While playing the campaign or engaging with the game's horde mode (both of which operates at 30 frames per second) you can expect to see full 1080p more than 94 per cent of the time. On Xbox One, the game presents a full 1080p resolution for most of the experience while using an adaptive pixel count on the horizontal axis in order to counteract GPU spikes. Let's start with the basics - Gears of War 4 is focused on delivering pristine image quality on both platforms. Now, 10 years after the original release, does this latest iteration keep the Gears tradition of pushing technological boundaries alive? Times have changed as of late with more studios favoring in-house solutions but Epic has continued to refine its latest iteration of the technology, Unreal Engine 4. The original game helped influence the amount of memory included in Xbox 360 while simultaneously showcasing Unreal Engine 3 at its best, helping it to become the most popular toolset of the last console generation. Gears of War is certainly an important franchise for the Xbox platform and it has quite the heritage on the technology side of things.

While it may seem like familiar ground initially, Gears of War 4 is actually a game of many firsts - it's the first project from The Coalition - the Gears focused studio formerly known as Black Tusk - the first big AAA console game powered by Unreal Engine 4, and the first Gears title released day and date on both Xbox One and PC. In development since 2014, Gears of War 4 marks the triumphant return of the chainsaw-wielding franchise.

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