
It’s not some massive Tom-Clancy-on-steroids plot like you’ll find in games like Call of Duty, but its simple narrative is easy to follow over its roughly nine hour campaign. That’s understandable, because many triple-A shooters don’t have stories worth following.

Maybe you don’t play shooters for their stories. So far, this is what we’ve gathered from the new installment and why we think its well worth the money. Now that Epic has moved on, a team called The Coalition built this installment from the ground up, but the obvious question is whether the new team is up to the task. Not only is it the first time a Gears game has appeared on Xbox One, but it’s also the first time any developer other than Epic Games has had a crack at it. Gears of War 4 represents several firsts for the series. The Gears of War series is 10 years old now, but it’s been half a decade since the humans triumphed over the alien threat in the original trilogy.
