With cross-play across all platforms, you and your friends can squad up no matter where you play — no Microsoft account required.
However, signing in with a Microsoft account unlocks full cross-platform functionality. It enables cross-progression, so your Campaign and multiplayer progress carries across devices. It also allows you to send invites and play with friends across platforms — like Xbox to PlayStation or Steam to Xbox.
Honestly, this is the way to handle the incorporation of platform-specific accounts; totally optional, but actually gives you a sensible benefit if you choose to go that route. Sony could learn a lot here.
Absolutely, that sounds like a real incentive. It doesn’t feel like an artificial thing.
Agreed completely, I just wish that they would stop remastering Gears 1 only and give 2 and 3 some much deserved love too.
Finally I’ll be able to replay the first Gears of War.
If it runs on the Steam Deck, I might even play it there instead of on my ps5.
While I appreciate it means its finally coming to Steam, I’m sad this mean no 2 and 3
Never played the gears games except for the last one a little because I had gamepass and a PC. It was ok, but it just felt like a room after room of bullet sponge enemies, which got old fast. It will be very weird playing gears on a ps5, probably a lot like when Sonic dropped on Nintendo for the first time.
Wow this is awesome, loved the first game. Can’t wait for this one! Played it so much as a teen back in the day
Honestly should have been gears 2 or 3 since neither of those were on PC (cause Cliffy was all like muh piracy)
Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.
Yep. Piracy.
https://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/epic-no-gears-of-war-2-pc/1/
The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips," said Cliff.
“Here’s the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.”
While I enjoyed Gears of War Ultimate Edition they really should’ve remastered 2,3 and Judgement.
I would’ve really liked playing the RAAM DLC again with higher graphics and on PC. Ah the nostalgia.
