Gears of War 4K Remaster coming to Steam in August!

AWPC · 26 Aug 2025 at 15:15

UK 4PM today this goes live on game pass!

70.3 GB preload is live now on both gamepass & Steam. If you already owned the Win 10 2015 remaster MS give you a free key to own the new remaster (check your messages from MS! that's how they send the key via msg on Gamepass).

It supports DLSS 3.5 not sure about any fancy RTX FX though!

mrk · 26 Aug 2025 at 16:31

Wow 60fps! What a revolution.

Spikey · 26 Aug 2025 at 18:32

the cut scenes are still capped to 30, noticed some stuttering here and there too, not overly impressed tbh, another pointless release!

VincentHanna · 26 Aug 2025 at 19:29

It's not much different to the Ultimate version

Sounds like it's more "quality of life" improvements than big upgrades.

CaptainRAVE · 26 Aug 2025 at 20:27

Enjoying this, gives me an excuse to play through it again

mrk said:
Wow 60fps! What a revolution.

You can select 120fps for the campaign though?

AWPC · 26 Aug 2025 at 22:17

Free for me as I own the 2015 release

so not overly bothered knew it would not be great as The Coalition are not exactly stuffed full of rockstar developers all their GOW stuff is pretty safe-mundane-boring!

malachi · 26 Aug 2025 at 22:38

Spikey said:
the cut scenes are still capped to 30, noticed some stuttering here and there too, not overly impressed tbh, another pointless release!

I think they did this release just to put Gears of War on the PS5.

xaldub · 27 Aug 2025 at 01:03

malachi said:
I think they did this release just to put Gears of War on the PS5.

I think it's more to whet the appetite for the forthcoming GoW : E Day. I'm expecting a day/date release for the latter on all platforms including Playstation.

Vinno · 30 Aug 2025 at 15:04

I've played both the original 360 release and Ultimate edition a few times over the years so I'm not sure if I have lost my memory here or what.... but the AI in this version seems horrendous.

So many times my team mates will just stand in front of me, facing away from the enemy lol. It's absurd. The enemy AI is also terrible. I don't remember it being like this in previous versions - but I am getting older so I could have forgotten.

CaptainRAVE · 30 Aug 2025 at 15:30

Vinno said:
I've played both the original 360 release and Ultimate edition a few times over the years so I'm not sure if I have lost my memory here or what.... but the AI in this version seems horrendous.

So many times my team mates will just stand in front of me, facing away from the enemy lol. It's absurd. The enemy AI is also terrible. I don't remember it being like this in previous versions - but I am getting older so I could have forgotten.

Found this too. After a while the game just felt too dated for me. The AI is terrible.

xaldub · 30 Aug 2025 at 18:00

Vinno said:
I've played both the original 360 release and Ultimate edition a few times over the years so I'm not sure if I have lost my memory here or what.... but the AI in this version seems horrendous.

So many times my team mates will just stand in front of me, facing away from the enemy lol. It's absurd. The enemy AI is also terrible. I don't remember it being like this in previous versions - but I am getting older so I could have forgotten.

AI was terrible in the original and Ultimate edition ... I don't find it any better, or worse, in Reloaded.

Kirby Wurm · 2025-09-14T00:53:43+0100

CaptainRAVE said:
Found this too. After a while the game just felt too dated for me. The AI is terrible.

In my case it wasn't just the AI. It could be me, but even things like using the chainsaw bayonet felt much clunkier than I remember.

Despite having replayed GOW a number of times over the years and enjoying it, this'll probably be the last. After playing many 3rd person action games in recent years it feels particularly dated.

AWPC · 2025-09-14T06:31:45+0100

Vinno said:
I've played both the original 360 release and Ultimate edition a few times over the years so I'm not sure if I have lost my memory here or what.... but the AI in this version seems horrendous.

So many times my team mates will just stand in front of me, facing away from the enemy lol. It's absurd. The enemy AI is also terrible. I don't remember it being like this in previous versions - but I am getting older so I could have forgotten.

AI is horrendous worse than ever for sure now your squad mates & enemies get constantly caught running against invisible objects...so funny to look at though!

To be fair this latest edition has some nice high res textures & some of the lighting FX looks way more modern (its still using Unreal Engine 3 though they were too lazy to upgrade to 5).

malachi · 2025-09-14T08:02:06+0100

AWPC said:
AI is horrendous worse than ever for sure now your squad mates & enemies get constantly caught running against invisible objects...so funny to look at though!

To be fair this latest edition has some nice high res textures & some of the lighting FX looks way more modern (its still using Unreal Engine 3 though they were too lazy to upgrade to 5).

Apparently it was because going to UE 5 would thrown the AI off. Would have taken more work than just recompiling the graphics engine.

AWPC · 2025-09-14T08:55:10+0100

malachi said:
Apparently it was because going to UE 5 would thrown the AI off. Would have taken more work than just recompiling the graphics engine.

They are putting all their resource into the next Gears game also.

malachi · 2025-09-14T10:22:11+0100

AWPC said:
They are putting all their resource into the next Gears game also.

Yep, which is better time spent.