Gears 5

My first game into the Gears franchise and I like it.

Coming from someone who played and loved the original GoW and GoW 2 (and somewhat GoW 3), this one is pretty good. I got it on sale and I feel I've already gotten my moneys worth out of it. Is it quite the same as the older games? No. But it's a current game with a healthy playerbase that still has the same DNA as the old gears games. I'm not a huge fan of the battle pass stuff or the paid microtransactions but you can also just easily ignore these. Online multiplayer is fun and most of the maps are quite good, some of them are ones from older games and they are really good (blood drive, clock tower, gridlock). A good chunk of the players online are quite good as they've had years to hone their craft - saying this, you can get matches with players that aren't exactly experts and have games where you aren't constantly respawning. The game modes are a breath of fresh air, you can play 24/7 king of the hill with no power weapons which is really fun and a good way to play the game. I haven't even touched the campaign yet but I likely will at some point, I'm not one that cares too much about the story or the characters but it seems like there is quite a few new ones in the game. The other good thing about this game is it is crossplay, but runs on the xbox launcher, so if you have an xbox account it will be crossplay and cross progression, this is really nice if you care about xbox achievements as well as your steam achievements. Having the steam player count as well as the xbox one makes for a healthy player base and only takes a few minutes at most to find a game I suggest using a controller to play, coming from someone who likes to play shooters with KBM. There is few times a KBM is superior, like when sniping with the longshot. A good chunk of this game is gnasher fighting in fairly tight quarters - if this sounds like fun to you, pick the game up All in all absolutely worth playing, espeically if you get the game one sale