
We touched on this quite a bit in our Gears of War 4 review - a review where we very much enjoyed the game and how it expands the series to PC - but in the last few days the microtransactions and how The Coalition and Microsoft Game Studios are handling them, has gotten a bit out of control. What they did not say up front is how ridiculously overpriced they'd be, that they'd be the focus of launch week updates and communications with the community, and that they'd turn the game's cooperative Horde mode into a pay-to-win environment. In no way would these card packs - which can be purchased through in-game credits or real-life money - affect the competitive versus mode. The franchise's new developer, The Coalition, promised a while before release that the game's card system and randomized loot boxes would be for cosmetic items and would be entirely optional. Either way, it launched with a Store full of the always-controversial microtransactions which are awkwardly becoming the norm for triple-A franchise releases, even for games such as this with a full retail price tag. Players who pre-ordered the Gears of War 4 Ultimate Edition for $100 (or $130 in Canada) could play four days early. Extremely smart and capable, Kait has extensive knowledge of living off the land, the geography of the uncharted wilds, and how best to avoid the omnipresent cog security cameras.Gears of War 4 launched October 11th, 2016, five days before the time of this writing. Her mother, Reyna, is the leader of her village. Kait Diaz is an outsider – a group that fervently rejects the dictatorial new cog that emerged from the ashes of the locust war.

Del Walkerĭel, a former operative in a cog special forces unit, went AWOL with his comrade and best friend, JD Fenix, after their involvement in a classified military “incident.” An orphan who befriended JD at boarding school, Del currently lives in an outsider village, where he and JD have become close friends with Kait, the daughter of the village leader. He and del have found sanctuary among outsiders whom they saved from cog reprisals, and, like them, now reject the oppressive government they once served. JD Fenix is a former lieutenant in the cog who went AWOL with his comrade and best friend, del, after being caught up in a classified military “incident.” The son of Marcus Fenix, JD is an idealist who wants to live his life with purpose. The new Gears JD Fenix Del Walker Kait Diaz JD Fenix
