Gears 5: Hivebusters is an adventure developed by The Coalition, released 15 December 2020 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Gears 5: Hivebusters is
Gears 5: Hivebusters is an adventure game developed by The Coalition and released in 2020. It was published by Xbox Game Studios. It is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Return to Gears 5 with the new Hivebusters campaign expansion. Play as Lahni, Keegan and Mac – the heroes of Gears 5’s Escape mode – on their first operation as part of the secretive Hivebuster program. Thrown together and dubbed “Scorpio Squad,” their suicide mission to destroy a Swarm hive may hold the key to saving Sera and their own redemption.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Gears 5: Hivebusters holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 8 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Gears 5: Hivebusters launched on 15 December 2020, within three weeks of Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori and Monster Sanctuary. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Cyberpunk 2077, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Omori, Monster Sanctuary.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gears 5: Hivebusters yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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