Aion002
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Too long; Didn't read: The game feels weightless and bland. Gears 1, 2 and 3 are way better!
I just uninstalled Gears 5 and I have some opinions about it.....
The last time that I played Gears was on the 360, Gears of War 3 to be more precise, while I didn't enjoy the story mode as much as the first two games, the multiplayer was awesome, so now getting a new Xbox made me extremely hyped about the latest game in the series.
And DAMN the graphics are incredible and the game runs perfectly on the Series S, at 60 frames, only Forza Horizon 4 has the same level of quality that is presented on Gears 5 on the Series S.
However... The game is quite boring on the gameplay side. My memory of Gears is that it is a brutal game, were the player must take cover while shooting carefully at long range, trying to advance and eviscerating enemies at close range with chainsaws and shotguns, every movement had impact, simply getting in to cover felt heavy, the weapons and enemies sounds made everything tense.
But on Gears 5, everything feels weightless, from aiming to movement, the weapons "feels" way worse and taking cover lacks any of the older games "impact", the characters get out of cover quite fast...Too fast and sprinting feels... meh? The AI seems a lot worse, specially on the horde mode... Which is my biggest issue! It pains my heart to say, but DAMN the horde mode is bad! The horde (survival) mode on the 360 games gave me reasons to buy the console. They are extremely fun, the maps are amazing and the enemies are quite to battle. In Gears 5 it's the opposite, I tried so hard to enjoy it, but it's just different... It reminded me more of Inversion than Gears of War.
Gears 5 is my biggest disappointment on the Series S so far... It just feels too different from the Gears that I loved on the 360. Seems like a game that wanted to be Gears of War, but failed quite hard to get the whole point of it... Maybe that's the reason that they named it only Gears 5.
Anyway, am I alone on this opinion?
I just uninstalled Gears 5 and I have some opinions about it.....
The last time that I played Gears was on the 360, Gears of War 3 to be more precise, while I didn't enjoy the story mode as much as the first two games, the multiplayer was awesome, so now getting a new Xbox made me extremely hyped about the latest game in the series.
And DAMN the graphics are incredible and the game runs perfectly on the Series S, at 60 frames, only Forza Horizon 4 has the same level of quality that is presented on Gears 5 on the Series S.
However... The game is quite boring on the gameplay side. My memory of Gears is that it is a brutal game, were the player must take cover while shooting carefully at long range, trying to advance and eviscerating enemies at close range with chainsaws and shotguns, every movement had impact, simply getting in to cover felt heavy, the weapons and enemies sounds made everything tense.
But on Gears 5, everything feels weightless, from aiming to movement, the weapons "feels" way worse and taking cover lacks any of the older games "impact", the characters get out of cover quite fast...Too fast and sprinting feels... meh? The AI seems a lot worse, specially on the horde mode... Which is my biggest issue! It pains my heart to say, but DAMN the horde mode is bad! The horde (survival) mode on the 360 games gave me reasons to buy the console. They are extremely fun, the maps are amazing and the enemies are quite to battle. In Gears 5 it's the opposite, I tried so hard to enjoy it, but it's just different... It reminded me more of Inversion than Gears of War.
Gears 5 is my biggest disappointment on the Series S so far... It just feels too different from the Gears that I loved on the 360. Seems like a game that wanted to be Gears of War, but failed quite hard to get the whole point of it... Maybe that's the reason that they named it only Gears 5.
Anyway, am I alone on this opinion?
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