Gears Tactics
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 Splash Damage , The Coalition
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 Xbox Game Studios
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| Erstveröffent- lichung |
Windows, Xbox One : April 28, 2020 | ||
| platform | Windows , Xbox One , Xbox Series X | ||
| Game engine | Unreal Engine 4 | ||
| genre | Turn-based strategy game | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Keyboard and mouse , gamepad | ||
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| medium | Download | ||
| language | German , English , French , Italian , Spanish , Japanese , Korean , Brazilian Portuguese , Russian , Simplified Chinese | ||
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Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game developed by British development studio Splash Damage and Canadian development studio The Coalition and published by Xbox Game Studios on April 28, 2020. It was released for Windows and Xbox One .
Gameplay
The game is played from a top-down perspective and is a turn-based strategy game in which players give orders to a squad of human soldiers to eliminate the enemies on a map and complete secondary objectives depending on the mission. Players are free to explore the map without being limited to a grid. Each character can take three actions, such as: Take cover, shoot at enemies, or stay under surveillance to shoot any moving enemy in their line of sight. If an enemy unit loses most of its life points, a friendly unit can move in and execute the defeated enemy, giving all units an additional action point. Players must throw grenades to destroy erupting emergence holes that spawn more Locust enemies. If a friendly unit is knocked down, players can revive them to lead them back into battle with reduced health. The game has five different character classes , each with their own unique skills. The characters can be extensively customized with mods and armor, and they can acquire new skills after leveling up. Apart from the "hero" characters important to the story, other friendly units are procedurally generated, and should these units die in battle, their death will be permanent.
In addition to the main campaign, players can complete various side missions. At numerous points in the story, the player must complete one or more side missions in order to continue. After the player has finished the campaign, the veteran mode is unlocked. It allows players to re-mix the campaign stakes with various modifiers like bonus damage and accuracy penalty. However, the game does not have a multiplayer mode .
action
A year after the Day of Emergence, when an underground race of creatures known as the Locust Horde appeared on the surface to kill every human on the planet Sera, the leader of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, the chairman, commands Richard Prescott to cremate all major cities outside the Jacinto Plateau with the Hammer of Dawn. In addition, the chairman had dispatched clean-up teams to key cities to exterminate the surviving Locusts. One of the cleanup teams was the Alpha Squad, based in Aldair City. Among them is the hero of the Pendulum War, Sergeant Gabriel Diaz, who had demoted himself to work in the fleet. A few hours before the hammer blows , he receives orders from Chairman Prescott and Major Sid Redburn to fetch secret files from the CIC building. Sergeant Diaz and Major Redburn find the files revolving around a Locust researcher named Ukkon who is responsible for the various creatures that have used the Locust as instruments of war. The Hammer of Dawn then destroys the city of Aldair, but Sgt. Diaz and Major Redburn survive. However, Ukkon destroyed the army base and killed everyone. Prescott then orders Diaz to assassinate Ukkon and is given the rights to do so by any means possible. Sergeant Diaz and Major Redburn, who need soldiers to fight, rescue another cleanup squad, Echo-Five, but discover that Ukkon killed the cleanup squads. After rescuing a stranded group, a militia of civilians who survived the hammer blows, they also join the Alpha Squad. Their leader, Mikayla Dorn, is Ukkon aware and accompanies Sergeant Diaz and Major Redburn to the town of Claybourne, where Ukkon is frequent. When she spots Ukkon, Mikayla manages to shoot Ukkon in the mouth, apparently killing him. However, Ukkon comes back to life and immediately repairs the damage done to his face. Sgt. Diaz then realizes that the COG has once again kept secrets like before, and fears that it will kill them.
Then, since Ukkon posed a greater threat than they thought, Sergeant Diaz moved his entire force to the Vasgar Desert to teach them how to fight and prepare to fight Ukkon. Eventually Alpha discovers an empty canister that Ukkon had previously inhaled. Mikayla translates the canister as belonging to the Nedroma Health Institute. Upon arrival, Mikayla reveals that Nedroma was a quarantine zone and research facility for Rustlung, a deadly condition caused by exposure to imulsion fumes. After finding Ukkon's supply of canisters, Mikayla reveals that the canisters are full of immune system boosters, but only anti-rust, with devastating side effects. When Sergeant Diaz discovers that Ukkon is dying of rust and needs the canisters, he sets up a trap to lure Ukkon with the immune canisters as bait. Alpha Squad has managed to lure and catch Ukkon. However, Ukkon indicates that he recognizes Major Redburn as an old acquaintance. Major Redburn then incapacitates Sergeant Diaz and prepares to drive back to Ephyra with Ukkon, who is alive and imprisoned. Mikayla stops him and Ukkon manages to break free and escape. Sgt. Diaz and Mikayla then arrest Major Redburn, and Chairman Prescott orders him to be executed for high treason. Major Redburn then reveals to them that when he was younger he worked for a genetic laboratory called the New Hope Research Facility, which, like Nedroma, was trying to make rustlung. However, the scientists went mad and tried genetic experiments to transform the patients into larger beings, but instead made monsters. Most of the patients went mad and went wild, with the exception of Ukkon. Ukkon had also developed the ability to heal quickly to immortality. When Chairman Prescott discovers that the Alpha Squad has learned the truth about the New Hope and the COG that created the Locust, he tries to kill them with the Hammer of Dawn. Although Alpha was no longer part of the COG, they still believed in the Ukkon killing. Major Redburn also revealed that New Hope scientists had developed a fail-safe, cytostatic agent that could block Ukkon's ability to heal, since Major Redburn believes it can be made and used as a weapon.
After Major Redburn turned the cytostatic agent into gas grenades, the next step was to find Ukkon's base of operations. Sergeant Diaz discovered that the only city that wasn't raided or destroyed was the city of Zenic because he believed that Ukkon hadn't hit it because his base had to be inside the city, and he didn't want anything to leave a trace . After investigating Zenic, Sergeant Diaz rescued a civilian who had been captured by the Locust. She revealed that she and her father were taking shelter in a nearby laboratory, but Ukkon arrived and turned it into his own laboratory. For reasons unknown, he spared the woman while killing her father and everyone else. Then she agrees to show Alpha the location of the laboratory, but on the condition that she can kill Ukkon. Sergeant Diaz, took her with him and asks her name, to which she replies: Reyna. After showing where the lab is, all of Alpha's recruits besiege the Ukkon lab. Meanwhile, Diaz, Redburn, Mikayla and Reyna take up the fight inside to kill Ukkon. Mikayla uses the cytostatic gas grenade on Ukkon and shoots, wounds him and causes Ukkon to unleash his army and mount Hydra. Alpha Squad eliminates Ukkon's army and the Hydra. Ukkon, now weakened by the gas, is shot in the head by Reyna in revenge for the murder of her father. Then she takes her amulet out of his body and reveals that it belonged to her mother, who she never knew. Now stranded, the Alpha Squad decides to devote themselves to destroying the remaining creations of Ukkon.
development
The game was developed by Splash Damage , with support from The Coalition . The Coalition wanted to introduce the franchise to a wider audience, and the development team found that there were many similarities between the franchise, which was a series of squad-based third-person shooters with stealth combat and turn-based strategy games. According to Alex Grimbley, executive producer on the game, "[the team] actually just took existing gears and just moved the camera up." It took the team four and a half years to develop the game. The game has nothing to do with Gears of War: Tactics , a canceled spin-off developed by Epic Games.
The team wanted the game to be played at a faster pace compared to other competing games in the genre. So the team decided to give each unit three action points instead of two to ensure that players could take different actions on the same turn. The team attached great importance to the story of the game, and the team's aim was to tell a "personal and emotional story", and invested a lot of resources into the creation of the cut scenes of the game and use the speaker. The team consulted 343 Industries who were working on Halo Wars , a strategic spin-off of the Halo franchise . Unlike Halo Wars , however, the game was viewed as a PC premium title rather than a strategy game for console owners.
Publisher Xbox Game Studios announced the game at E3 2018 alongside Gears 5 and Gears Pop! on. At The Game Awards 2019 , Microsoft announced that the game would be released for Windows on April 28, 2020, while Rod Fergusson , founder of The Coalition, later confirmed that an Xbox One version was being developed. Players who have pre-ordered the game will have access to the "Thrashball Cole" package, which allows the player to play as Augustus Cole. The game was also released to Xbox Game Pass subscribers when it launched.
reception
Gears Tactics was mostly rated positively ( Metacritic : 81% (Windows))
Web links
- Gears Tactics at MobyGames (English)
- Gears Tactics in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gears Tactics on Steam
- ^ Gears Tactics Is An Authentic, Hybrid Strategy Game. March 28, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 (Australian English).
- ↑ Wesley Yin-Poole: Gears Tactics is more Gears of War than you think. In: Eurogamer. March 27, 2020, accessed on August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Gears Tactics Preview: Gears of War Meets XCOM and We're Here for It - IGN. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Wes Fenlon: Gears Tactics is a shockingly good strategy game. In: PC Gamer. March 27, 2020, accessed August 4, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Jordan Gerblick 13 December 2019: Gears Tactics gets new trailer and April release date, won't have multiplayer or microtransactions. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Ben Reeves: Gears Tactics Might Have What It Takes To Compete With XCOM. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ “We just moved the camera up” - why Gears Tactics makes so much sense. Retrieved August 4, 2020 (UK English).
- ^ A b What You Need To Know About Gears Tactics, The New PC Strategy Game. In: GameSpot. Retrieved August 4, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Purported footage of canned Kinect-based Gears of War strategy title surfaces. In: VG247. September 12, 2014, accessed August 4, 2020 .
- ^ Microsoft unveils Gears of War 5, Gears Pop, and Gears Tactics. In: VentureBeat. June 10, 2018, Retrieved August 4, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Gears Tactics Release Date Revealed - IGN. Retrieved on August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Gears Tactics Has Gone Gold On PC, Will Be Bundled Free With Intel Processors. In: GameSpot. Retrieved August 4, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Meta-evaluation Gears Tactics (Windows). In: Metacritic . Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
