![]() ![]() Set 12 years before the first Gears of War, the Locust horde is attacking once again while being led by Ukkon, a Locust leader who is also creating his own monstrosities to do his bidding. Gears Tactics is a prequel story that builds upon what you have been learning with these new games from The Coalition by introducing Gabe Diaz, the father of Kait Diaz (the protagonist in Gears 5). Troops are recruited within a menu and can permanently die like X-COM, but since heroes are vital to the story, they must live to continue the campaign. Your team is made up of troops and heroes which can be customized pretty extensively, but troops are more customizable than the heroes. Passives could be like the ability ‘blitz’ where you have a chance of getting another action point at the beginning of your next turn, or ‘champion’ which will heal your team if you get an execution. ![]() Gear is color-coded to signify if it’s common, rare, epic or legendary and the better it is the better passives and upgrades it may carry. New gear can be obtained by finding crates in-game and/or completing missions and side objectives. Other than abilities, your troops can be upgraded with attachments for their weapons and different armour pieces which all have a visual change on the characters and weapons. Unfortunately, not all the ability paths are equally as good so you might end up making everyone semi-similar like me. So, you can have multiple of each class and have them play completely differently because of the abilities tree you went down. There are five classes support, vanguard, sniper, heavy and scout with their respective weapons and a skill tree for each that branches off into four different paths. In Gears Tactics, you get action points for each character, usually up to three, and you’re able to do any action you want with those three points such as moving, shooting, throwing grenades or using abilities you acquire by levelling up. Fans of X-COM will immediately know what they are doing as soon as they boot up Gears Tactics, but even if you’re just a Gears of War fan, this is much easier to pick up than other turn-based shooters. Gears Tactics takes all that and essentially puts a Gears of War skin on it with the abilities, characters, visuals and sound design beaming with that Gears of War flair you know and love. It’s always been the third-person, gore-heavy, cover-based shooter that fans adore, but now The Coalition and Splash Damage have taken all that and applied it to the X-COM formula with Gears Tactics.įor those who aren’t familiar with X-COM, it’s a turn-based tactical shooter where you control each character’s movements/actions to take out the enemies as swiftly and precisely as you can. The Gears of War series has had a few improvements over the years since the first game launched in 2006, but the core gameplay mechanics have stayed relatively the same. Reviews // 24th May 2020 - 2 years ago // By Richard Shivdarsan Gears Tactics Review ![]()
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