Gears of War: Reloaded is off to a pretty bad start, opening to "Mixed" reviews on Steam as players call out everything from performance issues and constant crashes to missing pre-order items and even a graphical setting which prevents you from opening the game.
That's just scratching the surface, too. Matchmaking issues are another key complaint, and it was advertised on the Steam page that the remaster would support split screen co-op, but just hours before launch, all references were removed, and no such feature is present in the final game. Suffice to say, fans aren't happy.
Only 49 percent of the reviews are positive.
"Let's start releasing games when they are finished, please," reads one review. "ANOTHER lazy cash grab from Microsoft," one fan put it simply. "Behold, our remaster of a remaster. A PC port of another PC port! AND SOMEHOW IT JUST BARELY WORKS," a clearly frustrated player wrote. "[In] its current state, it is unplayable. Very unstable, lots of crashes," adds another.
Microsoft has confirmed that it's "aware" of these issues, highlighting the missing pre-order items and matchmaking woes, and is "investigating" them as we speak, but there's no word on when we can...
