Gears of War 4

 Xbox One
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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 1694 Ratings

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  1. BookerD
    Oct 14, 2016
    0
    This was absolute garbage. I refunded this the next day. Boring story, dull gameplay, everything seems a bit uninspired. It looks great, but great visuals these days just doesn't cut it anymore.
  2. Herpderpattack
    Oct 11, 2016
    0
    Worse than Judgment here's why:

    1. Short campaign. Only about 5 hours. 2. No really outstanding moments in the campaign like fighting the berserker or the Brumak or seeing Kim get impaled or killing General Raam. There's just not much to do except a motorcycle segment that feels really familiar (Gears of War 2 Skorge chase remember?) 3. Why would they remove beast mode? 4. I    Worse than Judgment here's why:

    1. Short campaign. Only about 5 hours.

    2. No really outstanding moments in the campaign like fighting the berserker or the Brumak or seeing Kim get impaled or killing General Raam. There's just not much to do except a motorcycle segment that feels really familiar (Gears of War 2 Skorge chase remember?)

    3. Why would they remove beast mode?

    4. I don't like the microtransactions. I much preferred grinding through the game and earning my characters as opposed to it being left to chance.

    5. 5 placement matches simply do not compile enough data to be accurately placed into a division. If your team sucks for 1 game, you're getting at best 80%

    6. Very little added content to multiplayer. Other than the addition of the grabbing and mantle kicking and countering system (which honestly is pretty useless online) it feels very familiar with different guns and maps

    7. The maps are not conducive to many types of play (But make no mistake, there is endless camping). There are way too many open corridors which allow nearly anyone anywhere on the map to respond to an enemy which results in an absolute mess of a game that feels more like a Call of Duty game, and not Gears of War. Considering the tight quarters, constant corners, and hiding spots, it is very obvious this game was designed with the idea that the only gun people should ever use is the gnasher.

    8. Horde mode to 50 wave classical feel with classes. I didn't like them back in Judgment, I don't like them here as I feel it is very restrictive and makes for some very rigid, uninteresting, and ultimately predictable gameplay.

    9. The Gnasher feels stupidly powerful and can now constantly land headshots even from a distance. There is no real reason to use any other gun other than the gnasher.

    This game the shattered body of a once excellent franchise. Please let it die.    … Expand
  3. jameswoo
    Oct 11, 2016
    0
    Boring, un-skippable cutscenes; dull story drones on and on; same old gameplay; many sections of the campaign put you in without the chainsaw lancer; very disappointed
  4. PreyingOcelot
    Oct 11, 2016
    0
    Yawwwwnnnn this is just the sames rehashed boring cover shooter we've been playing for years, if you have played the first 2 dont bother and save your money and buy something unique.
  5. Altrenev
    Nov 18, 2017
    0
    Loot-boxes made it to my favorite series.I can't play successfully in the Horde without pumped legendary skills,the problem is that such maps fall is extremely rare.This notorious system of loot-boxes prevents me to fully enjoy the game mode Horde
  6. CriticalEQ
    Apr 26, 2019
    0
    The RNG micro transactions in this game take all the fun out of multiplayer. I cant think of the words to describe how stabbed in the back this game makes me feel. I've played Gears 1,2,3,J & U. They were all better games than this. This games story is boring and is lacking grit. Gears 3 had the best multiplayer experience and progression system. Gears 4 multiplayer & progression system isThe RNG micro transactions in this game take all the fun out of multiplayer. I cant think of the words to describe how stabbed in the back this game makes me feel. I've played Gears 1,2,3,J & U. They were all better games than this. This games story is boring and is lacking grit. Gears 3 had the best multiplayer experience and progression system. Gears 4 multiplayer & progression system is so grindy and punishing you can just feel the gun to your head from TC via Microsoft Execs via Stock Holders. I wish Microsoft would take a hint from Nintendo up the street in Redmond and focus their 1st party flagship games on "FUN" and not dollar signs. Its so counter intuitive. Ive preorder every Gears but after 4s' micro-traction lootbox atrocity... i'll be waiting this one out to see what TC and M$ do.… Expand
  7. Narutotratamal
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Esto es una prueba que los juego de xbox se puede calificar negativo y los de playstation no
  8. vPRESSUREv
    Oct 18, 2017
    0
    Game is unplayable 1 year after launch. Not to mention you can hardly find a match anymore because all the devs (TC) care about are making $$ on weapon skins and characters rather than improving the game. The servers are terrible and laggy after the QoS update. The game gets worse with every update.
  9. banc11
    Mar 21, 2017
    0
    A let down compared to the other gears of war games Im pretty sad that Epic games stopped producing this... Seems to be the way developers are going these days. Nobody wants to work for microsoft anymore because they suck
  10. bennibop
    Oct 17, 2016
    4
    What a disappointment this game really is just more of the same old tired Gears gameplay, uninspired single player that is incredibly short at 6-7hrs. Multiplayer is fine again very much the same as before (Which was always good,) however there is microtransactions (cosmetic items) which personally I feel have no place in a full price AAA title.
  11. EmadTM
    Nov 9, 2017
    0
    Bad game carrying with it a weak story and bad characters and graphics weak in the Lula and I advise anyone ...
    Whoever buys the game will regret it because it is very bad (:
  12. Reaper66
    Oct 23, 2016
    3
    Multiplayer is horrible. This is due to the unbalanced power of starting weapons. The gnasher is too powerful. This causes players like me, who used rifles in gears 3, to be at so much of a disadvantage that we are forced to use the same weapons and tactics as everyone else. Some people like it this way, however it makes the gameplay get really old really fast. I can play more than 3Multiplayer is horrible. This is due to the unbalanced power of starting weapons. The gnasher is too powerful. This causes players like me, who used rifles in gears 3, to be at so much of a disadvantage that we are forced to use the same weapons and tactics as everyone else. Some people like it this way, however it makes the gameplay get really old really fast. I can play more than 3 matches without turning it off or switching games. Honestly call of duty didn't mess up this badly with their most recent games.… Expand
  13. Jhonyteixeira
    Feb 9, 2017
    3
    Gears is a big saga of games of Xbox,but this not gears...very very very fail,microsoft destroy the saga,but MULtiplayer very good,But not save the Game.
  14. Leenat40
    Mar 7, 2017
    2
    This is a poor game overall, boring story, stupid and repetitive gameplay. No point of playing it. You can get the same quality by playing any other Xbox exlusive. Take notes from sony.
  15. iLLEST1
    Jun 19, 2017
    0
    Worst Gears game to date by far. Lackluster campaign, glitchy horde mode and absolutely terrible multiplayer servers and weapon tuning. It's sad what Microsoft and "The Coalition" have done to my favorite franchise. They seem more focused on squeezing money from fans than pleasing them! Content over quality is BS!
  16. davidpole23
    Feb 25, 2019
    0
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  17. xxmar-au_san_xx
    May 9, 2019
    0
    pior gears of war de todos,jogabilidade repetitiva,jogo muito chato e historia mediocre.
  18. neropx
    Oct 11, 2016
    1
    Boring, tiresome, repetitive gameplay...... done it all before type of game. just feels very last gen. and the story is cringey and down right boring,
  19. megabear
    Jan 21, 2019
    0
    They sacrificed story telling for whatever "improvement" they think they made. Why? I no longer have any reasons to buy Gears of War series.
  20. Berrlett
    Nov 7, 2017
    2
    Pure trash, going through the campaign is boring beyond imagination and I really think it’s due to lack of imagination, All you hear is more of this and more of that and its virtually the same bunch hiding at every corner coming at you guns blazing, pointless shooter that left a bad taste for a famous franchise.
  21. tburnett
    May 19, 2017
    1
    I played the other 3 games and they were pretty good, not my favorite but I didn't feel like I was ripped off or wasted my money quite like I did for gears of war 4.

    What little campaign you get is short and its hard to be interested. You go from one vague mission to the next without much drive or interest in it but its linear so what are you going to do? I ended up getting the    I played the other 3 games and they were pretty good, not my favorite but I didn't feel like I was ripped off or wasted my money quite like I did for gears of war 4.

    What little campaign you get is short and its hard to be interested. You go from one vague mission to the next without much drive or interest in it but its linear so what are you going to do?

    I ended up getting the ultimate edition on Xbox live because my toddler purchased it while I was in
    the other room and Xbox live doesn't do refunds, and I have to tell you for those people who willingly paid $100 for a 4-5 hour campaign I am sure they are even more pissed than I am.

    They say this game cost $100 million to make, and I find that hard to believe as a software developer and wonder if the company who made this should be allow to make another game after this.    … Expand
  22. ventedpennies
    Jun 16, 2017
    4
    My friends and I got this game for one thing: horde. We played both Gears 2 and 3 for many, many hours in horde and had a blast. Sadly, I can't say the same for Gears 4. And it's not just horde that suffers from a lack of ingenuity and fun, but also versus and campaign.

    At first, horde was fun enough. We had classes, we had some new maps, and it was a new Gears. But the problem is a    My friends and I got this game for one thing: horde. We played both Gears 2 and 3 for many, many hours in horde and had a blast. Sadly, I can't say the same for Gears 4. And it's not just horde that suffers from a lack of ingenuity and fun, but also versus and campaign.

    At first, horde was fun enough. We had classes, we had some new maps, and it was a new Gears. But the problem is a core tenant in the new Gears design: microtransactions. Horde is all about the grind of finding cards and leveling up, and you do it all through microtransactions. I won't go into much detail, but their microtransactions are terribly setup: you pay credits for a loot box that gives you a chance of discovering a useful card. It's a lotto system through and through, and it sucks.

    These days, at best it's more of a chore to play Horde. The team that took over the Gears franchise are very amateur, there's been multiple game breaking bugs, broken skins, skeezy microtransactions, and false marketing from them to ruin the franchise. I won't get into all the details, but I suggest if you really need to play another Gears, get it on sale or used. It's not worth $60.

    Overall, if you're a fan of the series, the game barely edges out Judgment and it's well below the trilogy (1, 2, 3). If you're new to the series, I wouldn't bother.    … Expand
  23. dudeguybro
    Nov 3, 2018
    3
    This game was weak sauce. Thoroughly disappointed. I remember playing the original GOW on Xbox and loving it, so I decided to give this iteration a try and...wow, I completely agree with a lot of the negative reviews on here about the game being wildly uninspired.

    Characters aren't fleshed at all out and the gameplay was stupid predictable. Walk around, open a door, a bunch of robots or    This game was weak sauce. Thoroughly disappointed. I remember playing the original GOW on Xbox and loving it, so I decided to give this iteration a try and...wow, I completely agree with a lot of the negative reviews on here about the game being wildly uninspired.

    Characters aren't fleshed at all out and the gameplay was stupid predictable. Walk around, open a door, a bunch of robots or drones drop from the sky or out of a gooey pit, kill them, rinse and repeat. Also, it's almost impossible to die since anytime you're near death one of your teammates revives you. There's no real "open world" play - you can't really explore beyond the straightforward bounds the game sets for you.

    I wanted to like this game, but it failed on all levels outside of looking pretty outstanding. But it's just lipstick on a pig. Sad.    … Expand
  24. KaslanaDx02
    May 13, 2019
    0
    Juego cutre, lo mismo en cada entrega, personajes corriendo agachados como tontos
  25. btgoody96
    Aug 26, 2019
    4
    Decent game but nothing new if you liked gears of war 3 then you'll definitely like this but if you didn't or was hoping this game would be different it's not
  26. Gamer_neutral
    Sep 5, 2019
    0
    Un juego aburrido, una saga quemada y repetitiva, una historia y gráficos mediocres a mugrosos 30fps y 1080p
  27. MarkusChiif
    Nov 22, 2019
    1
    The game itself is a platform without more, quite fast, with the typical story of light VS darkness.

    Graphically it is beautiful, very colorful, with great contrasts in the same plane, but what gives a feeling of playing something that does not have all 2D platform games is the soundtrack, the perfect companion for the story, a soundtrack where Melodic wins the story itself that    The game itself is a platform without more, quite fast, with the typical story of light VS darkness.

    Graphically it is beautiful, very colorful, with great contrasts in the same plane, but what gives a feeling of playing something that does not have all 2D platform games is the soundtrack, the perfect companion for the story, a soundtrack where Melodic wins the story itself that although it makes you want to know the end, you enjoy those moments of maximum difficulty while in the background sounds something that makes you feel good.    … Expand
  28. Rob1986chelsea
    Jun 28, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Yeah cigigigivivjvivjvjchxtdyfodifufufufufidudurififickvkvkvkvkfysudicjfydividyckdyckfycicusyficydkcuxuxjxkvocodif… Expand
  29. ZiggingZebra
    Oct 2, 2022
    1
    This is the worst Gears game I’ve ever played and it’s one of the worst games I’ve ever beaten.
  30. Seesh
    Mar 5, 2018
    4
    Gears of War 4 is the second to worst Gears game there is (Judgement is the worst). The story and multiplayer components are so generic and boring. The fun of the Gears franchise has been completely stripped and replaced with a massive, dull, grind-fest. Do yourself a favor and skip this if you have it in your backlog.
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#24 Best Xbox One Game of 2016
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#3 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2016

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 99 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 90 out of 99
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 99
  3. Negative: 0 out of 99
  1. BaziCenter
    Feb 10, 2017
    90
    The Coalition has managed to successfully bring every great elements from previous games into a new setting. Whether you go for single-player, multiplayer or horde mode, GoW4 hast plenty to offer. The visuals are stunning and the gameplay is the best in the series thus far; and despite shortcomings in the story and development of characters, GoW4 is easily one of the best third-person shooters of this generation.
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  2. TrueGaming
    Jan 18, 2017
    85
    The Coalition’s development team did a fantastic job adopting the Gears of War series. They’ve preserved what makes it special in our hearts and added in new bells and whistles which are absolutely welcome.
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  3. Video Chums
    Jan 17, 2017
    84
    Gears of War 4 is an impressive return to form.
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