Gears Tactics Reviews

Gears Tactics is ranked in the 89th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Dan Stapleton
Top Critic
8 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics does an excellent job of grafting Gears' signature look and feel onto XCOM's turn-based battle format and looks great doing it.

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No Recommendation / Blank
Apr 27, 2020

A competent tactical retooling of the Gears formula, even if the execution isn't always spot-on.

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PC Gamer
Top Critic
83 / 100
Apr 27, 2020

Clever combat abilities and brutal executions translate Gears of War into a deep, fast-paced strategy game.

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Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics is a smart, fast, and aggressive strategy game that's in need of a little more variety

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8.5 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Inject some much-needed adrenaline and storytelling into the tactics milieu, even if the campaign wears out its welcome

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Polygon
Top Critic
Unscored
Apr 27, 2020

This is a near miss, but as anyone who has ever played a turn-based game will tell you, a near miss can be all the enemy needs to take you out. This is an interesting, but hardly essential, addition to the Gears family.

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8 / 10
Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics carefully recreates the chaotic excitement of a Gears of War firefight in turn-based strategy form.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Apr 27, 2020

This isn’t a gimmick or reskin of XCOM. This is something great that stands on its own.

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VG247
Top Critic
Apr 27, 2020

Despite the necessary rules and stricture of turn-based strategy, the action feels just as chaotic and unpredictable as any trophy match Cole played in his sporting days.

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3.5 / 5.0
Apr 27, 2020

Despite some stumbles, Splash Damage has successfully taken the essence of the Gears franchise and transferred it into a turn-based strategy game.

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Unscored
Apr 27, 2020

This is 100% a Gears Of War game, that also happens to be a top flight strategy effort.

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10 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics is big and brash at times, but it's also deep, intelligent and balanced, with all the heart and passion we've come to expect from a Gears game.

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8.6 / 10.0
May 11, 2020

If you're a fan of Gears or X-COM or want to try a great game in general, don't waste time, Gears Tactis offers an excellent mix of tactics and action with many options to adjust characters to match your favorite style of play.

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9 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Gears delves into the Turn-based strategy genre with a game extremely faithful to the core saga, fun shootings that keep the essence of those played in the third person, but somewhat repetitive after a few hours.

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8 / 10.0
Apr 27, 2020

Effectively blending the Gears of War universe with strategy gameplay, Gears Tactics is a fast-paced experience that succeeds on both fronts.

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9.2 / 10.0
May 27, 2020

The customization of our troops, the combats versus de final bosses and the aggressiveness of the enemies are the three elements that makes differences between Gears Tactics and other titles of the turn based strategy games, but don't make a mistake; this is an spin-off but smells like Gears from start to the end.

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Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics doesn’t have to rival the latest main-series game to get across the franchise’s grand ambitions of worldwide conflict.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Apr 27, 2020

A fast-paced and accessible turn-based action game that if anything feels constrained by the predictable nature of the Gears Of War universe.

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Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics makes a wonderful addition to the franchise, and I hope that it spins off as its own series.

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82 / 100
Apr 27, 2020

Gears Tactics reinvents the saga moving from shooter to tactical strategy. It keeps the essence of third-person shooter, it's fast, wild and fun, despite some boring side missions.

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