The COG can’t spare any soldiers, and intel is limited, so it’s up to Gabe and Sid to recruit Gears for the cause, find Ukkon, and take him down. Afterwards, Gabe and Sid are tasked with assassinating the subject of their file: Ukkon, the Locust baddie behind monsters like the Brumak and Corpser. He completes the mission with the help of Sid Redburn, a no-nonsense hardass, but things are rarely so simple with the COG. Gabe works the motor pool, and is more than happy to be away from the frontlines, but orders are orders. About a year after E-Day, Gabe Diaz, the father of Gears 5’s Kait, is issued orders to retrieve a classified file before the COG starts nuking their own cities with the Hammer of Dawn in a last ditch effort to stop the Locust.
#Gears tactics missions series
The result is Gears Tactics, a strategy game in the vein of X-Com that marries the series love for gratuitous violence and mashismo with its penchant for tactical shooting. Forza’s raced as a sim and an open-world game. Halo’s been an RTS and a twin-stick shooter. Say what you will about the way Microsoft handles their franchises, but they aren’t afraid to try new things with them. Square’s got us Dissidia and Final Fantasy Tactics. Nintendo’s gave the world Mario Kart, Paper Mario, and the Mario sports games. Blizzard’s willingness to experiment with their most famous franchise led to World of WarCraft and Hearthstone. But when its done right, the results are often spectacular. You never know if the audience will like the change, or how well-suited the franchise is to new systems.
It’s always risky when a series expands beyond the genre that made it famous.
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