With just about every big game, we get asked, "So how long is the story/campaign/game?" As Gears 5 releases to everyone this week, we turned to two of our editors who've finished it in order to answer that question.
Ryan McCaffrey, Reviewer
My first Gears 5 campaign run-through, on Intermediate difficulty, took me 11 hours and 49 minutes according to the in-game clock. I did try to do every side mission in the open-world portions of Acts II and III (and, to my knowledge, I did complete them all), and I took a quick look around every environment I found to try and find as many collectibles as possible. You can definitely make Gears 5 last longer if you're hellbent on acquiring every collectible, and of course, upping the difficulty will also stretch out your playtime.
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Ryan McCaffrey, Reviewer
ABOVE: Check out our review of Gears 5's campaign. A final, overall review that accounts for everything included with Gears 5 is coming soon.
My first Gears 5 campaign run-through, on Intermediate difficulty, took me 11 hours and 49 minutes according to the in-game clock. I did try to do every side mission in the open-world portions of Acts II and III (and, to my knowledge, I did complete them all), and I took a quick look around every environment I found to try and find as many collectibles as possible. You can definitely make Gears 5 last longer if you're hellbent on acquiring every collectible, and of course, upping the difficulty will also stretch out your playtime.
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