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...
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...
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...
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
The trial comes just in time forGears of War 4‘s latest update, “Rise of the Horde.” In addition to new Horde skills and loot drops, the update also adds additional difficulty levels. One of these, dubbed “Inconceivable,” gives less health to both you and your enemies in the campa...
and it does, but to the detriment of the game as a whole with how poorly designed they all are. The open-world levels are empty and boring, the story is lackluster after a great first act, and the new Escape mode is a fleeting distraction at best.Gears of Warneeds changes, but not...
difficulty. Lastly, multiplayer can get frustrating when you're dead - because you can only watch the remaining players alive and it takes a while for them to find each other most of the time. Overall though, Gears of War is just a really simple cover and shoot type of game. It doesn...
For those who prefer co-operative multiplayer, Gears of War 2 allows up to two players to run through the entire campaign, just like the original. As a new helpful addition, each player can select their own difficulty setting. So for instance if you have a buddy who is new to first-per...
Historically, Horde has been an incredibly fun mode that added heaps of value to the core Gears package. Horde Mode 3.0 looks to build on that immeasurably in a similar way Warzone has for Halo 5. Gears of War 4's Horde mode was built with longevity in mind, and I can confirm that ...