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Gears Tactics is out now with a chainsawing take on XCOMVrrm vrrmm!
Vrrm vrrmm!
An XCOM-style squad tactics game spun off from Gears Of War isn’t a game I’d expect to be particularly good, butGears Tacticslaunched today and what I hear is: it is particularly good. Now it’s out and we can all see for ourselves.
Our Nate was dead impressed, declaring in hisGears Tactics reviewthat “it’s good to the extent where, as risky as it is to say such a thing, I’d argue it sets the new gold standard for turn-based tactics.” Huh!
Matthew had plenty of praise in his video review too:
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I’m still slightly surprised but evidence is mounting that the game’s good.
“Perhaps the fact that nobody had any expectations for Gears Tactics has worked in its favour,” Nate said. “Its designers were free to pick and choose from the classic squad tactics toolkit, as they had no community to alienate, and no features to include out of a sense of duty to tradition.”
Gears Tactics is out now onSteamandthe Microsoft Storefor £50/$60/€70. Some real exchange rate horror there. Alternatively, Gears Tactics is available through Xbox Game Pass For PC, Microsoft’s £4/month subscription service. It sure does seem like Microsoft want people to subscribe to Game Pass rather than ever buy their games at launch.
Disclosure: I have a pal at Splash Damage. No idea if he’s worked on this so, well, that’s how good of a pal I am. But who talks about work?
