The primary thing sought after by PC gamers is that flexibility, and we wanted to give that to them. Gears Tactics also features extensive customisation on PC, including options around the controls as well as things like video settings and accessibility controls. "For this mouse and keyboard experience, the teams did a lot of work to make sure that it feels amazing for the players and that they can fluidly express the way that they want to play. He continues: " was developed at its core as a PC-first experience, a foundation that was fostered across teams at The Coalition and Splash Damage in the game's design focus on strategic game mechanics, a technical build optimised across PCs, and intricate gameplay controls for mouse and keyboard. We wanted to make sure we addressed the needs and desires of these players, and established a team of dedicated PC gaming fans at The Coalition who helped made sure that Gears of War: Ultimate Edition, Gears of War 4, Gears 5 and Gears Tactics offer the options and scalability that PC players expect." "We know that the PC gaming audience has different expectations for their games, and also that there is a wider range of devices to support like a small laptop without a discrete GPU to a custom-built desktop rig with a special cooling system. "We've always taken PC gaming seriously, starting with our work on Gears of War: Ultimate Edition," says The Coalition operations director Mike Crump. It is a turn-based strategy title, which is a genre that's suited to the mouse and keyboard setup of PC, and The Coalition has even formed a dedicated team to ensure the game fits with what PC players expect.
It's a big budget AAA game led by one of its internal studios - co-developed with the UK team Splash Damage - and it was built with PC audiences in mind. Xbox has some convincing to do, and Gears Tactics is part of that operation.
"Or is this just another ploy for us to get them to buy an Xbox? Which it is not." Gears Tactics has been built specifically for PC, and comes to Xbox One later
"There's a healthy amount of scepticism on whether we are really true to that customer," he said. At E3 last year, we spoke to Xbox boss Phil Spencer about the PC Game Pass subscription service, and it's a reality he acknowledged. I recall hearing of its commitment to PC during the 20 promotional campaign for Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight, but that support soon faded away, so there's an understandable level of scepticism around Microsoft's latest PC pledges. This game isn't a remaster of a classic title, or an Xbox One port, or a free-to-play service aimed at a casual audience - it's a hardcore strategy game aimed squarely at the PC gaming enthusiast. Phrasing aside, Gears Tactics is an important release in Microsoft's latest efforts to convince gamers that it's serious about PC. Gears Tactics is really "the first entirely new Microsoft game made for PC in two years," which doesn't sound nearly as impressive. The Xbox Games Studios brand was formed in February last year, but even since then there have been PC-only releases, namely a new version of Age of Empires II and the free-to-play PC game Forza Street, a rebranding of 2018's Miami Street. Microsoft has been making PC-first games for longer than it's been making Xbox games. The PR exec who made the pitch appreciated that was a bit of a stretch. When Microsoft pitched us an interview on Gears Tactics, it was described as "the first Xbox Games Studios title built as a PC-first experience."
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