Cutscenes in-game are rendered in realtime, meaning however you make your Gears look, that’s how they’ll appear during cinematics.īielman touched on cinematics as well, saying it was important to “maintain the really high bar for cinematic storytelling that the franchise has established.”Īs far as narrative is concerned, Gears Tactics tells the story of Gabe Diaz, father of Gears 5 protagonist Kait, during the early stages of the Locust War.
Players can choose from a range of finishes, colours and patterns to make their Gears look how they want.Īll that time spent customising your characters’ appearance won’t be wasted either. “Each piece of armour, as well as the weapon, can be individually configured with colours and patterns,” explains Bielman. Players will also be able to customise their characters visually, thanks to the appearance system. By mixing and matching, players are able to customise their characters and “create really powerful, really interesting units that suit their play style,” Bielman says. Weapon mods and armour will each grant stat bumps, skills, abilities and more. In addition, the classes each have a signature weapon with four weapon mod slots and can equip helmet, torso and leg armour. There are five classes available and each class has more than 30 skills available. When players aren’t actively engaged in a mission, Gears Tactics includes a deep metagame that Bielman says came from the team’s desire to create something close to an RPG in terms of depth. “We have a variety of different styles of enemies that combine together to create really formidable challenges,” says Bielman. “This allows you a lot of creativity in how you approach each battle.”įurthering this idea of an action-oriented, urgent experience, Gears Tactics includes a large number of different enemies, who, will appear in greater numbers per encounter than is traditional in tactics games. You can use your special class skills,” Bielman explained. “You can run for three clicks of movement. Instead of being able to move once and/or shoot once, every character has three action points to spend which can be spent on movement and/or shooting. As Bielman said, “Our game is wide open.” Players can move characters anywhere on the map creating “interesting flanking lanes and shooting angles that feel open and free” according to Bielman.Īnother way Gears Tactics bucks the norm is by giving characters three actions per turn. Players familiar with turn-based tactics games will understand in most titles in this genre, characters move around the map on a grid, which restricts movement and constrains characters to move square by square.
One way to achieve this is by removing the traditional grid from Gears Tactics. We also wanted to create a more action-oriented experience, something that felt more urgent. So, we’ve done a lot to make sure that while you can take as much time to strategise your turn you are not waiting around, waiting for things to happen.
We all believe that there is far too much downtime in traditional tactics games. We’re a small, passionate team of strategy gamers. The first was that we wanted to pace up the turn-based tactics experience. Early on, Bielman said that in creating Gears Tactics, the team felt it was important to absolutely nail a few elements. During the Gears Tactics livestream, we were guided by Tyler Bielman, Design Director, who walked us through some gameplay and provided context for the game.
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