Gears Tactics

Do you know the way to Fenix Point?

- IAN EVENDEN

START OUT IN A GAME like XCOM, and you feel fragile: You don’t have the advanced plasma weapons of the invaders; you don’t have proper armor; your troops are a raggedy bunch of freedom fighters who were lucky enough to still be alive. Start out in Gears Tactics, for all it may look like XCOM to the casual observer, and you immediately feel powerful: You’ve got the series’ trademark weapons; you’ve got the cover system; you’re a side of beef crowbarred into a gridiron uniform.