There are two ways of getting new soldiers in Gears Tactics : the recruitment pool, which will spawn randomized soldiers, and rescuing soldiers in missions. Soldiers in the recruitment pool are blank slates, so players can make them whatever class they want and give them the skills players want. Those rescued, however, are often pre-made charact

In most levels in the game, the player can find lots of chests that they can open using their action points. For most players, this involves using one action point to move to a chest, and another action point to open

A very basic solution to continuing a strategy game is to replay the story on a higher difficulty if the difficulty from the previous playthrough was too easy. It's a great challenge if anyone felt bored by their most recent playthro

The game’s combat medics have a stim ability that lets them heal injured teammates. Even though their healing range is wide, the medic should never be far from everyone; they might be unable to reach a downed teammate in time. The medics also have other healing abilities, like the overpowered recovery patch. If the player makes good use of them, the unit will almost never suffer fatalit

The side missions in Tactics aren't inherently a bad thing. Many of them give players a chance to strengthen their squad and get a little bloody in the process. Simple objectives like defending central points from enem

As long as a downed soldier doesn’t die, they won’t suffer any negative effects going forward. Players will want to heal soldiers anyway to get them back in battle, but if for whatever the player is not able to, they don’t have to worry about long-term negative attributes coming back to bite t

Right out the gate, it needs to be addressed that taking a series that is built around sprinting and diving until you manage to shotgun your opponent into a billion pieces and turning it into a tactics game is a bold m

A standard in the customization of soldiers for turn-based strategy games, each class has a skill tree that can be upgraded to allow them all to do different things. In Gears Tactics, the skills fall into four different subclasses for each cl

While Gears has never relied too heavily on complex characters or deep storylines, the squad of Tactics is still disappointing. They act like stock muscle-heads, but in a less fun way than the classic franchise t

The release of Gears Tactics immediately caused gamers to begin comparing the two franchises in an attempt to declare one better than the other. Did Gears Tactics dethrone the king, or is the XCOM franchise still the best of the sci-fi squad-based, tactical/strategy ge

The ultra-violent third-person shooter franchise Gears of War just made its return in a weird way. The newest entry in the series, Gears Tactics , uses the iconic universe as a setting for a squad-centric strategy g

Yes, bullets really can pass through enemies in Gears Tactics . What this means for the player is that some of their shots can hit more than one enemy at a time, especially if they can arrange their sightlines so that two of them over

The prequel to the popular third-person shooter franchise Gears of War , Gears Tactics is a turn-based strategy game that is a diversion from the traditional norms of the genre. It looks great, and the layout gives it the feel of a core Gears of War game despite being a strategy g

The gore is here as well, with even the famous executions system being present in a new innovative way. The gruesome aspects of the game make this feel like Gears game while still offering a completely new gameplay sys

Similarly, the way the game handles downtime time is a bit uninspiring when compared to more established tactics series like XCOM . Though your team spends a lot of time in motion traveling in convoys, there is no time to evolve or grow. Instead, a player will spend time aligning units and personalizing favorite charact

The problems arise when you get to the late-game, as these side missions are often required to proceed to the next story mission. It can be frustrating to be forced to go complete two of these right when the story is heating

Unless someone an experienced turn-based strategy player, it's generally a good idea to run ironman mode on a difficulty that's already been beaten. Ironman mode is an unforgiving mode that makes every single move count. Any mistakes made cannot be taken back, and there's no going back to save scum for a favorite sold

Though it's definitely not the shortest game out there, Gears Tactics takes, on average, around 25 hours to beat. While this is a good thing for some, it compromises the otherwise vibrant and tactical strategy game g

Every gun’s bullets can pass through enemies. However, the most effective guns are a heavy’s mulcher or a scout’s shotgun. Even if these guns miss their main target, they can still hit another enemy in range—and they can even hit an ally, if one is not care