This sounds dumb, but my left index finger tingles when I hit a perfect reload, and my right hand feels more anxious and powerful with a special bullet in the chamber. The Active Reload system adds golf swing timing to magazine swaps: tap R to reload, then again when a moving bar hits the sweet spot and you’ll reload faster and apply a damage boost to your new bullets. It even makes reloading, a shooting staple you’d think needs no change, more fun. Gears is here because it wants you to have fun shooting aliens, and little else. I love that rather than reprimanding the player for shooting squadmates, Marcus (that’s you) yells at them for getting in the way. I love that rather than reprimanding the player for shooting squadmates, Marcus yells at them for getting in the way. There’s even an orbital beam weapon that Mass Effect’s Reapers would applaud, which is guided by a targeting gun-it’s like vacuuming the floor with space fire. Shotguns are hole-punches for headcrab-like rug beasts. Giant mounted guns spit a whirl of projectiles and handle like firehoses, severing alien legs at the knees.
You can spray tracer bullets wildly over cover or more neatly down the sights, flicking gore off the spongey heads of aliens until they pop. Just a little walk and talk exposition, and then I get to spend 20 minutes with Gears’ wonderful shooting in a shower of alien gore.Īnd the guns are fierce, imprecise fun. Yeah, the cast of melancholy soldier archetypes can get boring, and the grimdark stonework becomes a grey paste in places, but I only have to care about that stuff for a minute at a time. The campaign can be a little self-serious-it’s Doom as an ensemble action flick like The Expendables, with a cast of ultimate tough guys flexing their neck-trunks at every problem-but there’s no drawn-out character development or weak attempts at high-concept sci-fi. That’s all crappy, but Gears softens the frustration of its limitations by being so much fun. And you’d better hope Gears likes your video card, because it doesn’t like my GTX Titan or the GTX 980 Ti we tried it on in the office, and that grudge comes as nasty audio and video stuttering if I have the texture quality above ‘low.’ Microsoft is working on it, but it’s still a pain a week after launch. Want to record gameplay with ShadowPlay? You can’t, so get used to Xbox DVR (which sucks).
It looks great-the stones are grimier, the meatheads are gruffer-but do you want to play at an ultrawide resolution? There’s no ini to edit. This new ‘Ultimate Edition’ is one of those fancy DirectX 12 games built as a Universal Windows App, which is supposed to make it more efficient and simpler on us, but in this case has only introduced limitations.
But Gears of War has grown some pretty gross mold, too.
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