Three Moves Ahead 497: Gears Tactics

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Games & Hobbies, War, Strategy Games, Games, War Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Rob is joined by Cameron Kunzelman and Evan Lahti to discuss Gears Tactics, which adapts the familiar rhythms and dynamics of Gears of War to a turn-based, squad-tactics format with generally positive results.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Threws ahead. I'm our host, Rob Zakeney, joined once again by our friend, critic, writer, and YouTuber, Cam Konsleman. Who I'm a YouTuber? Yeah, I'm afraid so. It's, you know, hate to break it to you, but once you started scheduling tweets to be automatically posted to your Twitter, it was you were a YouTuber, my friend. Oh, no. Gosh. And then, of course, then there were those awkward apology videos. we wish
0:24.1	I was going to
0:24.4	you know It was you were a YouTuber, my friend. Oh, no. Gosh. And then, of course, then there were those awkward apology videos. Uh, we wish we went into. Uh, anyway, today we also welcome back. PC gamers, Evan Lottie. Hey, there. Great. Glad to be with you, Rob. Uh, so today we're going to be discussing gears tactics.
0:38.2	Now, you might be thinking, do you mean gears of war tactics?
0:40.8	No, I do not.
0:42.3	It's no longer Gears of War.
0:43.9	The franchise is just Gears.
0:45.3	I learned this after I got a headline wrong when we reviewed Gears 5,
0:49.9	which I titled the Review Gears of War 5.
0:53.0	But no, it's just Gears now.
0:55.6	Gears Tactics is a tactics game set in the Gears universe.
1:02.2	Evan, what does that mean?
1:04.4	Like, what were expectations for what a tactics game in the Gearsland might be?
1:09.8	And what's the reality?
1:13.5	I think we were all puzzled when this game was announced in, I believe, E3, 2018, because, you know, Gears of War, and I'm sure we'll
1:19.3	dig into this in our conversation, obviously has these huge kind of macho sensibilities. You know,
1:24.6	all the characters looked like football linebackers in their
1:27.5	character design. And obviously, we think of Takos game as sort of being in opposition to that
1:32.9	thematically and in some ways mechanically. But, you know, certainly our response to it in our
1:40.1	review and our other coverage on PC Gamer has just been one of surprise and delight.
1:48.7	You know, we think it's an interesting transference of, you know, this brand into a different genre and it represents success in that way.
1:52.2	But compared to other games in the genre like XCOM, of course, that's the closest point
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