Unfortunately, recruiting new members offers very little outside of your standard group.
Rescue has you bring just two members of your team into a map and rescue two trapped COGs to recruit to your army. Finally, there’s Rescue, which should have been the mission I wanted to go on the most. Incursion, as far as I can tell, is just killing all of the enemies on a map. Bombs are dropping in the red zone and you need to keep moving your troops forward while picking up crates for gear and upgrades. Scavenge is one of those Mario levels where the lava rises. Sabotage is just clearing enemies until you get to an imulsion tank and destroy it. Where the variety was nice at first, when you’re required to complete most of the side-missions in a given chapter, the variety just isn’t enough to keep things fresh.Ĭontrol is a simple capture-and-hold mission type, having you hold salvage points for X number of turns until you reach the necessary number to progress and then the win condition pulls your troops out of the mission automatically, which is a departure from every other mission where you have to bring your troops to an escape point. Another thing I feel like most Tactical games struggle with is mission variety, despite Gears Tactics throwing a few more vegetables in the basket, towards the end of the game, the variety couldn’t keep up with the game’s longevity. Side-missions come in several different flavors: Rescue, Control, Sabotage, Scavenge, Incursion. You’d be given special rewards and sometimes new COGs for side-mission completion. You were required to complete at least three though. For example, if you were given four side missions, the chapter would end when you completed three. However, you would be given a pool of side missions and only required to complete most of them. Occasionally throughout the act you’ll be given a chance to select from several ‘side missions.’ These ‘side missions’ weren’t skippable. Gears Tactics has you progress through the story in a linear fashion where every level is the chapter in an act. Mission selection is a welcome design choice.
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Here you’ll be able to spend skill points, upgrade and customize your COGs, as well as choose the next available mission to go on. Depending on where you are in the story, camp might be an APC but either way, it functions the same. In-between missions you’ll spend time in camp. You start with a base of 3 action points and that can swing wildly in different directions based on buffs and debuffs acquired throughout missions. Some abilities allow you to sprint to clear a larger area or perform multiple attacks for a single action point. You have a number of action points and can use them to run, shoot, use abilities, reload, execute, etc Action points can be regained or endowed upon members of your team based on skill upgrades or performing certain actions. There’s a knock on the door, it’s Major Sid and he’s got some secret plans from up top! We’ve got our orders, let’s go! Background no-name characters don’t need their lives filled in, they’re there to die or move the story forward, this is not how you make players care about characters. It’s great to fill out characters and make them seem like there’s more going on in their lives than what’s on the screen. This kind of cheap exposition always sticks out like a sore thumb to me. One of the rookies wonders aloud if he’ll ever see his family again. This all takes place before the events of the first Gears of War game. You’re seeing Sera from the perspective of Gabriel Diaz and his small group of COGs living underground to whether the Hammer of Dawn strikes as they torch most of the planet. Set twelve years before the first Gears of War, Gears Tactics starts out in a very Gears of War way by trying to invest the players in the world. Gears Tactics is a surprisingly good tactical RPG, and actually a fun Gears of W ar experience in its own right. There’s almost definitely going to be an overlap though and fortunately, I am part of that overlap. But when it comes to marketing a video game I have to believe those are hitting two different markets.
The logic leap isn’t a big jump, these are games about war, and war is a balance of action and strategy. I’m not quite sure why Microsoft is so intent on taking its shooty games and giving them strategy elements but I love it.
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