Why Was Gears of War SO AWESOME?!
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Gears of War is one of the most important shooters from the last two decades. But what exactly made it so special? How did Gears of War become such an iconic franchise overnight? The Act Man has all the answers...
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___TIME STAMPS___
Act I: Introduction - 0:00
Act I: A New Flagship - 3:20
Act II: Mad World - 7:13
Act II: Simply Absurd - 8:32
Act III: Weight & Mechanics - 11:36
Act III: TAKE COVER!! + Multiplayer - 14:14
Act IV: The Story - 19:35
Act V: Conclusion - 28:31 - Hry
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Gears of War is one of the most important shooters from the last two decades. But what exactly made it so special? How did Gears of War become such an iconic franchise overnight? The Act Man has all the answers...
How have you not made a review on this yet dude! You play xbone!
Can you please do a review on (Sunset overdrive)
Now play sleeping dogs
ZinNoChin thinks everything is Eminems fault...Even gamin experience🥲
When’s the next RDR2 stream going to be?
“THE COLE TRAIN RUNS ON WHOLE GRAIN, BABY! WHOO!”
One of my favorite characters fr lol
Some people thought he said “THE COLE TRAIN RUNS ON COCAINE, BABY! WHOO!” 😂
Let’s not forget about his speech in Gears 2
Yeah Cole is one of the best characters in gears! And dizzy 👍
It's so ridiculous and hilarious that the world's gone to shit and that one of the few remaining soldiers is a well known FOOTBALL PLAYER. Proving that if you don't have 40 inch biceps you don't stand a chance in the gears world
I love his moment (in I think gears 3) where he needs to run that bomb or whatever, and it plays like he's still playing crash ball or whatever.
“It was a week Hosea, he left us for a goddamn week”
IT WAS IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS VIDEO!!! A fair price, eh?
@@TheActManspoiler alert for rdr2: John finds Micah at a bar in Valentine and Micah says sorry for killing Arthur and then they both start gooning
he INSISTS to make the video first
The soab
@@McRibless 🤣 Jesus Christ
Dimaggios voice… him talking to Carmine the iconic lines “I heard bugs come from the moon sarge” “They can eat shit and die for all I care” always loved that as a kid
"what'd you call that thing? a monkeydog? here, i got a bone for it" 🤣
"speaking scientifically? WE GOTTA BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT IT S ASS"
-Cole Train baby
Being friends with Cliff Bleszinski and having a signed copy of his book is my biggest flex lol
Omg kommanderkarl I follow you on Tik tok didn't expect to find you here
That is one hell of a flex
I honestly liked hearing the "Control, this is delta" because it felt like a military thing and the banter between the squad was funn. now as an adult and having been in the military, its 1000% accurate and makes me love the game even more
The funny and clever banter between the squadmates while still retaining focus on the military objectives made the game very immersive. It feels like they’re talking to each other the same way a squad of US Marines might talk in the Middle East.
@@somm150 it's the same way I talk with my buddies in the army right now. So it feels natural
Yeah haha it's just funny to splice it all together 😂
@@TheActMan oh, absolutely. I was cracking up cause I never realized how many times they actually said it. Far less in the sequels. Lmao
@@Gearzilla117 you talk to each other on radios in the military, wow JUST LIKE BEING IN A VIDEOGAME
I'll never forget turning on my Xbox 360 and finally seeing the throne of my entire friends list playing Halo 2 one day, and then the next day EVERYBODY was on Gears of War. It was so unbelievable just how big of an impact GOW made.
I even remember when Rainbow Six Vegas implemented the cover system and everybody was like "oh look another GOW mechanic clone." (Still loved vegas BTW)
Great job as always!
I love hearing memories like this
I remember reading somewhere in Guinness World Records that this was the first popular Xbox Live game at the time that beat Halo 2 interms of player numbers, it was a time for sure 👌
Peak console multiplayer was Gears, Halo 3, and COD 4 all popping off at once. 3 shooters but all very different.
Same! I remember how big of a deal that really felt at the time. @@bounceycake1
Same here dude! Let me know if you ever want to game together sometime! @@TheActMan
Gears 1-3 were some of the best years of gaming ive ever had. Nothing comes even close to it and its honestly sad to see what Gears has become since then. I really miss the days of getting on Xbox knowing full well insane amounts of shit talk, toxicity and trolling were about to unfold. Now a days you cant even say a fraction of what you used to be able to say and text to people without getting banned. They really were simpler times.
the title screen is enough to make this game AWESOME, genuinely one of the best title screens ever
HE FINALLY MADE A GEARS VIDEO!! I’ve been waiting for one of these for years
I as well
GEARS 2 WHEN?
Same
it's about time
Same man
Seeing what Epic Games was back then and seeing them now is so crazy
massive glow-up depending on how you look at it
Bulletstorm was one of the funnest and coolest games I played on the Xbox. That game was unique!
@@theterrordivine dude I totally forgot about that game until I read your comment, Bulletstorm slapped!!!
@@TheActManwent from a 3-4 billion dollar company to 30 billion (last time I checked, in like 2020)
@@theterrordivine Wasn't that mostly people can fly?
Fun fact: The director of the Mad World trailer went on to make Halo 3's Starry Night trailer, Tron Legacy, and Top Gun 2.
The man knows his craft.
I'll never forget finishing this game on coop with my friend, playing on a tiny old crt tv in split screen. Today is his birthday, he would have been 38.
1. Big muscle bound guys that faced down monsters and developed a sense of brotherhood.
2. Cool setting with a believably backstory.
3. Locust were scary AF
4. All sorts of cool weapons. Most notably Guns with chainsaws attached dude!
Ah, so Warhammer 40k? lol. Still love Gears though it slaps
What more could you ask for in such a hardcore game!😎
Its hard to execute, but its not fucken complicated to concieve.
@@paulertjustice He said a believable backstory, so no.
Then they put a chick in it and made her lame and gay while making you chose if you kill off marcuses son.
My favorite thing about this series is the fact that you can go back and play any of them and they still hold up perfectly. Truly was the blueprint to 3rd person shooters
Yeah the campaigns were amazing
Game mechanic wise the 1st one is janky as shit, aged like milk as of today standards but it is the most darkest Gears I like that
@@Superassassinman15 precisely why there's an updated version of that game
Somehow all the Gears games have done the impossible: Being AAA games that take their time developing, work at launch, and have tons of content available without having to wait for season passes.
Resident Evil 4 was the blueprint for modern 3rd person shooters, not Gears. Still great games
I still remember my cousin getting this game and hitting me with, "I got this new game and if you shoot someone point blank with A Shotgun. They turn into Diarhea". I was Sold to the franchise with that sentence alone when i was 10!
24:16 “ Control this is Delta Bridge crossing operation complete. Request new orders ?”
“Fuck You!”
🤣🤣🤣🤣 killed me
Same ! 💀😂
Hello, resident military person who enjoys gears of war here. Just a little insight on the dialogue bit. I agree that opening is repetitive, but it is militarily accurate. Assuming control is monitoring comms for multiple squads, as in the military, operators are trained in the “hey you, it’s me” way of speaking. So whenever you open up comms, you need to use station identifiers so everyone knows who is calling who immediately. I actually enjoyed they put that in. Highlights the repetitive nature of the military. That’s all!
11:39 Out of breath Arthur saying "he's a rat" over a Micah rat getting squished by a Boomer was not on my bingo card today and i was not emotionally ready for it
Honestly dude I loved that edit so much I'm still thinking about it
The amount of imperfect reloads is really grinding my gears......❤
The "mad world" trailer is still one of the best trailers ever put together in gaming. Deserving for one of the best stories ever in videogames
To be fair, “control, this is delta..” is how you’d start almost every radio transmission in the military if your callsign was delta and you would give obnoxious updates or the controller would be asking for it lol
Drinking game: take a shot every time Marcus says "Control, this is Delta"
Dutch, I think you might lose your mind if you drink that much
@@TheActMan Have some GODDAMN FAITH!!!
@@TheActManHE’S GOT A PLAN, ACT-THUR
@@TheActMan The new "THE ENEMY IS BUILDING THE BRIGDE!!!!" moment
Rip
Former Marine here. I served during the time Gears 1-3 came out and I can verify that Marines in the barracks absolutely loved these games. Gears 2 launched right after we got back from Iraq and man was that madness.
Great content ActMan, love your stuff.
Even the names had weight, you hear TROIKA TURRET, BERSERKER, BRUMAK, COLE TRAIN and you just know its menacing
My dad picked this game up back in like 2009 or 2010. It was only like $4 and it said it was co-op so we got it. We beat the game 2 days later bc we couldn't stop playing. We then got Gears 2 and anxiously awaited Gears 3 and got that when it came out. I've been a fan since. I was always Marcus and my dad was always Dom, so we got the McFarlane figures of Marcus and Dom for each other. We didn't get to play Gears 4 together but we did play Gears 5 and the dlc for it a few years ago. I'll always think of my dad when I think of Gears and that's why it'll always hold a special place in my heart
That's awesome. I played this with my brother. Co-op games with family/friends when you're young, those are some great memories
@@famulanrevengeance3044real it got us so hyped we was ready for 4 n 5 but really gears of war 1-3 best
I am so glad this didn't end with "my dad recently passed away"
@@roguespectredelta1951 thankfully not haha. I moved away so I don't see my parents very much nowadays which is definitely a struggle but they're alive and well!
@@CoffeePotGamesgo and see them while you can. Enjoy it relive it.
Im glad the lancer was kept. Its a core icon of this franchise for sure.
It was never getting cut...
Misinformation is a son of a b**** i guess😂
The lancer was never gonna be cut. (Pun not intended) it was a marketing strategy by Microsoft for their new show to promote gears of War. They made her out to be the "enemy" of the show without her knowledge. She just made a video about it and called out the actman as well.
When they give you less than 20 guns through 4 games some our bound to stick
I loved the interactions between the characters because they made it feel real. The silly and weird comments they made were funny at times but also felt like the kind of conversations soldiers would actually have to pass the time or disassociate a little from the horrors of war. This kinda made it feel like you were a soldier and like you were having a real bond with delta squad.
I remember when I was a kid and my dad repaired apartment units when someone moved out and he found a binder full of games in one of them that had been unoccupied for a minute. He brought them home and one of the games was gears of war which I had never heard of and played it and was just absolutely blown away. I still remember such intense moments in that game from the beginning to the end and how absorbed I was in the world. Such an amazing game and truly a masterpiece
I love Gears of War because it's undoubtedly a pretty insane premise with comically large slabs of men fighting what are basically mole people with chainsaw assault rifles, but it doesn't try to be cute with it. It doesn't do a tongue-in-cheek "ain't that wacky?" stance, it takes itself completely seriously, and that makes it work so damn well.
The best example would be Marcus screaming "It's a giant worm! They're sinking cities with a giant worm!" with complete sincerity in GoW2. It's such a weird line, but it's taken so seriously by the characters that you end up taking it pretty seriously too.
Of course that's not to say it's all just stupid yet cool stuff because the relationships between all the characters are genuinely well written, especially Dom and Marcus' friendship.
All of that on top of solid, visceral gameplay is why I'm a Gears fan.
I think the thing that helped sell the giant worm line was the fact that Benjamin was yelling in the background; "Holy shit! HOLY SHIT!" which mirrors what the player is thinking, while the others are stunned into silence at that revelation. Cleverly, they covered the most obvious and likely reactions that the audience would have.
You know nothing
Okay Derek@@derekmaullo2865
“It’s a goddamn LEVIATHAN!”
😂
I see it as an over the top, sci-fi version of how the US army always gets depicted in movies. Invincible dudebros with constant banter and testosterone popping out of their eyeballs. Then, after Carmine's death, the facade gets dropped and the atmosphere gets so much more grim with each chapter. In 2 especially, it's suffocating, even visually. Then you learn the truth about the locusts, how they were created by human greed and profit wars (take your pick as to which nation this represents, you got plenty of choices), and everything clicks.
Another thing was just how satisfying the shotgun was in multi-player.
There would even be duels where two players would melee the air at each other and it would signal them wanting to gnasher battle.
Suddenly it was no longer a multi-player game it was a high noon gun duet between two gnasher slingers... and it was beautiful.
The honor among players back in those days were nice. People did that same "duel" with snipers, chainsaws, etc. I miss those times
The cat-and-mouse scenarios you'd get on Gears 1 were so fucking intense. No matter the weapon combo, if it came down to the last guy on each team and they were constantly rolling around and cover hopping, racing for ammo, getting the better position on the map....just such an adrenaline rush. So fun.
I think because the Gnasher duels were so popular in the first, they made a separate multiplayer mode in GoW2 that was just for that; 2v2 with only the Gnasher shotgun. Memory is hazy but it might've been there since the first one. I've put thousands of hours into Gnasher duels during all of the multiplayers. Good times.
@@BlameNam And even if you died to the Longshot it was always satisfying to know that the time to kill so short and you could bait shots by tapping the peek button, plus the fact that it's a one shot kill weapon if you hit a perfect reload headshot coupled with the reloading mini game mechanic made the duels very hectic and special. Can't go wrong with the head exploding from the shot with brain and skull parts flying all over the place either. Ridiculously over the top but bloody good fun.
@@nathanielwiens6364 if you try to boil gears' success down to one thing you'll fsil because it did so many things well
Man, Gears was so cool. So many great memories of playing Gears 2 Horde Mode with completely random people after class in USAF Tech school.
Brother late nights in Gears3 with the uncles and +10 year dudes than me were one the most fun times for me. I learned so many insults and life advice while doing trick shots with the gnasher and no scope with the sniper. It was amazing.
Fun fact: the game came with a comic book in the instruction booklet and back story to the world also they had a really good website with lore and a Leader board.
There is a short introduction video in the game that gives you enough of the setting to just jump in and play!
Growing up with a PlayStation I got a Xbox in middle school for 3 games, Halo, Left 4 Dead, and Gears of War. Horde mode has a special place in my heart 🥲
I was the opposite. I had a 360 first and grew up with it. Then PS3 eventually caught up and I had fomo, so I sold my 360 and bought a PS3.... only for me to realize how good I had it back on 360 so I sold the PS3 and bought another 360 like a true big brain middle schooler lol
Horde is one of the best game modes in all of gaming I love it
Man i remember when the "Mad World" Trailer dropped for GoW, my god i was so damn hyped!!!
Didn't get to play Gears of War till much later in my life BUT I did grow up playing two games that were heavily inspired by it, those being Transformers: War For Cybertron & Fall of Cybertron, both of which I think you should absolutely make a retro video on.
DUDE those games were fire.
Especially the fall of cyber cybertron. Wfc controls were kinda janky but foc was smooth AF.
It was fun yet wasn't that simple enough to go guns blazing. (Unless you have the glass gas cannon and that harpoon launcher)
I still have those games installed on my old laptop.
They definitely deserve a proper remake. I personally think they are the best transformers content available. Along with the animated prime series.
10:02 that is the best shirt I’ve ever seen when trying to describe mid 2000’s
I didn't even notice until I saw your comment, seems pretty fitting for Cliff tbh
lol
Finally a gears of war review!
bout damn time
The act man is the Marcus Fenix of reviewers, we are Delta Squad, supporting his efforts through the locust swarm called the CZcams algorithm
@@TheActMan an unexpected surprise but a welcome one
@frostwickedpaw2218 Hopefully, none of us are Carmine 😂
@zackking4742 That would be me with my hatred of the Gnasher.....
"Course. Regular or Extra Strength?"
Marcus' reaction on that Baird's response is still today makes me laugh every time I remember it... 🤣😂
Thank you very much! I have been waiting for this video for a very long time.
22:44 Baird IS smarter than the rest of Delta squad. But that doesn't mean he's not still an asshole
I knew a guy like that at uni once 😂
LOL true
I'll never forget dom's face when finding maria in Gears 2, such a gruesome moment
I agree, plus his death in Gears 3 broke my heart
@@darthcinema4262his brother died in a very similar way in the book when they escaped after stealing the prototype hammer of dawn.
@@michaelpecukonis5074 So basically Marcus lost both his best friends.
Cheers from Brazil Act Man! Love your videos!
Great video! That bf1 music caught me off guard for the displate part. Beautiful game.
I was there, sniper battling in the trenches.
1v1’s and 2v2’s on Canals
3v3’s on Fuel Depot
4v4’s on Rooftops
The sniper battling community in Gears 1 was impeccable, toxic and family. Creating clans and hosting matches. Getting supermanned or backpacked. Fucking great years.
Gears coined so many terms that my homies and I still use to this day. GOATed series.
4v4 Exe on Mansion and War Machines were goated af too, my favourite game of all time
What's crazy is the fact that John Di Maggio voices Marcus who also voice acts Bender and Jake The Dog
and joker in the under the red hood movie
I thought I heard it. Dudes voice is iconic!
This is the exact reason I subbed man. This feels like a classic review. Great editing where the focus is more on the clips and game than you talking at the camera (I don’t mean any offence, it works great for drama vids and stuff) and a fun skit in the beginning. This ROCKS man. You did this wicked game a great honour and like the Fallout New Vegas video I will be coming back to this one! I just wish that the new games understood what made gears awesome as much as you do. I wish more games had weighty combat like gears.
I'll never forget the first time I saw Gears in action. I was pretty fresh out of high school and wasn't really gaming much or paying attention to what was going on in that community. Went to my brothers buddies place where they were all around the couch playing it. I remember being super blown away by it, it looked unlike anything I'd seen before.
As a 31 year old, i played SO MUCH gears 1 multi-player as a teen. It's definitely a definitive game for me. What an insane couple years 2006-2007 were too for game releases
Even the years before. Half life 2, Warcraft 3, cs source....
11:39 is the greatest thing Actman has ever edited together
Agreed
I’m so autistic I read that as “11:39 is the GAYEST thing Actman has ever edited together.”
I'm so glad you're talking about this old classic! I've almost never wanted to be fitter then seeing Marcus!
When talking cover mechanics, why does everyone forget about the Rogue Trooper game from 2006? I think it came out before Gears. It was so good and deserves praise
2006... can't believe so much time has already passed
finally, now he can get rid of the soul patch
hardest thing I ever did was shave it
Is not as bad as the devs spiting blonde Baird and JD and have them be shaved/ bald 😒
Yeah jd lookin like an egg😂
No
@@odinulveson9101Bald Baird is hilarious what are you talking about. The cockiest character in the game gets humbled by and horrible, horrible fate.
One of my favourite franchises. I used to play fighting games competitively and PvP reminds me of that - positioning and specific weapons will guarantee an outcome if your opponent doesn't counter your tactics. It's one of the few games where you can feel in your gut if you will win or lose an encounter. Such a great game!
Hope to see something on Gears 2 and 3 as well! Great video 🔥
Nothing makes me happier than seeing games from my childhood get retrospectives in the 2020s. Feels like I'm understanding what truly made me love these games as a kid and even more as an adult
straight facts 💪🏻
chainsaw on gun does indeed trigger neuron activation
That has me actually laughing, that damn monkey gets me every time 🫠
My 1st experience on Xbox 360. I bought the console just for this game. Turns out I played many more, but it started with this. The graphics on this in 2006 were second to none. The multiplayer was all my friends played at the time; you bought the CD and thats it, you were in.
i realized about a week before i watched this video that the "skill check" mechanic when repairing generators in Dead by Daylight was EXACTLY the same as the action reload mechanic in Gears of War, and that had me itching to play Gears again, because of how epic it was. I remember the "that's one... that's two... that's three... that's four... THAT'S FIVE MOTHERFUCKER" moment with such clarity, so fucking cool haha
I will forever hold this series in my heart. My father and I only played this game co-op. I was Marcus and he was Dom. I'll never forget the first time I saw my dad cry, when Dom dies in the 3rd game. Greatest bonding experience I ever had.
Gears was such a Bar raising game, their was nothing like it at that time, its fast paced shooter, with great multiplayer really great score, awesome maps, and that DAMN CHAINSAW. I miss the 360 era
Best console Era in my opinion
Awesome video like always keep up the amazing work!
Man.. your edition is just... perfect!! 👌👌
I already need more gears of war videos from Act Man. This franchise is quite literally my childhood when gears of war 2 was gifted to me AT 8 YEARS OLD as a birthday present by my aunt who didn't know any better including my parents.
Yea the only games I bought when I got my first Xbox was modern warfare 2, gears of war 3, halo 3 and gta 4
@@eric8031solid lineup
God I loved the transition kid me experienced of going from halo 2/3 to Gears of War 2, jesus christ, legitimately i was shocked, stunned, and emotionally wrecked from that game, thanks dad, with your "Hey, try this game, the gamestore says its like Halo" i wouldn't have discovered such a masterpiece
The "Mad World" trailer and Halo 3's "Starry Night" trailer were both directed by Joseph Kosinski, the director of TRON: Legacy and Top Gun: Maverick fame
Dude, Gears 2 I must have put 1000 hours into the horde mode with friends, we had two xboxs and just lan partied that for like 6 months every day after school. Such good memories! Great video analysis!
One thing that Gears of War did exceptionally well was design a game around it's current capabilities. Everything from textures to level design to weapons work flawlessly on the 360 and it's graphics still hold up well today. Considering it's a 18 year old game it doesn't suffer from that uncanny valley feeling that many graphics had at the time when revisted nowadays.
Very good point!!
18 years...wtf. Wild.
My dad used to be a commercial banker in North Carolina and somehow started working with Epic Games back during the peak of Gears. He got to go to Epic's office and see all the cool life-size statues of Marcus Phoenix and locust and even got to hold a lancer lol. Best part was, he was able to get me a signed copy of Gears 2 and it was, honestly still is, one of the coolest things I've ever been given
I still remember getting Gears of War 3 and having that Gears logo on my 360. So nostalgic and such great times in gaming.
Gears of War without the chainsaw gun Is like Halo without the energy sword.
Even Halo 1 had the energy sword even though you couldn't use it.
Or the assault rifle…but then again, that thing is trash to the point it’s barely used by the fanbase until the 343 games.
The storyline in Gears of War was just so captivating. Loved the post-apocalyptic vibe and some of its gore galore.
And the music completes it!
Plays Gears as a kid, when I first came across the Beserker it absolutely scared the shit out of me
Thank you for finally posting a Gears of War video ! I have been waiting for years !
True fact, I played the series all the way through as a kid and until the 3rd game, I never realized the reload was a timing thing. I would just watch the bar thinking it was a visual timer.
Gears of War reminds me of Warhammer. Insane, over the top, giant men fighting endless waves of monsters. Pure machoness but also some deep and rich storytelling if you take the time to look at it.
Never in my life was I so happy to be 2nd player than when it came to the first 3 Gears Of War games, especially the 2nd game. Dominic Santiago is still the man.
Dom’s death still hits hard
@@z-man1237 He could have gotten everyone out and lived himself with ease in that one scene... yet obviously the guy was mentally crushed from everything.
"'Sup Bitches!" I played Dom in coop with my older bro. "I can smell you guys from here." Baird "There's room for one more, it's a F'in party down here!" Dom chuckling "No thanks"
His death may be the only time in a video game where I was wondering who was cutting onions.
What a great video. Wish you spoke more about the sequels, each one of them had something notable about them and I gotta say, GoW4 actually made me scared as I played it and had some really intense moments.
Thank god you finally made a gears of war video! I’m sooo happy!!! Thank you for this hilarious and awesome video! ❤
Gears of war was the first game to introduce me to gaming and the Xbox it holds a special place in my heart for gaming. Dont think I should’ve been playing this game at 5 years old but god it was amazing
5!? Jesus, I thought I was hardcore for watching Aliens and Terminator when I was like 7 😂
The chainsaw gun is one of the, if not the, most dope weapons in all of video game history.
Yeah the Lancer is one of the most ironic and badass weapons in gaming history
Act man I love your channel. Please do an in depth star field review. Game was so fun for 20 hours then dipped.
Been waiting on this review. I hope you do the rest of them and read the books/comics. They have great backstory and world building.
Gears came out in 2006, and ever since then I've thought that most shooters could seriously benefit from Gears' reloading mechanic. I'm constantly wanting to hit that button and get a faster reload in all these other shooters.
They messed it up in 4 and 5. Never felt the same or as satisfying
Never forget that Marcus Fenix was voiced by the same guy who voiced Jake the dog, Bender Bending Rodriguez, and Schnitzel from Chowder
And atriox in halo wars 2.
And voiced the Scotsman from samurai jack
@@awesomearchivist1705no way
Holy shit he did
I remember playing the OG GoW on my roommates rear-projection TV all weekend. Now those are some beloved memories.
The novels really surprised me with how great they are. I highly suggest them for anyone who loves Gears and has enjoyed stuff like the Halo books.
For people who were too young to remember or weren't gaming then, Gears of War did what Dark Souls did for ARPGs everyone and their Mom had to get in on the cover shooter craze. And while some did good with it(like Rainbow Six Vegas) Gears of War did it better than any of the imitators. While it wasn't a super deep game story or theme wise it had a lot of heart and a great cast of characters that are still fondly remembered today. One of my personal favorite gaming trilogies and will always remember the great time I had with it and with my friends too.
This series is a special, I remember playing this when I was way too young. Me and my older brother would always play coop through the whole trilogy, good times.
I loved the football analogy , simple play executed perfectly, 19:41
God I LOVE this game series, so awesome to see Act Man covering this
Just doing my duty
I can't understate just how much Gears Of War means to me, and all of my Mexican brothers overall. I can't even count the times I beat the original trilogy on insane just because I wanted to experience the beautiful brotherhood between Marcus and Dom and their overall friendship with Baird and Cole. Brilliant story, well thought out dialogue, amazing controls, outstanding graphics at the time, and a revolutionary new cover shooter system inspired by Kill Switch. Gears Of War is the complete package for me. Great campaign, and an even greater multiplayer. I'm pretty sure the reason why Gears Of War hasnt died, even after the atrocity of Gears 5, is all thanks to Mexico. Just like Dragon Ball, even if the world forgets, we never will. Brother to the end ❤🔥
I think youre spot on lol a lot of the players I encountered in all the gears games were mexican or spoke spanish, dragon ball too I love both so much. gears 5 is hot ass
so this is like a well known thing? i swore the amount of brownies was just my own bias.
You right about that. Gears 4 and 5 were very popular in Mexico and almost all my games after the launch of those games featured 5 stacks all reppin the mexico flag. And constant in game text chat trash talk
I will still always credit Gears of War 3 for being one of the few games to ever make me cry. Dom's death is up there with being one of the saddest video game deaths.
At this point in the trilogy, the characters and story definitely had some more depth. GoW was also a top notch couch co-op game. Dom was "player 2", and it had been established that he is Marcus' best friend and that they had been through hell and back together. The "brother's to the end" ad campaign further reinforces this.
This is also the second instance in which 'Mad World' is used as far as I'm concerned. Which brings back that same "hopeless" feeling as the 'mad world' trailer does.
I'll never forget my brother and I first playing through GoW3 and this scene happening. I'm the oldest, so my brother was naturally always player 2. The game continued on, but we definitely both needed to decompress after that dreadful scene. If I'm not mistaken, player 2 would finish the game as Anya, and it just didn't feel the same. The GoW trilogy is such a masterpiece for me.
Side note:
I'm a paramedic and radio communication is a part of my job daily. The "Control, this is Delta" was a funny compilation. But is extremely accurate. I must've said "Medic-52 to central" thousands of times at this point in my career.
around 6+ years ago me and my brother replay Gears 1 and 2, and then continue playing for the first time 3, judgment, 4 and 5. What a fun time we had, I specially really like Judgment graphics, story and gameplay. Now with this video I really want to go back to those times, maybe I'll play Gears Tactics and/or finish the DLC of Gears 5.
Gears of War was the best gaming experience on the 360 period. The original game gave my friends and I some of the most memorable multiplayer moments of any game ever. Way ahead of its time.
Remember Gears 2 smoke grenade stun pre patch? Oh, f*ck as I would say! 😂
My dad was in the army and when he came back, He played this game and played all the others when they eventually came out
Gears of war will always have a place in my heart. I love that theme song so much.
Man I miss these game reviews. The king is back