Any Gears of War players here?
Discussion
I absolutely love Gears of War, have done since the start. I have a ritual each time a GOW game comes out, I play it blind on hardcore to see the story, then I do a run on insane difficulty and grab the collectables, then run again on insane or hardcore in co-op with my friends, depending on who I'm playing with.
If you have Gamespass, all the older GOW games are on there and the new one is coming too. Gamespass ultimate subscribers get the ultimate edition but other than playing a few days early you don't get much over the standard version. I have GP ultimate anyway, so I'll be playing on the 5th of September. Take note, it doesn't go live until 9pm.
If you have Gamespass, all the older GOW games are on there and the new one is coming too. Gamespass ultimate subscribers get the ultimate edition but other than playing a few days early you don't get much over the standard version. I have GP ultimate anyway, so I'll be playing on the 5th of September. Take note, it doesn't go live until 9pm.
Finished the first act, so far I'm enjoying it and it does look gorgeous. Plenty of weird bugs though - I've tried the escape mode twice and been stuck at a door, and died in the campaign, been stuck on the saving screen and been thrown back a chapter. I hate PvP, but from what I've seen there seems to be no option to just play against the CPU?
Gears 4 was beautiful but left me a little cold, it was very much Gears by-the-numbers. I'm only about four hours in to Gears 5 but it already feels like it was created with a mind to mixing up the status quo somewhat. I'm impressed so far.
Oh, and being a Gears game, it looks incredible (on One X at least) too.
Oh, and being a Gears game, it looks incredible (on One X at least) too.
I've been playing solo for about 30 minutes a night, it just isn't exciting me at all. I play on the hardest level until I can try insane, but all the enemies are bullet sponges and soak up a whole clip and still run off behind cover when you're reloading, very frustrating. Yeah I know I need more headshots, but it seems more luck than judgement.
Gave up on Horde, nobody wants to bank the power, they prefer to waste the power by giving themselves an almost pointless perk
This is the first game I've ever tried to get a refund on, but I didn't have any success as it's a digital download so I'll need to persevere and get my money's worth.
Gave up on Horde, nobody wants to bank the power, they prefer to waste the power by giving themselves an almost pointless perk
This is the first game I've ever tried to get a refund on, but I didn't have any success as it's a digital download so I'll need to persevere and get my money's worth.
A Winner Is You said:
Campaign done, overall very good despite a blatantly obvious twist and a cliffhanger ending that resolves nothing, although does have the guts to kill off a main character. Didn't get the achievement though, stuck at 80% despite all chapters being marked as complete.
Are you going to go back through on Insane? I got stuck on GoW4 Insane and just cannot get past one spot no matter how hard I try.I have to say it's growing on me, not the multiplayer, but the campaign, I'm liking the sub plots.
I've just finished Act 3 and it really rammed home just how well Gears 5 manages to avoid the feeling of repetition that earlier iterations of the franchise suffered from from, and the climax was fantastically exciting and on a scale that utterly dwarfed anything before it.
It's comfortably the best game in the franchise and has to be in the conversation about the very best Xbox has to offer.
It's comfortably the best game in the franchise and has to be in the conversation about the very best Xbox has to offer.
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