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Great price if you want to enjoy the campaign (and don't have gamepass/ultimate). If you're not in hurry to play it, Gears titles nearly always drop VERY low after the first year or two, ($<5). Unless you're a hardcore lover of the MP gameplay or can't wait to scratch the campaign itch, I'd suggest waiting.

While they're playable, both are somewhat buggy (Invisible Berserker, Jack glitching and locking you out of side mission rewards, possible softlock of the entire campaign run if you backtrack too heavily, ranked tracking placing Onyx+ players in bronze and keeping them there, heavier gnasher inconsistency than ever before, the list goes on...). The monetization is almost that of a free-to-play title as well, which is also frustrating.

Hoping future title updates address a good chunk of these issues. In the meantime, wait it out unless you're really in the mood for a new Gears title.
Those ratings are paid for. This game was pretty bad so they started deleting bad reviews

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Treyshaun
01-15-2020 at 09:30 AM.
01-15-2020 at 09:30 AM.
Great price if you want to enjoy the campaign (and don't have gamepass/ultimate). If you're not in hurry to play it, Gears titles nearly always drop VERY low after the first year or two, ($<5). Unless you're a hardcore lover of the MP gameplay or can't wait to scratch the campaign itch, I'd suggest waiting.

While they're playable, both are somewhat buggy (Invisible Berserker, Jack glitching and locking you out of side mission rewards, possible softlock of the entire campaign run if you backtrack too heavily, ranked tracking placing Onyx+ players in bronze and keeping them there, heavier gnasher inconsistency than ever before, the list goes on...). The monetization is almost that of a free-to-play title as well, which is also frustrating.

Hoping future title updates address a good chunk of these issues. In the meantime, wait it out unless you're really in the mood for a new Gears title.
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Glee217
01-15-2020 at 09:52 AM.
01-15-2020 at 09:52 AM.
Quote from Treyshaun :
Great price if you want to enjoy the campaign (and don't have gamepass/ultimate). If you're not in hurry to play it, Gears titles nearly always drop VERY low after the first year or two, ($<5). Unless you're a hardcore lover of the MP gameplay or can't wait to scratch the campaign itch, I'd suggest waiting.

While they're playable, both are somewhat buggy (Invisible Berserker, Jack glitching and locking you out of side mission rewards, possible softlock of the entire campaign run if you backtrack too heavily, ranked tracking placing Onyx+ players in bronze and keeping them there, heavier gnasher inconsistency than ever before, the list goes on...). The monetization is almost that of a free-to-play title as well, which is also frustrating.

Hoping future title updates address a good chunk of these issues. In the meantime, wait it out unless you're really in the mood for a new Gears title.

I currently have game pass ultimate with Gears 5 ultimate that includes Halo characters and xp bonuses but game pass is about to expire so what would happen to my character and xp bonuses that I achieved if I buy and play this ? Thanks
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Spaceman6969
01-15-2020 at 09:53 AM.
01-15-2020 at 09:53 AM.
YMMV and if desired, this game in physical can be had for $14.99 currently at Redbox!
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happygooddeal
01-15-2020 at 10:19 AM.
01-15-2020 at 10:19 AM.
Lol Gears price dropping so fast. Never buy per-order full price games
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SturgeonGeneral
01-15-2020 at 10:23 AM.
01-15-2020 at 10:23 AM.
Quote from Glee217 :
I currently have game pass ultimate with Gears 5 ultimate that includes Halo characters and xp bonuses but game pass is about to expire so what would happen to my character and xp bonuses that I achieved if I buy and play this ? Thanks
Nothing would change
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CleverCabbage389
01-15-2020 at 10:46 AM.
01-15-2020 at 10:46 AM.
Quote from happygooddeal :
Lol Gears price dropping so fast. Never buy per-order full price games
This game must be straight trash to depreciate quicker than NBA 2K
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Spaceman6969
01-15-2020 at 10:53 AM.
01-15-2020 at 10:53 AM.
Quote from CleverCabbage389 :
This game must be straight trash to depreciate quicker than NBA 2K

This still get 4/5 ratings. So it can't be completely trash unlike Fallout 76...
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01-15-2020 at 11:25 AM.
01-15-2020 at 11:25 AM.
Quote from SpaceMan6969 :
This still get 4/5 ratings. So it can't be completely trash unlike Fallout 76...

Those ratings are paid for. This game was pretty bad so they started deleting bad reviews
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01-15-2020 at 11:39 AM.
01-15-2020 at 11:39 AM.
Quote from Raven7 :
Those ratings are paid for. This game was pretty bad so they started deleting bad reviews

Yeah there's truth to that at some sites (but fans like them still. Per BBY, 4.7 ratings out of 700. The sample size aren't likely to be paid reviewers at least in a smaller sample size with some % of marginal errors.

Bottom line, game look and run good at least. Not the worst nor broken as other games out there
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jmr2198
01-15-2020 at 11:41 AM.
01-15-2020 at 11:41 AM.
I finished this game on Xbox Game Pass.. and while it has great art directions, animation, and graphics in general, the game is really boring. I mean, I don't even think it is worth the $15 here. I was pretty bored and it only got better towards the ending. They need to just leave Gears of War franchise alone, or at least if they continue it, make some really new game mechanics / gameplay. This is the same gears of war as always. Just my 2 cents for anyone on the fence here.
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Bargankiller
01-15-2020 at 12:01 PM.
01-15-2020 at 12:01 PM.
Quote from happygooddeal :
Lol Gears price dropping so fast. Never buy per-order full price games

That's because it sucks.
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pvtpyle75
01-15-2020 at 12:43 PM.
01-15-2020 at 12:43 PM.
Quote from CleverCabbage389 :
This game must be straight trash to depreciate quicker than NBA 2K
This is the trend that we are going to start to see with games releasing on Game Pass. People are not paying full price when they can "rent" the game on game pass. The same thing happened with Forza Horizon and Outer Worlds. By putting games on Game Pass, Microsoft is essentially devaluing the games.
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