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Gears Tactics launch trailer is fun and full of info

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Also, you can preload it now.

All it took was a little genre shift to get me intrigued in Gears of War again—well that and Wes' assertion that Gears Tactics is a "shockingly good strategy game". It's releasing April 28, but here's the fun, self-aware launch trailer to get you fired up in the meantime.

It's a neat trailer, packing in a lot of information in just over two minutes, with the aid of lots of Big. Pop-up. Text. One thing you might want to take note of is that preloads are now available, so if your internet has been slowed due to...well, everything, you've now got a headstart on installing Gears before the release date.

I'll be interested to see how Gears Tactics turns out. The beginning bit certainly sounds good—Wes pointed out the strength of its opening when compared to XCOM 2's.

Thanks, ResetEra.

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.