After every mission, you can recruit regular COGS to fill out your ranks, and these foot soldiers can be customized in terms of name and appearance. In fact, Tactics does away with any real meta layer at all. This strong focus on a linear campaign with set heroes is a big departure from most games that follow X-Com and its well established formula.ĭue to the heavy story influence, the meta layer of global conquest is absent from Gears Tactics. The story is told with beautifully rendered cut-scenes and various story sequences interspersed through three acts. When the war against the Locust break out, he is tasked with hunting down a Locust leader named Ukkon.Īs supplies and manpower is limited, a veteran named Sid accompanies Gabe as he is tasked with building his own force of COGS strong enough to tackle this emerging threat. It’s set 12 years before the first game, a COG named Gabe Diaz, father to Gears 5 protagonist Kate, is relegated to motor pool. Gears Tactics first and foremost is telling a story not unlike one you would find in any proper Gears title. Once the initial comparisons are made, very big differences make themselves known. The familiar vocabulary of half and full cover, over watch, and everybody’s favorite 90% chance to hit but still missing shot. Right away the X-Com inspiration is readily apparent. Once again, as Microsoft embraces PC gaming, developer Splash Damage took Gears, and embraced a decidedly PC focused genre, turn based tactics. Innovating with it’s stop and pop gameplay and it’s unique brand of destroyed beauty.ĬOG’s, Locusts, grizzled veterans and young upstarts, the Gears franchise is full of great characters, villains, and features a complicated world to play with. Gears of War has been a third person shooter, most would say it is “THE” third person shooter. Halo Wars was born, and despite the move to RTS, the world of Halo was faithfully represented. Microsoft saw fit to take that universe and make a title that appealed to a more PC player base. It established a set of heroes, villains, weapons, and factions. Halo was a first person shooter for many years.
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