@zimtiki's review of Gears Tactics
★★★½
Gears Tactics is a spinoff of the highly regarded Gears of War series, but rather than being a third person cover-based shooter, Tactics is a turn based strategy game that has you fighting off hoards of Locust and completing objectives using your customized COG soldiers. For a spinoff, Tactics story is actually pretty important to the overall Gears lore. It goes into where the Locust came from, who’s responsible for their emergence, and how the COG covered it all up. It’s all super interesting and made me want to keep playing to see what was going to happen next. The gameplay mechanics are tight, too. Your soldiers each have classes that give them specific abilities in the field. If you go into a fight without a variety of specialists, you’re gonna have a bad time. Each soldier has a certain amount of moves per turn, be it walking, shooting, meleeing, executions, or opening supply crates. My only real complaint here is that I never felt like my soldiers could cover enough ground each turn, and it made for some really annoying scenarios where things took way longer than they should have. Also, during the campaign, you’re forced to go on side missions to level up your COGs. These got old fast, as they were the same three missions over and over again, and would really kill the pacing of the story. Overall though, this is a good addition to the Gears of War franchise and with the right situation and right opponent, matches can be an absolute blast.
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