This review comes from a guy who has over 9000+ hours on gears 1,2,3,4,5 on Xbox 360, Xbox One! Lets begin the review.
The Good:
- Good optimization/Excellent Graphics
- Crossplay with PC/Xbox One
- Side Quests and Exploration in the campaign instead of just being linear and collecting collectables
- Now has character skins/Emotes
- Has quick melee (knife) instead of it being limited to certain weapons (ex: can melee with lancer)
- Playable Jack and his new upgradable arsenal
- Halo Reach and Terminator Characters
- No season pass in the very beginning
- Co-op in every game mode
- Good Storyline and voice acting
- GoW: Judgement stuff
- User Friendly Tutorial
- Horde Playable Characters have built in perks and loadouts
- More than one execution for some weapons
- Has Regular/Ranked/Classic/Social playlists)
- THE GRUB KILLER IS BACK BABY

The Bad:
- Characters you find in the main story are unavailable to play, including: (Baird, Cole, Paduk, Clayton Carmine, Lizzie Carmine, Oscar, Cog Gear, Onyx Guard, Nomads, etc.)
- You cant earn any EXP towards your level in the campaign regardless of difficulty
- Horde Playable Characters have built in perks and loadouts.... (No Classic Horde)
- You can't earn EXP Offline, nor can you play Escape, Horde, or can customize offline versus against bots
- No Arcade Mode for campaign
- No fun mutators for custom games and campaign (ex: Infinite Ammo, Headless enemies, Lazer Bullets, make enemies stronger, etc.)
- Wonky Ai (ex: dying in the campaign because Del decides to wait a few seconds before he picks me up or he ran to a far away location where he cant even help me)
- Lack of free cosmetics
- In-game bugs that make the game unplayable and you have to restart
- Grindy progression system, makes it hard to get unlockables

The Ugly:
- Microtransactions
- Microtransaction system similar to Fortnite
- Expensive Microtransactions (ex: about $8 dollars for a spray/waving)
- Alot of characters and skins, including the ones that are already in-game are most likely to be to be unlocked through microtransactions
- You are required to do the entire Microsoft Account Verification feature

Q:
Was this game worth it to me personally?
A:
Yes, i played and love gears of war and halo for life and im glad they are coming to the PC. I would have liked it to have alot of the features that were in gears of war 3, this game is still fun and worth playing however. I just hate how its monetized, grindy, and has alot of locked content. I have to pay extra money to be able to get things i want, that should already be available from the beginning. The Ultimate edition, doesnt feel so ultimate.
hope this has been useful.

This review comes from a guy who has over 9000+ hours on gears 1,2,3,4,5 on Xbox 360, Xbox One! Lets begin the review. The Good: - Good optimization/Excellent Graphics - Crossplay with PC/Xbox One - Side Quests and Exploration in the campaign instead of just being linear and collecting collectables - Now has character skins/Emotes - Has quick melee (knife) instead of it being limited to certain weapons (ex: can melee with lancer) - Playable Jack and his new upgradable arsenal - Halo Reach and Terminator Characters - No season pass in the very beginning - Co-op in every game mode - Good Storyline and voice acting - GoW: Judgement stuff - User Friendly Tutorial - Horde Playable Characters have built in perks and loadouts - More than one execution for some weapons - Has Regular/Ranked/Classic/Social playlists) - THE GRUB KILLER IS BACK BABY The Bad: - Characters you find in the main story are unavailable to play, including: (Baird, Cole, Paduk, Clayton Carmine, Lizzie Carmine, Oscar, Cog Gear, Onyx Guard, Nomads, etc.) - You cant earn any EXP towards your level in the campaign regardless of difficulty - Horde Playable Characters have built in perks and loadouts.... (No Classic Horde) - You can't earn EXP Offline, nor can you play Escape, Horde, or can customize offline versus against bots - No Arcade Mode for campaign - No fun mutators for custom games and campaign (ex: Infinite Ammo, Headless enemies, Lazer Bullets, make enemies stronger, etc.) - Wonky Ai (ex: dying in the campaign because Del decides to wait a few seconds before he picks me up or he ran to a far away location where he cant even help me) - Lack of free cosmetics - In-game bugs that make the game unplayable and you have to restart - Grindy progression system, makes it hard to get unlockables The Ugly: - Microtransactions - Microtransaction system similar to Fortnite - Expensive Microtransactions (ex: about $8 dollars for a spray/waving) - Alot of characters and skins, including the ones that are already in-game are most likely to be to be unlocked through microtransactions - You are required to do the entire Microsoft Account Verification feature Q: Was this game worth it to me personally? A: Yes, i played and love gears of war and halo for life and im glad they are coming to the PC. I would have liked it to have alot of the features that were in gears of war 3, this game is still fun and worth playing however. I just hate how its monetized, grindy, and has alot of locked content. I have to pay extra money to be able to get things i want, that should already be available from the beginning. The Ultimate edition, doesnt feel so ultimate. hope this has been useful.