ESRB has rated Gears of War 5 giving it an M18+ rating on Xbox One and PC. Their listing also confirms in-game purchases and provides a description of the mature content.
From IGN: "While Gears of War has always been connected to the Xbox brand, the series was created by Epic Games as an exclusive. And though the series eventually found its way to Microsoft's first-party portfolio, lead designer Cliff Bleszinski shared his thoughts on the sale.
IGN sat down with Bleszinski for a new episode of Unfiltered and found out how the game director felt when it was announced that Epic Games would sell the franchise to Microsoft in 2014. This was two years after Bleszinski left Epic Games in 2012."
I remember playing the original Gears of War for the first time and being blown away by the graphics and art style and thinking how is this even possible on the Xbox 360 lol. Great job by Epic!
In the article he said Phil Spenser was the only person to call him and nobody else. Just found that interesting, because no one at Epic or his ex co-game developers tried to contact him.
Franchises need to constantly and successfully reinvent themselves to keep entries from getting stale.
Look at GOW (PS) and Zelda. Those are examples of franchises that successfully evolve yet keep their core DNA.
That’s what the Gears franchise needs right now.
Never much cared for the look of gears. The over used steroid buff look. Ive heard good things about them. I will say i really need to play the gear of war tactics game. I love games like that. I just forget about it.
The Gears of War franchise's influence has remained to this day with cover systems becoming as ubiquitous as regenerating health. With a new console generation upon us, it's time to list the series from worst to best.
My ranking list
1 .Gears 2
2. Gears 3
3. Gears 1
4. Gears Judgement
5. Gears 4
6. Gears 5
1. Gears 2
2. Gears 3
3. Gears 5
4. Gears 1/UE
5. Gears 4
6. Gears Judgement
Close to my rankings but some differences. My rankings:
1. Gears 3
2. Gears 5
3. Gears 4
4. Judgement
5. Gears 2
6. Gears 1
People will hate on me putting Gears 2 so low but I always felt the graphics were too busy to the point of confusion and the combat/movement hadn't really improved over 1. Lot of cool ideas but execution wasn't the best as far as I'm concerned.
GameOnDaily does a deep technical dive into the excellent looking Gears of War 5: Hivebusters and compares the performance between not just two but the four Xbox consoles.
Honestly I could care less. Gears 4 had a terrible microtransactions system, but it had absolutely no effect on competitive multiplayer. That's how it should be. I hope they fix it for people that care but as long as it stays cosmetic I'm still happy.
Halo Reach also had cosmetics, the difference was you didn't have to buy'em.
Now we've got them In this "Microtransaction" form and people are happy with it, un-Ironically sad.
M is 17+ not 18+.
Yeah a rated teen wouldn't work for gears of war unlike halo
ugh again? i'm so sick of this Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo should stay well away from micro transactions we already brought your console and your software why do you still need more?