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I do not recommend Gears 5 at all. The campaign is boring, full of lifeless characters that feel like they were ripped straight from a cheesy early 2000s young adult novel. All of the dialogue is just awkward, Marvel-style forced comedy quipping and pointless bickering—these characters talk a lot but never say anything that matters. Meanwhile, the characters we loved from the original Gears of War series (a much better series) are brushed aside and aren't even acting like themselves.
When the story isn't a badly written piece of DeviantArt fan fiction based on the original trilogy, it's just bad fan service that tries to cash in on manipulating fan nostalgia because it has no real ideas of its own - it has to be, it has no originality and can only piggyback off of the original Gears of War games. The plot only exists to resolve old threads from Gears of War that never needed explaining in the first place.
As for the multiplayer, it's nice to have something that resembles the old Gears of War experience from the golden days of the Xbox 360, however Gears 5's multiplayer is a far cry from the Gears of War 2/3 days. Something about it just doesn't feel right. On the plus side, Gears 5 plays better on keyboard and mouse than any classic Gears of War game ever did with an Xbox 360 controller, but no one needed to see Marcus Fenix doing Fortnite dances.
Honestly, the only reason I’m still playing it is because it’s the only place left where I can play a version of my beloved Gears of War multiplayer that I grew up with. I just wish the Gears of War: Ultimate Edition had more players on PC so I could play that instead, without having to pay for Xbox Cloud Gaming just to play the console version, which still has people online.
Can we please just get a Halo: The Master Chief Collection for the classic Gears of War games on PC already, and call it a day?