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Gears 5: Ideal for the deaf, visually impaired, and color blind

Gears 5 allows you to configure the game to be accessible to people who have difficulty playing games under certain conditions. If you are color blind, or deaf, you will have no problems.

It seems silly but the issue of accessibility is a pending issue that many games have. Small fonts for subtitles, complex controls to perform actions, lights and strong camera effects… Gears 5 has taken these people into account and has implemented many accessibility options.

Accessibility in video games is important

What do we mean by this? Well, The Coalition has implemented many options to bring the information to the player to players who have certain problems that prevent them from playing many games optimally.

For example, a player with any variant of color blindness may have problems if asked to recognize colors. That is what Gears 5 has with options to adjust the color palette so that depending on what variation, the player can see it better than with the default settings. Then there are those who may feel dizzy when the screen is moving rapidly, that you can set that too.

There is also the important issue of subtitles to understand the cinematics if you are deaf or have some difficulty reading (or because you are away from the television on the sofa and you do not see the letters well). Well, you can set the Gears 5 subtitles to be bigger or even describe sounds. And it's great that there are elements like that that make video games for everyone, because even today there are teams that skip this sector of players.

Source: Gamasutra

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Benjamin Rosa

Madrileño whose publishing career began in 2009. I love investigating curiosities that I later bring to you, readers, in articles. I studied photography, a skill that I use to create humorous photomontages.

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