Just look at this:
Gears is a franchise sometimes associated with the derivative styles and trends which defined a lot of Gen 7 AAA's shortcomings: drab brown and vaseline covered visuals, over-the-shoulder shooting, waist-high cover sprinkled in wide corridor level design, and an edgy grimdark setting/characters. Even at the time, I turned my nose up at the franchise for being just a fun but dumb console seller, but looking back on it, it really has a lot of charm and love put into it that's easy to look over in retrospect.
Gears is a franchise sometimes associated with the derivative styles and trends which defined a lot of Gen 7 AAA's shortcomings: drab brown and vaseline covered visuals, over-the-shoulder shooting, waist-high cover sprinkled in wide corridor level design, and an edgy grimdark setting/characters. Even at the time, I turned my nose up at the franchise for being just a fun but dumb console seller, but looking back on it, it really has a lot of charm and love put into it that's easy to look over in retrospect.