#GEARS TACTICS MISSIONS SERIES#

#GEARS TACTICS MISSIONS SERIES#

From the onset and throughout, Gears Tactics pushes the envelope, taking the turn-based, thinking personвЂ™s gameplay of FiraxisвЂ™ franchise and injecting it with a swaggering confidence that is purely, quintessentially, Gears.ДЄ prequel set 12 years before Dom Santiago breaks Marcus Fenix out of prison in the first Gears of War, Tactics begins with Gabe Diaz (father of current series protagonist Kait Diaz ), wallowing in self-imposed exile as a lowly transport mechanic. WhatвЂ™s even more surprising than the fact that they made this game at all is that itвЂ™s such an exceptional pairing of genres. Still, itвЂ™s easy to overlook GearsвЂ™ storytelling and emotional depth when it does its best to hide it all under curb-stomp executions and meat-coated chainsaws.ДЄnd yet, here we are, faced with Gears Tactics, the result of pouring all that big, dumb Gears of War batter into an XCOM-shaped mould and nuking it in an oven made from recycled Lancers.

Often dismissed as big and dumb, itвЂ™s a franchise of over-the-top explosions, sweaty biceps and growled one-liners that has nevertheless stood for almost 14 years as one of the XboxвЂ™s flagship properties.

Of all the loud, shouty shooters you could choose to distill into a strategy-heavy action game, youвЂ™d be forgiven for putting Gears of War (or lately, simply вЂњGearsвЂќ) at the bottom of the list.

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