"Do you remember the first Gears of War?" More like "Do you remember when games that were hyped up by AAA companies were actually good and microtransaction-free?"
omg...got me thinking about the Chainsaw mechanic reveal lmao back then it was hype af "You hold B and BAM, chainsaw the guy in half" today it would be more like "If you purchase the season pass, you get the chainsaw for free on your starter lancer!".... man...thats very sad
I honestly always hated Gears. Even back before I moved almost exclusively to PlayStation in 2009. I can see why people like the series, I just hated it.
Gears of war, Halo, and CoD 4 was the holy trinity of shooters at the time. No other game could match the gory goodness of the lancer, the euphoric sound of a head being stomped clean off a body, and a campaign that made you feel like an ultimate badass, Gears had the guts and glory to stand with those two games.
Personally I’d say that gears was the father of modern shooters at the time. The graphics wee also ahead of its time by far. Gears of war 3 pushed the Xbox 360 to its limits whilst also perfecting everything that it has. Multiplayer was at its most booming, horse was perfect and beast mode was a nice addition. There was no micro transactions for skins that I know of (apart from the flame skins you could buy codes for off of other people)
I'd argue that FEAR captured the feeling of being the ultimate badass quite well. You could turn enemies into red mist with the shotgun. Send them flying with grenades, nail them to walls with the penetrator gun and turn them into an electrified skeleton with the particle weapon.
@@ZeeboJNR gears 3 is overrated, story was good. But multiplayer maps and gameplay were trash. Sawed off… forgettable maps. Hard pass. Cam also shook too much. Gears 1 is the GOAT
THANK YOU this is exactly what I say to people about those 3 games being out simultaneously it’s literally the holy trinity when gears took out the horror element it lost me tbh gears 1 is goated
*Imagine growing up playing Fortnite instead of Gears of War 1* Ya the game scared the shit out of me as a kid but hell it was worth it. Berserker still terrifying AF
lol I remember I rented the game at Blockbuster and had it for 3 days. Once I got to the first Berserker fight I was like "fuck this, Im out" and never played it until 1 year later
The audio balancing was reversed, the game sound had the same volume as previous commentary portions, whilst commentary had the same volume as the previous game audio. This was undoubtedly a mistake, as the audio returns to normal in the next cut; Until it resumes at the next section at, 37:14.
I spent ALL of 2007 playing only Gears of War. Met soooo many people playing that game and had hours upon hours upon hours of fun almost daily. Irreplaceable experience
@Dixon Cider i spent most of my childhood spending time playing halo reach , halo 3 , all Gears Of Wars , Cod in my xbox those were the golden days in my life .
lol everyone remember crab walking? Ninja jumping? Glitching out of the map on train station and gridlock? The general culture around the game that using the lancer and chainsaw was really only for noobs? Meleing to signify the beginning of a duel? Man this game brings back so many memories.
I remember being like 11 playing this game. I can honestly say it helped me get into story based, mature themed games after growing up on GTA rampages and smash bros lol
This mostly got me to face my fears lol. Replaying it at 20 now, I appreciate the game even more and not really scared of something like the serapede anymore. But the Berserker still scared me. 😂😂
Thats funny, you new age gamers are the worst and missed out on great tittles. Story base games were always be the best and will always be the best even though they dont make great adventure/story based games anymore in a modern world of multiplayer online base shooter games. Being a new age gamer you follow whats trendy and missed out on greater games of yester year. It's sad really. So the newwer games that are out now you guys think they are the best games ever, those online games thats filled with microtransactions, no storyline games that gets boring after a month
@@redcrimson1028 I kinda hope that wasn't directed to me, because me being a young adult now, I can actually appreciate a classic game or two here and there and not touch Fortnite or Apex Legends. Battle royale ain't my type, so fuck those games lol. If I wanted Battle royale, I would've watched the 2000 Japanese movie.
My first game I ever played on Xbox 360 was NHL10 but bought cars 2 But my first ever game I ever bought was some stunt game for the PS3 but am a Xbox guy
I gotta say I'm a little disappointed you're using the remaster for footage. It is more colorful and features flashier FX and lighting but I feel like it takes away from the inherent charm of the original presentation. The gray oppressive tone is meant to convey a world that's had it's life beauty and joy pushed into hiding by this war for survival. To me it's like giving Dark Souls neon colors... sure it'd be cool but it's not the vibe or vision originally intended. Also It seems to me the new cutscenes aren't utilizing the mockumentary "shaky cam" the original had which I believe was supposed to emulate an embedded war journalist film crew style to the presentation that's reflected in the roadie run. It also has several revisionist retcons, like the queen at the end. (and btw you don't remember Act V because they added the PC exclusive levels for Act V to the remaster.) The stylistic choices and sensibilities of the early 2000's game design and culture is a big part of the Gears experience to me and it seems strange that your channel uses VHS lines and "remember this" styling but you're playing the version of Gears that removes so much of the nostalgia triggers and early 2000's shameless cheesy grimdark edge.
im playing ultimate edition rn and thats the first thing i noticed. how much more brighter and colorful it was. the original right after the first berserker, outside was super gray and bland but in the UE it was much more colorful. overall im ok with it but it did take away from the horror feeling/aspect. still good nonetheless.
hmm indeed but when I first played this. the original not the remastered but I fell in love with gears of war and for years I got back into the saddle and beat it on insane difficulty and I'll tell you it was pretty awesome and nostalgic but when I look at this. this guy never played a true gears game before. and also I think I was lucky enough to play that mission in act V to fight that brumack that was a P.C port but but again I was lucky enough to experience it on the Xbox. heh I'll say it was crazy and cool. but again I agree Vennicerunnos sometimes these new players in this generation are blind but it's their preference in gaming but as a old gamer I'll still play the remastered so from one gear to another keep fighting the good fight heh fallout 3 line.
I got gears when I didnt have a a high definition tv, I thought it looked great, then I got an HD tv, and I was blown away, I remember my mom walking by, and stopping; asking me what it was. Fantastic memory.
@@M4ttJ This is entirely the Ultimate Edition. For instance, the ending is completely different. and the brumak fight isnt in the original, jsut PC and ultimate edition.
It wasn’t hard, when you hear the crack you step back immediately, and only step on the board a little, he just walked right in the center of the bad planks and fell. Also, the scene where the stranded dude falls into the pit and is mauled to death was pretty scary to me as a kid.
The gears of war games were the best! It was one of the first games we got on the 360 and it was super fun to play with friends and my older brother! Great video man!👍 ⚙️ 💀 🔥
I was in the hospital in 2006 when this came out. I was 17 and had been there for a month and a half. I was lying in bed at around midnight and my nurse came in. It was a guy that I had never seen before that was about 55 to 60 years old. He asked if I liked Xbox 360 and I told him yes. He told me to try Gears of War. It was his favorite new game. I got out of the hospital a week later. After a few days at home, I got really sick again and had to go back. This time I took my Xbox and the next time my Mom ran errands, she brought me a copy of Gears. I loved it so much I read the books and comics. The Xbox made time pass a lot quicker. It is now over 17 years later, and I am now waiting for a transplant. I haven't played video games in a while, but I am thinking about buying an Xbox Series X. I had stopped buying consoles and games because I got into collecting books and guns. I have been rereading the Halo and Gears books and have really missed playing. Thanks for the great video.
@@williamcooper8599 Aspho Fields, Coalition's End, Jacinto's Remnant, Anvil Gate, and The Slab are the only names I can remember off the top of my head. I've read 8 of them. Karen Traviss is the best writer in the series.
i downloaded ultimate edition when i got xbox one for christmas lol it was more fun than i remembered, but thats probably because im a lot older now and was able to notice a lot more stuff going on fundamentally
For that scene where you're walking across planks over the wretches, there actually is a way to tell the right path. When you take a step on on a piece of wood, if it starts to shake then it will fall and you can step back quickly to avoid going down with it.
Act 5 might seem weird because in the original game you didn't have the whole brumak part and just started at the train station *EDIT* : The Brumak chapters were first added to the PC version and then remade in the Ultimate Edition
You’ll probably never see this but I can attest to this being an amazing game because it built a connection to the characters for me that was so strong that dom dying is the only time I’ve cried over a video game death. A phenomenal series
haha I was 7 yrs old when my older brother brought a 360 home and Gears with it. I used to watch him play clan matches until i traded my PS2 in days later with at least 50 games lol. I was a DEMON on gears 1 for a 7 yr old. Still my favourite game of all time.
Gears 1 is special to me. That and rainbow 6 Vegas were my main online games and Gears 1 til this day is the only pvp game that I would say that I was really good at. I got accused of using modded xbox constantly and I got tons of game invites as soon as I would cut my xbox on. Great times until so many glitchers took over with the crab walk or whatever it was called. That's when I moved on. The other 3 games just didnt have the magic for me personally but I really loved the horde mode in gears 3. Only mass effect 3 multiplayer tops that experience. I didnt get an xbox 1 but I hate to miss out on gears 4 even if it isnt as good as the old one. I dont know if it is or not I'm just saying. Btw I was the gnasher king.
The newer Gears gets a lot of hate because like any other franchise its not quite ass good as the OG but i personally still love it. And its a beautiful game. If your were truly the gnasher king you would flourish in the new one. The gnasher is more powerful than ever!
@@Mayorofsexytown1303 sounds good. I cant wait for the xbox reveal for next gen. I may consider getting it and then playing gears and whatever else I missed since it should be backwards compatible.
These are the videos I think you do best, the ones that show what you love about gaming and how enjoyable these experiences can be. Keep up the good work dude.
Hahaha for real I remember thinking this was one of the best games I have ever played, I was addicted to this game, beat the campaign about 7 times and the multiplayer nonstop
Just replayed this original Gears on the 360. Can say this review nails all the points of why this game was and still is a masterpiece. Well written and edited. 👏
Gears of War came out in an era where you had only a couple of major AAA releases per year. This was a perfect environment for making the game as good as possible, so it would review well and sell to a garaunteed market. Nowadays, there is so many choices in games, and even so many choices in platforms, that you see the current climate of developing a game that will monetize a smaller player base for a lot more money.
The super special gamer pic you get for beating gears 1-3 on all difficulties is a good mention. You get some custom avatar stuff too. When i got the gamer pic that small token was worth so much to me. I have been counting down the days until the next gears game. Especially after the major cliffhanger at the end of 4.
It may of been said but in Act 3 when you're walking over the weak wood, you have to listen for the distint cracking sound, and a slight vibration in your controller.
This is the best video on RUclips about the greatest game of a generation. You and I feel the exact same way about this game and damn I appreciate that
Thanks for finally fixing your lighting and audio dude. Gears of war was the game that made me want to upgrade to a 360 back in the day. The ad campaign for that game with the song "Mad World" is something that'll stick with me forever.
gears of war was a marvel upon release. the only way i can describe it, it was like going from an xbox 360 to the xbox one. the art style, the tech it was built on, the gloomy mood (got you downright in a depressing mood). it was just fantastic. the multiplayer was fun (and even creepy, especially on dark maps) god it was a blast. i remember spending the whole summer playing nothing but gears multiplayer, when i was a pre teen, listenting to grown adults trash talk me and own me and just smiling the whole time LOL. it was right around when i finaly had good enough itnernet to enjoy online games to. it was a perfect storm that got me into online games.
Man, the Beserker fights in Gears 1 are so much better than in the followups. It adds a sense of terror and skill needing to bait the Beserker into an area you can use the Hammer on it, and only being able to use the Hammer. It felt like it cheapened the Beserker in the later games when you were able to heat it up with a flamethrower then shoot it.
Gears 1-3 will always be some of the best shooters I’ve ever played. Fun universe and addicting gameplay. The online gnashes battles gave you adrenaline that really wasn’t matched by anything
I remember playing gears of war on release, and my dad thought he was watching a movie at first. Gears was never one of my favorite series, but I love that it continues to exist and pump out releases. Ill keep playing them, even if only for the campaign
I think it was smart to take away the aiming reticle while blind firing . As it makes it more realistic . A lot of games give you pinpoint accuracy through a reticle when blind firing and it was very smart , not to do this . And I love the feeling of intensity that is felt throughout the game , especially when the enemy rushes you ! Gears is a great game and perhaps one of my favorite 3rd person shooter series ! I only hope we see this series grow more and more !
the way the locust know where Delta is going, is when you see RAAM with the cog soldier he listens in on his helmet and hears through anya where they are going to capture the train and lower the bridge
The fight with the Brumak was actually unique to the PC version for years until the release of Ultimate Edition for Windows 10 and Xbox One - which is why you didn't remember the sequence going into it.
It's funny, the wretches attack scene in the hallway, which you said the Lancer was not the best choice, is actually the very much the best weapon there Because you can cheese the engine there because they have no projectile weapons. You just hold down B (rev Lancer chainsaw) and hold left. Hold B and left, you spin on the spot and the wretches just run into your chainsaw. They can't interrupt the chain saw sequence! They just stand there waiting their turn for evisceration! 🤣🤣🤣
The Beserker's first appearance made me shit myself... It's 2nd and 3rd later on made me shit AND piss myself... Horror isn't my cup of tea when it comes to games, but the terror I felt for that enemy was something I miss in the GOW universe.
Could you do the same nostalgic type of video for Kane & Lynch series? There is a lot that can be said about this franchise starting with a determined obsession of IOI to stick to a grounded realistic tone to their immense cinephile background which, in most part, was a definining factor in how the series looked
From the Mad World trailer, to the countless hours spent in Multiplayer, to running co-op multiple times, GOW1 was one of my most loved games I've played. I've spent so many hours online with friends I still have today running MP when I wasn't busy with college classes. Gears 2 began to lose me, and after that it was never really the same for me. As with Halo, I still enjoyed the storyline, but the MP lost appeal to me. Nostalgia kicks hard whenever I get to watch anything about games that came out around this time. I love it!
My first Gears was Gears 2 and I have to say this is one of my favorite game series of all time. Made it through a 50 round horde mode with 1 friend over a summer and it’s one of my fondest gaming experiences
always top quality content thank you... i remember getting this game for Christmas and was blown away by everything this game had to offer my favorite Xbox franchise
dont remember the Brumak fight... is that just in the remastered version or did i completely forget??? EDIT: yes the version you played is totally different the queen isnt even in the ending, her monologue is but scourge is there instead.
Were there any differences in the PC version or ultimate version from the 360 version? I don't remember that Brumak fight in act 5. Also, I remember not being able to beat Raam on the highest difficulty level because Dom wouldn't last 5 seconds.
What a fantastic video !!! Gears of war was what got us an Xbox 360, remember seeing the Mad world advert for the first time and thought what was that !!! ever since then Gears has become part of life, have met some amazing people through the game and still this day talk and play with them still on Gears 4. We loved Gears so much we started our channel just to show and support the Gears of War community which at the most time is very salty and toxic but deep down we all love Gears. Our biggest highlight has been being recognised by Rod Furgesson himself and also getting to meet the guys from Coalition studios it's been an honour to represent Gears of War and we hope the franchise continues. If you're a Gears fan then 2019 is going to be an amazing year !!
Gears of war was one of my favorite franchises. It had a beginning, middle, and end with Gears 3 (the best gears of war). I lost interest with Gears 4. It was a blatant milk of the franchise and felt hallow and contradicted everything in the previous game.
Jonny B I put gears 3 above 2 because it improved a lot of the game mechanics. It was abysmal trying to find a multiplayer game in gears 2 and gears 3 made it soooooooo much faster to find a game. You’d be searching for 15 min just to find a game in gears 2 and god help you if the host left. I also liked the campaign better in gears 3. They recognized the problems with gears 2 and fixed them and improved upon them in gears 3.
Jonny B LACKLUSTER?!?! You get revenge for Dom, You get a touching moment between Marcus and Adam fenix who dies moments later, you finally kill Mera, and you and your squad save Sera. To me it was one hell of a bang to end Gears
xdanman 117 Gears 4 didn’t contradict anything. It’s a good continuation in my opinion. Are the characters as good as the Original Delta Squad? No but they are Ok.
Lewis Connor it contradicts the finale on gears 3 with what Marcus’ dad did. He killed off the locust horde, they’re all gone, dead, the war ended. Gears 4 is like “nahhh they didn’t really all die”
6:14 I have totally disagree with you on that. Not all deaths are the players fault especially in the first one. Doms AI is atrocious! Just replayed the Ultimate Edition and that guy got killed 3 times during the Beserker bit, causing you to fail. Also when exploring he sometimes takes cover inside a door frame and trapped me inside a room. He also likes to walk in front of shots. Twice he killed me when he walked in front of my Boomer shots, oh I was near death and he killed me with a Torque Bow round that was stuck in him. Also he gets downed to much and I've died reviving him.
The original Gears of War on my elite white xbox 360 with a chrome disc tray was special. It was one of the darkest and mature games I'd played at the time. It was crazy fun and when you first fight the berserker with the hammer of dawn it scared the crap out of me.
I love Gears of War so much that I have lost count of how many times I have finished Gears of War 1, 2, 3 and Judgment, co-op or by myself. Gears of War 3 is still on my top 3 online games I played the most on XBox 360, lovely times
I remember getting Gears and was shocked how good it looked! These big chunky characters moving with weight slamming into cover and filling locust with lead! U felt like u were really hitting a creature made of flesh, I don't like the robots in Gears 4 btw, campaign I played Gears for but enjoyed horde in later games
Just wanted to point out that the game asks for co-op in certain missions in order to make it more fun for two or more players, this also allows a more full experience
I think the reason why gears of war was and is so good is because of the character and the lore. Theres so much lore here that youre like woah that's sick and woah that's different. The characters also make the game even better because you feel connected to them when you loose one in the story. Gears has and always will be up there with halo in my opinion.
Hey! I know I’m just one dude but it’s really cool to see these kinds of videos because it seems like every “game” video now a day seems to shit on what’s going on now. It’s great to revisit the past.
32:24 the reason you don't remember that part of act 5 is because the original Xbox 360 release didn't have it. The Act 5 for the original 360 started with Comedy of Errors as it's 1st chapter. Impasse and the Brumak fight was added in for the PC version port only on GFWL later on. As we all know, GFWL didn't exactly work out. Ultimate Edition was built directly from the source code for the GFWL PC version of the game and ported to console. They also added the Queen in the last cutscene, the 1st game just had her voicover with what looked like RAAM's brother sitting atop the reaver with a scarf around his neck.
This game was what put me on the path of playing hardcore competitive shooters. I put so much time into learning how to play Gears of War 1 and I still love the franchise.
I played through this game so many times with friends in high school. It started being a weekend thing we would do. We would pop in the disk Friday night after school and play through the campaign then pass the controllers to the next people. Getting high and playing GoW, good times.
Gears of war has aged well. Comparing it to heavy micro transaction games of today. I love jumping for an hour or two from time to time and just enjoying the original trilogy. No need for additional purchases or frustration behind an unnecessary pay wall
"Do you remember the first Gears of War?" More like "Do you remember when games that were hyped up by AAA companies were actually good and microtransaction-free?"
omg...got me thinking about the Chainsaw mechanic reveal lmao back then it was hype af "You hold B and BAM, chainsaw the guy in half" today it would be more like "If you purchase the season pass, you get the chainsaw for free on your starter lancer!".... man...thats very sad
IC C yeah those were the good old days
IC C lol 😂 for real
I honestly always hated Gears. Even back before I moved almost exclusively to PlayStation in 2009.
I can see why people like the series, I just hated it.
King Harlequinn TBF Mate Gears Of War 4 only had Microtransactions for the multiplayer.
Gears of war, Halo, and CoD 4 was the holy trinity of shooters at the time. No other game could match the gory goodness of the lancer, the euphoric sound of a head being stomped clean off a body, and a campaign that made you feel like an ultimate badass, Gears had the guts and glory to stand with those two games.
Personally I’d say that gears was the father of modern shooters at the time. The graphics wee also ahead of its time by far. Gears of war 3 pushed the Xbox 360 to its limits whilst also perfecting everything that it has. Multiplayer was at its most booming, horse was perfect and beast mode was a nice addition. There was no micro transactions for skins that I know of (apart from the flame skins you could buy codes for off of other people)
I'd argue that FEAR captured the feeling of being the ultimate badass quite well. You could turn enemies into red mist with the shotgun. Send them flying with grenades, nail them to walls with the penetrator gun and turn them into an electrified skeleton with the particle weapon.
@@ZeeboJNR gears 3 is overrated, story was good. But multiplayer maps and gameplay were trash. Sawed off… forgettable maps. Hard pass. Cam also shook too much. Gears 1 is the GOAT
THANK YOU this is exactly what I say to people about those 3 games being out simultaneously it’s literally the holy trinity when gears took out the horror element it lost me tbh gears 1 is goated
@@theoldspiceguy7977 another franchise that id kill to have make a comeback
90% of game development spent on single player. Still my favorite multiplayer(lag and all). Really makes you think.
do u still play?
@acb player yea but the last I played it was on pc....terrible for wall bouncing lol.
@@oldheadonme5740 i play on pc too, and im looking for a team to play gears of war 1 versus multi, do u have steam or discord?
@@nowyaherem I could play but your comment was a year ago.
I'm on Gears Ultimate Edition up to this day. Wish we had some Gears of War 2 or Update UE.
*Imagine growing up playing Fortnite instead of Gears of War 1*
Ya the game scared the shit out of me as a kid but hell it was worth it.
Berserker still terrifying AF
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AFTERDEATH 100% C-O-R-R-E-C-T
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Yes happened to me too but I hated it
lol I remember I rented the game at Blockbuster and had it for 3 days. Once I got to the first Berserker fight I was like "fuck this, Im out" and never played it until 1 year later
The Beserker on the train had me throw my hands up in the air going mother Fu!@er. Still a good time but man, too many berserkers
There are weird audio glitches starting at 36:26 and 37:14. Just so you know, man. Great video nonetheless.
Husband knows. Husband knows
I'm listening while at work and let out a little Yelp when that happened... Otherwise, great video!
Could not hear him over the Cole Train.
Homie missed muting the audio for those clips in the edit.
The audio balancing was reversed, the game sound had the same volume as previous commentary portions, whilst commentary had the same volume as the previous game audio. This was undoubtedly a mistake, as the audio returns to normal in the next cut; Until it resumes at the next section at, 37:14.
I spent ALL of 2007 playing only Gears of War. Met soooo many people playing that game and had hours upon hours upon hours of fun almost daily. Irreplaceable experience
Those were the golden days right there. I would play literally 24/7 no regrets at all
@@hereticcreep3795 i wanna play with u guys
whats ur steam or discord?
@Dixon Cider i spent most of my childhood spending time playing halo reach , halo 3 , all Gears Of Wars , Cod in my xbox those were the golden days in my life .
Then gears 5 destroyed the whole franchise
lol everyone remember crab walking? Ninja jumping? Glitching out of the map on train station and gridlock? The general culture around the game that using the lancer and chainsaw was really only for noobs? Meleing to signify the beginning of a duel? Man this game brings back so many memories.
you need to hop on gears 4
You sir are the first I've seen to be a man of culture. Those were the fucking days! Ever run into a MTJ21 or Darksupersauce?
It's no different in gears 4
Niraj we still play on the original dude you should come on there again
@@incrediblejmm9765 yo i wanna play gears 1 with u guys on pc and lets make a team so whats ur steam?
I remember being like 11 playing this game. I can honestly say it helped me get into story based, mature themed games after growing up on GTA rampages and smash bros lol
I was just out of high school when I played this game until I got the Seriously achievement. Still have it as my Xbox 360 live buddy icon
This mostly got me to face my fears lol. Replaying it at 20 now, I appreciate the game even more and not really scared of something like the serapede anymore. But the Berserker still scared me. 😂😂
Thats funny, you new age gamers are the worst and missed out on great tittles. Story base games were always be the best and will always be the best even though they dont make great adventure/story based games anymore in a modern world of multiplayer online base shooter games. Being a new age gamer you follow whats trendy and missed out on greater games of yester year. It's sad really. So the newwer games that are out now you guys think they are the best games ever, those online games thats filled with microtransactions, no storyline games that gets boring after a month
Sick!!👍
@@redcrimson1028 I kinda hope that wasn't directed to me, because me being a young adult now, I can actually appreciate a classic game or two here and there and not touch Fortnite or Apex Legends. Battle royale ain't my type, so fuck those games lol. If I wanted Battle royale, I would've watched the 2000 Japanese movie.
My first Xbox 360 game I think, instantly my favorite game as a kid
Gary Lococo yea another game I loved was the orange box on 360 great times
me too
My first game I ever played on Xbox 360 was NHL10 but bought cars 2
But my first ever game I ever bought was some stunt game for the PS3 but am a Xbox guy
Same. Gears of War is the first game I played.
Yeah same. Well technically my first game was viva piñata which came with the Xbox, but Gears of War was my first ‘proper’ Xbox 360 game.
I gotta say I'm a little disappointed you're using the remaster for footage. It is more colorful and features flashier FX and lighting but I feel like it takes away from the inherent charm of the original presentation.
The gray oppressive tone is meant to convey a world that's had it's life beauty and joy pushed into hiding by this war for survival. To me it's like giving Dark Souls neon colors... sure it'd be cool but it's not the vibe or vision originally intended. Also It seems to me the new cutscenes aren't utilizing the mockumentary "shaky cam" the original had which I believe was supposed to emulate an embedded war journalist film crew style to the presentation that's reflected in the roadie run. It also has several revisionist retcons, like the queen at the end. (and btw you don't remember Act V because they added the PC exclusive levels for Act V to the remaster.)
The stylistic choices and sensibilities of the early 2000's game design and culture is a big part of the Gears experience to me and it seems strange that your channel uses VHS lines and "remember this" styling but you're playing the version of Gears that removes so much of the nostalgia triggers and early 2000's shameless cheesy grimdark edge.
Perfectly Stated.
Totally Agreed the Original is something else!
im playing ultimate edition rn and thats the first thing i noticed. how much more brighter and colorful it was. the original right after the first berserker, outside was super gray and bland but in the UE it was much more colorful. overall im ok with it but it did take away from the horror feeling/aspect. still good nonetheless.
hmm indeed but when I first played this. the original not the remastered but I fell in love with gears of war and for years I got back into the saddle and beat it on insane difficulty and I'll tell you it was pretty awesome and nostalgic but when I look at this. this guy never played a true gears game before.
and also I think I was lucky enough to play that mission in act V to fight that brumack that was a P.C port but but again I was lucky enough to experience it on the Xbox. heh I'll say it was crazy and cool.
but again I agree Vennicerunnos sometimes these new players in this generation are blind but it's their preference in gaming but as a old gamer I'll still play the remastered so from one gear to another keep fighting the good fight heh fallout 3 line.
Yeah I'm not even gonna bother finishing this vid because of that lol
I had every single achievement in single and multi. Literally lived and breathed that game for a couple years. Good times 😁👌
Spills51 same here, I’m still in the top 50 in Annex got into the top 10 then quit the game
I got gears when I didnt have a a high definition tv, I thought it looked great, then I got an HD tv, and I was blown away, I remember my mom walking by, and stopping; asking me what it was. Fantastic memory.
The brumak fight was only added for the pc and ultimate edition
Just came here to see if anyone posted this. I always wanted the PC version until the Ultimate edition came out to Xbox one X.
@@ebenezerspludge8369 It's not Xbox One X Enhanced but it'll maintain more of its quality and frame rate along with faster load times.
@@ItsJust_Sins Yeah that's true. I guess the Xbox one X will just upscale it.
SilverTele I was gonna say I didn’t remember that part and I just finished replaying the game a few days ago.
I remember when "you get to finally fight a Brumak" was a selling point when Gears 2 was being teased.
At the time, it was the most beautiful game I'd ever seen.
The effects in the emulsion caves were astonishing.
Do you remember the first gears of war??
*Shows footage exclusively of Gears UE*
@@M4ttJ read the description
Matthew Jones lol you're ignorant
@@M4ttJ This is entirely the Ultimate Edition. For instance, the ending is completely different. and the brumak fight isnt in the original, jsut PC and ultimate edition.
What did matthew jones say??
You know gears ue is the same game right just better graphics
There is a way to tell in Act 3 which planks will break. A cracking sound before it does.
yup
@@LuneyN Those fucking planks. Will crank up the volume next time
If you play with a controller, it rumbles too.
surprisingly it was the same path as it was in the original😂 i remember failing like 5 times on that part in the original
It wasn’t hard, when you hear the crack you step back immediately, and only step on the board a little, he just walked right in the center of the bad planks and fell. Also, the scene where the stranded dude falls into the pit and is mauled to death was pretty scary to me as a kid.
Currently replaying GOW 1-3, my fav series hands down
Yeah God Of War is pretty good
@@mau1368 lol
do u play vs?
Kaymo Johnson Yeah it’s my favourite Series as well. Hopefully they don’t fuck up the gears of war film.
I hate GOW3. Fuck off, Karen Traviss, yo POG ass boot bitch!
The gears of war games were the best! It was one of the first games we got on the 360 and it was super fun to play with friends and my older brother! Great video man!👍 ⚙️ 💀 🔥
FilmFella Same
That's why it did so well. There wasn't anything else.
@@InnerRise na gears is the best game franchise ever made. well at least in my opinion, I can't wait for gears 5.
@@LuneyN no one else even knows gears 5 is coming. I didnt.
Never even finished Gears 2.
@@InnerRise you must be living under a rock if you didn't know gears 5 was coming.
It's crazy how I remember the levels after 13 years. That is the sign of a good game.
People used to make games for the joy and fun of making them, to share stories and ideas instead of money
I miss that
I was in the hospital in 2006 when this came out. I was 17 and had been there for a month and a half. I was lying in bed at around midnight and my nurse came in. It was a guy that I had never seen before that was about 55 to 60 years old. He asked if I liked Xbox 360 and I told him yes. He told me to try Gears of War. It was his favorite new game. I got out of the hospital a week later. After a few days at home, I got really sick again and had to go back. This time I took my Xbox and the next time my Mom ran errands, she brought me a copy of Gears. I loved it so much I read the books and comics. The Xbox made time pass a lot quicker. It is now over 17 years later, and I am now waiting for a transplant. I haven't played video games in a while, but I am thinking about buying an Xbox Series X. I had stopped buying consoles and games because I got into collecting books and guns. I have been rereading the Halo and Gears books and have really missed playing. Thanks for the great video.
I reckon go for it man! It’s such a great series.I replay t every few years. What gears of war books have you read?
@@williamcooper8599 Aspho Fields, Coalition's End, Jacinto's Remnant, Anvil Gate, and The Slab are the only names I can remember off the top of my head. I've read 8 of them. Karen Traviss is the best writer in the series.
Literally just finished replaying the campaign for it 3 days ago. It still holds up to this day, fucking loved it all the way through
i downloaded ultimate edition when i got xbox one for christmas lol it was more fun than i remembered, but thats probably because im a lot older now and was able to notice a lot more stuff going on fundamentally
yo i can play coop with u if u want
@@dogsbecute im looking for u to make a team for gears 1
Gears 3’s multiplayer ❤️ the good old days
For that scene where you're walking across planks over the wretches, there actually is a way to tell the right path. When you take a step on on a piece of wood, if it starts to shake then it will fall and you can step back quickly to avoid going down with it.
Act 5 might seem weird because in the original game you didn't have the whole brumak part and just started at the train station
*EDIT* : The Brumak chapters were first added to the PC version and then remade in the Ultimate Edition
That's right! I was like, "the first brumac you fight is in Gears 2"
That's a cool choice but an odd one
@@GregGuerraMusic They probably wanted to add it to the main game but didn't have enough time, the brumak section is in the PC version and the UE
So I wasn't crazy!? I just played through gears ultimate for the first time and was like.... I DON'T remember this part at all....
All I do is go back and play old games lol I still get immersed by Diablo 2, Oblivion, koToR and Jade Empire!
Emmmmm Diablo 2... Dat Trang Necro armor.
Gears of war, halo, and call of duty
My childhood
yo whats ur steam?
Bro i feel u my man , i was playing halo 3 , halo reach , all of the gears of war , cod when i was a kid
Yeah same excluding Halo and Call of Duty.
This brought me back to nostalgic time...Gears of War was my cousins’ favorite game when we were growing up. May he Rest In Peace.
Rest In Peace.
You’ll probably never see this but I can attest to this being an amazing game because it built a connection to the characters for me that was so strong that dom dying is the only time I’ve cried over a video game death. A phenomenal series
I would really like to see you cover gears of war 2 arguably my favorite Gears of war game. Great video by the way keep it up!
To answer your title question. yes, I remember it as the game I used to watch my older brothers play together in split screen :)
haha I was 7 yrs old when my older brother brought a 360 home and Gears with it. I used to watch him play clan matches until i traded my PS2 in days later with at least 50 games lol. I was a DEMON on gears 1 for a 7 yr old. Still my favourite game of all time.
Gears 1 is special to me. That and rainbow 6 Vegas were my main online games and Gears 1 til this day is the only pvp game that I would say that I was really good at. I got accused of using modded xbox constantly and I got tons of game invites as soon as I would cut my xbox on. Great times until so many glitchers took over with the crab walk or whatever it was called. That's when I moved on. The other 3 games just didnt have the magic for me personally but I really loved the horde mode in gears 3. Only mass effect 3 multiplayer tops that experience. I didnt get an xbox 1 but I hate to miss out on gears 4 even if it isnt as good as the old one. I dont know if it is or not I'm just saying. Btw I was the gnasher king.
The newer Gears gets a lot of hate because like any other franchise its not quite ass good as the OG but i personally still love it. And its a beautiful game. If your were truly the gnasher king you would flourish in the new one. The gnasher is more powerful than ever!
@@Mayorofsexytown1303 sounds good. I cant wait for the xbox reveal for next gen. I may consider getting it and then playing gears and whatever else I missed since it should be backwards compatible.
25:51 you can tell if the boards will break by stepping on them a little, they will creek more than the others
These are the videos I think you do best, the ones that show what you love about gaming and how enjoyable these experiences can be. Keep up the good work dude.
I remember when I first played this game back in 2006. The graphics blew my mind. In fact, it was my first time 360 game.
Hahaha for real I remember thinking this was one of the best games I have ever played, I was addicted to this game, beat the campaign about 7 times and the multiplayer nonstop
Just replayed this original Gears on the 360. Can say this review nails all the points of why this game was and still is a masterpiece. Well written and edited. 👏
Up so late grinding the multiplayer, getting those sniper headshots was satisfying.
Plus that shotty boy. I miss og epic
I loved the sound of their heads popping. No other shooter I played felt as rewarding to hit a headshot except Resident evil 5 oddly enough.
Gears of War came out in an era where you had only a couple of major AAA releases per year. This was a perfect environment for making the game as good as possible, so it would review well and sell to a garaunteed market.
Nowadays, there is so many choices in games, and even so many choices in platforms, that you see the current climate of developing a game that will monetize a smaller player base for a lot more money.
The super special gamer pic you get for beating gears 1-3 on all difficulties is a good mention. You get some custom avatar stuff too. When i got the gamer pic that small token was worth so much to me. I have been counting down the days until the next gears game. Especially after the major cliffhanger at the end of 4.
I could cry watching this. So many great memories playing this game as a kid. Time really does fly.
Oh yeah getting the grenade successfully into the emergency hole was so satisfying 🙂
It may of been said but in Act 3 when you're walking over the weak wood, you have to listen for the distint cracking sound, and a slight vibration in your controller.
Yea when Gears first dropped on 360 was like the golden age of multiplayer. We used to talk so much shit back then almost too fun
yo do u still play?
acb player I sure do as my main game but lately been on mk11
@@thegamekang do u play gears 1 versus mode?
acb player yea i play gears ue
@@thegamekang i play gears 1 2007 versus do u have steam?
This is the best video on RUclips about the greatest game of a generation. You and I feel the exact same way about this game and damn I appreciate that
The mechanic’s in this game was butter.
The way you moved, took cover threw grenades etc was amazing. There hasn’t been a game like this.
Thanks for finally fixing your lighting and audio dude. Gears of war was the game that made me want to upgrade to a 360 back in the day. The ad campaign for that game with the song "Mad World" is something that'll stick with me forever.
gears of war was a marvel upon release. the only way i can describe it, it was like going from an xbox 360 to the xbox one. the art style, the tech it was built on, the gloomy mood (got you downright in a depressing mood). it was just fantastic. the multiplayer was fun (and even creepy, especially on dark maps) god it was a blast. i remember spending the whole summer playing nothing but gears multiplayer, when i was a pre teen, listenting to grown adults trash talk me and own me and just smiling the whole time LOL. it was right around when i finaly had good enough itnernet to enjoy online games to. it was a perfect storm that got me into online games.
This video made me so hyped for gears 5. Honestly can't wait. Great video cleanprince👍
Man, the Beserker fights in Gears 1 are so much better than in the followups. It adds a sense of terror and skill needing to bait the Beserker into an area you can use the Hammer on it, and only being able to use the Hammer. It felt like it cheapened the Beserker in the later games when you were able to heat it up with a flamethrower then shoot it.
Gears 1-3 will always be some of the best shooters I’ve ever played. Fun universe and addicting gameplay. The online gnashes battles gave you adrenaline that really wasn’t matched by anything
I remember playing gears of war on release, and my dad thought he was watching a movie at first. Gears was never one of my favorite series, but I love that it continues to exist and pump out releases. Ill keep playing them, even if only for the campaign
Same! Not a hard-core gears fan but I play them
This was amazing!!! It was a very nice treat! Thank you!!
Awesome! Thank you for making this. Can’t wait for gears 2 :D
I loved this game so much , the co op aspect was outstanding . When horde mode came out in part 2 I couldn’t get enough .
I think it was smart to take away the aiming reticle while blind firing . As it makes it more realistic . A lot of games give you pinpoint accuracy through a reticle when blind firing and it was very smart , not to do this . And I love the feeling of intensity that is felt throughout the game , especially when the enemy rushes you ! Gears is a great game and perhaps one of my favorite 3rd person shooter series ! I only hope we see this series grow more and more !
You better talk about my boy Benjamin in that Gears 2 video.
the way the locust know where Delta is going, is when you see RAAM with the cog soldier he listens in on his helmet and hears through anya where they are going to capture the train and lower the bridge
The fight with the Brumak was actually unique to the PC version for years until the release of Ultimate Edition for Windows 10 and Xbox One - which is why you didn't remember the sequence going into it.
It's funny, the wretches attack scene in the hallway, which you said the Lancer was not the best choice, is actually the very much the best weapon there
Because you can cheese the engine there because they have no projectile weapons.
You just hold down B (rev Lancer chainsaw) and hold left.
Hold B and left, you spin on the spot and the wretches just run into your chainsaw.
They can't interrupt the chain saw sequence!
They just stand there waiting their turn for evisceration! 🤣🤣🤣
A shotgun stomp is a one hit kill too and much quicker :p
Ooh! A Gears video!
The Beserker's first appearance made me shit myself... It's 2nd and 3rd later on made me shit AND piss myself... Horror isn't my cup of tea when it comes to games, but the terror I felt for that enemy was something I miss in the GOW universe.
Could you do the same nostalgic type of video for Kane & Lynch series? There is a lot that can be said about this franchise starting with a determined obsession of IOI to stick to a grounded realistic tone to their immense cinephile background which, in most part, was a definining factor in how the series looked
From the Mad World trailer, to the countless hours spent in Multiplayer, to running co-op multiple times, GOW1 was one of my most loved games I've played. I've spent so many hours online with friends I still have today running MP when I wasn't busy with college classes. Gears 2 began to lose me, and after that it was never really the same for me. As with Halo, I still enjoyed the storyline, but the MP lost appeal to me. Nostalgia kicks hard whenever I get to watch anything about games that came out around this time. I love it!
My absolute FAVORITE game series, number 1, the best!
Thank you for this video. I was waiting for something like this 👌. Looking forward for the rest on the Gears series!
Great vid!! Would love to see you tackle the 2nd GOW next!
Audio balance gets messed up from 36:25-36:54
My first Gears was Gears 2 and I have to say this is one of my favorite game series of all time. Made it through a 50 round horde mode with 1 friend over a summer and it’s one of my fondest gaming experiences
always top quality content thank you... i remember getting this game for Christmas and was blown away by everything this game had to offer my favorite Xbox franchise
Anyone else absolutely LOVE the beats in the background of these videos?
It's a extra content bit with the Brumak that wasn't in the 360 release.
36:24 Audio mixing on point
Scared the shit out of me not gonna lie
Yeah I played through Gears 1 with my friend about 15 times back in the day, awesome, awesome game.. great vid dude..
One thing I disagree with is showing Queen Myrrha at the end of the remaster. If you play them all in order, it takes away from the reveal in Gears 3
yo lmao i was like "wtf i dont remember them showing her o.O" im so glad i read the comments lol i remember her talking but not being shown
That Forrest Gump Frank Ocean instrumental at the end was worth the jump scares in audio editing around 36 minutes in.
Good work
dont remember the Brumak fight... is that just in the remastered version or did i completely forget???
EDIT: yes the version you played is totally different the queen isnt even in the ending, her monologue is but scourge is there instead.
Doesn't even look like Skorge.
Were there any differences in the PC version or ultimate version from the 360 version? I don't remember that Brumak fight in act 5. Also, I remember not being able to beat Raam on the highest difficulty level because Dom wouldn't last 5 seconds.
What a fantastic video !!!
Gears of war was what got us an Xbox 360, remember seeing the Mad world advert for the first time and thought what was that !!! ever since then Gears has become part of life, have met some amazing people through the game and still this day talk and play with them still on Gears 4.
We loved Gears so much we started our channel just to show and support the Gears of War community which at the most time is very salty and toxic but deep down we all love Gears.
Our biggest highlight has been being recognised by Rod Furgesson himself and also getting to meet the guys from Coalition studios it's been an honour to represent Gears of War and we hope the franchise continues.
If you're a Gears fan then 2019 is going to be an amazing year !!
Gears of war was one of my favorite franchises. It had a beginning, middle, and end with Gears 3 (the best gears of war). I lost interest with Gears 4. It was a blatant milk of the franchise and felt hallow and contradicted everything in the previous game.
Jonny B I put gears 3 above 2 because it improved a lot of the game mechanics. It was abysmal trying to find a multiplayer game in gears 2 and gears 3 made it soooooooo much faster to find a game. You’d be searching for 15 min just to find a game in gears 2 and god help you if the host left. I also liked the campaign better in gears 3. They recognized the problems with gears 2 and fixed them and improved upon them in gears 3.
Jonny B LACKLUSTER?!?! You get revenge for Dom, You get a touching moment between Marcus and Adam fenix who dies moments later, you finally kill Mera, and you and your squad save Sera. To me it was one hell of a bang to end Gears
Brief Keef we’ll see
xdanman 117 Gears 4 didn’t contradict anything. It’s a good continuation in my opinion. Are the characters as good as the Original Delta Squad? No but they are Ok.
Lewis Connor it contradicts the finale on gears 3 with what Marcus’ dad did. He killed off the locust horde, they’re all gone, dead, the war ended. Gears 4 is like “nahhh they didn’t really all die”
I appreciate the time and effort into these long videos. Keep up the good work
HELL YEAH! it was 2006, I had just got my first xbox 360 and this was the game I got for it. Great fucking day.
6:14 I have totally disagree with you on that. Not all deaths are the players fault especially in the first one. Doms AI is atrocious! Just replayed the Ultimate Edition and that guy got killed 3 times during the Beserker bit, causing you to fail. Also when exploring he sometimes takes cover inside a door frame and trapped me inside a room. He also likes to walk in front of shots. Twice he killed me when he walked in front of my Boomer shots, oh I was near death and he killed me with a Torque Bow round that was stuck in him. Also he gets downed to much and I've died reviving him.
The original Gears of War on my elite white xbox 360 with a chrome disc tray was special. It was one of the darkest and mature games I'd played at the time. It was crazy fun and when you first fight the berserker with the hammer of dawn it scared the crap out of me.
I love Gears of War so much that I have lost count of how many times I have finished Gears of War 1, 2, 3 and Judgment, co-op or by myself. Gears of War 3 is still on my top 3 online games I played the most on XBox 360, lovely times
Where's my Gears 2 video?!!! hahah good video dude.
I remember getting Gears and was shocked how good it looked! These big chunky characters moving with weight slamming into cover and filling locust with lead! U felt like u were really hitting a creature made of flesh, I don't like the robots in Gears 4 btw, campaign I played Gears for but enjoyed horde in later games
Just wanted to point out that the game asks for co-op in certain missions in order to make it more fun for two or more players, this also allows a more full experience
is that act 5 section only for hardcore and extreme? Cause i swear i didn't see that stuff or have to go against that monster with the rockets
I think the reason why gears of war was and is so good is because of the character and the lore. Theres so much lore here that youre like woah that's sick and woah that's different. The characters also make the game even better because you feel connected to them when you loose one in the story. Gears has and always will be up there with halo in my opinion.
I still have my Gears of War 1-3 360 version and still in great condition
Gears of War 2 has the best multiplayer. Played it consistently for about 6 years.
Complete garbage bro casuals think gears 2 gameplay is best
Hey! I know I’m just one dude but it’s really cool to see these kinds of videos because it seems like every “game” video now a day seems to shit on what’s going on now. It’s great to revisit the past.
"The squad is your weapon!"- Republic Commando
32:24 the reason you don't remember that part of act 5 is because the original Xbox 360 release didn't have it. The Act 5 for the original 360 started with Comedy of Errors as it's 1st chapter.
Impasse and the Brumak fight was added in for the PC version port only on GFWL later on.
As we all know, GFWL didn't exactly work out.
Ultimate Edition was built directly from the source code for the GFWL PC version of the game and ported to console.
They also added the Queen in the last cutscene, the 1st game just had her voicover with what looked like RAAM's brother sitting atop the reaver with a scarf around his neck.
This game was what put me on the path of playing hardcore competitive shooters. I put so much time into learning how to play Gears of War 1 and I still love the franchise.
I played through this game so many times with friends in high school. It started being a weekend thing we would do. We would pop in the disk Friday night after school and play through the campaign then pass the controllers to the next people. Getting high and playing GoW, good times.
I love your retrospective(?) videos! Maybe some metal gear ones would be cool. But keep doing what you’re doing man.
Yeah of course the first Gears of War still holds up. It is also the first ever video game I played with a controller (when I was 5 years old).
Gears of war has aged well. Comparing it to heavy micro transaction games of today. I love jumping for an hour or two from time to time and just enjoying the original trilogy. No need for additional purchases or frustration behind an unnecessary pay wall
Me and my brother have bonded over the Gears saga we still love gears of war from first playing gears 2 :)
Nice thorough analysis of the game. Great job