Imagine my surprise when I load into my first multiplayer game and aside from a 2015-era graphical face lift and some changed sounds, all the mechanics, animations and gunplay are just as clunky and bad as they were in the 2006 Gears of War 
I never played Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, which Gears of War: Reloaded is essentially just a multiplatform of re-release of but I always thought the multiplayer was basically Gears of War 3 with Gears of War 1 maps, not… this. Who the fuck wants to play Gears of War 1 when Gears of War 3 exists??? You know, the game where they finally figured out how to make the multiplayer fun and fluid?
Jesus, imagine being the poor bastards on their PlayStations booting up versus for the first time. They’re going to think Xbox players are clowns* for liking this shit. There’s not even Horde mode which has probably far eclipsed PVP as GOW’s most popular mode
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Which, of course, they are
I’ve been enjoying it, it’s an incredibly janky wall bouncing shotgun simulator with shitty net code and I’ve been having fun with it.
I also stopped playing the BF6 beta to go back to playing BF4 again so maybe I just like older games. I haven’t played a new shooter in years that I’ve actually liked, everything feels like corporate slop.
I don’t think you can even wall bounce in this game as it seems you can’t cancel your cover animations, which is true to the original as far as I can recall. I love Gears of War multiplayer, but to me going back to 1 or 2 is like going back to Tekken 1. I’ve been playing 5 on and off for years as that’s the only one available on Steam, and while it’s a wonderful PC port with the best movement mechanics the series has ever had, it’s just not Gears of War 3. Now we finally have a new Gears of War, but it’s not scratching my Gears of War 3 itch either. It’s just so janky and barebones even compared to Gears of War 2.
