The fact the game runs at a steady 30 fps even when two other people join on the same system is a technical triumph. The couch co-op mode limits the game’s blistering frame rate, regardless of which platform you’re playing it on, but it’s a small price to pay for a bit of human connection - or a break from a Thanksgiving dinner that’s gone horribly off the rails. Digital Foundry via YouTubeīut Gears 5 goes the extra mile by launching with three-player split-screen co-op right out of the gate. Digital Foundry’s in-depth analysis revealed that Gears 5 runs at a fairly stable 30 fps on Xbox during three-player split-screen co-op. The days when split-screen, couch co-op was expected rather than just desired are long gone. You’ve got to log into a remote server even if you want to play with your friend down the street, meaning that your only human connection is likely to be through a headset. Three-player split-screen co-op at launchįor all their community-building features, the vast majority of first- and third-person shooters are pretty lonely affairs. I wonder if we could see something like that added to Gears 5 later on, perhaps in the new Escape mode. However, in XCOM, bonds build to grant soldiers actual in-game abilities, including extra moves and buffs. The system reminds me quite a bit of Firaxis’ Bonds system, implemented most recently in the fantastic XCOM 2: War of the Chosen. We’ve played every single game in the franchise together, start to finish, and it’s awesome that The Coalition has decided to reward us for doing the same this time around. I’ll soon be meeting up with the same friend who I started out on the original campaign with more than a decade ago. This dovetails nicely into my personal experience playing the Gears of War franchise over the last 13 years. As that relationship ranks up, you’ll begin to receive bonus experience points every time you play together.īonuses stack, so the more you stick together as a squad, the more likely you are to boost your progress at earning the game’s many collectibles. Every time you complete a chapter of the campaign or the new Escape mode, a wave in Horde mode, or win a round of Versus, you earn Honor with the other members of your in-game squad.
Gears 5 launched with an entirely new feature called the Allies system. Now, with Gears 5, developer The Coalition is doubling down with two brilliant new cooperative hooks, features which remind me more of party games and the XCOM series, of all things, rather than a traditional third-person shooter. The Gears of War franchise has always been rooted in cooperative gameplay.īack in 2006, the original Gears of War launched with a seamless two-player campaign that offered the same experience as the single-player version, just with a friend.
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