Given our liking for previous Gears of War titles, and the fact that we've used Gears of War 4 extensively over the past three years, it makes sense to see how the two GPU heavyweights compare against each other. Nvidia and AMD have both released optimised drivers for this fifth outing - 436.30 and 19.9.1, respectively - promising an excellent, smooth experience on day one. Getting the best experience, however, requires some beefy hardware - Ryzen 7 and Radeon VII, or Core i7 and RTX 2080 - presumably to offer silky-smooth visuals at the great-looking ultra preset.

This is a game that will run on a three-year-old gaming PC without difficulty, albeit at reduced quality levels. Perusing the minimum, recommended and ideal PC specifications shows no major surprises. Though not as highly rated as its predecessors, it remains one of the highest-selling Xbox One titles in history.Ī new Gears of War release is clearly a very big thing in the Xbox One and PC space, and keeping up with recent cadence, the latest iteration, known simply as Gears 5, made its way on to both platforms just a couple of days' ago.Īvailable on the Xbox Game Pass program and, pertinently for the PC user looking to upgrade, also part of AMD's gaming promotion for purchasers of recent Ryzen CPUs or Radeon graphics cards, we reckon the latest installment ought to do really well, selling millions of copies before the inevitable sixth edition surfaces.Īlso based on Unreal Engine 4, performance on Xbox One and PC ought to be excellent because the developer ought to have tuned the engine to within an inch of its life. Knowing it was on to a good thing, Microsoft Studios launched Gears of War 2 and Gears of War 3 in 20, respectively, built on a heavily-modified version of the same Unreal Engine 3, and both Xbox 360-only titles also received favourable reviews from critics and users alike.Īnother Gears title became reality in October 2016 when the Unreal Engine 4-based fourth iteration came into view on the Xbox One and PC. It looked great, played immensely well, and was launched to general acclaim. First released in 2006 for the fledgling Xbox 360 console, with the PC edition following a year later, Unreal Engine 3 served as the go-to solution for graphics.

The Gears of War video game franchise has done rather well for the Microsoft-owned Xbox Game Studios.

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