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It's fun to reminisce, but not even really a question. Gears 1 was one of the great innovators of cover based third person shooters and gears 2 and 3 are among my all time favorites. I even enjoyed judgement, even though some people gave it a lot of crap.
People seem to have forgotten how revolutionary Gears or War was. The graphics were the best of its time. The 3rd person control set a new standard. The multiplayer was amazing. And oh my god… that first Berserker was absolute nightmare fuel. Every gamer was rightfully talking about this amazing game.
@@EdwinCloude people seem to really prefer ps5 to xbox nowadays, but you're right, xbox 360 exclusives like halo 3 and the gears of war series were amazing back in the day
@@Concerned.Citizen Whilst that does bear some truth, I have the luxury of owning them both and let me tell you Xbox has playstation beat in both hardware and timed exclusive. The graphics compared to ps5 is beautiful on top of ray tracing with most modern games you also get use Dolby vision and also Dolby Atmos which you can't use with ps5, the loading times are far faster then the ps5 and you can also have a load of games downloaded at once without the need of an expansion unlike again the ps5. And playstation this generation is baron for timed exclusive, it's been mainly one remaster after the other, yeah we got Spide-rman 2 and god of war Ragnarok, but Spider-Man 2 is a gloryfied dlc pushed as a what? An actual game much like modern warfare 3 last year. Yeah I love both playstation and Xbox but this generation Xbox back handing PlayStation out of the baseball game in every single way I just mentioned....
Same, glad they at least ditched those garbage sequels for the time being. I personally don't care about what happens next. Always made more sense to make prequels. So many untold stories.
Gears 2 was peak gaming. The convoy to Landown, and battle for Jacinto plateau whilst Dom is hysterically trying to find his wife. Easily one of the best games of that generation. ITS A GIANT WORM.
I miss my Friend...we completed Gears 1 ,2 and 3 on insane difficulty together.. We also beat halo 1,2 and 3 on legendary.. Hes still alive we just don't talk anymore
One of my fondest gaming memories was playing this entire trilogy with my first ever xbox buddy. Back when the only worry we had was how long we can survive in horde mode. Now we don't even speak to each other but anybody reading this knows how that goes. Great video as always Matty, and thanks for unlocking some memories of simpler times..
i had such a buddy also/ we played all coop that we could find on 360/ gears, army of two, resident evil5, Kane & Lynch ...actually we contacted this year and started to play helldivers2 from time to time...) it's never late to reach out and talk. I've found out that a bunch of my old friends from school (20 years passed since then) play helldivers 2...
@@bixhutch6274well we won’t really see Baird, Cole, Carmine, or Sam… They haven’t met them yet in the prequel. Maybe a scene to see what Baird and Cole were doing, but that’s about it
@@Justalilcyn I know they technically “interacted” in Judgement. But they first met, and saw each-other face to face in Gears 1, as Marcus questioned whether Damon was “Baird” and that he came to protect them.
Gears of war 3 is the only game that I ever picked up at a midnight release. I played it all night with my best friend and brother into the early morning hours and even called off of work the following day to continue playing. We all did. My best friend, brother and I played out the story and the Dom moment still sticks with me. We were all quiet and took a little break after that moment. It is the only video game to ever make me tear up, that moment hit hard. My best friend passed away on Feb 29,2020. I put my copy of gears 3 in his casket and have not played that game since. RIP Llama, I miss you brother.
Everyone owes it to themselves to play these masterpieces and experience an amazing story and gameplay! So many cool enemies, weapons, and memorable moments that defined a generation and continue to do so today!
Dizzy’s voice actor will always be unforgettable to me and the lines they gave him in gears of war 2. In a dark world they found a way to sprinkle just the right amount of humor in.
i remember one christmas all i asked for was gears of war my father didnt really have the money at the time woke up on christmas morning playing gears of war he made it happen waited outside on black friday for it thanks pops for the memory
The GOW2 theme music gives me huge nostalgia. Reminds me of being a kid living at my mums house. I remember one particular day I was poorly and had a sick day off school, spent the whole day in bed playing GOW2 campaign and can still remember my mum bringing me tomato soup with warm buttered crusty bread up to my room that day. Very happy memories indeed.
Yes, yes it is. I don't know the person experiencing it for the first time, but when I played the game in the 2000's it meant alot. The campaign was amazing, the co-op excellent, and multiplayer was so competitive. Such an iconic game and series. Don't even get me started on Horde mode Edit: you can play most Gears game on 60 fps on Xbox by going into game details
Gamestation, Lincoln UK. September 2011. I bought Gears 3 on my first and only ever midnight launch for a game. I bought the game and the red controller. What a night!
i was a senior in high school when Gears 1 came out. I remember my friends and i talking about it. We were all blown away by how insane the graphics were. It's definitly aged but its cool to go back and think man, these were cutting edge back then. Still not a bad looking game though even these days.
That 512MB meant the Xbox 360 could support party chat, whereas the PS3 at 256MB couldn't. If it wasn't for Epic Games and GOW1 we wouldn't have had that feature. Gears was also one of the first to introduce Horde mode. These days it is an iconic feature for some many games.
True point, however, party chat didn't exist until the NXE update in 2008. There was however a private chat you could use, but I believe it only worked for 1 on 1 conversations. I'm sure the RAM boost also helped make game chat more viable for pretty much every game with an online multiplayer mode, for better or for worse (good old MW2 lobbies).
I have a special place in my heart for Gears. We finally got good enough internet to play online - came home from school, created my Xbox Live profile and joined my friends online for Gears 2. My first ever online game. A splendid time was had, particularly with horde and campaign co-op. Staying up until dawn trying to finish it on the hardest difficulty in one sitting. Amazing times.
When Gears 1 came out I was working 3rd shift and I was 19. All I did was play that game until I had to sleep for work. I was constantly in the top 100 for the war zone mode. I would anger people so badly because I would frag tag people and alway seem to get away. People hated it and it just made me do it more. I loved that game and the multi-player modes too.
GOW was so far ahead of its time, the very first game still looks pretty amazing. i can only imagine what the next game is going to like like i cant wait
GOW trilogy is pure simple gaming joy. Not everything needs to be a 50 hour RPG. I love those short 10 hour epic action packed campaigns. And the characters and story were sneaky good as well. It just rules.
Gears is one of the best series in gaming. And the Xbox360 (and PS3) generation was the best generation. I don't think any other generation has had so many games, not to mention complete series, that went on to be legendary, beloved pieces of gaming history. The 360 generation is to gaming what the 80s is to general pop culture. It's that era that will live on forever in our hearts and culture will never fully move on from because it just has that much hold on all of us.
I’ll never forget my friend in high school asking if I played gears I replied no what is it and his response was “you play as a steroid solider and saw giant monsters in half it’s awesome”
Other awesome 360 trilogies in addition to Gears, the Mass Effect trilogy, the AC Ezio trilogy, and the BioShock trilogy, 2000 to 2015 was the best era for creative & quality gaming in general.
Gears of War is my fathers most favourite game series. He has played it in coop with my sister, my brother, me and my partner. He playes the games nearly every year again. Everytime i see content of gears of war, i think of my father. ❤
I got gears of war 2 two days ago. I played it years ago but never finished my hardcore playthrough, until yesterday. These games aged really well. Sure the 1st one is a bit clunky but the rest is really holding up well.
I definitely agree about the greatness of the 360 era and the Gears franchise! And coincidentally I recently replayed through All of the Gears campaigns for the first time in several years, And surprisingly Judgment has aged very well, and the campaign seemed much better than I remembered, and Gears 5 definitely has the worst campaign COMPARATIVELY.
Gears gave me some great memories, less so the games though I enjoyed them a lot & more playing it with friends or going to midnight launch events. I specifically remember Gears 2 launch as I brought a monitor & my 360 to play 1v1 multiplayer in split-screen with everyone while we waited in a tournament style. I also did a 24 hour stream of Gears 3 horde mode for charity with 3 friends & had a Burmak teleport behind us at one point because it glitched after getting stuck.
Yes. Yes absolutely, my father who is a stereotypical “I used to play outside all day blah blah blah” boomer sat down with me when I was younger and asked if he could play it with me because he thought it looked cool. We played Gears of War 1, 2, and 3 together.
Gears was the main reason I bought a 360 and has been the only reason I bought the xbox one and the series x. The story is good, horde us fantastic and the multi-player was always a blast and I still play gears 5 periodically. Awesome series
I recently, like a week ago, came back to these games. It had been years since I played. I honestly forgot about Gears totally….but I saw the trailer, and everything came back…all the memories of horde mode with the homies, slugging through the campaigns, the first time I chainsawed a locust(dad loved that shit). Gears 1-3 are still fan-fuckin-tastic!
Gears of war was such a special franchise to me growing up. attempting to explain how amazing the xbox 360 and this trilogy was will never do it justice. You just had to be there.
Yes, yes they were. I replayed each of the original trilogy three times over the last four years with my girlfriend. They were just as good now as they were when I originally played them on the 360. The games were technically amazing, the visuals were incredible and it was the only real series which nailed 3rd person shooting at the time. It was soo good that Bioware just straight up copied it for Mass Effect 2 and 3. Gnasher battles online were just awesome.
Ima Gears of War vet been in love with the franchise since day one and I've gotten my friend who has never played a Gears of War game ever to play through it and we're doing it CO OP and my God. The Nostalgia I get whilst he is experiencing it for the first time, is just a weird feeling and his "grenade everything" mentality taught me something new I never even considered to do ever in Gears of War 1, during the encounter with the Beserker to toss grenades at the doors. I spent years, bloody years using the Beserker to break the doors down and my homie comes along and blows up a door with grenades accidently. I was flabbergasted and was constantly tripping over my words by that revelation almost two decades later, wish I had known that back in '06.... Would have helped a lot back then on Insane difficulty... I was ashamed of myself for not finding that out sooner LMAO!
I personally think that you should do retrospectives on games that aren't releasing new sequels, too. There some really cool games that need some spotlight, too. Dark cloud, the OG god of wars, the full metal alchemist games, the budokai games, tenkaichi games, etc.
Gears jugment isn’t as bad as ppl say PSA. Great ideas for innovating the franchise just not the best execution. Story was decent . And “declassifying” missions for added challenge was really cool also
Agree. I just hated they got rid of classic Gears controls for a more Cod-style oriented movement set, but beside that, it had great ideas such as declassified missions and the enemy dynamic respawn system. Also, it was the graphic peak of the time.
7:00 Many games from that era get criticized for being brown and grey and looking the same but I don't think Gears deserves that criticism, the lack of colors in Gears of War perfectly fit the setting and tone of the game. I actually think modern games might have the opposite problem now, it feels like almost every game is very colorful and vibrant now and they all look the same.
Superb video. Gears 1 is my personal favourite - it just pulls you along at breakneck pace through it's campaign, and you never know what is around the corner.
Saying up all night with my brother and cousin playing hord mode. Starting at 8pm and getting off at 5am. That time created a lot of good memories together
Gears 1 has a special place in my heart, when it came out my uncle was deployed in Iraq and for some reason they couldn’t call home, but they could play gears multiplayer when they were at base, some of my favorite memories was being one of those cracked kids absolutely demolishing some army infantry guys and them getting so mad but absolutely loving it, later I found out they had bets going on who could kill me with like mres and shit 😂
Gears was freaking awesome. That first game with the Xbox 360 kept me and my best friend occupied for a LONG time. We used to blaze up and beat the campaign on co-op mode over and over again.
Great video, the original Gears Of War trilogy will always hold a special place. Still have my original CIB games bought back in the day and will never get rid of them. Gears of War 6 looks great and I hope it plays like these first 3 classics.
It's crazy I played Gears 1 & 2 first time in my life two years ago and they still blew me away. Gears 2 had so many incredible set pieces and vehicle based levels. The mine carts in Gears 1 + level moving light source to light source also stood out I think about them more than most modern games and can't wait to finish Gears 3 soon.
You didn’t mention how resident evil 4 and killswitch were huge influences on gears of wars shooting and cover mechanics. Re4 defined the 3rd person over the shoulder mechanic that helped shape gears into a great shooter.
my favorite game ever is GOW3, i remember getting it at Midnight release (remember those?) and was blown away by it, it was a real addiction playing Horde and leveling up in the Ranks. "Trenches" was an incredible map when that loud horn would blast and the sandstorm came!🥺 i agree the 360 and ps3 era was the best time
This franchise is probably the one I love the most, I remember being gifted a Xbox 360 by my older brother back in 2014 and at the time, the 9 year old me never heard of the series before it took me at least a couple of months before me and my cousin decided that we've wanted to play something else instead of Minecraft, so we tried out gears of war 3 and, I've never felt so bad about myself for not trying it earlier, since the first 2 hours of gameplay I've already know that I wanted more about that universe. nowadays it's safe to say that those hours I've spent beating every single game of the series were probably some of the best I've had in my life, and the fact that most people who played them agreed with this thoughts just makes it better
Although most people preferred Halo I wanted to be edgy and go with the game that had a gun with a chainsaw attached to it, and that choice single handily kept me on Xbox most of my life. And with E-Day in the works I’m thinking about getting a Xbox again just to see one of my favorite gaming duos again.
I really miss the old school manuals with games, I used to spend so much time just going through them, it added so much more to the disc versions of them
This trilogy was my entry to online multiplayer and what a time we had man the 360 was such a good console, what happened, we havent hit that peak since!
So true about co-op, especially couch co-op, not being prevalent in today’s games. Got so many great memories of my brother and I playing through campaigns co-op together where now they expect each kid to have their own console and games… so sad
Another thing that isn't mentioned nearly as often as it should, is that GoW was one of the first games to actually have great diversity of races with an absolute lack of bad stereotypes. Here in Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) it was an absolute hit from the start because we could identify with the whole cast, plus we actually got an absolutely fantastic dub, too.
I still remember playing gears of war for the first time. That was the first game from that generation that looked next gen. I thought graphics wouldn’t get any better after that lol.
Glad Gears is getting the proper love & respect it deserves again. Even the worst Gears game is at least "very good." I know people didn't like moving to Kait, but I still had a lot of fun with Gears 5. It's been said many times, but just look how well Gears 5 holds up today. The Coalition "magic" is real.
Love the video bro! Replaying all the Gears from my teenage years and I’m loving it! How do you hook up the Xbox to a old TV like that? It looks awesome!
The answer is yes. The original trilogy, had a phenomenal development team that brought full games with great campaigns, awesome multiplayer and innovative third modes (horde). In my opinion Gears 1, 2 and 3 are up there with the likes of Mass Effect and I know the game is linear shooter but it was so well written. And Gears 3 Multiplayer? OMG - fucking awesome. Judgement and the new trilogy (even though it's in progress) dont quite hit that same itch that the original did. These games each have their own issues also but overall a step back. With that said. Super excited for E-Day.
I remember being at a GameStop demo kiosk and trying the gears of war 1 demo and thinking this is the most beautiful game I've ever seen and graphics cannot get better than this 😭
the first 3 games is a cohesive story with compelling and well developped characters and the universe is awesome. IMO the first 3 games are among the best trilogy in gaming.
To answer your question YES YES YES YES YES YES! 1-3 and I'll even throw in 4 because it was actually good but yeah 1-3 was a masterpiece of storytelling and gameplay. I actually tear up just from watching the trailers because of what I've been through with the story of the games. This is peak gaming man.
Would be so great if they released the remastered collection alongside e-days release, the new trailer also shows exactly why they all had to beef up due to how strong and overpowering the enemy was.
Bro that first mission in gears 1 the first door you opened to see them bodies hanging had me messed up as a kid! I never had seen something look so graphic/real in a video game beforehand
This was my favorite trilogy for a long time...i bought the special edition 360 controller and used it until it stopped working...and Horde 2.0 was the best horde ive ever played
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@@Ifeoluwaogunnusi his name is retro rebound
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@@Ifeoluwaogunnusi you're the man!
It's fun to reminisce, but not even really a question. Gears 1 was one of the great innovators of cover based third person shooters and gears 2 and 3 are among my all time favorites. I even enjoyed judgement, even though some people gave it a lot of crap.
The fact Gears of War, a series i grew up with alongside Halo are now considered retro makes me feel old as shit lol
I grew up with the 2600, NES, Genesis and SNES......how do you think I feel? :P
@@snakebite6x6x6me and you can talk on museum podium 😂😂😂 Sega Genesis was my childhood
I wish time travel was possible
@@snakebite6x6x6Same lol. still, these games being retro makes me really feel the passing of time
seriously though... lol
People seem to have forgotten how revolutionary Gears or War was.
The graphics were the best of its time. The 3rd person control set a new standard. The multiplayer was amazing. And oh my god… that first Berserker was absolute nightmare fuel.
Every gamer was rightfully talking about this amazing game.
People forget how revolutionary Xbox was at a certain point in general. Their contributions to online gaming get overlooked all the time.
@@EdwinCloude people seem to really prefer ps5 to xbox nowadays, but you're right, xbox 360 exclusives like halo 3 and the gears of war series were amazing back in the day
@@Concerned.Citizen Whilst that does bear some truth, I have the luxury of owning them both and let me tell you Xbox has playstation beat in both hardware and timed exclusive.
The graphics compared to ps5 is beautiful on top of ray tracing with most modern games you also get use Dolby vision and also Dolby Atmos which you can't use with ps5, the loading times are far faster then the ps5 and you can also have a load of games downloaded at once without the need of an expansion unlike again the ps5.
And playstation this generation is baron for timed exclusive, it's been mainly one remaster after the other, yeah we got Spide-rman 2 and god of war Ragnarok, but Spider-Man 2 is a gloryfied dlc pushed as a what? An actual game much like modern warfare 3 last year.
Yeah I love both playstation and Xbox but this generation Xbox back handing PlayStation out of the baseball game in every single way I just mentioned....
@@matanfgaming640 I was only talking about the consumer demand.
Ps5 has outsold series x/s about 2-1
@@Concerned.Citizen still doesn't change the facts now does it?
A-Train ??? You must mean Private Augustus Cole, the Cole Train!!
Matty has been watching The Boys too much lately 🤣
@@JesSheridan that's what I was thinking when he kept calling Cole A-train
RUNS ON WHOLE GRAIN
or A-Train from WWE ?
WHOOOO!!!!
Gears 1-3 is my favorite trilogy in gaming.
The good old days
Better than mass effect?
Great take!
GOW3 is my fav of all spent many hours leveling up in Horde
Me and my buddy, Lewis, R.I.P. did them all on co-op insane. Good times.
Who’s here after seeing that E Day trailer?
It is brutal dude
Yes! Xbox fans finally get a good showing baby! Lets trucking (can’t cuss) GOOOOO
Yes! Xbox fans finally get a good showing baby! Lets trucking (can’t cuss) GOOOOO
Damn right
Same, glad they at least ditched those garbage sequels for the time being. I personally don't care about what happens next. Always made more sense to make prequels. So many untold stories.
Gears 2 was peak gaming. The convoy to Landown, and battle for Jacinto plateau whilst Dom is hysterically trying to find his wife. Easily one of the best games of that generation. ITS A GIANT WORM.
Top 5 games of all time
I played it today actually
Horde mode alone was a masterpiece
I'm playing it today, in my old Xbox 360 fat
THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT. WORM!
Don't forget the buildup to New Hope
I miss my Friend...we completed Gears 1 ,2 and 3 on insane difficulty together..
We also beat halo 1,2 and 3 on legendary..
Hes still alive we just don't talk anymore
ok lmao
It's time to make that connection again
Show up at his house with a boombox playing the title theme.
Same here ! More than one😢
its called growing up friend my xbox friend list is full of players that that havnt been online for years we used to play gears 2 every night
I remember my dad saying “This isn’t Halo, you can’t just run out and shoot.”
Lol okay dad
*get wrecked*
He was correct.
How is this comment 2 days old and the video just 14 hours ? 🤯
@@RustyEvolution early access Patreon babyyyy
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One of my fondest gaming memories was playing this entire trilogy with my first ever xbox buddy. Back when the only worry we had was how long we can survive in horde mode. Now we don't even speak to each other but anybody reading this knows how that goes. Great video as always Matty, and thanks for unlocking some memories of simpler times..
Same for me, no responsibilities and it felt like the sun was always shining.
i had such a buddy also/ we played all coop that we could find on 360/ gears, army of two, resident evil5, Kane & Lynch ...actually we contacted this year and started to play helldivers2 from time to time...) it's never late to reach out and talk. I've found out that a bunch of my old friends from school (20 years passed since then) play helldivers 2...
@@chanwooksook Kane & Lynch is sooooo underrated
bro called Cole Train A-Train
The A Train runs on whole grain
I respect the planning to drop this with the announcement. Great video too, 10/10
Hoping this is great after the trash that infinite became
Matty can’t let you get away with call Cole “A-Train”….its Cole Train baby! WOOOOOO!
Sir. His name is retro rebound.
@@armandomorales0921 His name is Matty though. 😂
I’m so glad that they’re doing a prequel tbh. Just want to see some of the boys again
The boys are in the new ones lol.
@@bixhutch6274well we won’t really see Baird, Cole, Carmine, or Sam…
They haven’t met them yet in the prequel. Maybe a scene to see what Baird and Cole were doing, but that’s about it
@@bixhutch6274The boys are not, you can't have the boys without Dom
@@ThePilleroflightningBarid and Marcus actually did interact, Baird's squad saved Marcus' a bit after E-day
@@Justalilcyn I know they technically “interacted” in Judgement. But they first met, and saw each-other face to face in Gears 1, as Marcus questioned whether Damon was “Baird” and that he came to protect them.
Matty was expecting a gears of war trilogy remaster 100%
Sir, his name is retro rebound!
i'm still waiting on the Nintendo D review
I was too 🥲🫠 but still excited for E-Day
lol most people were
Yeah, I wanted to see the remasters and hear in a press release they're also coming to PS5. But E-Day is the next best thing!
Seeing Doms hand reach out to Marcus in that E-Day trailer yesterday was the happiest moment of my life.
Gears of war 3 is the only game that I ever picked up at a midnight release. I played it all night with my best friend and brother into the early morning hours and even called off of work the following day to continue playing. We all did. My best friend, brother and I played out the story and the Dom moment still sticks with me. We were all quiet and took a little break after that moment. It is the only video game to ever make me tear up, that moment hit hard. My best friend passed away on Feb 29,2020. I put my copy of gears 3 in his casket and have not played that game since. RIP Llama, I miss you brother.
Everyone owes it to themselves to play these masterpieces and experience an amazing story and gameplay! So many cool enemies, weapons, and memorable moments that defined a generation and continue to do so today!
Dizzy’s voice actor will always be unforgettable to me and the lines they gave him in gears of war 2. In a dark world they found a way to sprinkle just the right amount of humor in.
My favorite line from him is, "Don't worry, I've got your back like a butt crack."
Is that Marcus Fenix?!?!? Well I'll be damned son, you sure got a pair of hangers on ya
"Family got the groceries, daddy got conscripted. Life's a bitch like that" best line hands down
'Let me light Betty's titties for you' or something like that. My fav quote 😂
i remember one christmas all i asked for was gears of war my father didnt really have the money at the time woke up on christmas morning playing gears of war he made it happen waited outside on black friday for it thanks pops for the memory
The GOW2 theme music gives me huge nostalgia. Reminds me of being a kid living at my mums house. I remember one particular day I was poorly and had a sick day off school, spent the whole day in bed playing GOW2 campaign and can still remember my mum bringing me tomato soup with warm buttered crusty bread up to my room that day. Very happy memories indeed.
Yes, yes it is. I don't know the person experiencing it for the first time, but when I played the game in the 2000's it meant alot. The campaign was amazing, the co-op excellent, and multiplayer was so competitive. Such an iconic game and series. Don't even get me started on Horde mode
Edit: you can play most Gears game on 60 fps on Xbox by going into game details
Gamestation, Lincoln UK. September 2011. I bought Gears 3 on my first and only ever midnight launch for a game. I bought the game and the red controller. What a night!
i was a senior in high school when Gears 1 came out. I remember my friends and i talking about it. We were all blown away by how insane the graphics were. It's definitly aged but its cool to go back and think man, these were cutting edge back then. Still not a bad looking game though even these days.
It hasn’t aged still as fun as ever and graphics look good even to this day
I replayed it last year. Still epic
That 512MB meant the Xbox 360 could support party chat, whereas the PS3 at 256MB couldn't. If it wasn't for Epic Games and GOW1 we wouldn't have had that feature.
Gears was also one of the first to introduce Horde mode. These days it is an iconic feature for some many games.
True point, however, party chat didn't exist until the NXE update in 2008. There was however a private chat you could use, but I believe it only worked for 1 on 1 conversations. I'm sure the RAM boost also helped make game chat more viable for pretty much every game with an online multiplayer mode, for better or for worse (good old MW2 lobbies).
I have a special place in my heart for Gears. We finally got good enough internet to play online - came home from school, created my Xbox Live profile and joined my friends online for Gears 2. My first ever online game. A splendid time was had, particularly with horde and campaign co-op. Staying up until dawn trying to finish it on the hardest difficulty in one sitting. Amazing times.
You and me both brother. Remember how good guardian was too!?
When Gears 1 came out I was working 3rd shift and I was 19. All I did was play that game until I had to sleep for work. I was constantly in the top 100 for the war zone mode. I would anger people so badly because I would frag tag people and alway seem to get away. People hated it and it just made me do it more. I loved that game and the multi-player modes too.
GOW was so far ahead of its time, the very first game still looks pretty amazing. i can only imagine what the next game is going to like like i cant wait
GOW trilogy is pure simple gaming joy. Not everything needs to be a 50 hour RPG. I love those short 10 hour epic action packed campaigns. And the characters and story were sneaky good as well. It just rules.
They're also games you can enjoy playing over and over again
perfect timing with the marcus origin story coming out XD
Aspho fields?
Still the wife’s and my favorite co op games. She excited to play as Dom again. She was crushed when he went bye bye.
Gears is one of the best series in gaming. And the Xbox360 (and PS3) generation was the best generation. I don't think any other generation has had so many games, not to mention complete series, that went on to be legendary, beloved pieces of gaming history. The 360 generation is to gaming what the 80s is to general pop culture. It's that era that will live on forever in our hearts and culture will never fully move on from because it just has that much hold on all of us.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: Yes, yes it is.
Man the GoW2 campaign was fantastic i nearly cried
I’ll never forget my friend in high school asking if I played gears I replied no what is it and his response was “you play as a steroid solider and saw giant monsters in half it’s awesome”
We didn't get that Trilogy remaster, Matty.
Other awesome 360 trilogies in addition to Gears, the Mass Effect trilogy, the AC Ezio trilogy, and the BioShock trilogy, 2000 to 2015 was the best era for creative & quality gaming in general.
Gears of War is my fathers most favourite game series. He has played it in coop with my sister, my brother, me and my partner. He playes the games nearly every year again. Everytime i see content of gears of war, i think of my father. ❤
The timing of this video was impeccable given that Gears of War: E-Day was announced yesterday.
*Chefs kiss*
I loved gears of war franchise growing up
The Ezio assassins creed trilogy is another one that we got in the life cycle of the Xbox 360
Ubisoft managed 8 Assassin's Creed during 7th gen consoles, 6 of which were AAA games.
I got gears of war 2 two days ago. I played it years ago but never finished my hardcore playthrough, until yesterday. These games aged really well. Sure the 1st one is a bit clunky but the rest is really holding up well.
I definitely agree about the greatness of the 360 era and the Gears franchise! And coincidentally I recently replayed through All of the Gears campaigns for the first time in several years, And surprisingly Judgment has aged very well, and the campaign seemed much better than I remembered, and Gears 5 definitely has the worst campaign COMPARATIVELY.
THE TIMING OUR BOYS ARE COMING BACK FOR ONE LAST MISSON UGHHHH MY HEART DOM MY BROTHER IN GEARS ARMS
Gears gave me some great memories, less so the games though I enjoyed them a lot & more playing it with friends or going to midnight launch events.
I specifically remember Gears 2 launch as I brought a monitor & my 360 to play 1v1 multiplayer in split-screen with everyone while we waited in a tournament style.
I also did a 24 hour stream of Gears 3 horde mode for charity with 3 friends & had a Burmak teleport behind us at one point because it glitched after getting stuck.
Yes.
Yes absolutely, my father who is a stereotypical “I used to play outside all day blah blah blah” boomer sat down with me when I was younger and asked if he could play it with me because he thought it looked cool.
We played Gears of War 1, 2, and 3 together.
Gears was the main reason I bought a 360 and has been the only reason I bought the xbox one and the series x. The story is good, horde us fantastic and the multi-player was always a blast and I still play gears 5 periodically. Awesome series
I recently, like a week ago, came back to these games. It had been years since I played. I honestly forgot about Gears totally….but I saw the trailer, and everything came back…all the memories of horde mode with the homies, slugging through the campaigns, the first time I chainsawed a locust(dad loved that shit). Gears 1-3 are still fan-fuckin-tastic!
Recently just dusted my xbox 360 off and currently playing through the trilogy again and having a absolute blast
20:28 if you get it, you get it🤣
Gears of war was such a special franchise to me growing up. attempting to explain how amazing the xbox 360 and this trilogy was will never do it justice. You just had to be there.
so true
Yes, yes they were. I replayed each of the original trilogy three times over the last four years with my girlfriend. They were just as good now as they were when I originally played them on the 360.
The games were technically amazing, the visuals were incredible and it was the only real series which nailed 3rd person shooting at the time. It was soo good that Bioware just straight up copied it for Mass Effect 2 and 3.
Gnasher battles online were just awesome.
Ima Gears of War vet been in love with the franchise since day one and I've gotten my friend who has never played a Gears of War game ever to play through it and we're doing it CO OP and my God. The Nostalgia I get whilst he is experiencing it for the first time, is just a weird feeling and his "grenade everything" mentality taught me something new I never even considered to do ever in Gears of War 1, during the encounter with the Beserker to toss grenades at the doors. I spent years, bloody years using the Beserker to break the doors down and my homie comes along and blows up a door with grenades accidently. I was flabbergasted and was constantly tripping over my words by that revelation almost two decades later, wish I had known that back in '06.... Would have helped a lot back then on Insane difficulty... I was ashamed of myself for not finding that out sooner LMAO!
I personally think that you should do retrospectives on games that aren't releasing new sequels, too.
There some really cool games that need some spotlight, too. Dark cloud, the OG god of wars, the full metal alchemist games, the budokai games, tenkaichi games, etc.
Man dark cloud was fun nvr got to finish it or play the 2nd one need to do it one day
God of War and tenkaichi are getting sequels though?
@atomickaiser1934 the OG trilogy from the ps2 era is what I mean.
Gears jugment isn’t as bad as ppl say PSA. Great ideas for innovating the franchise just not the best execution.
Story was decent . And “declassifying” missions for added challenge was really cool also
Wrong.
It is exactly as bad as people say gameplay and story
Right.
Agree. I just hated they got rid of classic Gears controls for a more Cod-style oriented movement set, but beside that, it had great ideas such as declassified missions and the enemy dynamic respawn system. Also, it was the graphic peak of the time.
Haha you said A-train at 21:03 instead of Cole Train
7:00 Many games from that era get criticized for being brown and grey and looking the same but I don't think Gears deserves that criticism, the lack of colors in Gears of War perfectly fit the setting and tone of the game. I actually think modern games might have the opposite problem now, it feels like almost every game is very colorful and vibrant now and they all look the same.
I definitely want to start playing this
its my fav game series
Superb video. Gears 1 is my personal favourite - it just pulls you along at breakneck pace through it's campaign, and you never know what is around the corner.
I met my best friend through Halo Reach but it was Gears that bonded us as Brothers 🤜🤛
good comment!
Saying up all night with my brother and cousin playing hord mode. Starting at 8pm and getting off at 5am. That time created a lot of good memories together
Those online chainsaw massacres , the sound of the headshots, those was the days , gears blew my teenage mind 🤩
Gears 1 has a special place in my heart, when it came out my uncle was deployed in Iraq and for some reason they couldn’t call home, but they could play gears multiplayer when they were at base, some of my favorite memories was being one of those cracked kids absolutely demolishing some army infantry guys and them getting so mad but absolutely loving it, later I found out they had bets going on who could kill me with like mres and shit 😂
Gears was freaking awesome. That first game with the Xbox 360 kept me and my best friend occupied for a LONG time. We used to blaze up and beat the campaign on co-op mode over and over again.
As a new fan of the Gears of War franchise yeah it is great.
20:33 did my guy just call The magnanimous Augustus Cole A-Train?
You did not call Cole Train, A-Train 🤣🤣🤣
Great video, the original Gears Of War trilogy will always hold a special place. Still have my original CIB games bought back in the day and will never get rid of them. Gears of War 6 looks great and I hope it plays like these first 3 classics.
Gears 3 multiplayer was heaven
That menu music @ 0:29 still gets me
It's crazy I played Gears 1 & 2 first time in my life two years ago and they still blew me away. Gears 2 had so many incredible set pieces and vehicle based levels. The mine carts in Gears 1 + level moving light source to light source also stood out
I think about them more than most modern games and can't wait to finish Gears 3 soon.
You didn’t mention how resident evil 4 and killswitch were huge influences on gears of wars shooting and cover mechanics. Re4 defined the 3rd person over the shoulder mechanic that helped shape gears into a great shooter.
my favorite game ever is GOW3, i remember getting it at Midnight release (remember those?) and was blown away by it, it was a real addiction playing Horde and leveling up in the Ranks. "Trenches" was an incredible map when that loud horn would blast and the sandstorm came!🥺 i agree the 360 and ps3 era was the best time
This franchise is probably the one I love the most, I remember being gifted a Xbox 360 by my older brother back in 2014 and at the time, the 9 year old me never heard of the series before it took me at least a couple of months before me and my cousin decided that we've wanted to play something else instead of Minecraft, so we tried out gears of war 3 and, I've never felt so bad about myself for not trying it earlier, since the first 2 hours of gameplay I've already know that I wanted more about that universe. nowadays it's safe to say that those hours I've spent beating every single game of the series were probably some of the best I've had in my life, and the fact that most people who played them agreed with this thoughts just makes it better
Although most people preferred Halo I wanted to be edgy and go with the game that had a gun with a chainsaw attached to it, and that choice single handily kept me on Xbox most of my life. And with E-Day in the works I’m thinking about getting a Xbox again just to see one of my favorite gaming duos again.
I hope once E Day is out and if successful enough a trilogy remaster is released.
the ODST music in the background while looking at the physical Gears boxes.. nostalgia hitting me like a brick right now
I really miss the old school manuals with games, I used to spend so much time just going through them, it added so much more to the disc versions of them
This trilogy was my entry to online multiplayer and what a time we had man the 360 was such a good console, what happened, we havent hit that peak since!
So true about co-op, especially couch co-op, not being prevalent in today’s games. Got so many great memories of my brother and I playing through campaigns co-op together where now they expect each kid to have their own console and games… so sad
Another thing that isn't mentioned nearly as often as it should, is that GoW was one of the first games to actually have great diversity of races with an absolute lack of bad stereotypes.
Here in Mexico (and the rest of Latin America) it was an absolute hit from the start because we could identify with the whole cast, plus we actually got an absolutely fantastic dub, too.
GOW2 has the best campaign in the series and GOW3’s multiplayer is still one of the best online experiences I’ve ever had.
Gears 5 is amazing too. Ive beat the game 4 times. Ive beat 1-3 probably 6 or 7 times. Will be playing them again before E day comes out.
i agree
Ha, nice try
A lot of people don't like 5 but I thought 5 played smoother than any of the prior games movement wise.
I still remember playing gears of war for the first time. That was the first game from that generation that looked next gen. I thought graphics wouldn’t get any better after that lol.
The tone of Gears of War: E-Day feels like a return to form and I couldn't be more excited.
Glad Gears is getting the proper love & respect it deserves again. Even the worst Gears game is at least "very good."
I know people didn't like moving to Kait, but I still had a lot of fun with Gears 5. It's been said many times, but just look how well Gears 5 holds up today. The Coalition "magic" is real.
Love the video bro! Replaying all the Gears from my teenage years and I’m loving it! How do you hook up the Xbox to a old TV like that? It looks awesome!
i was a child playing gears 3 on the xbox 360, i am now 19, i still play them to this day.
how did i go this long w/o knowing matty had another channel?
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I'm grateful to you for make this videos you always been honest person you tell the truth all of the time 👏 🙌
Finished GoW remaster last year. Currently playing 2 and yes, they are that good I'm giddy like a kid. Love it and now a new GoW ? Hell yeah
The answer is yes. The original trilogy, had a phenomenal development team that brought full games with great campaigns, awesome multiplayer and innovative third modes (horde).
In my opinion Gears 1, 2 and 3 are up there with the likes of Mass Effect and I know the game is linear shooter but it was so well written. And Gears 3 Multiplayer? OMG - fucking awesome.
Judgement and the new trilogy (even though it's in progress) dont quite hit that same itch that the original did. These games each have their own issues also but overall a step back. With that said. Super excited for E-Day.
I remember being at a GameStop demo kiosk and trying the gears of war 1 demo and thinking this is the most beautiful game I've ever seen and graphics cannot get better than this 😭
the first 3 games is a cohesive story with compelling and well developped characters and the universe is awesome. IMO the first 3 games are among the best trilogy in gaming.
To answer your question YES YES YES YES YES YES! 1-3 and I'll even throw in 4 because it was actually good but yeah 1-3 was a masterpiece of storytelling and gameplay. I actually tear up just from watching the trailers because of what I've been through with the story of the games. This is peak gaming man.
Would be so great if they released the remastered collection alongside e-days release, the new trailer also shows exactly why they all had to beef up due to how strong and overpowering the enemy was.
Bro that first mission in gears 1 the first door you opened to see them bodies hanging had me messed up as a kid! I never had seen something look so graphic/real in a video game beforehand
Can’t stop the COLE TRAIN BABY WOO WOO😭 seeing that E-day trailer made me feel like a kid again 😭
The cover system and dialogue are so good
This was my favorite trilogy for a long time...i bought the special edition 360 controller and used it until it stopped working...and Horde 2.0 was the best horde ive ever played