When Epic’s design team was prodded aboutGears of War 2‘s story in interviews earlier this year, it boasted that the sequel to its mega-selling third-person tactical shooter would have more heart. They weren’t kidding. Gears 2 has all kinds of heart, only not for the reasons you’re...
Join Xbox Game Pass OverviewImages Hope Runs Deep Winter approaches. War rages on. Entire cities are sinking, swallowed by a new threat from below. Soon humanity will have nothing left to defend. Only one option remains, an all-out attack on the Locust Horde. ...
When one system gets the next Unreal game and another gets a new IP from shooter specialist developer Epic, it's hard to tell who "wins", really. While Gears of War has stood out as Microsoft's Halo stand-in for a few years now, the good-looking game has always had the deck stacke...
Gears of War 2 picks up six months after Gears of War, opening with a cinematic that doubles as a “Previously on Gears of War” segment and a rally cry for the Locust. Voiced over by the Locust Queen, she proclaims that not only have the Locust endured the detonation of the Lightmass...
Toggles all sources of camera shake in Horde and Escape. Available when playing from Beginner up to Advanced difficulty levels. Target Lock Target lock will help players who are new to shooters or need a little help with targeting enemies. Turning target lock on will auto-aim your reticle whil...
full or partial team with friends and continue together from match to match without the need to reform after each game. Gears of War 2 also supports a skill-based online matchmaking system, powered by TrueSkill, which groups players of similar skill levels together in competitive multiplayer...
Gears of War 2 fantastically fuses cover-based tactics with third-person shooting, but is punctuated by some vehicular sections that, sadly, aren't that great due to a combined hindrance of difficulty spikes and some awkward controls during them that make them less fun. You'll pilot a ...
but it has had some great art direction here and there—grand classical architecture ravaged by years of war. It's hard to oversell how precisely this game translates the look and combat feel of the other Gears games into this overhead turn-based perspective, down to the magnetizing slide ...
escalating the chaos and ratcheting up the difficulty just a little bit every step of the way. in the core missions, set-pieces abound, complete with giant enemies and unique combat scenarios. everything you've ever loved about gears of war returns in gears 5, and there's nothing wrong wi...
Gears of War might not be the series that put the Xbox on the map, but Microsoft is still putting a lot of money, effort, and focus into the franchise. The good news train keeps on chugging since The Coalition will expand on the Gears of War narrative wi