Escape plan 3 bautista shotgun11/17/2023 ![]() After an opening act of linear streets and Broadway bust-ups, the action shifts to semi-open world regions. That desert region is one of two locations where Gears 5 does depart the template more dramatically. Convenient for this metaphor, but probably a coincidence. Superficially, there’s also a desert region where shifting the top soil reveals darker hues underneath. Does that make Gears 5 The Last Jedi? Marcus Fenix doesn’t sup from a marine cow at any point - more's the pity - but there’s a wit and visual invention to its endless parade of battles that reminds me of that oddball entry. It was The Force Awakens approach: familiar beats, younger cast, a few grizzled oldsters for the fans. Where was this playfulness in Gears of War 4? That game marked The Coalition as nothing more than caretakers, producing an accurate, but safe, facsimile of Epic’s earlier work. Or my favourite of all: a push across stormy sand with lightning strikes causing pillars of fulgurite to bloom to life, providing fresh cover or just a pile of pointy rocks to push onto a monster’s head. There’s an extended siege in a flight training facility where a malfunctioning centrifuge beheads friend and foe. You sneak round platoons of slumbering murder bots, synchronising battery tugs with a co-op pal to avoid a mass activation. You fight on frozen lakes, shooting the ice to dunk enemies into the cold. Those jazz hands soon return to more traditionally manly pursuits like thumping and clenching because you can’t express your emotions to your father, but the playfulness persists. Squint and it’s another room of waist-high cover, sure, but the jazz hands are a jolly distraction. And it’s not just an easter egg, but a committed bit: rooms full of Georgian era wigs, collectible lyric sheets (Lin-Manuel Miranda has nothing to fear) and a fight with a meat beast on a rotating stage set to Embry’s soundtrack. ![]() Only it’s not Hamilton, but Nassar Embry, who ‘Gearspedia’ tells me was the founder of the Coalition of Ordered Governments. And yet here we are: escaping a besieged city by hunkering down in a theatre, its walls pasted with the iconic image of Alexander Hamilton pointing to the stars. I did not expect Gears 5 to feature an extended Hamilton parody. Release: September 10 (6th for Game Pass Ultimate subscribers) ![]()
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