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Each of the characters can be one of 5 classes Sniper, Support, Scout, Vanguard and Heavy. But thankfully, you have multiple characters you can control per mission, which is typically up to a maximum of 4 characters. Reloading your gun? You better believe that’s going to set you back an action point. Running to cover? That’s an action point. Shooting your gun? That’s an action point. As far as what you can do in a turn? Each character you control has a certain number of action points each round, and doing something costs an action point. The turn-based system in Gear Tactics is quite simple, the good guys (you) get to move all of their characters, shoot things, heal things and the like. Missions can vary from the standard, go from A to B and kill all the things, to save these people before they die, or even out run a carpet-bomb that is being dropped across the map.Īfter the initial tutorial and story set up, the game really starts to open up in terms of choices.

You control Diaz and a number of other Gears characters from a top-down perspective and take on various missions. Gabriel Diaz, a COG soldier who is brought back into the frontlines to take out the Locust (the bad guys of the Gears series) scientist named Ukkon. Gears Tactics, as mentioned, is a turn-based strategy game set 12 years before the events of the first Gears of War.

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So why am I talking about the brilliant turn-based tactics game from 2017? Well because Gears Tactics is basically that game but with a Gears skin on it and I’ve been really enjoying it. As John “Hannibal” Smith says, “I love it when a plan comes together”. There’s almost no better feeling than the feeling you get when everything falls into place. Of course the complete opposite can happen too, you’ve just set up this perfect ambush, the enemies walk into it completely unaware and all get wiped out in a single movie-esqe shot. Move a unit too far, whoops, he got spotted by the enemies and now a storm of bullets and hell fire are going to rain down on you. Every little decision you made in the game mattered and could ‘butterfly-effect’ its way through the game.

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While I had been a fan of turn based games in the past such as Darkest Dungeon, Final Fantasy, and even Pokemon, the XCOM series changed it up for me.

I only started playing it some time after the expansion was released for XCOM 2 back in late 2017 and it wasn’t long until I was absolutely hooked. I would highly recommend this game to anyone who has ever played a Gears of War game or is looking for a challenging strategy game.I’ll admit I was late to the party when it comes to the XCOM franchise.

I’m especially fond of how much of the lore and content from the Gears series has been used in this game, especially the cinematic aspects that occur when executing a downed enemy. The gameplay feels incredibly natural running on console and offers a really immersive experience for anyone.

Playing this game on the Xbox Series X in 4k resolution is an amazing experience for any Gears fans or lovers of strategy games. Brace yourself from massive boss battles that will defy your strategies and change the scale of the battle.Try to survive intense and visceral encounters as unstoppable swarms of the enemy comes. Experience fast-paced, turn-based battles.Prepare your troops for battle by upgrading skills, and equipping them with loot previously collected in challenging missions.As the defiant soldier Gabe Diaz, recruit, develop, and command your squad of survivors as you hunt down the relentless leader of the Locust army, Ukkon.The government at this point is useless and the only ones that can help are a team of survivors. Set 12 years before the first Gears of War, the Locust Horde is beginning to take over starting from the underground.