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It’s billed as an origin story, but Hivebusters opens with its team of crack troops, who infiltrate Swarm hives and destroy them from the inside, already assembled. ... Gears 5: Hivebusters is a ...

Full spoilers for Gears 5’s ending below. ... The team comes face to face with the queen of the Swarm, ... JD grabs Del’s dog tags and escapes from the Swarm Queen.

Each of the Acts in Gears 5 offers an intense battle against impossibly powerful foes. Use our guide to get the upper hand in these boss fights.

After playing Gears 5 at E3 2019, it’s clear the much-needed change has finally arrived. The new co-op Escape mode offers a fresh way to experience modernized cover shooting action. If the rest ...

Gears 5 might as well be called Super Gears of War. ... like the tornado of Swarm Leeches that’s dubbed The Flock, Gears 5 – like all before it ... Guardian, Team Deathmatch, ...

Editor's Note: For Gears 5, we're reviewing the campaign and multiplayer modes separately, followed by our overall review and score. This part covers the multiplayer modes – be sure to check out ...

Gears 5 is one of the best entries yet in the the series that began 13 years ago. From Escape mode in co-op to the big boss fights, there's a lot to like.

Gears 5 doesn’t quite ... Execution, Guardian, King of the Hill, Team Deathmatch and ... where you and two others detonate a bomb in a Swarm nest and need to make it to extraction ...

Gears 5 has an intriguing new co-op mode where survival is key. ... My team hit dead ends more than once, ... For the uninitiated, a Swarm Flock is a gang of flying Swarm Leeches.

After a breathless first act (of four) where you control Gears of War 4‘s JD Fenix, as he and the crew battle the encroaching Swarm and push them back out of the imaginatively-titled Settlement 2, ...

The story picks up not long after the events of Gears of War 4, in which JD Fenix--son of series poster boy Marcus Fenix--and his pals Del and Kait discovered the Swarm threat and set out to stop it.