficiente (personaje mucho más desarrollado y sorprendente en Gears 5 donde es escasamente jugable).
    Otro punto positivo a mi parecer pero muy criticado es ese inicio pausado sin una clara amenaza más allá de la propia CGO ( Me gustó la presentación , pero es cierto que el tema robots se alarga demasiado).
    Dicho lo cual, el juego no se explota a sí mismo. Plantea situaciones poco originales (en varias ocasiones te mete fases tipo "horda" en la campaña) y la historia flaquea además de desarrollarse muy escasamente.
    Repiten lo "forzado" de muchas situaciones y la sensación de que todo el juego se reduce a una única gran escena de acción, lo cual narrativamente es una patada en la cara (Ej: llevamos 2h combatiendo , tenemos un nuevo objetivo en otra zona y alguien dice ¿Llamamos refuerzos? No! para que! ya somos 4 contra el enjambre entero y llevamos medio juego salvándonos por los pelos.)
    De hecho, la campaña gana en su tramo final donde se ve una respuesta de la coalición en la que te sientes partícipe y aún así, el Cap 1 de Gears 5 ya es mejor que todo Gears 4.
    Entretiene, pero no hace honor. The Coallition ha demostrado que lo sabe hacer mejor.    … Expand
  23. Frostraith
    Nov 9, 2019
    7
    História simples e rasa em comparação aos jogos anteriores da série Gears; os novos personagens introduzidos no Modo Campanha são legais e com personalidades que os tornam carismáticos, mas limita-se somente a isso. O gameplay continua seguindo o padrão já conhecido, com algumas armas adicionais, bem interessantes, e novas mecânicas de combate; contudo, ainda falta um pouco de inovação.
  24. aliant72
    Oct 2, 2019
    3
    Fun game.
    But....how in the nine hells can someone think that making a downloadable game of 133,7 GB is a good idea?
    And you HAVE to download it from the most buggy, crashy awful store out there, the WINDOWS STORE!!! If you manage to download it without errors, then try out with the national lottery because you are a damn lucky guy, trust me!!! And if there's something wrong in the    Fun game.
    But....how in the nine hells can someone think that making a downloadable game of 133,7 GB is a good idea?
    And you HAVE to download it from the most buggy, crashy awful store out there, the WINDOWS STORE!!!
    If you manage to download it without errors, then try out with the national lottery because you are a damn lucky guy, trust me!!!
    And if there's something wrong in the installation (maybe the game doesn't like to be installed to a drive that is not C: like in my case) you'll have long loading times (I mean MINUTES long loading times) and freezing during the autosave, (and there are A LOT of autosave in the game) and the only solution will be to UNINSTALL and DOWNLOAD the 133.7 GB ONCE AGAIN.

    Oh lord!
    What a mess.    … Expand
  25. Spetty85
    Sep 15, 2019
    4
    Worst game in the series. Snatchers are very frustrating and most enemies need an absurd amount of bullets to be killed.
  26. ArkonBlade
    Sep 7, 2019
    5
    Gears of Snore 4

    Now that Epic sold the rights to MS. They thought it would be a great idea to replace the characters you like and are entertaining with 3 new characters that are boring as all hell. You have JD, Marcuses uninteresting and bring son. You have I'm a badass girl so YEAH!! … hate her. Then you have token black guy whos well black so I guess he has that going for him. Now    Gears of Snore 4

    Now that Epic sold the rights to MS. They thought it would be a great idea to replace the characters you like and are entertaining with 3 new characters that are boring as all hell. You have JD, Marcuses uninteresting and bring son. You have I'm a badass girl so YEAH!! … hate her. Then you have token black guy whos well black so I guess he has that going for him. Now the game does look amazing graphically and it has a few nice set pieces. Its got the same old gameplay which on game number 5 is getting a bit stale and could use a injection of some thing new. as take cover kill every thing rinse and repeat has gotten a bit old and since your new characters dont have the good writing for the characters that Gears 1-3 had and are unlikable idiots you dont have much going for you in this game and The story well Gears has always failed in this area and in MS's hands they are making sure they follow Epics lead

    Its a total let down as a Gears game and With Gears 5 focusing on the Lame new characters it really has no future I care to join in on. I had a very hard time playing this game longer then 40 min at a time with just not wanting to shut it off and go do some thing else. I'll stick with Gears 1-3 , you can keep this trash.    … Expand
  27. jelikey
    Aug 17, 2019
    7
    Consider this a 6.5.

    My initial idea was to skip the review for this game, but when I noticed that most of the reviewers gave him great scores, I could not let it go. Gears of War 4 is far from being a masterpiece. Gears of War 4 is a third person shooter where you continue to use the usual cover mechanism in the vast majority of fights. This time there was a new producer behind the    Consider this a 6.5.

    My initial idea was to skip the review for this game, but when I noticed that most of the reviewers gave him great scores, I could not let it go. Gears of War 4 is far from being a masterpiece.

    Gears of War 4 is a third person shooter where you continue to use the usual cover mechanism in the vast majority of fights. This time there was a new producer behind the story, which makes everything more difficult, because it‘s not always easy to catch the momentum of previous productions. The secret was not to change much. Move on to the new generation of characters, keeping the previous ones on secondary roles. This has kept the plot secure, but often the story enters a swamp of poorly explained connections from where it takes time to leave, and most of those moments with no apparent purpose in the game. However, that did not ruin the gameplay.

    Graphically I’ve loved the game, which ran virtually flawlessly on my PC. I think it was for this reason that I’ve enjoyed it so much. So much detail everywhere, I really did not expect that. Especially the storms ... well, all-natural phenomena were very well characterized either graphically or in sound effects.    … Expand
  28. Mizuiro
    Jul 9, 2019
    4
    Juego sin alma, historia vacia, personajes sin carisma, gameplay que podria jugar un niño de 3 años (Cubrirte y disparar , no hay más) , accion pasillera... nula recompensa por exploracion, solo cajas de municion que curiosamente andan en cada combate.

    En fin, que muy lamentable, me esperaba mas al haber oido que los Gears of War eran la ostia, pero solo son el tipico juego consolero    Juego sin alma, historia vacia, personajes sin carisma, gameplay que podria jugar un niño de 3 años (Cubrirte y disparar , no hay más) , accion pasillera... nula recompensa por exploracion, solo cajas de municion que curiosamente andan en cada combate.

    En fin, que muy lamentable, me esperaba mas al haber oido que los Gears of War eran la ostia, pero solo son el tipico juego consolero para adolescentes sin ton ni son, y que en PC se queda super descafeinado acostumbrados a FPS de habilidad de verdad.    … Expand
  29. resentfulcup
    Jul 9, 2019
    0
    Doesn't work on NVIDIA cards since around 2017, and neither of the companies involved don't care to fix the game while Microsoft is happily still charging almost full price. Disgusting.
  30. Akk3d1s
    May 31, 2019
    5
    The game just could not grab me and I only managed to play 1 hour of the campaign mode. Even this hour of total game time, was split into a couple of sessions. Felt more like I was forcing myself to play. It doesn't feel immersive and the mechanics are outdated. I feel this type of game belongs to the era of the previous gen games... Quite disappointed.
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#20 Best PC Game of 2016
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#46 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#65 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 22 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 22
  3. Negative: 0 out of 22
  1. PC PowerPlay
    Feb 10, 2017
    90
    With The Coalition at the reins Gears is in safe hands, and we’re genuinely intrigued to see what happens next.
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  2. games(TM)
    Dec 18, 2016
    90
    With The Coaltion at the reins Gears is in safe hands, and we're genuinely intrigued to see what happens next. [Issue#257, p.64]
  3. PLAY! Zine
    Nov 8, 2016
    80
    Coalition did play it safe for their first game, but still delivered a fun, classic Gears of War experience that will, hopefully, provide an equally good sequel.
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