This shotgun feels just like home 🏡⚙️🔫

I cannot begin to explain just how much I have missed playing Gears games. I started with the original Gears of War in 2006 and have played every Gears game since. It's been over 10 years since I've owned an Xbox of my own though. Now that I finally have a Series S, Gears 5 is my favorite game to play on Xbox. This game is straight-up amazing, especially if you are like me and spent hundreds if not thousands of hours playing the older Gears games.

My favorite thing about Gears is the shotgun combat. It is purely skill-based and battles are intense. Then there is the whole active reload mechanic where you must time your reload to get back in the action quicker. You can't sleep on the fact that Gears has the best cover system of any third-person shooter game ever too. This game is stacked when it comes to brutal fun.

Gears 5 was originally released in 2019, so it's been out almost 5 years now. That means that it is full of content. There are 30 regular multiplayer maps and 5 free-for-all maps. On top of that, there are multiple cool outfits for dozens of different characters on both the COG and Swarm side of things. That's with me not even considering the single-player and co-op aspect of the game.

Gears 5 is available on Xbox Game Pass, which means if you have an Xbox and online, you probably have this game. If you've never played it, I cannot recommend it enough.

In today's video, I will be talking in depth about what it is like to play Gears 5 in 2024. The game is simply amazing, I have missed playing this so much. I will also be discussing my history with the Gears franchise. I look forward to playing a lot more of this game in the future.