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They're charging $40 for this barely functional piece of crap now? It's just a worse version of 2, don't bother.

This game is awesome. It feels like if Catacomb 3-D and Heretic had a child. There are two playable classes, the Cleric and the Sorceress, and the main differences between them are their starting weapons and starting and maximum health and ammo. It plays like a classic FPS from the early 90s, it's fast and chaotic that way. The music is really well-made, it sounds like something you would expect from a fantasy CRPG. The bosses have patterns and mechanics you have to learn, making them much more engaging than just "circle strafe and shoot it until it dies". The enemy variety is fairly large, and they can be pretty dangerous. Weapons and spells can be upgraded by treasure you can get in the levels, making treasure actually meaningful beyond just a score. Also there's a pretty intuitive and easy to use level editor, making modding the game and creating your own levels really simple. High recommendation from me.

I knew they were going to announce something during QuakeCon but I never expected this. Both games, fully enhanced, with options for some slightly tweaked levels to make them less tedious, wholly reworked soundtracks by Andrew Hulshult, and TWO WHOLE NEW EXPANSIONS! Also, 8-player split screen? WHAT? That is insane. I love everything about this.

Heretic 2 next? Please? I need for that game to be made available again.

Wacky fun.

This game's cool. It really nails the Terminator atmosphere. The early game has you sneaking past and hiding from T-800s, and the game gradually goes from that to you wrecking giant HK mechs with plasma guns (in the 40 watt range, of course) and rocket launchers.
The plot isn't amazing, but it's decent enough, with dialogue choices that (sort of) matter, and multiple endings depending on those choices.
The main character's voice acting is crap, everyone else's is pretty good.
If you're a Terminator fan, buy this game.

Runs smoother, smaller overall file size, and they added a bunch of stuff into it. Good deal.

Quake vibes with Build Engine interactivity and a touch of Dusk. Delightfully weird. I love it.

There are some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sections, particularly at the end, and whoever's decision it was to not make weapons work underwater sucks. I get that's "realistic" but if you want realism, go outside. It sucks for gameplay. Weapon upgrade stations take way too long for them to do their thing while you just sit there and do nothing, and just having alt fire on every weapon from the get-go would've been more fun. Unreal did it, you can too. Movement is slow. There's not a lot of enemy variety. And during my playthrough, there was one part on the final level that would not stop crashing. Eventually it stopped crashing, but it had to have crashed about a dozen times before that, rapid fire, and I still have no idea why. The game is also very, very short. Overall I had fun with it, but I honestly don't know whether to recommend it or not.

Gears 5 has similar gameplay to the rest of the games in the mainline series, but there are parts that deviate from the standard formula. There are a few parts that are, for lack of a better term, open world, where you can go anywhere you want within a given map and there are side objectives to find and complete. The robot Jack has been given a progression system, where it can be upgraded with new abilities for offense and defense by spending these parts you find all over the game.
What I thought was weird was the "big reveal" happens at the end of Act II, and "big reveals" are usually reserved for close to the end of the game in most games. The pacing felt off, and the game ends rather abruptly. It felt like there should have been one more Act. They're obviously trying to get us ready for a Gears of War 6, but now they're doing E-Day instead, so we have to wait longer for this story to be finished.
Overall though, the game's a good time.

Overall, the game is fun. Exploring Metropolis is fun, combat is fun, missions can get repetitive but are fun enough, and the story is pretty decent.
But once again, the absolute braindead morons at WB insisted this be a live service game which has ultimately killed it. There is zero reason for the gear/loot/crafting systems to be there. It does not add to the game at all and only serves to be a chore. Most of the time, the loot you get isn't even better than anything you have anyway so there's absolutely no reason for it to exist.
The level progression system is also pointless and feels too much like Borderlands skill trees but worse.
The ending is abrupt and unsatisfying because of the insistence on live service crap, so the real ending won't come until later, assuming the game is allowed to continue development until then. Once you beat the final boss you can continue to attempt to beat other versions of the final boss, but in order to do so, you have to grind endlessly to raise some arbitrary number so the game will allow you to take on the next version of the boss. And then you have to do that again. And again. And again. And I'm just done. ♥♥♥♥ you, WB.