Gears Tactics

Gears Tactics is an aggressive strategy game that throws piles of enemies at you, because it knows just how powerful the tools at your disposal are. It knows you've got frag grenades that can turn a pack of five scurrying wretches into chicken nuggets, or a chainsaw gun that has a 100-percent chance to slice even a full-health Locust soldier in half. (I like to imagine that the chainsaw's lengthy cooldown isn't because it's overpowered, but because my hero, Gabe Diaz, has to spend the next few turns scraping bone chunks and viscera out of the blades). While it first looks an awful lot like XCOM, which has inspired a wave of strategy games this decade, Gears Tactics plays differently. Every turn in XCOM is about the tension of how few moves you can make, the dramatic risk of missing a single shot and scrambling for a backup plan. Gears is more freeform, giving each of the four soldiers you take into a mission three actions per turn; any combination of moving, shooting, and special abilities you want. Gears Tactics builds on its executions really, really well through class skills and its take on overwatch, a skill popularized by XCOM that lets you fire on enemies when they move. Put a Gear on overwatch with three actions banked up and they can fire three times. But enemies use overwatch aggressively, too, to pin down your squad. Gears' freeform action system is more forgiving than XCOM's, but it often sets up these puzzles for you to get out of, where two members of your squad can't move without getting shot to pieces, and the other two have to kill the overwatching Locust to free them up to use those actions safely. Unlike XCOM, Gears tactics has a story campaign, set a few years before the events of the first Gears Of War. What it adds to the story front isn't imperative to know, but its characters are interesting enough to keep any fan of the Gears franchise invested in seeing their fates. Its filled with all the enemies you are used to facing in the Locust ranks and its boss battles against Brumaks and Corpsers are cinematic and challenging enough to make them stand out encounters. If you enjoy Gears and turned based strategy, then this ones a must buy. If however you enjoy Gears and the usual fast paced third person shooting genre it more commonly fits into. You might not be too drawn in with Tactics. Its all in the name really.

Yet another xcom/xcom2 replacement.... but very good replacement

Just pure fun and a nice addition to XCOM 2. Still XCOM 2 War of The Chosen is the better game but Gears tactics delivers. What I did not enjoy so much were the side missions whivh you have to play. In XCOM2 you had choices and could plan accordingly. But I stiill recommend this game 100%.

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a great game! great graphics! great campaign! 8.5/10

good game

Chingon el juego, pero locura acabo con mi sanidad mental X''D