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Gears Tactics Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Given the life-or-death dependency on taking cover in the Gears (of War) games, I can’t think of another long-running series better suited to sidestep from third-person shooter into XCOM-style turn-based tactics than this one. Gears Tactics is a spin-off with a more focused approach to the genre, ditching the larger strategy layer side of the XCOM formula in favor of pitched tactical battle after tactical battle. That comes at the cost of some replayability, but most of those fights are rewarding puzzles with fantastically polished graphical payoff. The story of Gears Tactics takes place 12 years before the original Gears of War – of course, when it comes to gleefully cutting alligator-looking dudes in half with chainsaw guns it’s very much business as usual. Through some impressively animated cutscenes we get to fill in a few gaps in the pre-Outsiders Diaz family history, though Kait’s father, Gabriel, never really comes into his own as a memorable main character. He has his tortured past of having fallen from grace after leading an operation gone wrong and going into self-imposed exile in the COG motorpool, but being brought back for one last job doesn’t really change his mind about anything – he was fed up with the COG’s corrupt leadership before we meet him. Even the heated friction between grizzled old Gear Sid and the prickly engineer/sniper Mikayla never amounts to much. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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And despite some hints that he might attempt it, the villainous Ukkon never develops beyond one-dimensional evil. Still, the dialogue is written and acted well enough that it serves its purpose of establishing the signature Gears flavor and giving us a monster to hunt without getting in the way. Gabe leads a squad of up to four Gears into battle against a substantial lineup of recognizable Locust enemies (introduced at a steady clip throughout with a gruesome close-up and a couple of tactical tips) that range from basic grunts and exploding Tickers to buffing Kantuses and tricky Theron Guards. They all have distinctive and interesting abilities to counter, including some that automatically attack if you get too close (countering the insta-kill Lancer chainsaws) and some who explode in a cloud of debilitating poison gas on death to discourage executing them when they’re downed. The only ones that ever got on my nerves were the melee units – including those Ticker jerks – where I could never quite tell if they were in range of striking my troops or not. You may only ever have four troops at once, but they can feel like an army.The fundamentals of combat are about improving your lethality by flanking, using melee charges, tossing grenades, and other abilities, and it’s great. Where things really get interesting is when you start chaining together abilities from the five different classes that grant you additional action points.

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Either for one character or your entire squad. That can turn them from generally effective fighters into spectacular killing machines that can mow down two or three times their number of enemies. Having a Vanguard soldier like Sid spend one of his three action points to charge into the midst of a group of Locust Hammerburst drones and skewer one on his Retro Lancer’s bayonet, only to recover that action point because of his passive Free Bayonet skill, then blast another one with his Rage Shot ability for extra damage to put them in the Gears-signature down-but-not-out state that allows him to perform an execution kill, which in turn grants his teammates an extra action to tear into the Locusts with four action points apiece instead of three, is a joy. You may only ever have four troops at once, but they can feel like an army. The directional Overwatch ability is also extremely useful – essential, really – for stopping enemy advances during their turn can be enormously powerful if you can cleverly predict enemies’ movements. The satisfying “clink!” when an enemy steps into your killzone and sets your plan into motion is one of my favorite sound effects in Gears Tactics. The Locusts think it’s handy, too: they’ll almost compulsively use Overwatch to pin you in place rather than take a shot on their turn. Countering a web of overlapping Overwatch cones without taking a hit can be a tricky puzzle, and you have many abilities designed for doing exactly that.Rick And Morty Virtual Rick-ality

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For instance, Disabling Shot comes standard with every solider’s sidearm, which has high accuracy and a good chance to knock a grub off his guard. Grenades are handy for this, too – and there are class-specific abilities that are even more effective. Gears Tactics and I share the belief that a sniper rifle should practically be an extension of the hand of god, so powerful that it feels like you’re being unfair to the poor AI grunts who wander into range. Twenty hours into my campaign my sniper’s hotbar was overflowing with abilities. I could fire off something like 7 rounds in a single turn, chaining together shots that gave me free reloads and shots that restocked my pool of action points. And because I’d completed some hard side missions in search of “legendary” loot, my sniper rifle was tuned up with parts that guaranteed—to use the technical term—a sick-nasty critical hit rate. Taking aim at the final boss with 85 percent crit chance almost felt like cheating. This is the power fantasy version of a tactics game, and pure, pitch-perfect Gears of War, right down to the cranial pop of a Longshot sniper rifle’s bullet landing a critical headshot. Like the third-person shooters of the proper Gears series, Tactics has a linear campaign, told with very pretty Unreal Engine-powered cutscenes between missions. It’s easily the best-looking tactics game I’ve played, thanks to those cutscenes and fastidiously detailed environments.

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The series is mostly known for its macho, impossibly barrel-chested soldiers, but it has had some great art direction here and there—grand classical architecture ravaged by years of war. It’s hard to oversell how precisely this game translates the look and combat feel of the other Gears games into this overhead turn-based perspective, down to the magnetizing slide into cover that characters make. Gears Tactics is an aggressive strategy game that throws piles of enemies at you, because it knows just how powerful the tools at your disposal are. It knows you’ve got frag grenades that can turn a pack of five scurrying wretches into chicken nuggets, or a chainsaw gun that has a 100-percent chance to slice even a full-health Locust soldier in half. (I like to imagine that the chainsaw’s lengthy cooldown isn’t because it’s overpowered, but because my hero, Gabe Diaz, has to spend the next few turns scraping bone chunks and viscera out of the blades). While it first looks an awful lot like XCOM, which has inspired a wave of strategy games this decade, Gears Tactics plays differently. Every turn in XCOM is about the tension of how few moves you can make, the dramatic risk of missing a single shot and scrambling for a backup plan. Gears is more freeform, giving each of the four soldiers you take into a mission three actions per turn; any combination of moving, shooting, and special abilities you want.Journey to the Savage Planet

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Every time one of your soldiers performs an execution move on a near-death enemy, the rest of the squad gets an extra action point for the turn, the game design equivalent of a platoon shouting Hooah! These two things give Gears Tactics a remarkably different flavor: You’re not trying to make the best of your meager options each turn. You’re trying to extend your turn as long as possible, every kill offering up the opportunity to earn three more actions, and another kill, and three more actions, until everything lies dead at your feet. I love how it makes every turn an exciting chance to clear the whole screen of enemies in one go, and it pushes me to experiment with how I combine my squad’s many abilities. Gears Tactics does lose the sharp edge of danger XCOM has, where dealing with units dying through the campaign is arguably a feature. Unless you play on the highest difficulty setting in Gears, you can revive soldiers multiple times, and on the recommended intermediate setting there was only one time in my entire campaign where I came close to permanently losing someone. That was a thrill. If you’re not playing on Insane, you probably won’t care much about the stream of recruits that join your squad, though the option does exist to give them custom names and makeovers, if you want to. Like many cross-gen games so far, Gears Tactics gets scaling technical benefits, depending on the console on which you play it.

Massive boss battles.

On the Xbox One X, you can choose to play in 4K at 30fps or at 1440p running 60fps. On the Xbox Series X, the game runs in 4K resolution and at 60fps. As a tactics game employing a pulled-back, RTS-style camera, the increased fidelity doesn’t make as big of an impact as it does in other games where you can look closely at every detail. Still, when given the opportunity, you can see that the world, particularly the characters, look very sharp. With the console release of the game, there’s a new update for all platforms, including PC. It adds an updated version of the campaign, which includes a new character, enemies, and more loot. In the updated campaign, Jack, the cloaking, door-ripping robot from the core Gears of War series, joins your team. Once found, Jack serves as a mandatory fifth squad member on every mission, based on the first three hours of the new campaign. It can’t attack, but Jack offers a wide, customizable array of offensive and defensive support skills to make your team more effective and efficient. To balance out the impact of your team having an extra member on your side, many of the missions have been redesigned, adding extra enemies. There are also special Deviant-class enemies who power up their nearby allies, similar to how Jack bolsters your team. Jack and the deviant enemies theoretically add a new layer of challenge. Using Jack effectively requires careful coordination; on a good turn, it can clear the path for you to kill more enemies and build even more momentum.

Likewise, the Deviant enemies can force you to shift priorities in combat, as they’re not only powerful but also make all of your enemies more deadly. At the same time, all of the extra stuff–more moves to make, more enemies to fight–makes each level drag on longer than it needs to. At the start of a new game, you can choose between playing the Jacked campaign with these new features or a Classic campaign. Though I’m still working through the new campaign, I’d argue that the original is a tighter, more satisfying experience. That said, if you’ve finished the Gears Tactics story and want a new thrill, replaying the campaign with Jack and Deviant enemies is far more interesting than simply running randomly generated veteran missions. – Mike Epstein, 5 November 2020. The original review, first published in April 2020, continues below. Complete the Gears Tactics tutorial and get Armored Gabe Character Skin for multiplayer modes in Gears 5. Gears Tactics is the fast-paced, turn-based strategy game set 12 years before the first Gears of War. Cities on the planet Sera are beginning to fall to the monstrous threat rising from underground – the Locust Horde. With the government in disarray, a squad of survivors emerge as humanity’s last hope. Play as Gabe Diaz, recruiting, developing and commanding your squads on a desperate mission to hunt down the relentless and powerful leader of the Locust army: Ukkon, the mastermind monster who makes monsters. Against all odds and fighting for survival, outsmart your enemy in uniquely brutal, turn-based tactical combat.

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Experience the intensity of one of the most-acclaimed video game sagas in an exciting new way. The combat loop in this game is pretty good. Your weapons and abilities feel weighty and bloody just like how they feel in the main line games. You command your soldier to an enemy and have them use their lancer to cut an enemy in half before they explode in a delightful gore or just watch heads explode as your snipers turn the enemy’s head into a bloody mist one by one. One of the key identity in the Gears of War series is fun over the top gore and this game does not disappoint. Other aspects of Gears of War also translates well into Gears Tactic. Your soldiers are all buff burly individuals that feel like super soldiers. Cover system, although now common in XCOM-style games, translates well into this game. Some aspect are even improved from a game like XCOM such as the Overwatch ability, with this game allowing you to choose exactly where you want your COG soldiers to overwatch including even the distance. Boss fights are surprisingly great in this game. If you have played other games similar to this, you would know “Boss Fights” devolved to just having a super powerful unit on the other side that you need to bring down. In this game, there are actually mega-bosses that requires you to get out your comfort zone and move your units around as you chip away at their health while avoiding other mobs and the gimmick of the boss. That being said, there are only 3 bosses and only the 2nd boss felt unique while the first and third boss practically employ the same gimmick.Medal of Honor Above and Beyond

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