14 DAY TRIAL // The upcoming Gears 5 from The Coalition is going to be available in the Microsoft Store and Steam, a first for the franchise. Interestingly enough, Gears 5 will work on Windows 7 if you get it on Steam.
Microsoft has been using the Store to promote the use of Windows 10, and that’s not exactly a secret. The company went as far as making games published through the store run exclusively on Windows 10, and the same is true for Gears 5.
But Microsoft seems to have some new plans for Gears 5 and hopefully for other games as well. The studio is publishing the game on Steam, and it looks like the game won’t have the same limitations, which only means that the Windows 10 requirement is actually all about the store.
It’s a complete Steam experience
Players who are getting Gears 5 on Steam are also going to get achievements, trading cards, cloud support, and cross-platform connections. Interestingly enough, the game lists controller support as “partial” which is a little bit weird.
It’s very likely that the game will only work with Xbox and PC controllers, but not so much with other controllers which are also available on Windows, like the PS4 controller. We’ll have to wait for the launch to see what that partial support means.
The minimum and recommended requirements are pretty reasonable, but that’s to be expected since the game needs to run on Xbox One as well. To run the game you will need at least an AMD FX-6000 series or Intel i3 Skylake processor, an AMD Radeon R9 280 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 graphics card, and just 8GB of RAM.
The recommended requirements are a little bit higher. Users will need at least an AMD Ryzen 3 or Intel i5 Skylake CPU, an AMD Radeon RX 570 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card, and 8GB of RAM.
Gears 5 is expected to arrive on Steam on September 9th, and a day later on the rest of the platforms.
