The expansion will have you playing as Lahni, Keegan and Mac, a trio you might’ve already met in Gears 5’s Escape mode. Well, they’re off on their very own suicide mission to destroy a pesky Swarm hive that’s causing some havoc.
It’s a three-hour long campaign that you can play with your pals in three-player split screen or online co-op. There are 16 new achievements too, if you fancy chasing that perfect Gears 5 score. Hivebusters sounds like a good addition to an already-good game, I reckon. In his Gears 5 review, Matthew Castle said: “I’m enjoying this new trend of RPGs-but-not-RPGs; action games that borrow the language of the more complex genre – side quests, character levelling, exploration – but in such a way that there’s never any doubt you’ll miss a pixel of it. Gears 5 left my belly nice and fat, and keen for the next course” You can grab Hivebusters right now on Steam and the Microsoft Store for £15/$20€20. It’s also available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate (but not regualr Game Pass) for PC, console and Android. The Gears 5: Game Of The Year Edition also came out today, which includes the Hivebusters DLC and a Halo: Reach character pack. Find that one on Steam and the Microsoft Store as well.
