Gears Tactics Reviews
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.
A competent tactical retooling of the Gears formula, even if the execution isn't always spot-on.
Clever combat abilities and brutal executions translate Gears of War into a deep, fast-paced strategy game.
A fast-paced and accessible turn-based action game that if anything feels constrained by the predictable nature of the Gears Of War universe.
Gears Tactics is a smart, fast, and aggressive strategy game that's in need of a little more variety
Inject some much-needed adrenaline and storytelling into the tactics milieu, even if the campaign wears out its welcome
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.
Gears Tactics carefully recreates the chaotic excitement of a Gears of War firefight in turn-based strategy form.
This isn’t a gimmick or reskin of XCOM. This is something great that stands on its own.
Gears Tactics finds its niche by leaning further into the hyper-aggressive action and gore of the franchise. It throws tons of enemies at you, which forces you to move and keeps you on your toes, but can also become annoying and tedious in some missions. For a first-time outing though, Gears Tactics is a fantastic start.
Gears Tactics makes a wonderful addition to the franchise, and I hope that it spins off as its own series.
All my quibbles are on the periphery of Gears Tactics, though. The core -- getting onto the battlefield and agonizing over every move -- is excellent. There's a smart experience here, one that feels both authentically Gears and tactics. That's the best possible outcome. Gears Tactics is a great Gears game and a great tactics game. This 90% doesn't miss.
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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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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There's a sense that this is Splash Damage and The Coalition playing to the crowd with Gears Tactics. It undoubtedly captures the look and feel of the Gears universe, squeezing it into a slick turn-based tactical game, but while I can see a few genre fans attracted to its more cerebral form of warfare, it's the series fans who are going to get the most out of it.
The game offers a solid experience of squad customization and tactical turn-based battle, but still keeps some of the most satisfying head explosions to ever come out of an action game.
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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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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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.
Gears Tactics perfectly translates the aggressive, bloody action of the series to a turn-based format.