Gears 5
From one of gaming’s most acclaimed sagas, Gears is bigger than ever, with five thrilling modes and the deepest campaign yet. With all-out war descending, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the…
Gears 5 is an adventure developed by The Coalition, released 9 September 2019 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 15.3 hrs to finish.
What Gears 5 is
Gears 5 is an adventure game developed by The Coalition and released in 2019. 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
The world is crumbling. The Swarm has corrupted the Coalition’s robot army and is descending upon human cities. With danger closing in, Kait Diaz breaks away to uncover her connection to the enemy and discovers the true danger to Sera – herself.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 181 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Gears of War series
Gears 5 is the ninth of 12 entries we hold in the Gears of War series. It arrived 3 years after Gears of War 4. The next entry was Gears Tactics in 2020. Its critic score of 88 is 5 points above the series average of 83. The highest-rated entry is Gears of War 3 at 97.
How it was received
Gears 5 holds a critic score of 88 out of 100. That places it above 90% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 84, across 298 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 15.3 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD FX-6000 series | Intel i3 Skylake, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon R9 280 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (Windows 10) | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Windows 7). An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 80GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Gears 5 launched on 9 September 2019, within three weeks of Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019). It reviewed better than all of them. It was a Xbox Series launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Control, Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019).
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Gears 5 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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