The whole thing is tactically very smart and reminds me a bit of American Football. Cover can go back and forth as the game progresses, and it's pretty upsetting when your enemy has taken down two of your towers and has also knocked your deployment space back to your own front door. Some of the troops you send out can capture this cover, winning it over to your side, and the more cover you earn, the more of the battlefield is yours to deploy in. Across the battlefield there are two columns of cover set up, a bit like hurdles.

Gears Pop reworks things, calling back to Epic's original game and its love of cover. Knock a tower down, and you can deploy a little closer to the remaining towers. In Clash the space you have to spawn a lot of your troops in changes over time as you destroy enemy towers. There are a handful of small variations like this, but the biggest difference is probably right in the middle of the battlefield. Also, its clans, called crews, are a little more bare-bones at present, which is understandable as the game has just launched. Gears Pop handles unlocking of the chests you win in battles a little differently: they all start to unlock immediately, so you don't have to queue them up one at a time. It's easier to actually talk about the points where things diverge. The basic game design is the same, crucial systems work the same, the feel of the game in motion is pretty much the same. Honestly, Gears Pop cleaves very close to its inspiration. All of which means I've enjoyed Gears Pop quite a bit despite myself, because I know the underlying game so intimately already and because it sticks to the formula so closely. It's truly wonderful stuff - pacy, intricate, beautifully balanced and extremely charismatic. Bring the most towers down within a short playtime of real-time action in order to win. Each player has three towers at their end of the symmetrical map. Then you battle against another player with their own deck.

Really, though, its main influence lies elsewhere, with Supercell's magnificent Clash Royale.Ĭlash Royale is a game in which you build a deck of eight cards, each representing a unit or a building or a spell of some kind. Gears Pop combines characters from the Gears of War games with the vinyl stylings of Funko Pop models.

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