Gears of War: Ultimate Edition

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 835 Ratings

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  1. Valet90
    Apr 13, 2021
    0
    У игры если и были тестеры, то их компетенции/количества было явно не достаточно!Soft-лок в 5 акте,тот кто расставлял чекпоинты в epic возможно был не опытен(хотя для такой игры должны были выделить лучших из лучших. Это же был главный тайтл после Halo)и ему/им можно было это простить,но в 2015 ТАК РАССТАВЛЯТЬ ЧЕКПОИНТЫ НЕЛЬЗЯ!
    P.s.Русская локализация тоже не тестировалась.Куча ошибок    У игры если и были тестеры, то их компетенции/количества было явно не достаточно!Soft-лок в 5 акте,тот кто расставлял чекпоинты в epic возможно был не опытен(хотя для такой игры должны были выделить лучших из лучших. Это же был главный тайтл после Halo)и ему/им можно было это простить,но в 2015 ТАК РАССТАВЛЯТЬ ЧЕКПОИНТЫ НЕЛЬЗЯ!
    P.s.Русская локализация тоже не тестировалась.Куча ошибок перевода(да, именно по смыслу фраз бьёт)неправильная работа актеров, человек по подбору кадров - в принцепе работать скорее всего а данной отрасли не должен(скорее всего сроки были конские, но на то вы и специалисты должны быть что бы объяснить все издателю правильно или сделать так как он хочет, вот только качественно)    … Expand
  2. hikingbranman
    Nov 24, 2016
    3
    I enjoyed the campaign when I picked this game up ten years ago. I played the ultimate edition for a while today and felt some sweet nostalgia that turned into bitter disappointment. The polished graphics are decent, but the friendly AI did not evolve whatsoever from the way it was in 2006. Your allies (especially Dom) are like children with guns. They'll say "I'll cover you" and thenI enjoyed the campaign when I picked this game up ten years ago. I played the ultimate edition for a while today and felt some sweet nostalgia that turned into bitter disappointment. The polished graphics are decent, but the friendly AI did not evolve whatsoever from the way it was in 2006. Your allies (especially Dom) are like children with guns. They'll say "I'll cover you" and then they'll run into a horde of enemies to their death, thus restarting a checkpoint. A few times, Dom could have actually fired his weapon and maybe I would have lived. He also likes to run directly towards turrets resulting in instant death. Your allies will constantly stand in a group outside of cover and die. Playing on a harder difficulty will just result in deaths unrelated to skill, just the gameplay itself. If you try to fall back, one of your stupid friends will be idly standing behind you, preventing you from retreating. These developers shamelessly gave us a game that involves seriously untweaked AI. The locusts have no fear, so it's understandable that they'll come at you with their balls out. The characteristics of the hive played well with the limitations of 2006. As for your allies, there is no excuse for this day and age. These developers took a ten year old game off the shelf, simply polished it, and sold it again. If you want to feel like a special ed teacher guiding his/her students through the apocalypse, this game is for you.… Expand
  3. Ghoster
    Nov 18, 2015
    4
    Never had XBox360, so this is first time I play this game. Really don't know why some people like those games, but GOW is really mediocre third person shooter with really bad story and boring gameplay. Could be fun if you have low expectations. Seems they didn't take advantage of new hardware in any way except better GFX. Loading time after you die is ridiculous today and controls are terrible.
  4. SlackAndHash
    Jan 12, 2016
    0
    I've been a fan of the Gears of War series since launch, however as it is now after December 31st 2015 the game no longer gives Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, and Gears of War Judgement for free by logging into Xbox live. As such I now view this game as little more than a glorified coaster.
  5. usrevenge
    Sep 27, 2015
    2
    remember that game on 360 that was pretty cool at the time but was a shotgun fest that people abandoned shortly after it came out?

    I do too, rather than remaking all of them in a collection or the ones people played the most they remade the original, which while it had a great single player campaign it isn't worth the price of admission by a long shot. we shouldn't encourage such    remember that game on 360 that was pretty cool at the time but was a shotgun fest that people abandoned shortly after it came out?

    I do too, rather than remaking all of them in a collection or the ones people played the most they remade the original, which while it had a great single player campaign it isn't worth the price of admission by a long shot.

    we shouldn't encourage such expensive single game remakes either, thus a low score for a game you should pass on unless you have the biggest hard on for gears imaginable.

    if it included gears 2 and 3 it would have been a 9.    … Expand
  6. tomtin
    Nov 29, 2015
    3
    I love GoW, one of my most loved gaming franchise's so I was very excited to play this, me and a friend played online co-op throughout the campaign and the amount of bugs was disgraceful and it was so easy, beat RAAM in less than a minute, the only time the game was hard was when the AI wanted to run infront of a Troika turret. No offline co-op which has been in EVERY gears game, plus TDMI love GoW, one of my most loved gaming franchise's so I was very excited to play this, me and a friend played online co-op throughout the campaign and the amount of bugs was disgraceful and it was so easy, beat RAAM in less than a minute, the only time the game was hard was when the AI wanted to run infront of a Troika turret. No offline co-op which has been in EVERY gears game, plus TDM wasnt even in the original so why make it the main mode for the remaster? I played one game online, when I got killed I respawned next to an enemy player and got killed again instantly... What a joke, another awful game from this generation of 'make it look amazing, but dont worry about making the game good', and it does look good I will say that, but a shiny turd is still a turd.… Expand
  7. xXCreepyB4byXx
    Aug 31, 2015
    4
    This game is pretty good, it looks fabulous, especially if you were a fan on Xb360. Some of the cutscenes are slightly different, but the majority of the voice acting is exactly the same, same sound clips, even the part in the immulsion plant where the first Theron Guard you ever meet goes "HHHHhhhhuuuuuuuhhh" and then Baird says "When's the last time the wind said "Hostiles" to you?"This game is pretty good, it looks fabulous, especially if you were a fan on Xb360. Some of the cutscenes are slightly different, but the majority of the voice acting is exactly the same, same sound clips, even the part in the immulsion plant where the first Theron Guard you ever meet goes "HHHHhhhhuuuuuuuhhh" and then Baird says "When's the last time the wind said "Hostiles" to you?" Shame that part and so many more were never fixed. Just about every frustrating mistake you remember from the first game is shamelessly repeated here. A couple of the more noteable check points have been moved, but the majority that began before an unskippable cutscene, still do. The movement is improved and The aim assist is supposed to be better, but I played it on insane, and I didn't notice an aim assist.

    ALL the mistakes from before are repeated and there's more. I remember a particular wretch that, in my 360 version would just jump from the roof to the floor over and over again in the mines, he still does that. Broken AI. A lot more mobs, even on Insane, will do things like that, too and get stuck behind doors. I had to search and search for the last guy in one scene and he was stuck, wedged behind a door that had flung open during the fight.

    Dom's Ai is worse than before. Dom will get himself killed and he will get you killed and he won't lift a finger to help you at least 60% of the time. There will be entire scenes where you get kamikazi charged by three locusts with shotguns and dom just watches as they run right by him, straight at you. The AI will notice when Dom is dead and they will tend to become very aggressive in this event, usually charging, which wouldn't be a problem, except on insane, they take an entire clip to kill and shooting them in the face or knees will rarely stun them in this version.

    There are several levels added to the game, that apparently were available on the PC version. They're awful, they seem like something a fan created. the last scene contains a fight that rivals the difficulty of RAAM himself. You have to fight a brumak with nothing but standard weaponry and if Dom dies, you might as well start over. With only one target, the Brumak is nearly impossible to kill. I'm all for hard games, but they shouldn't be hard because the AI is so bad. I shouldn't have to wait for that lucky run were dom manages not to run directly underneath the brumak's feet.

    The Musical score leaves something to be desired, and it's questionable why they didn't fix any of the voice acting flubs. They're not endearing. Marcus already sounds like Eeyore. There's a lot in this game that will leave you scratching your head or simply furious because these problems shouldn't exist in modern games. Dom and co will consistently stand right in front of you, take the only available cover, block doorways, your path and your shots. There's no reason for it. There's no reason that the NPC dom has to die at all. He doesn't need to be Rambo, but he could at least stay alive.

    I am happy to have beaten this game again and now that I have, I don't want to ever see it again. A twisted reminder of how far our games have come, how vapid the industry is and how a lot of developers, apparently, don't play their own games on the hardest setting to completion. If they did, I imagine, they would *AT LEAST* make dom avoid the path of my bullet or change the location of most of the checkpoints. A lot of them are in the absolute dumbest places they could possibly be.    … Expand
  8. Hellome7
    Aug 25, 2015
    0
    Once again the same generic 3rd person shooter game. The graphics almost look the same as the previous instalments, no innovation, nothing at all. A total waste of money.
  9. somedude14
    Sep 8, 2015
    0
    The only reason anyone could give this a score higher than 0 is if they couldn't admit they had wasted their time and money. As far as the remastered perks go this is incredibly lackluster. Campaign is still not 60fps. Visuals don't look any better than what PC games did three or four years ago. 60fps multiplayer is nice but that's an easy thing to introduce, and going from 60fps multi toThe only reason anyone could give this a score higher than 0 is if they couldn't admit they had wasted their time and money. As far as the remastered perks go this is incredibly lackluster. Campaign is still not 60fps. Visuals don't look any better than what PC games did three or four years ago. 60fps multiplayer is nice but that's an easy thing to introduce, and going from 60fps multi to 30fps campaign is quite jarring, it should be painfully obvious to even the most casual gamer why 60fps should be prevalent.

    Gameplay wise this is as bad as it's ever been. It's designed for coop because it's basically a zergfest, no matter how good you are you are going to die again and again in singleplayer. It needed coop as a crutch so they didn't have to go back and balance the game to ensure it rewarded skillful, intelligent play. Just grind your way through it with a buddy.

    Squad AI is still crap and so is enemy AI. Sometimes they'll come out of emergence holes and then just stand there completely brain dead. As far as single-player goes this is just an HD texture pack (something PC users have been getting for free for over a decade now), and when you get close to the textures you see that they aren't even on par with current community-made HD texture packs for other PC games. They're higher-res than original Gears, but by today's standards, they are actually low-res.

    Multiplayer is a broken mess and I have no idea how this slipped under the radar. They say the multiplayer is on dedicated servers but it plays like it's still on peer-to-peer. I still see players skipping around the map on occasion. My NAT is Open and I have a 60Mbps internet connection, so I know the error is entirely on Microsoft's/Coalition's end. I don't feel like I ever get better or worse, when I'm good I feel like it's because all my hits are actually connecting and when I'm bad it's because hits aren't registering properly. I've shot AFK players point-blank in the face and had no response. You don't get these issues in offline 1v1, and it's purely because there is zero lag and 100% weapon damage registration, so there is a problem going on here and I don't expect them to fix it. There's a post on the main page about them being aware of certain game issues but unless they actually provide high-quality dedicated servers - because this may actually be on dedicated servers, just very, very poor ones - this game isn't worth playing online. It requires far too much skill for how much error there can be due to technical issues.    … Expand
  10. SilentDogwood
    Feb 3, 2016
    4
    Pros:
    - Repackaged together, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition features all the content of the original plus the tacked on DLC for the ultimate nostalgia trip for hardcore Gears fans.
    - Gears holds up surprisingly well in the gameplay department. - Cutscenes have been touched up and redone. - Runs at a relatively smooth 60fps in the MP department. Cons: - Horrendous optimization. This    Pros:
    - Repackaged together, Gears of War: Ultimate Edition features all the content of the original plus the tacked on DLC for the ultimate nostalgia trip for hardcore Gears fans.
    - Gears holds up surprisingly well in the gameplay department.
    - Cutscenes have been touched up and redone.
    - Runs at a relatively smooth 60fps in the MP department.

    Cons:
    - Horrendous optimization. This game has not aged well graphically, and the remaster adds very little to get excited about.
    - Broken matchmaking. It's understandable that Australian servers are limited, but changing the region to Europe and United States yields no results. Sometimes, a game can be found within seconds. 90% of the time, 15 minutes of lobby waiting results in nothing.
    - Lobby waiting system is also broken once a game has been found - maps are on random cycles and tend to repeat themselves all too often.
    - Terrible menu system, with a lack of options such as number of players active.
    - Kicks everyone to the lobby after every match instead of continuing onto the next map.

    A poor attempt to emulate a classic, mostly down fell but its broken MP component.    … Expand
  11. SHANone
    Nov 26, 2017
    2
    original GoW was the one of the best games.
    this hd remaster is piece of crap.
    looks nice, but physics suxx.
    GoW 2006 - 9/10
    GoW 2015 - 2/10
    i don't understand, how they spoil this great game...
  12. samin777
    Oct 12, 2017
    0
    It is a violence game. There is loads of blood when you kill people or shoot people. If young people play the game then they will be scared of it. It is a military science fiction game. If young children play the game then they will be scared of it. You can play online with your friends if you want to as well. The age rating for this game is 17 years. In the game you have to kill loads ofIt is a violence game. There is loads of blood when you kill people or shoot people. If young people play the game then they will be scared of it. It is a military science fiction game. If young children play the game then they will be scared of it. You can play online with your friends if you want to as well. The age rating for this game is 17 years. In the game you have to kill loads of monsters and they come quickly at you. It will take time download the game if you want to play it. At each stage there is a check point and that will save automatically. If you die, then you have to start from your last check point. You can say it is a horror game as well. You can find other games related to gears of war but they are old games. The old games of gears of other games of gears of war but they are available for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The game is published by Microsoft studios. I would say that teenagers should play this game. The game release was in 2016. There are loads of features of this game like for example the campaign, multiplayer and many more other features on the game. In the game you get tom play different characters. Like sometimes you be a girl character or a boy character. If you shoot the bad characters, then there will be blood all over the floor.… Expand
  13. DefaltWorld
    Jun 19, 2020
    1
    A mi este juego se me hace injugable por los graficos y la historia no me termina de enganchar jugue a todos pero no soy capaz de acabarlos y ese punto el que hace que ponga esa nota,
  14. JIegokoji
    Jun 18, 2022
    2
    what a boring trash. Story is bad^ characters are not impressive, gameplay is repetitive lack of good mechanics and boring overall
  15. anfabio
    Jan 3, 2021
    3
    This game is bad. It was bad even on Xbox360 and the reworked graphics does not make it good. You control a human tank. Heavy, clunky, slow as hell.The aim is ridiculously bad. You die pretty easily. The game has a lot of difficult spikes. It has a bad pacing and lots of bugs. For the most part you have to be lucky. Not smart, not fast, not good, just lucky. There are a lot of "one hitThis game is bad. It was bad even on Xbox360 and the reworked graphics does not make it good. You control a human tank. Heavy, clunky, slow as hell.The aim is ridiculously bad. You die pretty easily. The game has a lot of difficult spikes. It has a bad pacing and lots of bugs. For the most part you have to be lucky. Not smart, not fast, not good, just lucky. There are a lot of "one hit kill" that you do not even know where was coming from or what was your mistake and most of the time was not our mistake.
    The last boss is so over the top. I mean, he is too dificult and there is not a single tip to know if you are really hitting him. It's just unfair.
    The history is...well... forgettable to say the least. Military sciency fiction that has no explainations. You "hero" was convicted and was in jail for... what? And lots of crap.
    Damn! The entire game is a mess.
    I don't know why was so praised.
    I did play a little of Gears 5 and it's the same **** How come!?
    Do yourself a favor and do not play this whole series.    … Expand

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#22 Best Xbox One Game of 2015
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#11 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2015
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#19 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2015

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82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 74 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 74
  3. Negative: 1 out of 74
  1. DarkStation
    Oct 27, 2015
    80
    The Coalition has done a superb job of reminding us why we fell in love with Gears back in 2006.
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  2. SpazioGames
    Oct 25, 2015
    80
    It's an HD edition that fully respects the importance of the original game for the tps genre. It's a technically sound restyle that maintains the content of the original without trying to revolutionize it. It's impressive how well the game has aged, really.
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  3. games(TM)
    Oct 20, 2015
    80
    Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition definitely belongs in that upper tier; its campaign no longer carries the industry-shaping impact it once had but it remains tremendous fun, while its multiplayer is still dramatic, unique and engaging, perhaps even more so now given the final touches The Coalition has added. As was the case back in 2006, come for the campaign and stay for the multiplayer – you’ll be glad you did.
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