Gears Of War: Reloaded Steam Reviews Reach “Mixed” After Disastrous Launch

Gears Of War: Reloaded Steam Reviews Reach “Mixed” After Disastrous Launch

From Screen Rant (Written by Kyle Gratton) on | OpenCritic

Gears of War: Reloaded marked the series' big debut on PlayStation, but the remaster's simultaneous launch on PC is not going well. Reloaded is a remaster of Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, itself a remaster of the 2006 original that was released in 2015. The PS5 version of Reloaded runs quite well aside from a few inconsequential bugs, but that does not appear to be the case with the PC version.

At the time of writing, Gears of War: Reloaded has accrued 964 user reviews on Steam since it was released on August 26, with only 48% of those being positive, giving the game the storefront's official "Mixed" categorization. The reviews cite poor performance, a variety of bugs, and regular crashes, but most consequential is the lack of split-screen support on PC, a feature that was advertised before launch.

Gears of War: Reloaded's user reviews note that split-screen was a promised feature per the game's advertising. This Reddit post from four months ago seems to confirm Steam listing "Shared/Split-Screen Co-op," and, according to SteamDB's update history of Reloaded's Steam page, the trailer was swapped out, apparently to instead feature one that doesn't include any mention of split-screen....

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