Gears of War: Ultimate Edition - the Digital Foundry verdict

Ultimately, what we have here is a strict - albeit visually appealing - remake of the original Gears of War. The game plays exactly as it did in 2006, with the same animations, the same controls, and the same AI behaviour. This is Gears of War with a fresh coat of paint - but the visual enhancements are impressive, with far-raching changes that have a huge impact on the overall presentation. If you haven't played the original in a while, there might be a tendency to look at Ultimate as a minor upgrade, but that's underselling the scale of the achievement here. If this upgrade isn't enough, there's also the DX12 Windows 10 PC release to come, which supports higher resolutions, faster frame-rates, and promises better overall image quality.

In some respects, the fact that the Ultimate Edition remains so faithful to the original may actually wind up being one of its weaknesses. Gears of War was basically the progenitor for the cover-based shooter of the last generation, but a lot has changed since its debut, and as a result, its gameplay may feel dated for some. On the other hand, it preserves everything that was core to the experience, while bringing many of its most dated elements into line with a modern, current-gen release and as an overall package, it works. We enjoyed it a lot and feel that it's a highly worthy remake, but with its gameplay elements firmly rooted in the past, it may not be for everyone.

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Looks great. I want it, but want to see if Gears 4 has special console to get me to buy a Xbox One. Tough decision.

That low blow at 37 seconds.

15 months without Gears is to long :P

I liked this video break down. And yes after seeing the game running it looks AMAZING quite the upgrade. But I also agree with I prefer the look of certain areas and things in the original as well. Certain parts and places just had a better "tone" in the original even though the graphics are better in the Ultimate edition. None the less this looks to be an excellent pick up for any fan of the Gears series and definitely for me seeing as I view one as the best out of all of them! Loved the single player and lost a good portion of my life in the MP lol! The first online MP game that drew me in!

At least playstation remastered (ps3 to ps4) are running in 60 fps.

- M ,Carl

Looks good

Happy to see the multiplayer running at 60fps, wish the campaign would too.

DF again throwing the R word around. I wouldn't say this is a remake. A remaster with touched up textures, geometry and altered lighting and effects. Code base is still the same, controls, AI, level layouts identical, voice acting, animation and motion capture not redone.

Was it worth the extra effort? 30 fps, not even rock solid, less atmospheric in places, and all spend on 1 game instead of a collection.

Don't mind me, I'm remastered out atm. No Gow3 Geow or Uncharted collection for me.

Pretty much exactly what I said yesterday.