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Gears 5: Hivebusters

Gears 5: Hivebusters

The Coalition·Released Dec 15, 2020·Single player

Platforms
Xbox Series XPCXbox One
Genres
ShooterAdventure
Critic80/100
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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.

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3 reviews
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Daniel Hollis·Dec 17, 2020
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At three hours long, it passes by at a breeze, and is packed with some truly spectacular set-pieces. One particularly notable scene takes place halfway through, and fans of the recent Hobbit trilogy will see a striking resemblance between the two. It all feels as though its building to a dramatic, explosive conclusion, but ends with one of the most anticlimactic boss fights in the series' history. It pales in comparison to intense encounters with General Raam and Queen Myrrah, and blends in with the majority of the expansions' combat encounters.

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Brian Barnett·Dec 14, 2020
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Apart from a few inconsistencies with the relationships between its main characters, Hivebusters does everything a great Gears game should and then some.

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