Instead, the game gives both the players and characters a lot of space for a breather between each extended shootout. This isn’t Far Cry, where you’re constantly bombarded by enemies on your way from point A to point B. Gears 5 isn’t exactly an open-world game, but it does have open-world elements. But the middle of the game, too, is also trying to uncover a new direction for the series. JD is trying to figure out a way to make amends for past mistakes. Del is trying to reconcile the ugly realities of war with his innate sense of right and wrong. Kait is looking for answers about her connection to the Swarm.
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The middle of the game takes place partly on a skiff, as Kait and the other Gears traverse expansive, domineeringly abandoned landscapes, and it acts as a spiritual search for a way forward, both for the characters and for the series as a whole. Miraculously, there’s actual psychology here, as well as significant consequences for the slip-ups that can happen when soldiers are pushed to their breaking points.
The opening hours of Gears 5 mines the kind of intergroup drama that you’d expect from a squad that’s not only under constant bombardment from snarling beasts with assault rifles but also at personal odds based on their different backgrounds and core belief systems. The Gears have been under extreme stress in the heat of battle before, but it’s never really been a cause of tension within the group.
When the Swarm attack a COG settlement with unprecedented force near the end of the first act, Delta Squad starts to split at the seams. He’s scientifically curious, devoted to his friends, and a strong moral center for the group as a whole. JD, meanwhile, has taken a real shine to his rediscovered leadership role, almost too eager to be the hero in his own action movie. She’s having headaches, and she seems distracted. Ever since she mercy-killed her own mother and found out she has some form of personal connection to the Locust horde, Kait hasn’t been sleeping. JD, Del, and Kait are officially the next Delta Squad, and they’re back to doing what Delta Squad always did best: going against the COG leadership and trying to bring the Hammer of Dawn system back online in a big way. Gears 5 Squad 4Kįollowing the events of the last game, the intrepid trio of scavengers-turned-soldiers that uncovered the source of the Swarm are now fully integrated into the COG’s war machine. Maybe I’m just getting older-hell, I started playing these games before I could legally drink-but so is the series, and it’s finally starting to act like it. With Gears 5, The Coalition has transformed the series’ characters from ’roided-out monstrosities into people who keep terrible secrets, make mistakes, and feel guilt, while staying true to the previous games’ cartoonish bravado. Gears 5 still contains plenty of war, but it’s more than ever a story about the people who are fighting that war. Many of the characters in the series have been driven by personal quests of vengeance against the Locust, but instead of digging in and mining that territory, the first five games leaned more into gut-splattering explosions and on-rails action setpieces to tell their tales.īesides just looking cleaner on a front cover, there’s a good reason why developer The Coalition and publisher Xbox Games Studios removed the “of War” from the title. The most heart the series could muster was the trope of using a dead wife as motivation. Mix in some Giger-level monstrosities, the goopiest of frags, John DiMaggio straining his vocal cords to maximum growl, and just a dash of technofascism, and you’ve got one the smartest, dumbest blockbuster series to ever grace consoles.īut when it came to emotional beats, Gears of War had mostly traded in tired cliches. The characters all look like walking meat houses, and the entire story is a thinly veiled analogy for how the wars fought over energy resources have created even scarier, more dangerous enemies.
For the first time in the series’ 13 years, I actually cared about the story.ĭon’t get me wrong: I love the Gears universe. Something strange happened while I was playing Gears 5.
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