Even in that context Gears 5 is so brutal it easily eclipses all the others when it comes to despair.
This isn’t new for Gears of War, which has often grown its campaigns from the broken soil of climate change, genocide, and weapons of mass destruction. The story, focusing mostly on Kait from Gears of War 4 as she searches all across the planet Sera to uncover a dark family secret, tackles a lot of heavy themes. It’s honestly kind of astonishing how close the latest Gears comes to being damned by its own ambitions. Luckily, there’s still a lot of fun to be had in spite of the stumbling.
The act of playing through Gears 5 is the gradual realization the game (a series of strangely compelling contradictions all tangled up in one another like a box of cords) isn’t capable of being the gore-caked miracle worker it yearns to be. It also wants to be the same adrenaline-fueled romp featuring chainsaw guns that Gears of War has always been while also striving to take the series in bigger, bolder directions. It wants to be a gripping, heart-breaking meditation on war, loss, trauma, and the struggle to define oneself.
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