Your skulls persist through deaths too, giving people who don’t necessarily excel at getting consecutive kills a chance to get a fun piece of equipment. You’re even rewarded with a skull if you die a lot, which can help prevent the feeling of being stuck in a dead-end loop. Don’t expect to see premium weapons littered on the map with a timer attached to them, either instead, you buy special weapons and equipment like a Markza MK1 (my weapon of choice) or incendiary grenades with skulls earned by downing and killing enemies. Instead of starting everybody with the standard Lancer/Gnasher loadout, you’re given an arsenal based on your character, which can be changed at any point between deaths during the match. This new mode is a more casual and chaotic game type that welcomes those who feel they’re always the Gnashed, never the Gnasher, with open arms. Multiple varied boss fights also help Gears 5 feel fresh throughout.Ģ6 Images Campaign score: 8.8 Gears 5 Multiplayer ReviewArcade is the standout of Gears 5’s iteration of Versus. This is a nice change of pace for Gears, just like it was for God of War last year - who’s to say whether that was by intention or coincidence, but the fact that the first of these sections is set in a frozen tundra only makes it harder to ignore the similarity). Usually your reward is Jack upgrades, so they’re very worth doing. You’ll roam the area on your wind-powered Skiff, free to tackle optional secondary objectives that vary in duration and challenge. Also new is Gears 5’s open structure of its middle two acts. New weapons like the Claw manage to feel unique but fit right in, too Gears 5 does a tremendous job of balancing the old toys with new ones. The Overkill shotgun returns from Gears of War 4 and packs a potent punch, while classics like the Longshot, Boomshot, and Mulcher are still around to satisfyingly chew your foes into little fleshy chunks. This may be the only series where I’m always happy to have the default weapon – the trusty Lancer – in my loadout at all times, just in case I get a chance to chainsaw a bad guy in half. boy oh boy does Gears’ combat still feel good. Play Here’s more on Campaign from my campaign review (or watch the video version above).
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