![]() I found that having at least three different classes in my party made for a mix and match of skills that complemented each other very well, allowing me to build different attack strategies around my chosen characters.ĭuring each story mission, you’ll need to keep your main characters alive in order to achieve victory. There are five different classes in the game: support, vanguard, scout, heavy, and sniper. Depending on the weapon they’re carrying, each character has a specific class giving them unique abilities and perks. You can further supplement your party by recruiting procedurally generated gears that you can recruit at certain points in the game. The game comes with three main characters (or four if you pre-ordered Gears Tactics and received Augustus Cole) for your party: Gabe Diaz, Sid Redburn, and Mikayla Dorn. To get the most out of these missions, you’ll have to spread out your party members on the map in a clever way, taking advantage of the unique abilities of each character. ![]() Depending on the objective, you’ll have to pick up cases containing supplies, defeat enemies spread across the battlefield, or defend a set area to gain supplies for example. You can also gain a bonus action for each time you execute an enemy, which I found a great way to motivate players to keep moving forward.ĭespite the core mechanics on the battlefield being the same in each mission, the core objective of each mission changes. Actions like throwing grenades, executing enemies (in the signature gory Gears style), or moving across the board can be done in any order, unlike other games in the genre where you may only be able to move and attack once per turn. Instead, each character gets a set number of action points that can be used per turn. Unlike many traditional strategy games, for example, Gears Tactics doesn’t have a set grid for your characters to move across. While on first impression Gears Tactics seems to have a lot in common with games like XCOM and in some respects Total War, it also offers some refreshing twists on those classic strategy gaming formulas. If you’re a total newcomer for the series, or purely keen to try out Gears Tactics as a strategy fan, you won’t be disappointed either. Delivering a solid story through a strategy game isn’t a given, and it’s clear that the developers were keen to give veteran Gears fans a story that feels familiar and does the series justice. ![]() Even though the dialogue feels cheesy and a tad melodramatic in places, I was still invested in the story and the welfare of my characters. Characters, monsters, and weapons feel suitably badass, and the game manages to raise the stakes for Gabe early on, despite having a limited number of scenes to do it in. I was pleasantly surprised that, while the game’s story is only told in a select number of cutscenes, it was still engaging and delivered in typical Gears style. Each chapter consists of several story and side-missions, each one book-ended by cutscenes that progress the story further. The game mainly consists of one long campaign divided up into missions that take place on the battlefield. Together with the help of two other main characters – Sid Redburn, a seasoned gear tasked with persuading Diaz to complete the mission, and legendary sniper Mikayla Dorn – you must rally the troops together and take down your target. It’s up to you to defeat the Locust’s evil mad scientist, Ukkon. The story of Gears Tactics is fairly straightforward: set about twelve years before the main Gears of War series, you play as the disillusioned Gabe Diaz (who also happens to be Gears 5’s Kate Diaz’s father).
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