I suppose if this is your first Gears of War these moments will hold more weight but I didn’t love seeing something I’ve already seen before acted out with different characters it just felt cheap. There were some definite missteps however, such as essentially trying to remake and reuse some of the most emotional moments from the original trilogy.
I rather enjoyed the story of these rogue humans fighting both the COG, with their army of oppressive robots, and the other monstrosities they come across.