
The last stand at Anvil Gate is particularly thrilling & it’s a great way to get you familiar with the controls & Gear cover-based game-play.

This is a great start to the game as you’re dropped into the bodies of grunt Gears seeing battles first hand that you’d only heard about. Here we see a very old Hoffman (now confined to a wheelchair) have flashbacks to three major parts of the Gears story…Aspho Fields, Emergence Day & Anvil Gate. The game opens with a speech being given by COG First Minister Jinn to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the war. Gears of War 4 takes place 25 years after the events of the 3rd game where all Imulsion was destroyed taking the Locust & Lambent with it. With the war between humanity & the Locust at an end it seemed as though the story was told but as Halo has proved, there are always more stories to be told. It ended an era of successful games that perfected the cover-shooter game-play mechanic. * Some modes and features require Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold on console, memberships sold separately.The last game in the Gears of War series (Judgement – a prequel) was also the last to be released on the Xbox 360. Three-player Campaign Co-op: Battle alongside your friends in three-player online or split-screen co-op.Īccessibility: Customize your gaming experience with updated accessibility features, including full controller remapping, single stick movement, Adaptive Controller support, narrated UI and menus, improved subtitles and more. Smart Delivery: Buy a copy of Gears 5 for your console and automatically download the version optimized for your device for free, including for Xbox Series X and S. Plus experience 4K HDR Ultra visuals on Series X. Xbox Series X|S Optimized: Gears 5 has been upgraded to take advantage of Xbox Series X and S, including: reduced load times, instant resume, 120 FPS in Versus and variable refresh rates. Pick your character, pick your class, and hunker down in Horde or push through in Escape. PvP: May the best team win! With new modes and content since Launch, Versus rewards every competitive style, from casual to pro.

New campaign features let you take your character and weapon skins into new playthroughs and enjoy bonus difficulties and modifiers. From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears 5’s celebrated campaign and refreshed multiplayer are optimized with new features for the Xbox Series X|S update.Ĭampaign: With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
