Gears 5

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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3323 Ratings

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  1. P43YM
    Sep 9, 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
  2. Sunykamey
    Oct 6, 2019
    4
    This game is very annoying without reasons, very boring without substance and very uninspired even if it should be. The mechanics feel like pre 2007, it is flawed in every aspect, not a real gears in terms of tone and atmosphere. An edgy gears if you like...I didn't like the new orientation.

    Sadly I leave the Gears franchise behind for good after yet another disappointed chance given to    This game is very annoying without reasons, very boring without substance and very uninspired even if it should be. The mechanics feel like pre 2007, it is flawed in every aspect, not a real gears in terms of tone and atmosphere. An edgy gears if you like...I didn't like the new orientation.

    Sadly I leave the Gears franchise behind for good after yet another disappointed chance given to the coalition. I feel a lot of people like the new gears with it's on the nose comedy and repetitive content, it's just not for me and personally not "gears of war" thus "gears".    … Expand
  3. psylife
    Sep 9, 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.
  4. TeddyKristensen
    Sep 30, 2019
    4
    Feels like 2009, with invisible walls every where you try to go, have complete the very short campaign but still not been given the achievement for doing it. Game feels rushed and from another time
  5. mwil236
    Jul 25, 2020
    4
    The Gears of War franchise, which has been quite as of late anyway, may finally be dead. This game is an absolute chore to play. From a ridiculous, unresolved story all the way down to ruinous basic gun play, Gears 5 is a total disaster. I found myself compelled to finish it only because I was playing co-op with a more devoted fan; thank God it was on GamePass and I didn't have to payThe Gears of War franchise, which has been quite as of late anyway, may finally be dead. This game is an absolute chore to play. From a ridiculous, unresolved story all the way down to ruinous basic gun play, Gears 5 is a total disaster. I found myself compelled to finish it only because I was playing co-op with a more devoted fan; thank God it was on GamePass and I didn't have to pay for it.

    All of the weapons have insane recoil, making gun play a chore of timid burst-fire and readjustment. The new additions and even editions to old classics are for the worse. In nearly every mission involving a major gunfight my partner and I both ran out of ammo, forcing us to take reckless action to melee or otherwise kill enemies just to clear the room. The rambling plot has you criss-cross and backtrack through the same bland, empty open world. There is no leveling up and no incentive to explore and do side activities.

    The most tragic issue, however, is the incompetence of the NPCs that are forced to fight alongside you. The sole moment of excitement came when we finally got to use the beloved Hammer of Dawn; we had to restart that gunfight at least half a dozen times because an NPC would walk through your laser and cause the beam to hit and kill you instantly. On the final boss, we had to retry 5 times when uncontrolled NPC would get themselves killed. In one instance, within 3 seconds of reloading after a death, an NPC got himself killed again. A great number of unwarranted restarts will find you in this game, which erroneously focuses on squad dynamics when you cannot control the squad.

    Another nagging irritation is the lack of navigational assistance leaving you to wonder what the hell you're looking for at several points. "Jack" performs a ridiculous McGuffin where he can fly through vents to activate a terminal to open a door or something; oftentimes you'll see the switch he needs but he'll refuse to fly through any but the designated opening to reach it, regardless of how obviously other paths might work. In some cases this opening is rooms or meters away and punitively nonobvious, forcing you to mash the button giving you an environmental scan until you miraculously see the highlighted vent you need to use.

    This game is a 100% pass. The plot remains unresolved and whimpers to an end with a shameful sequel bait. Fitting that the voice actor for JD is also the worse of the two Spartacus in this pitiable attempt.    … Expand
  6. red_ninja_9
    Nov 7, 2019
    4
    This game suck, nothing like the original. Dumbed down, noob-catered camping fest. All these generic 10s are shills. The game needs a lot of of work. TC does not know how to make Gears, bring Epic back.
  7. Lestrictgeek
    Sep 6, 2019
    4
    Les barils rouge avec les ennemis qui planquent à côté en 2019 c'est non. Le level design paresseux c'est non. Je met 4 point pour les graphisme.
  8. TheFrog
    Oct 23, 2020
    4
    Gears Of Woke 5: yet another game with kickass women and manservants. What could possibly go wrong? And so another one of the few remaining non-feminized game series goes down the drain.
  9. MrKrisJot
    Sep 7, 2019
    4
    Looks great, plays ok for most of the time has some annoying bugs like getting stuck and teleport and some of the physics make no sense. The "open world" traversal seems pointless and even though it looks great gets boring quickly. Micro transactions and day one dlc is jokes
  10. Beavertail777
    Sep 9, 2019
    4
    Whilst trying to innovate from previous games I personally couldn’t connect or feel any engagement to the campaign or characters, the multiplayer was okay but again couldn’t engage, I’m sure many people love the game it’s just not for me
  11. Flashyboy89
    Jul 11, 2020
    4
    Gears 5 is similar gameplay wise to Gears 4 but with boring free roam and back-tracking missions in a desert on a wind sail sand boat and the story a massive SJW politics injection. The original first three Gears of War games were good, not this s***.
  12. AlexDiru
    Sep 16, 2019
    4
    A great game marred by plenty of bugs. It's Gears, it's fluid, it's smooth, it's beautiful. I really want to enjoy this game.

    I've reached Act 2 Chapter 3 and I've encounter three bugs so far. Two required a restart to the last checkpoint, one required a restart of an entire chapter as the reloading of a checkpoint (current and previous) resulted in a death loop. I don't think I've    A great game marred by plenty of bugs. It's Gears, it's fluid, it's smooth, it's beautiful. I really want to enjoy this game.

    I've reached Act 2 Chapter 3 and I've encounter three bugs so far. Two required a restart to the last checkpoint, one required a restart of an entire chapter as the reloading of a checkpoint (current and previous) resulted in a death loop.

    I don't think I've ever played an AAA with this many bugs. Glad it only cost me £2.

    My advice: wait a few months for them to iron out the bugs    … Expand
  13. Sadow
    Jan 11, 2020
    4
    Lo único que vale la pena es la campaña al agregar el cuchillo le quitaron la escencia a la saga y lo hicieron en algunos aspectos como Calle of Duty, el multijugador es una mierda los Wallbounce ya no son efectivos y hay autoapuntado que lo facilita mucho las armas yatienen más alcance lo que lo hace aun mas fácil
  14. Critiquo
    Jun 18, 2020
    4
    Too far gone from what the series was ever supposed to be, and not innovative enough to warrant the departures anyway.
  15. MultigamerX3
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Gears acabou no 3, apesar de adorar a franquia a mesma se acabou no Xbox 360, não tem como curtir essa história chata dos Gears atuais.
  16. DiamondDasher32
    Jul 26, 2021
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What makes a good game good is the story and its feeling in the style it represents, however in this game it is more shown that the game is great for its graphics and people don't seem to see the story doesn't really represent what it was made to be as, to show how the art of war is like (though yes this is typically war in gears 4 and 5 keep reading forward to see what I mean). They made the enemy come back with no explanations of how they came back and simply did what the original games NEVER did, shared secrets and made the story about just 1 person, also what are the odds that the grand daughter of the locust queen is with the son of the person that ended the war. It makes me sad to see the gears franchise to be changed when the ending it originally had was perfect. I've played the gears series ever since I was a child and never had criticized the games, so I'm hoping that this franchise will have a turn around and is ended where it should be ended this time.… Expand
  17. Xalon
    Sep 6, 2019
    3
    A decent game with serious networking problems. Co-op is virtually unplayable with no end in sight, devs have been working on it for two days now with no improvement, cannot play as a team for more than 5-10 minutes without someone being disconnected. Unacceptable.
  18. Broyax
    Oct 3, 2019
    3
    Magnifique le nouveau Gears of War ! éblouissant et proposé d'office à 60 im/s et en 4K sur la X (ou aux trois quarts de la 4K même dans des conditions extrêmes selon Digital Foundry, l'autorité en la matière) autant dire qu'on en prend plein les mirettes !

    Pas vraiment un monde ouvert (loin de là même), le Gears 5 sort néanmoins de son couloir habituel pour offrir quelques balades dans    Magnifique le nouveau Gears of War ! éblouissant et proposé d'office à 60 im/s et en 4K sur la X (ou aux trois quarts de la 4K même dans des conditions extrêmes selon Digital Foundry, l'autorité en la matière) autant dire qu'on en prend plein les mirettes !

    Pas vraiment un monde ouvert (loin de là même), le Gears 5 sort néanmoins de son couloir habituel pour offrir quelques balades dans deux grands espaces et par la même occasion des missions secondaires très optionnelles mais assez bienvenues... on fait du ski, on surfe sur le sable, on éradique la vermine... on sauve le monde (encore une fois) : tout ça, ça reste du classique.

    L'histoire (?) tente de raconter quelque chose cette fois-ci mais se prend vite ses grosses bottes dans le tapis... car d'une part, c'est invraisemblable et d'autre part, c'est assez ridicule... Gears 5 tente également de mieux caractériser ses personnages mais le fait si maladroitement qu'on se croirait dans un feuilleton de la télé brésilienne. Quelle idée, franchement... dites-moi juste où passer les grands coups de karcher, où et quand nettoyer et j'y vais ! je m'en fous des états d'âme de l'équipe ou de leur 'parcours'...

    Qu'importe, si la jouabilité reste lourdaude, elle n'en est pas moins toujours très spectaculaire avec -c'est nouveau- les capacités du robot ménager à tout faire, Jack, qu'on peut améliorer au fur et à mesure. Et les nombreux réglages concernant la manette permettent d'ajuster au mieux la maniabilité générale.

    Mais bon, j'en suis aux deux tiers de la campagne et là, je suis bloqué... parce qu'un script ne s'est pas déclenché. J'ai dû "manuellement" si j'ose dire aller au lieu suivant en me fiant au dialogue, car aucun point de repère n'est apparu ; sur place, les choses semblent reprendre leurs cours normal -après avoir réchargé, car le jeu était coincé devant la porte- mais impossible de faire entrer le robot dans le bureau ou de pirater l'interface à pirater : l'action contextuelle n'apparaît pas...

    Donc, quand ça sera débuggué, le Gears nouveau devrait être agréable... mais pour l'instant, il faut attendre les patchs. Heureusement qu'il ne m'a coûté que quelques euros (à peine 3 par mois pendant 3 mois) via une promo du Game Pass parce que sinon, je lui aurais collé 1. Un bug pareil (plus un autre lors d'une mission secondaire) ce n'est pas acceptable.

    Epilogue : là, rebelote, je me retape le chapitre 3 en espérant ne pas rencontrer de nouveau le bug bloquant... j'aimerais quand même si c'était possible finir cette campagne... et paf ! ça re-merde mais à un autre endroit, juste après le retour à l'aéroport : l'avion ne décolle pas, le script est enrayé et me re-voilà sans objectif principal !

    ça commence à me gaver : malgré déjà quelques patchs, ils sont plus occupés à régler les microtransactions qu'à débugguer leur jeu... sorti trop tôt et tout cassé en fait. Je descends donc à 3 et je mets mon mouchoir dessus. Dans un an ou deux, le Gears 5 sera peut-être réparé...    … Expand
  19. jotade14
    Sep 7, 2019
    3
    Otro juegos de disparos mas que solo ponen graficos y a disparar !! Aburrrido hasta decir basta
    No pongo cero porque ningun juego merece el cero pero si que póca imaginacion!!
  20. Bene86
    Sep 12, 2019
    3
    Well, i dont like the open world. Gears of War dont Need that imho... I prefer the old Gear-Games much more. The graphics are nice.. but the atmosphere sometimes a little bit low..
  21. Mrwhite2387
    Sep 11, 2019
    3
    Was hoping for more it got stale and the open world felt empty and to mutch dead time between combat. They need to put the gears fransice on hold one if tbe best parts was the graphics but graphics dont make a game good
  22. ConfinadoGamer
    Sep 6, 2019
    3
    Eu gostaria muito de ter gostado e poder dizer algo a mais, além de ter achado este Gears 5 muito idêntico aos seus antecessores. Não inovaram em muita coisa, só corre e atira, mata mostros... A única "Inovação" que foi adicionada ao jogo, são as inúmeras "cutscenes" com intuito de prolongar o tempo de Gameplay. Porém não me senti imersivo na história, que é um tanto quanto enjoativa. SemEu gostaria muito de ter gostado e poder dizer algo a mais, além de ter achado este Gears 5 muito idêntico aos seus antecessores. Não inovaram em muita coisa, só corre e atira, mata mostros... A única "Inovação" que foi adicionada ao jogo, são as inúmeras "cutscenes" com intuito de prolongar o tempo de Gameplay. Porém não me senti imersivo na história, que é um tanto quanto enjoativa. Sem contar a rigidez do ambiente e objetos do jogo que em momento algum se desfazem ao sofrer dano.… Expand
  23. GameDevsBad
    Nov 9, 2019
    3
    This game was designed by **** monkeys who have mistakingly abandoned the core aspects of what makes Gears of War unique and fun. This game not does not function properly with **** servers, but is horribly missing content, and has sadly gone down the ****, corporate path of Microtransaction hell and premium fortnite currency trash.
  24. Analisesincera
    Nov 11, 2019
    3
    Eu juro que tentei, mas é só mais um jogo de tiro, com história medíocre e gráficos bonitos.
  25. Robert88
    Nov 7, 2021
    3
    It is as though Microsoft can not come up with any original concepts any more . Gears of war 1 excellent , gears 2 amazing , gears 3 geat , gears 4 mediocre, while this game is straight trash right next to tactics .. the main character is not relatable , and the story is just a sad excuse of a game plot
  26. Cxkronoz_yew
    Sep 20, 2020
    3
    El multijugador más decadente de todos,admito que la campaña es buena pero realmente Gears siempre se ha caracterizado por su multijugador este es muy pobre además que está en un pésimo estado Armas mal equlibardas Mal sistema de ranking
    Escopeta asquerosamente deficiente Falta de contenido Bugs y más bugs este juego se fue a la mierda en La primera operación
  27. TheGuzart604
    Feb 13, 2022
    3
    "Weird" game, being the first game in the Gears franchise, I can say that I hated it, maybe because of personal opinions, I didn't like the gameplay of the game, unfortunately I couldn't finish it, because I found it extremely repetitive and boring, you walk more than you play, Multiplayer today, in 2022, is dead, there are hardly any matches, anyway, it deserves a red note (at least for me).
  28. Morados9
    Dec 31, 2022
    3
    Me gusta jugar con héroes masculinos. Cuando aparece una señora lo juego por inercia. Besos.
  29. jameshowlett89
    Aug 14, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Games trash, visually beautiful but everything else is terrible. The story is complete trash and you even get the option till kill the main protagonist of the 4th game smh. Full of fake 5 star reviews everywhere. On Xbox live the only real written reviews are 1 or 2 stars and apparently they keep getting deleted.… Expand
  30. Hiccupsdude
    Sep 8, 2019
    2
    The multiplayer is forced crossplay meaning if your on xbox and are vs ppl on PC, you're screwed. Also plagued with people hacking on PC and the game is riddled with broken achievements.
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84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 89 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 81 out of 89
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 89
  3. Negative: 0 out of 89
  1. Pure Xbox
    Mar 16, 2020
    80
    Gears 5 is an odd thing; it's neither a grand leap forwards, nor a complete rehash of what came before, and therefore sits somewhere in the middle of the two. On the whole, the improvements do outweigh the negatives (the non-linear approach to campaign levels and the small changes to horde mode being some of the most notable), and while The Coalition still has some work to do to really make the series its own, this is a far bolder and more varied approach the relatively safe Gears 4. If you love shooters and you want a good place to jump back into the series, this is perfect place to work the rust out of your lancer.
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  2. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 28, 2020
    80
    Gears 5 offers a solid portion of brutal action with several refreshing new things. If you have intentionally avoided games from this series, the fifth sequel probably won´t change your mind, but if you are looking for a quality action game and you are still a fan of multiplayer, try it. [Issue#298]
  3. Carole Quintaine
    Jan 29, 2020
    80
    Gears 5 proposes a breathtaking solo campaign and a generous array of multiplayer modes. Even if the recipe remains classic, we really want to go through with it. The characters are rather well written, the environments are often spectacular, and Jack the robot adds some salt to the gameplay. A visual feast and glorious action game that perfectly demonstrate Xbox One X's true power.
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