What's old is new...
So far I've played through the entire first chapter of campaign on hardcore and got stuck into multiplayer. It looks pretty and as next gen as you'd want. You can tell they've refine the entire thing from the ground up and it feels great on the Xbox one controller. I've gone back to the original running in backward compatibility for reference and it's day and night.
The only real negatives from the campaign are that the AI team are still thick. They'll get in the way more than assist you. Play co-op if you can.
As for multiplayer. First off dedicated servers for all modes. I'm getting 30ms ping and it feels great. It's running at 60fps and now has 8 way roll movement. That makes it feel really responsive. It all feels slick and plays as well as you remember.
Other additions from later games are that you can spot enemies by clicking the left stick and holding the left bumper toggles a HUD view showing you team and weapon spawn locations. Other than that it's business as usual. That is to say it's excellent, visceral and old school.
Every map is in so it's taking me a while to get re acquainted. They have also added team deathmatch and king of the hill modes for good measure. For the bargain entry price it's hard to fault. Plus of course you'll get all previous gears games via backward compatibility once they're added provided you play within the first month.
So far I've played through the entire first chapter of campaign on hardcore and got stuck into multiplayer. It looks pretty and as next gen as you'd want. You can tell they've refine the entire thing from the ground up and it feels great on the Xbox one controller. I've gone back to the original running in backward compatibility for reference and it's day and night.
The only real negatives from the campaign are that the AI team are still thick. They'll get in the way more than assist you. Play co-op if you can.
As for multiplayer. First off dedicated servers for all modes. I'm getting 30ms ping and it feels great. It's running at 60fps and now has 8 way roll movement. That makes it feel really responsive. It all feels slick and plays as well as you remember.
Other additions from later games are that you can spot enemies by clicking the left stick and holding the left bumper toggles a HUD view showing you team and weapon spawn locations. Other than that it's business as usual. That is to say it's excellent, visceral and old school.
Every map is in so it's taking me a while to get re acquainted. They have also added team deathmatch and king of the hill modes for good measure. For the bargain entry price it's hard to fault. Plus of course you'll get all previous gears games via backward compatibility once they're added provided you play within the first month.
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