I got that part spoiled for me years before I became interested in Gears of War by an IGN Journo (Which I despise IGN nowadays) so that sucks. So Dom's death in Gears 3 is what hits me the most I think. But Gears 2 is definitely one epic game that's for sure.
This game will always hold a special place for me. I was in 8th grade when this game dropped and I was bullied everyday at school and hated life. Getting home and curbstomping some locust ass was my solace in life. Shame to see what the series has become (and gaming as a whole)
Great campaign and fun horde. The multiplayer was a mixed bag though. The movement was so slow and sluggish compared to gears 1 and the maps werent as good. They buffed every weapon which made a lot of the unique aspects of gears 1 such as the gnasher battles become very 1 dimensional in gears 2. Not to mention the maps promoted camping and disincentivized getting close and personal to someone. Gears 1 was the true goat
@@jessemartinez243 gears of war 2 multiplayer had crazy stopping power. But i can see why epic did it. They wanted to make gears of war 2 more tactical thats why gears of war 2 was so slow and guns did big damage
Gears of War 1-3 and Halo 1-3 are from an era of gaming that will both never be topped, and never be witnessed again. I feel sorry for kids growing up with the gaming industry as it is; a soulless husk of its former self that's dedicated more to the dollar than the actual idea of fun.
When old bones and raven down came out on gears 1.. it’s what all the cool kids were talking about. There were like 13 kids going home to play it right after school.
@@MC_1993 Very reminiscent of Halo 3 too. For me personally, I had 5 best friends in which we were all extremely close with each other. I used to say we were the 'original six', as we formed the foundation of our future friend base. Over the years more people were taken into our fold but that's when more problems began, there was a major internal cultural shift from videogames to alcohol and game nights became pissups that really damaged the cohesion of the group. Anyway, it was a given that every night after school we would all jump on our 360's and play games, the big ones were Gears 2/3 for Horde, Halo 3-Reach multiplayer/custom games, Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, and Bad Company 2 multiplayer. We also delved a bit into Castle Crashers Battlefield 3 when it released. Once Battlefield 3 dropped out of the major spotlight our gaming days as a group were done. This would directly coincide with roughly 2011-2013 which for me was the end of the golden era. After that the group fractured, some of us went the pc route with the odd console outing, others stayed on consoles, and we all eventually drifted apart. A couple of us still game every now and then but it is absolutely NOTHING like the days of old. The atmosphere and mood are different, the games are different, and people can no longer sit down for more than what feels like 2-3 hours at a time before they're drawn elsewhere. I miss those days because they were the cream of the crop of my youth. I did everything with these guys and it sucks to look at everything now and fully acknowledge those days are long gone. I'm lucky to even see only some of the friends that I made nowadays, the rest are too busy with work or their own life to no longer care for maintaining connections. I understand that we're supposed to grow up, but I don't like that we also grew apart as well.
Gears of war is engrained into my family. I fell off before 5 came out, but my mom and dad still play multiplayer together to this day and are waiting for 6. I adore 2 and 3. And loved the family horde nights in gears 4. I always loved watching my mom and dad play the campaigns peeking from my bed room door way past my bed time.
Also the way each of the worms body organisms are used as environmental threats/enemies was fantastic level design. Hell even still to this day as a Playstation player now, Gears Of War 2 is still in my top favourite games of all time
Miguel Mera Tony Jacob did say Gears of War 2 Ultimate Edition, release it. It will sell instantly than instant coffee. So there were some people that thought Gears of War one remastered did pretty well.
I actually cared about the characters in Gears 2. It kept the great gameplay, blood, etc. but added weapons, enemies, and a gripping story: No robots, a reason to fight, and not overly repetitive
@@ChadHellgado I absolutely just hate the story. To put short, this is exactly what the story is: She has nightmares so she goes on an adventure to see if it’s true and it is. Story done.
@@ChadHellgado the original gears trilogy (especially 3),had strong female characters too, but the difference is, is that they're likeable. Kait is not. She's too emotional and caught up in her own shit
Prescotts speech always gives me tingles because it makes me feel that I’m in the game listening to his words of inspiration to his gears and hearing them all cheer makes me sit up straight in my chair and prepare my self for all the badass moments that this game has to offer
"Humans are no strangers to war." "We've been fighting for as long as we can remember" I love this speech, no way in hell would i forget the impact of the C.O.G Soldiers, Stranded, and most importantly, the player's feelings when Prescott Delivered that speech
@@mrworsethanall0102couldn’t have said it better myself dude everytime i launch up gears of war 2 i think of that speech i wish they put little bits of the speech when you win a round on multiplayer that would be pretty cool
@@Tacklefatkid Some of the lose quotes were so good "Do i need to remind you what will happen if the locust win this war? I shouldn't. Get back in there and win!"
This game was my childhood and to this day I still play it weekly and have probably had 10000+ hours on the campaign alone as I didn’t like the multiplayer but goddamn this game will always carry something that no game ever has for me (maybe except halo 3 but still). Due to all these hours and me being a kid, when gears 3 came out and Dom died I cried so hard my nose bled... that man was like a damn brother to me. RIP.
I remember my nephew coming over to my house all ecstatic about getting gears of war 2 and telling me all about how cool dizzy was and how frightening that one locust with that staff chainsaw thing. When I saw that bit for myself I was shocked at how quick that dude dispatched the cogs in that scene
I think the thing I admire Gears of War 2 for doing the most is introducing and getting me to care about the Maria plot line. For a majority of Gears 2, I really didn’t give a shit, as Dom’s fixation on finding his wife wasn’t really properly established until the beginning of this game. My primary objective as the player was just to eliminate the Locusts by any means necessary. After all, I kicked RAAM’s ass in the last game, so now we gotta take the fight underground and wipe the Queen out right? But the cutscene where Marcus and Dom have that miniature argument over whether or not to go after Maria sold that entire plot line for me. I think Marcus’ lines about “focusing on the mission” and “everything we’ve been fighting for” were exactly what was on my mind in that moment, but seeing Dom’s unbreakable conviction towards saving his wife really buried my investment into that plot. And because of that, I felt myself tearing up when they reunited. You wouldn’t really expect a gory action shooter about big muscular men chainsawing overgrown moloids to move someone to tears, but everything ain’t what it seems, ya know?
Same I was like “Wives? They got time for wives? This is GEARS I don’t care about this man’s wife she probably dead.” But then the scene happened and I was sad
@@Tay234. Bro I rewatched that scene the other night and bawled my eyes out. It's one of the huge reasons I still haven't forgotten that campaign... and the score, fuck man. Just so well done.
There's just something about the Gears' lore that always entices me, getting so absorbed in the lore. I remember playing the first chapter in Gears 2 in the hospital, and just taking in everything, imagining what that hospital looked like on E-day. Loved taking in the little things in the game
This game truly has a place in my life. The best gears story for sure. I’ll always remember the amount of rage I had at the multiplayer and the amazing last stands on horde mode. I look back on the memory of this game fondly
Goddamn, this game still looks amazing 13 years later. I remember getting it at midnight, playing it all night, and then skipping school the next day to play it some more. Good times
I remember I used to be such a god when I played this back when the multiplayer wasn’t laggy. A lot of fun times chatting with randoms online, truly people that knew what they were doing. A shame that I cant even enjoy multiplayer in the newest games
Gears 2 was literally my childhood, im going to be picking up a Series X just to replay this, my 360 is dead. Dying in Gears 2 felt a bit rewarding, as dumb as it sounds, but I loved the crawling mechanic, as well as the blood filled screen when you bled out for long enough, or once you died, the gore made it 10x better.
I always thought I was alone in my opinion on this being the best one. It was my first gears game and I always thought nostalgia was why I thought it was best but now I have actual reasoning! Lmao I love this.
@@mrbogdanoff9233 gears 3 is actually good though. 4 and 5 were okay. I really liked 5 and one of the endings genuinely made me cry so ya know. It’s pretty cool.
There’s so much I forgot about this game. Of course the big moments like finding Maria and two killing him self. But the amount of obstacles thrown at the team on top of that - rift worm, leviathan, sires, scourge, and the lambert introduction. This game really had it all. And again, I have to emphasize how well you talked about how good the characters , character development / script was. Insanely under rated incredible game that I was too young and naive to fully appreciate when it came out
Gears of War 2 not only has the best soundtrack in all of the Gears games, but I believe it's one of the best in all of video games. Hell, I legit use the Gears of War 2 ost for my D&D campaigns.
I do remember kind of being bored with GOW3 because of the stalks. Its a game where theres nothing out and out WRONG with it, but just doesnt feel necessary. But GOW and GOW2.....so many good memories. I miss playing games with friends. Wasting Saturdays, eating pizza and going through the levels with pals. And real GOW players know that relief when they hear that electric guitar chord.... such a brilliant way to subtly restore calm.
@@speedking7224 Not really. I love gaming, and if she leaves because you like to play a game a lot then yeah. But if you neglect your relationship and life for the game, then you have some issues to work out.
I LOVED Gears 1. So much so that when Gears 2 dropped I actually didnt want to get it because I was worried it would ruin my memories of Gears 1. I like gears 2. The story was good, but the highlight of the first game for me was always the sheer panic that the berserkers instilled in me. I was disappointed there were none in gears 2.
Gears 1 is the most well rounded third person shooter of all time. I’ll die on this hill. The berserkers..ram..the multiplayer maps… the matchmaking. Playing gears 1 for the first time was truly special. A lot of these younger players don’t understand, and it shows. Gears 2 and 3 are amazing but gears 1 is truly something else. Nailed the horror esque/ predator testosterone thing the best out of the series. Gears 2 started just adding characters for no reason. Adding colors. Adding weapons. Boring maps. Gears 1 was practically perfect.
@@MC_1993 Gears 1 is a masterpiece. Gears 2 just didnt live up to its shoes. The multiplayer maps arent as good. Its like they actively decided to make maps that were more lancer/focus fire based to incentivize team work and more "tactical" gameplay. They didnt want to embrace what gears 1 was and that was a gnasher focused game and it shows in gears 2. Gears 2 has probably the worst multiplayer in the series next to judgment and judgment only gets a bad rep because of the lack of content
Most people that think gow2 was the best, started on Gow2. My friends list was full of Gow1 players at the time and i haven't heard any 1 of them say that GOW2 or GoW3 were better than GOW1
This is like the Golden Throne of gaming right here. The title holder. I've seen friends break down in tears, & I heard its given people nightmares & it has changed the gaming world forever. The characters are some of the most beloved & iconic in any series, the war is hell, the effects of it traumatize everyone, & you genuinely cannot play the game again because of just how harrowing an experience it is. You just don't get games like this. It's in a category all of its own. A masterpiece. And I feel very bad for all the people who made the trilogy so flawless, only to have it taken all down & destroyed by "Gears" sequels that were just corporate cash cows. Fenix: "You are pissed today" Dom: "You're DAMN right I'm pissed. I miss my FAMILY"
Not taken away Epic games sold the Gears of War IP to Microsoft because it was keeping expensive for them to develop new games. The Coliation is what happens when a dev team doesn't understand what made the series good in the first place
It’s the world, gritty-ness, just straight up fighting on their turf, the different types of locust and variants. My favorite Boomer variants were the maulers, and the blood mounts. Out of all the gears games, gears 2 stands above all of them story and lore wise. Of course the game is from 2008 and has it little clunky moments, it’s still fluid and smooth nonetheless. I always wish it can be remastered and implemented with gears 5 mechanics, just the movements and fluidity of wall bouncing.
Well good news because there's a 'remastered collection' in the works which will be the same thing as 'the master cheif collection' for Halo. And I'm assuming that gears 2 and 3 will be remastered, obviously due to the name of the collection.
Gears of War 2 just felt like someone stabbed me with a syringe that was hooked to a barrel of testosterone. Honestly has to be one of the manliest games of all time 10/10
My xbox friends and I built a small clan to play Gears 2 multi player. We called it the K1 clan, some of my best memories were playing with them. I was young and it wasn't the easiest time of my life but they helped me through it without even knowing. Thanks guys, I'll never forget
It felt really impactful from the get go. The tension was there from the start, because even after all the work you did in the first game Humanity was still on the brink of losing. The campaign made you really feel like you were at war, and I really cared about all of the characters. I feel like this game had the best character development in the series. Dom’s finding Maria is so haunting. You want to find Maria so bad because you see how her going missing effects Dom, but once you find Tai something in you already knows that she’s not going to be okay. You don’t want to believe it but you know it’s true. And then you find her. And she’s healthy and alive and it’s a shock compared to how Tai was. And then it’s all ripped away when the illusion is gone, and we feel Dom’s pain. We feel like Marcus, watching our best friend have to put his wife down. We feel like Dom, knowing we came all this way and it was just too late. The drama, the tension, the incredible gritty atmosphere. Carmine makes it surprisingly far into the game before he’s killed, and I honestly didn’t think he was going to die when all of a sudden he just did. And in my eyes this was Gears of War combat at it’s finest. Gritty, weighty, raw and bloody and made you feel like part of an actual war, like part of an actual team. The new Gears of War games lack weight and intensity, just like Crowbcat showed off in his video. They lack a real reason to keep fighting. Gears of War 2 gave us a reason and then just kept adding more onto it as we lost more characters and the tension rose. And the campaign’s maps were excellent. It featured enough fantastic setpieces to make you feel like a part of something bigger, while keeping enough boots to the ground hardcore action to remind you that this is a real war and to keep you grounded. There’s enough variety in the types of engagements that you never get bored of playing, and the core combat loop is great and keeps you constantly engaged snd challenges you without pushing you to the point of constant stress. Believe me there’s stressful parts, but that’s always the perfect amount if stress. Like seeing Reavers crash down onto the battlefield, or the whole part about being in the gut of that monster that Carmine dies in. They sprinkled in small glimmers of hope with each victory. They brought you places the new games could never imagine. This game was incredible and every part of it helped to build this fantastic universe and this even more fantastic game that I am so glad I played.
God this brings back memories! I played the shit out of this game for YEARS! multiple campaign playthroughs, endless weekends playing horde with friends, sleepless school nights with matchmaking. It was truly an awesome game and I feel like after the OT gears era community gaming fell off. What a game this was!
You will never understand it if you weren't there, from the campaign, MP and horde, this game had it all, it is so sad to see what the franchise have become though
The whole reason I got a 360 was for gears of war 2 😂 I still remember running around costco with my cousin, pretending to chainsaw everything I saw. Ah! Some of my greatest memories 😢
Personally for me GoW 3 will always be my favourite and people may disagree that its not the best but for me it is, growing up playing as Dom and having him sacrifice himself for his team really got to me since I always played as a support player in the campaign, helping my brother with ammo and the side line support and watching him do what he did in that cutscene and supporting his team even to the end made me really like the campaign since it got to me all the way through. The desperate feeling with everyone being hungry and tension is high because of the lambernt being a high threat really makes me enjoy the game and this isn't even including the online play, horde and beast mode.
Gears of war 2- The only gears of war campaign I completed from start to finish, i was like 9 and I did two play throughs lol. That game is a masterpiece
Cliff used to be a big name in the games industry before he lost his mind. Hopefully the next GoW game won't be a let down like Gears 5, which isn't even a Gears Of War game from the beginning sadly...
I would buy a physical copy and download it! This is the series that made me fall in love with video games for the 2nd time in my life. The first series was Megaman!
"Hard to play and master" I agree with, but saying the newer Gears games rely more on "connection, game error, validation, location and illegitimate actions" than Gears 2 did is downright blasphemy. I played it for 3 years straight until Gears 3 came out and Gears 2 was the most unpolished multiplayer experience available at release. Host advantage continued to plague the game until the end, and the number of exploits were unimaginable. You could literally unplug your router as the host, reconnect to the game and kill everyone else before they reconnected. It was a broken MP experience, but all the jankiness made it fun. Smoke nading out of the maps, using the shield with any weapon, shield glitching out of the maps, it was all hilarious. I just have issue with that one statement because games were never "all equal and on an even playing field" as long as host advantage existed.
I mean I still remember to this day the game on gridlock GOW 1 where i learned to crab walk. What a stupid but absolutely hilarious glitch. Man the nostalgia is killing me
You are absolutely correct. Gears 2 is one of my favourite games of all time but this guy is really blinded by nostalgia saying the multiplayer was the best. It was an incredibly frustrating experience for the first few months, even an year. IMO Gear 3 multiplayer was a lot better from the get go.
@@adnanhossain2572 Gears 3 was so much better. Gears 2 from what I remember was quite hated by the community for it's multiplayer it was actually bad lol
Gears 2 was the worst game in the series next to judgment multiplayer wise. Mediocre maps. Awful clunky movement. Terrible weapon inconsistincies. Broken gnasher (both overpowered and underpowered). They really dropped the ball
When my parents finally got me a 360 for Christmas, this is the game they chose to pair it with. I'm so glad they did, this game is so fucking good, they took the original Gears and just added and improved on it so much with all the new weapons and executions and the incredible story. They need to remaster this man.
What sealed Dizzy for me was the transition from reluctance to enthusiasm to devotion. At first he sees his time with Delta as an obligation ("I ain't got no choice... Family got the groceries, but daddy got conscripted [...]."). Then through the trek to Landown he gets more into it, enjoying his time with Marcus and Co. With quips and compliments. ("Nice one boys! Mhm! Smell that Brumak barbecue.") And when the squad's ready to deploy, it's Dizzy who jumps up and goes head to head with Skorge ("I'll hold 'im off boys! Y'all get your asses on then!"). It's brief, but it's a complete arc for a character who could just as easily been "Cowboy hat guy" and nothing else.
Gears of War 2 was my second XBox 360 game back in the day and I remember being one of the first if not the first game that actually got me into the story and campaign of a game. I was a teenager, so video games (since the Super Nintendo) was, for me, most about the fun and distraction but with Gears of War 2 I remember actually wanting to know more about the story, its character and not only what would happen next but what happened before, wanting to play Gears of War 1 after finishing 2
Been replaying the trilogy after like 10 years and Gears 2 definitely has my favourite campaign. I tried to get into 3 but that game basically plays itself. The campaign was designed to be co-oped with 3 other players and it shows. When playing solo your AI teammates do most of the work for you and a lot of fights seem to go by in a flash without much contribution needed from the actual player. A serious step backwards from 2's awesomely designed campaign.
i prefer playing with 4 players in a story so it had to be done . would you really sacrifice being able to play with 4 player co-op for more immersion lore ? must be a single player only gamer
I played gears of war 1 on my xbox elite back in 2008 but sadly never finished it. Till this summer, when I was on a medical leave for couple of months, so I bought XBOX series X and I finished all 5 gears of war games in one week, one after another. And I must say, I never had so much fun, some of them I played co-op with my coworker and some I played solo. But still, I had so much fun with them. Can safely say, it's one of the best gaming franchise ever. Hope they release gow6 soon :D
Waited on line at 12 midnight for this gem. Talked / met some cool gamers too that night. It was so cool. We all hyped couldn't wait to fire up the new gears game. Fun times I pre ordered and got it a few days early from game stop.
Does anyone else wish they could play gears of war 2 again? and im not talking about booting up the xbox now and trying to find the game. Im talking about going back to the day the damn game released and was booming with players. I still remember the first time i booted up campaign and the first time I ever used my gold plated lancer.. god damn the nostalgia is fucking me up
Life is different after you bounce off a wall and pop a head as your gun is dropping or golf someones head off into bodying their homie like it was a combo
I sat through the whole video with tears in my eyes accompanied by goosebumps all over my back. Totally agree with everything you've mentioned, Gears 2 was an Excellent sequel, indeed. But what's most important is that Gears 2 is a Stunning Gears sequel that has aged like fine wine, remaining The best Gears sequel to this very day. It's a game that brought me emotions so intense & so powerful it's awe-inspiring just to think of & recall them in my memory. Thank you sincerely for this video. It was a truly well made essay.
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Gears of War 2 was the Ultimate Gears game. And I personally have yet to see any other Gears game match it.
I personally think the 3rd is the best but 2 is barley behind it
im with you man. gears of war 2 was just simply amazing. And to further solidify it, we get to RIDE A BRUMAK.
Gears 1 is the greatest Gears game.
I personally like gears of war 3 a tiny bit more then 2 but i can agree gears of war 2 was amazing
@Greg B eh, i liked raam's shadow
If they make an Ultimate Edition for this masterpiece, I'm instantly buying it
They'd just ruin its atmosphere with bright, colorful graphics.
Bro, you again? XD. You’re everywhere.
@@modernmobster nah the coalition did alright with the gears 1 remaster, I would be so hyped for a gears 2 remaster
Easily will be one of my holy grails of games if they do that
My man!
Dom finding Maria will always be in my top 5 gaming moments of all time.
My brother said is it top 1?
and the part where Dom says " i wanna kill them all" i do too , want to kill them all
I watch that scene once every few months and still tear up every time.
I loved that part! Another kill towards Seriously 2.0!
I got that part spoiled for me years before I became interested in Gears of War by an IGN Journo (Which I despise IGN nowadays) so that sucks. So Dom's death in Gears 3 is what hits me the most I think. But Gears 2 is definitely one epic game that's for sure.
This game will always hold a special place for me. I was in 8th grade when this game dropped and I was bullied everyday at school and hated life. Getting home and curbstomping some locust ass was my solace in life. Shame to see what the series has become (and gaming as a whole)
Amen brother
I got bullied and constantly fought. God of War 1 came out around that time. I feel your pain bro.
Bullying is fucking horrible, hope those bullies are paying for their acts in life.
*daredevil bulldog meme*
Straight up. I hate playing the new gears.
Not only a fantastic campaign, but the birth of Horde. The Horde map selection was also the incredible.
Best atmosphere for horde it actually felt scary simple but effective better than Gears 3
Horde was a thing long before Gears.:P
Lok'tar Ogar!
@@OriginalPuro HUH
Great campaign and fun horde. The multiplayer was a mixed bag though. The movement was so slow and sluggish compared to gears 1 and the maps werent as good. They buffed every weapon which made a lot of the unique aspects of gears 1 such as the gnasher battles become very 1 dimensional in gears 2. Not to mention the maps promoted camping and disincentivized getting close and personal to someone. Gears 1 was the true goat
@@jessemartinez243 gears of war 2 multiplayer had crazy stopping power. But i can see why epic did it. They wanted to make gears of war 2 more tactical thats why gears of war 2 was so slow and guns did big damage
Gears of War 1-3 and Halo 1-3 are from an era of gaming that will both never be topped, and never be witnessed again. I feel sorry for kids growing up with the gaming industry as it is; a soulless husk of its former self that's dedicated more to the dollar than the actual idea of fun.
When old bones and raven down came out on gears 1.. it’s what all the cool kids were talking about. There were like 13 kids going home to play it right after school.
@@MC_1993 Very reminiscent of Halo 3 too. For me personally, I had 5 best friends in which we were all extremely close with each other. I used to say we were the 'original six', as we formed the foundation of our future friend base. Over the years more people were taken into our fold but that's when more problems began, there was a major internal cultural shift from videogames to alcohol and game nights became pissups that really damaged the cohesion of the group.
Anyway, it was a given that every night after school we would all jump on our 360's and play games, the big ones were Gears 2/3 for Horde, Halo 3-Reach multiplayer/custom games, Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, and Bad Company 2 multiplayer. We also delved a bit into Castle Crashers Battlefield 3 when it released. Once Battlefield 3 dropped out of the major spotlight our gaming days as a group were done. This would directly coincide with roughly 2011-2013 which for me was the end of the golden era.
After that the group fractured, some of us went the pc route with the odd console outing, others stayed on consoles, and we all eventually drifted apart. A couple of us still game every now and then but it is absolutely NOTHING like the days of old. The atmosphere and mood are different, the games are different, and people can no longer sit down for more than what feels like 2-3 hours at a time before they're drawn elsewhere. I miss those days because they were the cream of the crop of my youth. I did everything with these guys and it sucks to look at everything now and fully acknowledge those days are long gone. I'm lucky to even see only some of the friends that I made nowadays, the rest are too busy with work or their own life to no longer care for maintaining connections.
I understand that we're supposed to grow up, but I don't like that we also grew apart as well.
you sound depressed 💀
Reason why I hate money
Gears of war is engrained into my family. I fell off before 5 came out, but my mom and dad still play multiplayer together to this day and are waiting for 6. I adore 2 and 3. And loved the family horde nights in gears 4. I always loved watching my mom and dad play the campaigns peeking from my bed room door way past my bed time.
Playing a level inside a worm was terrifying and amazing. Love how the teeth chomps you and your boot goes flying.
Also the way each of the worms body organisms are used as environmental threats/enemies was fantastic level design.
Hell even still to this day as a Playstation player now, Gears Of War 2 is still in my top favourite games of all time
The coalition gears of war games do not even come close to being as good as the original trilogy.
Imo its an embarrassment, they should make their own IP. Just like 343, The Coalition just don’t hold the spirits of the IP’s they are working on
Coalition destroyed Gears of War. They try so hard to copy epic and they fail miserably.
Phoenix Fox did say the coalition did alright with the gears 1 remaster, he would be so hyped for a gears 2 remaster.
Miguel Mera Tony Jacob
did say Gears of War 2 Ultimate Edition, release it. It will sell instantly than instant coffee. So there were some people that thought Gears of War one remastered did pretty well.
@@ChaosV3NOMx They didn't mimic Epic at all and that's the problem. Kait is just god awful
I actually cared about the characters in Gears 2. It kept the great gameplay, blood, etc. but added weapons, enemies, and a gripping story: No robots, a reason to fight, and not overly repetitive
Gears 5 is just character drama
@@Davaal Gears 5 is “We have a strong female character” the video game. I fuckin hate Kait, I miss the boys in Delta Squad.
@@ChadHellgado I absolutely just hate the story. To put short, this is exactly what the story is: She has nightmares so she goes on an adventure to see if it’s true and it is. Story done.
I hate fucking fighting the robots lol
@@ChadHellgado the original gears trilogy (especially 3),had strong female characters too, but the difference is, is that they're likeable. Kait is not. She's too emotional and caught up in her own shit
Prescotts speech always gives me tingles because it makes me feel that I’m in the game listening to his words of inspiration to his gears and hearing them all cheer makes me sit up straight in my chair and prepare my self for all the badass moments that this game has to offer
"Humans are no strangers to war."
"We've been fighting for as long as we can remember"
I love this speech, no way in hell would i forget the impact of the C.O.G Soldiers, Stranded, and most importantly, the player's feelings when Prescott Delivered that speech
@@mrworsethanall0102couldn’t have said it better myself dude everytime i launch up gears of war 2 i think of that speech i wish they put little bits of the speech when you win a round on multiplayer that would be pretty cool
@@Tacklefatkid
Some of the lose quotes were so good
"Do i need to remind you what will happen if the locust win this war? I shouldn't. Get back in there and win!"
@@mrworsethanall0102 thats gears of war 3 but its still such an amazing quote what would gear have been without prescott
@@Tacklefatkid
No its in Gears 2, much better in gears 2
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This game was my childhood and to this day I still play it weekly and have probably had 10000+ hours on the campaign alone as I didn’t like the multiplayer but goddamn this game will always carry something that no game ever has for me (maybe except halo 3 but still). Due to all these hours and me being a kid, when gears 3 came out and Dom died I cried so hard my nose bled... that man was like a damn brother to me. RIP.
My brother said yeah you’re right but profanity.
Halo reach and Gears 2 best video games I've ever played imo
10000.... bruh
" have probably had 10000+ hours on the campaign alone "
That is sad.:
10000 hours is 416.6 days
Hearing the Gears of War 2 theme still gives me chills
to me it feels like a final war with the COG army , and u and ur Coop brother/ best friend vs a horde of monsters
I remember my nephew coming over to my house all ecstatic about getting gears of war 2 and telling me all about how cool dizzy was and how frightening that one locust with that staff chainsaw thing. When I saw that bit for myself I was shocked at how quick that dude dispatched the cogs in that scene
Even just the music was amazing
The music is still incredible.
Every time I see Ben a little part to me dies
Same
I think the thing I admire Gears of War 2 for doing the most is introducing and getting me to care about the Maria plot line. For a majority of Gears 2, I really didn’t give a shit, as Dom’s fixation on finding his wife wasn’t really properly established until the beginning of this game. My primary objective as the player was just to eliminate the Locusts by any means necessary. After all, I kicked RAAM’s ass in the last game, so now we gotta take the fight underground and wipe the Queen out right?
But the cutscene where Marcus and Dom have that miniature argument over whether or not to go after Maria sold that entire plot line for me. I think Marcus’ lines about “focusing on the mission” and “everything we’ve been fighting for” were exactly what was on my mind in that moment, but seeing Dom’s unbreakable conviction towards saving his wife really buried my investment into that plot.
And because of that, I felt myself tearing up when they reunited. You wouldn’t really expect a gory action shooter about big muscular men chainsawing overgrown moloids to move someone to tears, but everything ain’t what it seems, ya know?
You hit it on the head bro , choked me up reading the comment 💯💪🏽
Same I was like “Wives? They got time for wives? This is GEARS I don’t care about this man’s wife she probably dead.” But then the scene happened and I was sad
@@Tay234. Bro I rewatched that scene the other night and bawled my eyes out. It's one of the huge reasons I still haven't forgotten that campaign... and the score, fuck man. Just so well done.
There's just something about the Gears' lore that always entices me, getting so absorbed in the lore. I remember playing the first chapter in Gears 2 in the hospital, and just taking in everything, imagining what that hospital looked like on E-day. Loved taking in the little things in the game
This game truly has a place in my life. The best gears story for sure. I’ll always remember the amount of rage I had at the multiplayer and the amazing last stands on horde mode. I look back on the memory of this game fondly
Party like it’s 1999 achievement oh I remember the countless hours working for that achievement
Goddamn, this game still looks amazing 13 years later. I remember getting it at midnight, playing it all night, and then skipping school the next day to play it some more. Good times
I remember I used to be such a god when I played this back when the multiplayer wasn’t laggy. A lot of fun times chatting with randoms online, truly people that knew what they were doing.
A shame that I cant even enjoy multiplayer in the newest games
When I think that the GoW2 multiplayer lobbies are now empty I feel very sad...
Great times that will never come back.
@@POLLO91x don’t be sad about that brother, be happy that we were in one of the best (if not THE BEST) eras of gaming.
@@RabiaaHQ So true! :')
Best multiplayer ever.i would stay up all night playing.everyone talking trash
Competition just caught up
Gears 2 was a perfect sequel but gears 3 was a perfect ending.
Gears 2 was literally my childhood, im going to be picking up a Series X just to replay this, my 360 is dead. Dying in Gears 2 felt a bit rewarding, as dumb as it sounds, but I loved the crawling mechanic, as well as the blood filled screen when you bled out for long enough, or once you died, the gore made it 10x better.
I want to get a series x but it means I have to buy an expensive ass TV so I have to save
@@mrbogdanoff9233 you don't really need an expensive TV
@@victinizz634 if the TV has HDMI 2.1 it's not cheap
@@mrbogdanoff9233 you can still use the Xbox with normal HDMI I believe
@@victinizz634 yea I checked it out and you can use TV with HDMI 2.0 which come in much cheaper so I guess I'll get one of those
Gears of War 2 Ultimate Edition, release it. It will sell instantly than instant coffee.
I always thought I was alone in my opinion on this being the best one. It was my first gears game and I always thought nostalgia was why I thought it was best but now I have actual reasoning! Lmao I love this.
It was the 1st gears of War game for me too, played it on my friends xbox.
First game for me too, I was so disappointed with the sequels, I bought 3 but it wasn't good, I'm not getting 4 or 5
@@mrbogdanoff9233 gears 3 is actually good though. 4 and 5 were okay. I really liked 5 and one of the endings genuinely made me cry so ya know. It’s pretty cool.
@@mrbogdanoff9233 gears 3 ain’t good ? sure , ok buddy . ride that gears 2 wave because this video got you excited .
@@mrbogdanoff9233 saying gears 3 wasn’t good is objectively wrong.
One through three, this is the best series of games that I’ve ever binge played the campaign to.
There’s so much I forgot about this game. Of course the big moments like finding Maria and two killing him self. But the amount of obstacles thrown at the team on top of that - rift worm, leviathan, sires, scourge, and the lambert introduction. This game really had it all. And again, I have to emphasize how well you talked about how good the characters , character development / script was. Insanely under rated incredible game that I was too young and naive to fully appreciate when it came out
I agree, Gears of War 2 had everything. I just played through it again and was thinking to myself, man they don't make games like this anymore.
Games like gears of war 2 turned me into a gamer
Same here
Gears of War 2 not only has the best soundtrack in all of the Gears games, but I believe it's one of the best in all of video games. Hell, I legit use the Gears of War 2 ost for my D&D campaigns.
I do remember kind of being bored with GOW3 because of the stalks. Its a game where theres nothing out and out WRONG with it, but just doesnt feel necessary. But GOW and GOW2.....so many good memories. I miss playing games with friends. Wasting Saturdays, eating pizza and going through the levels with pals.
And real GOW players know that relief when they hear that electric guitar chord.... such a brilliant way to subtly restore calm.
This game was the reason for the end of my first relationship and I have 0 regrets
My relationship was about to end because of Call of Duty. Cool
If she leaves because of a game then f**k her.
@@speedking7224 Not really. I love gaming, and if she leaves because you like to play a game a lot then yeah. But if you neglect your relationship and life for the game, then you have some issues to work out.
@@CaesarGB Yes but if she leaves just because of a video game which in no shape or form is affecting your marriage then that's on the woman's part
@@speedking7224 Yeah that is petty and definitely an issue on her part.
I think this is the first game to ever make me cry. Amazing combat, outstanding characters and a gripping story. Especially for the time.
I LOVED Gears 1. So much so that when Gears 2 dropped I actually didnt want to get it because I was worried it would ruin my memories of Gears 1. I like gears 2. The story was good, but the highlight of the first game for me was always the sheer panic that the berserkers instilled in me. I was disappointed there were none in gears 2.
Gears 1 is the most well rounded third person shooter of all time. I’ll die on this hill. The berserkers..ram..the multiplayer maps… the matchmaking. Playing gears 1 for the first time was truly special. A lot of these younger players don’t understand, and it shows. Gears 2 and 3 are amazing but gears 1 is truly something else. Nailed the horror esque/ predator testosterone thing the best out of the series. Gears 2 started just adding characters for no reason. Adding colors. Adding weapons. Boring maps. Gears 1 was practically perfect.
@@MC_1993 Gears 1 is a masterpiece. Gears 2 just didnt live up to its shoes. The multiplayer maps arent as good. Its like they actively decided to make maps that were more lancer/focus fire based to incentivize team work and more "tactical" gameplay. They didnt want to embrace what gears 1 was and that was a gnasher focused game and it shows in gears 2. Gears 2 has probably the worst multiplayer in the series next to judgment and judgment only gets a bad rep because of the lack of content
Most people that think gow2 was the best, started on Gow2. My friends list was full of Gow1 players at the time and i haven't heard any 1 of them say that GOW2 or GoW3 were better than GOW1
This is like the Golden Throne of gaming right here. The title holder. I've seen friends break down in tears, & I heard its given people nightmares & it has changed the gaming world forever. The characters are some of the most beloved & iconic in any series, the war is hell, the effects of it traumatize everyone, & you genuinely cannot play the game again because of just how harrowing an experience it is.
You just don't get games like this. It's in a category all of its own. A masterpiece. And I feel very bad for all the people who made the trilogy so flawless, only to have it taken all down & destroyed by "Gears" sequels that were just corporate cash cows.
Fenix: "You are pissed today"
Dom: "You're DAMN right I'm pissed. I miss my FAMILY"
Not taken away Epic games sold the Gears of War IP to Microsoft because it was keeping expensive for them to develop new games. The Coliation is what happens when a dev team doesn't understand what made the series good in the first place
Gears of War 2 is The Empire Strikes Back of the franchise. I love it! My favorite campaign by far.
What a freaking masterpiece, one of the greatest campaigns.
It’s the world, gritty-ness, just straight up fighting on their turf, the different types of locust and variants.
My favorite Boomer variants were the maulers, and the blood mounts.
Out of all the gears games, gears 2 stands above all of them story and lore wise. Of course the game is from 2008 and has it little clunky moments, it’s still fluid and smooth nonetheless.
I always wish it can be remastered and implemented with gears 5 mechanics, just the movements and fluidity of wall bouncing.
Well good news because there's a 'remastered collection' in the works which will be the same thing as 'the master cheif collection' for Halo. And I'm assuming that gears 2 and 3 will be remastered, obviously due to the name of the collection.
The GOAT. Only Gears where you can replenish Longshot ammo with ammo boxes.
Awesome video brother!! Great work!! 100% agreed with every single point!!
Cole's "mommy don't let the bad man hurt us. F*** you!!!" Always makes me laugh.
Highly agree had a blast with this one horde was the best no constly being online
I used to co op play this with my brother. We played through it so many times (solo and co op), it never got old. Simpler days.
Gears of War 2 just felt like someone stabbed me with a syringe that was hooked to a barrel of testosterone. Honestly has to be one of the manliest games of all time 10/10
Me and my dad used to play this on co op all the time, good times
1-Perfect atmosphere/OST
2-Perfect story/sound design
3-Perfect mechanics/MP
IMO.
My xbox friends and I built a small clan to play Gears 2 multi player. We called it the K1 clan, some of my best memories were playing with them. I was young and it wasn't the easiest time of my life but they helped me through it without even knowing. Thanks guys, I'll never forget
It felt really impactful from the get go. The tension was there from the start, because even after all the work you did in the first game Humanity was still on the brink of losing. The campaign made you really feel like you were at war, and I really cared about all of the characters. I feel like this game had the best character development in the series. Dom’s finding Maria is so haunting. You want to find Maria so bad because you see how her going missing effects Dom, but once you find Tai something in you already knows that she’s not going to be okay. You don’t want to believe it but you know it’s true. And then you find her. And she’s healthy and alive and it’s a shock compared to how Tai was. And then it’s all ripped away when the illusion is gone, and we feel Dom’s pain. We feel like Marcus, watching our best friend have to put his wife down. We feel like Dom, knowing we came all this way and it was just too late. The drama, the tension, the incredible gritty atmosphere. Carmine makes it surprisingly far into the game before he’s killed, and I honestly didn’t think he was going to die when all of a sudden he just did. And in my eyes this was Gears of War combat at it’s finest. Gritty, weighty, raw and bloody and made you feel like part of an actual war, like part of an actual team. The new Gears of War games lack weight and intensity, just like Crowbcat showed off in his video. They lack a real reason to keep fighting. Gears of War 2 gave us a reason and then just kept adding more onto it as we lost more characters and the tension rose. And the campaign’s maps were excellent. It featured enough fantastic setpieces to make you feel like a part of something bigger, while keeping enough boots to the ground hardcore action to remind you that this is a real war and to keep you grounded. There’s enough variety in the types of engagements that you never get bored of playing, and the core combat loop is great and keeps you constantly engaged snd challenges you without pushing you to the point of constant stress. Believe me there’s stressful parts, but that’s always the perfect amount if stress. Like seeing Reavers crash down onto the battlefield, or the whole part about being in the gut of that monster that Carmine dies in. They sprinkled in small glimmers of hope with each victory. They brought you places the new games could never imagine. This game was incredible and every part of it helped to build this fantastic universe and this even more fantastic game that I am so glad I played.
God this brings back memories! I played the shit out of this game for YEARS! multiple campaign playthroughs, endless weekends playing horde with friends, sleepless school nights with matchmaking. It was truly an awesome game and I feel like after the OT gears era community gaming fell off.
What a game this was!
You will never understand it if you weren't there, from the campaign, MP and horde, this game had it all, it is so sad to see what the franchise have become though
I just replayed this GoW2 campaign on my 360 for the first time in over ten years. Epic masterpiece and still my favorite of the original trilogy.
The whole reason I got a 360 was for gears of war 2 😂 I still remember running around costco with my cousin, pretending to chainsaw everything I saw. Ah! Some of my greatest memories 😢
Gears 3 Horde mode was peak franchise
Playing Wingman on BloodDrive with my cousins are some of my fondest gaming memories ever. GET TORQUE'D
I grew up on Halo and Gears. It’s absolutely my favorite game series ever with Halo as a VERY close second
I remember first playing it, went over to my buddy's to spend a night and from there on it was history
It was the first gears of War I had ever beaten. Me and my brother on co op. One of the best stories very emotional.
Personally for me GoW 3 will always be my favourite and people may disagree that its not the best but for me it is, growing up playing as Dom and having him sacrifice himself for his team really got to me since I always played as a support player in the campaign, helping my brother with ammo and the side line support and watching him do what he did in that cutscene and supporting his team even to the end made me really like the campaign since it got to me all the way through. The desperate feeling with everyone being hungry and tension is high because of the lambernt being a high threat really makes me enjoy the game and this isn't even including the online play, horde and beast mode.
The Original Trilogy was a full complete story.
especially the trailer the last day omg i love watching that trailer, one of my favs
I miss this game so much it was my most played on my 360
This video is awesome bro!! Ima sub to man✊🏾
Gears of war 2- The only gears of war campaign I completed from start to finish, i was like 9 and I did two play throughs lol. That game is a masterpiece
This is one of my favorite games of all time and definitely favorite of the series.
Cliff used to be a big name in the games industry before he lost his mind. Hopefully the next GoW game won't be a let down like Gears 5, which isn't even a Gears Of War game from the beginning sadly...
The enemy variety in the game it's so many new enemies
There’s needs to be a remastered in 120fps
I would buy a physical copy and download it! This is the series that made me fall in love with video games for the 2nd time in my life. The first series was Megaman!
I remember when my brother and I got Gears of War 2 our Xbox decided to get that beautiful red ring.
Tell you what man dang ol great video man tell you what
"Hard to play and master" I agree with, but saying the newer Gears games rely more on "connection, game error, validation, location and illegitimate actions" than Gears 2 did is downright blasphemy. I played it for 3 years straight until Gears 3 came out and Gears 2 was the most unpolished multiplayer experience available at release. Host advantage continued to plague the game until the end, and the number of exploits were unimaginable. You could literally unplug your router as the host, reconnect to the game and kill everyone else before they reconnected. It was a broken MP experience, but all the jankiness made it fun. Smoke nading out of the maps, using the shield with any weapon, shield glitching out of the maps, it was all hilarious. I just have issue with that one statement because games were never "all equal and on an even playing field" as long as host advantage existed.
I mean I still remember to this day the game on gridlock GOW 1 where i learned to crab walk. What a stupid but absolutely hilarious glitch. Man the nostalgia is killing me
You are absolutely correct. Gears 2 is one of my favourite games of all time but this guy is really blinded by nostalgia saying the multiplayer was the best. It was an incredibly frustrating experience for the first few months, even an year. IMO Gear 3 multiplayer was a lot better from the get go.
@@adnanhossain2572 Gears 3 was so much better. Gears 2 from what I remember was quite hated by the community for it's multiplayer it was actually bad lol
THEY NEVER FIXED THE SUBWAY GLITCH FROM GEARS 1 !!!!
Gears 2 was the worst game in the series next to judgment multiplayer wise. Mediocre maps. Awful clunky movement. Terrible weapon inconsistincies. Broken gnasher (both overpowered and underpowered). They really dropped the ball
Back then we didn’t have fabricators and currency for upgrades for horde mode, we had limited ammo and a few boomshields. Good times.
This game still looks top notch. I remember at the time nothing else came close to looking this good. it was mind blowing
When my parents finally got me a 360 for Christmas, this is the game they chose to pair it with. I'm so glad they did, this game is so fucking good, they took the original Gears and just added and improved on it so much with all the new weapons and executions and the incredible story. They need to remaster this man.
Has a GOW fan, 2 has been and will always be my all time fav
What sealed Dizzy for me was the transition from reluctance to enthusiasm to devotion. At first he sees his time with Delta as an obligation ("I ain't got no choice... Family got the groceries, but daddy got conscripted [...]."). Then through the trek to Landown he gets more into it, enjoying his time with Marcus and Co. With quips and compliments.
("Nice one boys! Mhm! Smell that Brumak barbecue.") And when the squad's ready to deploy, it's Dizzy who jumps up and goes head to head with Skorge ("I'll hold 'im off boys! Y'all get your asses on then!").
It's brief, but it's a complete arc for a character who could just as easily been "Cowboy hat guy" and nothing else.
What makes this game so memorable are the epic set pieces
Soundtrack and characters were amazing in the first one
2:51 BURRRRRRRNNNNN!!
Lmfao😂😂😂
The ending of this game was mind blowing, that last cutscenes still memorable
Gears and halo 2 probably the best sequels ever
Great video this really bring me back to the good old days of the 360
Gears 2 will always be my favourite campaign of any game, I remember being blown away the first time playing it
This game was freaking amazing, me and the boys lived for this. What made it so good was it took actual skill to be good in the multiplayer.
That gnasher was a beast is all ima say
Nothing but facts! It’s a disgrace they haven’t remastered it
Gears of War 2 was my second XBox 360 game back in the day and I remember being one of the first if not the first game that actually got me into the story and campaign of a game. I was a teenager, so video games (since the Super Nintendo) was, for me, most about the fun and distraction but with Gears of War 2 I remember actually wanting to know more about the story, its character and not only what would happen next but what happened before, wanting to play Gears of War 1 after finishing 2
Been replaying the trilogy after like 10 years and Gears 2 definitely has my favourite campaign. I tried to get into 3 but that game basically plays itself. The campaign was designed to be co-oped with 3 other players and it shows. When playing solo your AI teammates do most of the work for you and a lot of fights seem to go by in a flash without much contribution needed from the actual player. A serious step backwards from 2's awesomely designed campaign.
i prefer playing with 4 players in a story so it had to be done . would you really sacrifice being able to play with 4 player co-op for more immersion lore ? must be a single player only gamer
Thumbs up for the Cole Train's epic speech in Gears of War 2!
We need a Pendulum Wars spin off game!
Damn this game is for sure in my top 10 of the best memories in my whole life 🦾
Greetings from Germany !
I played gears of war 1 on my xbox elite back in 2008 but sadly never finished it. Till this summer, when I was on a medical leave for couple of months, so I bought XBOX series X and I finished all 5 gears of war games in one week, one after another. And I must say, I never had so much fun, some of them I played co-op with my coworker and some I played solo. But still, I had so much fun with them. Can safely say, it's one of the best gaming franchise ever. Hope they release gow6 soon :D
Waited on line at 12 midnight for this gem. Talked / met some cool gamers too that night. It was so cool. We all hyped couldn't wait to fire up the new gears game. Fun times
I pre ordered and got it a few days early from game stop.
Gears 2 definitely puts in the WOW factor to keep players entertained
hands down my favorite Gears of War.
I spent endless hours with this game Damm miss god old days 😪
Does anyone else wish they could play gears of war 2 again? and im not talking about booting up the xbox now and trying to find the game. Im talking about going back to the day the damn game released and was booming with players. I still remember the first time i booted up campaign and the first time I ever used my gold plated lancer.. god damn the nostalgia is fucking me up
I personally prefer gears 3 but that's coz I grew up with it and I loved the raams shadow dlc but I love gears 2 as well
Gears 2 is easily one of the best scores in gaming.
The multiplayer was pretty broken and frustrating garbage, but the campaign and horde are masterful. Some of the best in gaming
Life is different after you bounce off a wall and pop a head as your gun is dropping or golf someones head off into bodying their homie like it was a combo
I sat through the whole video with tears in my eyes accompanied by goosebumps all over my back. Totally agree with everything you've mentioned, Gears 2 was an Excellent sequel, indeed. But what's most important is that Gears 2 is a Stunning Gears sequel that has aged like fine wine, remaining The best Gears sequel to this very day.
It's a game that brought me emotions so intense & so powerful it's awe-inspiring just to think of & recall them in my memory.
Thank you sincerely for this video. It was a truly well made essay.
I still replay this even now