Since the recently-announced Gears of War 4, the first original game in the series from The Coalition, is still around a year away, The Coalition is instead tiding over fans with a slightly early ten-year anniversary remake of the original Gears of War game. Those four games were so successful on Microsoft’s hardware in fact, that the Xbox maker purchased the franchise outright from Epic Games around the time that the Xbox One launched, in turn cementing Gears of War as a first-party Xbox brand, which was then handed off to Microsoft’s Canadian-based studio, The Coalition, formerly Black Tusk Studios, to oversee all future developments and games within the series. The Xbox 360 had a handful of games that helped get it off the ground when it was in its infancy in 2006, Red Ring of Death fiasco aside, but if you ask most Xbox gamers which game truly sold them on Microsoft’s second console almost ten years ago, they would likely say, “ Gears of War.” The product of a second-party business deal between Microsoft and Epic Games, Gears of War became the Xbox 360’s first hugely successful new IP back during the previous console generation, in turn getting two sequels and a prequel on Microsoft’s last-gen console as well. UPDATE: We have updated this review with an additional paragraph, to provide impressions of the belated Windows 10 PC release for, “Gears of War: Ultimate Edition.”
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