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The Coalition has provided a first look at Gears Pop! gameplay, which offers a condensed real-time strategy experience with a few special Gears of War touches.
Revealed in a developer video, you can watch a single PvP match between studio head Rod Fergusson and lead game designer Tyler Bielman. Though a “soft” launch is coming soon, a wide release of the game will come sometime in 2019 for iPhones and Androids.
“The object of the game is to play out your units and push forward and take down the outposts and the leader at the opposite end of the field,” said Bielman.
You progressively take cover attempting to get to the other end of the field: destroying an enemy outpost at the other end will net you a single point. A power bar at the bottom of the screen fills up in discrete segments, with each unit costing a certain ammount of these segments to play.
Teams can be comprised of famous human characters like Marcus Fenix, JD Fenix, Kait, etc., but can also include Locust units for greater team diversity. All units, of course, are in cute, Funko Pop! proportions – massive heads and all. Specific characters have special abilities: Marcus takes cover faster than other units, JD has a “down but not out” ability and Kait can run past enemy units to directly attack outposts. The more field you’ve taken, the further up you can spawn units.
“Ultimate abilities” are in the game and can offer tactical advantages, like using the Hammer of Dawn to eviscerate enemy units – though after using one, it will have to recharge over time. With a minute left in a match, the bar will begin filling more quickly for both players. If the game is tied after the three minutes are over, players go into sudden death and the first player to score a point wins the match.
Gears Pop! was announced at E3 2018 alongside Gears Tactics and Gears 5 (which most definitely won’t be called Gears of War 5). For more on Gears 5, check out how its tone reminds us of God of War (in a great way).
Colin Stevens is a news writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.
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