Everything GREAT About Gears of War 2! 

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I love how carmine in this game kind of goes through an ark. He starts off as green as can be and constantly losing it. But starts getting it together as the game goes on. Only for him to die immediately after finally coming into his own. It makes his death more tragic and you actually care when he dies

My favourite interaction has to be Dom saying he doesn't wear a helmet so he can see snipers better, 5 mins later tells Carmine to take point against a bunch of snipers.

Fun fact: the dlc made for this game actually had us go in "guns blazing" or we could sneak in Theron Guards.

5:35 Dom's standout feature is that he's a former Commando. Hence the knife on his chest. His particular knife was only issued to commandos during the Pendulum Wars.

This franchise will forever have a place in my heart. Just playing this game w/ my cousin laughing, raging. and watching them play Good memories

“I miss the days of couch co-op” Wow,,. Never even realized I miss that shit too man. Sheesh

Spoliers : Dom wife maria death brokes my heart imagine you spending 15 years fighting an endless horde of monster in a apocalypse world where humanity is losing an hopeless war the one thing that holding you together is getting back to your wife. And in Gears of War 3 well we all know Dom finally reached his limit and well I wish people talk more about Gears of War 3 Dom Story that it's a Commentary on Sucide 😢

This is what I've been waiting for. I played Gears 2 so much with my friends and my little brother. Great memories.

Heres another win id add. From what i heard from people who met Carlos Ferro (aka doms VA) when they did this scene with Maria they gave Carlos a Dummy to hold onto and dimmed down almost all of the lighting for that scene and everyone who was watching MO cap and Carlos were in tears they went all out on that emotional scene.

YEEESSS I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO FOR SO LONG. I love Gears of War. Gears of War 2 was the first video game I ever played

There's also a callback to G1 when you're fighting with Hoffman: G1- Will we have air support? What? You ARE the support son G2- we're gonna need air support here ASAP! Hey colonel, I guess we are the support huh? Looks that way sergant

The world was in a bad spot in The Locust War; the humans even had breeding farms- this was in the comics, btw.

My favourite joke is during training when they guys tell carmine to not be getting all holy on them 😂 "Oh yeah you know... full of holes."

I swear chairman Prescott's speech wouldn't be even half as good without that AMAZING ost, the music in the gears saga (specially first 3 for obvious reasons) really adds up to the great gameplay on its way to make a fucking masterpiece.

Gears 2 was the best. The Gears franchise was always the bonding game between me and my best friend during middleschool (the fact we both have a passing resemblance to Marcus and Dom made it all the better). The amounts of times my mom caught me playing at 3am on school nights and pulling the internet out were numerous, but always worth it. My biggest highlight on Gears 2, other than the countless sniper matches we did (sorry mate, we were those sniper assholes haha), was me clutch killing the entire enemy team as the last one standing on River .....Using only my chainsaw. They were all swarming the house I was in, but by using them as a meatshield while I was chainsawing them, made for one LEGENDARY moment we all still bring up to this day

River was probably the first map I ever played on Horde. I remember playing as Baird, getting into one of the houses, setting up the Boom Shields at the doors, sniping as many enemies as I can, and getting as far as Wave 36 or 38. What was also fun was how the whole team consisted of me as Baird, Marcus, Dom, Cole, and B. Carmine. Blood Drive was another classic map for Horde, getting into one of the rooms. But the map I remember managing to get past the Final Wave was Grindyard. Also, I played GoW 2 before GoW 1.

I was born in 2003 and grew up with an Xbox and all the titles that came with it. I used to need my big brother to play the Berserker level in GOW 1! This one was always my favorite though, I loved how large scale it felt.

I recently replayed Gears 2 and 3 in split-screen and they're still incredibly even to this day, that and Co-op does something to your brain while playing, it's like a perfect auto-sync with your teammate.

Steve Jablonsky is a composer who I love. His work on transformers and deepwater horizon, not even mentioning the gears games, is always amazing

This game is nothing short of a masterpiece and doesn't get enough credit for it. Dom finding Maria has been one of the most heartbreaking experiences I've had when it comes to gaming. To see Dom gain such hope and then have torn away in such a horrendous way is the saddest thing. It literally kills him in that moment. From then on he was a dead man walking. His sacrifice in the 3rd game is all the more painful. He had nothing more to live for and yet he gave the last of himself to save his brother in arms. Where the first game showed war as badass and brutal, this game and the 3rd show the cost of war and how it can destroy everything you love.

I beg and plead... no one talks about it enough the battlefield 3 campaign is one of my favorites, not groundbreaking by any means but it does what it does SO WELL.

i loved this era of gaming so much, gears of war 2 is for sure more than the sum of its parts. this was also the era when games actually came with manuals that were treated as extra supplementary in lore material, like i distinctly remember Prescott's speech after the prologue being printed in the manual before i played the game which really set the scene and immersed me in the world. its a shame we've shifted so much towards the always-online games as a service microtransation-plagued market we're in now.

So a large reason of why Dom has been searching for Maria, aside from the fact she's his wife and they had two kids who died during E Day (which is why they're only mentioned in the cutscene when Dom is being woken up), is because she's his metaphorical heart. People in other GOW2 videos say that Dom didn't die in 3, he died when he had to shoot himself (Maria) in the heart. And I can understand why, he's been looking for her for ten years. Not 15 years or 17 years, no, ten years of searching for Maria. In a time when being missing for just seven days usually means they're dead. And once he does, the music turns into a form of heroic suffering - the scene itself is already tragic and heartbreaking enough, it's Dom's delusions she's fine, his denial, his anger, his grief, and finally the acceptance to do the hardest thing he's ever done.

So a fun story I have from this game: I played split screen with my best friend and when we got to the part where you split up to deal with the snipers he was having a heated sniper battle and just as hes almost out of ammo and has the last guy in his sights but is popping in and out of cover to fast to his and he sees a blur on the corner of his scope followed by the fountain of blood that comes from a Lancer chainsaw kill as I had darted behind the sniper that one shot it.

Had a horrible day at work and I comeback to this THANK YOU

So many memories hitting me like an old school cod flash grenade.

I was my dad's player 2. Playing through the games and doing horde mode at the GoW3 release gave us great memories.

Your friend doing a speedrun strategy at 8:42 was actually really cool to see as I saw a video about Gears 2 speedrunning a couple days ago. If you sprint to the right of the drill you save a couple seconds during it's ending animation and can move in front of it as literally done in the video.

I need a hype man like Cole. I would be unstoppable with the kind of motivation

Gears 2 was practically my childhood game 😂 absolute masterpiece and such a cinematic treat, I absolutely loved Dizzy growing up since being a country kid that dirty cowboy hat getting knocked off in MP, however Dizzy had some great lines and his Armour was cool too shame he had such a small stint in the series

ever since i saw the opening cutscene and saw the retro lancer, i was begging and pleading for it to be in the game. and then it came out in gears 3 and it’s still one of my favorite guns, can’t wait for gears e day

as a kid, i never really understood _in_ _depth_ what the story was. everything has much greater affect on me now that i’ve experienced a lot more. dom being in denial when he first sees maria, marcus’ first words to dom after he (dom) euthanized his wife made me feel like _marcus_ knew her to some extent. i fucking love jake the dogs delivery. i used to hate that we knew nothing about sera but now i love that epic left the world open to interpretation. then the coalition went and said they’re never gonna make a map so they can add whatever they want, it makes things even cooler. leaves a lot of doors open for us fans _and_ it doesn’t constrict writers

a things that i kinda love is the bug on the longshot where the shutter was buged and always was on the outside of the gun when you where on cover, no matter the side it was hold

I been seeing a lot of classic Gears on my feed recently and I’m loving every second of it

I love gears of War 2 for the campaign

"I got your back like a butt crack" - Dizzy one if the best lines in gaming

Suggestion from someone who is hard of hearing just discovering these videos: could you please make the "ding" sound of each Win a bit louder? I enjoy knowing when something is winned without having to be watching the corner. TY

This was the game that got me got me hooked into the world of gaming. It will always hold a special place in my heart and memories for that very reason. Parts of the story have been forever seared into my memory with one particular moment that I think anyone who has played this series will remember forever. (I won't spoil it, but if you have played this game, you know the big gut punch that I am referring to.) I have hoped for years that they create a remaster so I can play it on my PC so I don't have to go out and buy an Xbox again, but we will see if they ever bother doing such a remaster, as they did with GOW1.

My favourite thing about Gears of War 2 was the executions... the Gnasher specifically, the amount of joy I'd get walking behind a downed enemy pushing B to have Marcus swing his shotgun so hard up the ass of a Locust as his head goes POP.

Can you do videos on the Mass Effect Series paragon playthrou specifically

I have two great memories playing these with my friend. First we were up all night playing Gears2 beat it on epic and then wanted to go through a second time so he could play as dom and get the achievements. Well I feel asleep during the easy difficulty and was killed by a wratch. The other memory is gears3 final boss on epic difficulty we played till 2am couldn’t beat the final boss my friend wanted to call it quits I said let’s go to the store and come back after getting a drink and some snacks. We come back and first try beat the final boss. We still joke anout when we get stuck on a game to just go take a break and come back and beat it immediately.

Very much enjoyed the splitscreen gameplay, the nostalgia hits hardddddd

Missed a win for my fave joke in the series during the New Hope segment: Not seeing, hearing-some guy's controlling the security systems. Hostile? Annoying Sounds like you have it under control

Still the greatest campaign in the entire series. And without even starting the video the first thing I think of is the drill level and dom dropping that lowkey diss to Benjamin about Anthony and sniper fire

Hey do you think you could do fire watch? It’s an amazing story game and we know how much u like those.

One of the underlying themes in this game series is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Every move the COG makes ends up making something worse come from it. The Lightmass bomb causes Rust Lung, flooding the hollow causes the lambent to move up to the surface and further corrupt and contaminate the world, and the third game caused the fourth and fifth games nobody wanted.

I’ll make it short…. Everything great about gears 2: Everything, it was my “childhood” game

if this game gets the ultimate treatment the first game got it would be insane

I would love to see him the video on the army of two games

YES.YES.YES GEARS IS SO UNDERRATED NOWDAYS

At some point, you'll have to do the Bethesda Wolfenstein games.

This is definitely my favorite gears of war game

The skorge slander is crazy in this video lol

Fantastic vid. Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

I feel like because you weren't playing as much as it came out and are now accustomed to the newer types of games, you ended up undermining Gears. The lore is very interesting, the character are deeper than the surface and the dylema with immuksion, war and the locust is very interesting. Stating that gears is just about big muscly dudes shooting stuff is just too surface level. Watching the dev diaries, behind the scenes and reading a bit more shows that it's deeper. I think your videos could be even better if you went in a little deeper with all games. For instance, there's a concept in gears of war called Destroyed Beauty, that was the idea behind what you mentioned about the art style and graphics. I really love Gears, especially the first 3, and I feel like you could use this channel to show viewers a bit more behind what makes games they don't know great. Keep being awesome!

Damn, 2 weeks old. I need to turn on notifications!❤

my favorite gears game, 3 is a close close second, and thank you so much again for doing this series, i commented on almost every vid for this shit

Gears is easily one of my favorite game series

Still waiting For everything great about Mafia Definitive Edition

You should do a video on Kane and lynch

I had just played through the trilogy. The three games were so much fun and emotional. And yes, gears 4 and 5 (half of it ) weren't good. But thoses two games are still being played on either Horde or Multiplayer. Hivebusters on the other looks fun and it saved Gears 5 from going into my worst games pile.

The first game I ever played on my older brothers Xbox I was 6-7 I COULD NOT FATHOM THE WAT I WAS WITNESSING And now that rumors that all the Gears games are getting ported to PS5 😩😩😩 and this video dropping Ima about tooo bust 💀💀💀😂😂

Ive been playing games that I've played since i couldn't remember. Its a blast

When Halo 4 was released in 2012 I was seriously ticked off. Halo 3 made the Elephants for their multiplayer maps in 2007. Gears of War 2 took them, renamed them rigs or Derricks, and made a campaign mission in 2008 that blows Halo 4 out of the water.

The quarry

My favorite video game sequel: 1. Half-Life 2 2. Red Dead Redemption II 3. Mass Effect 2 4. Batman: Arkham City 5. God Of War II 6. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves 7. Gears Of War 2 8. Halo 2 9. Dead Space 2 10. Call Of Duty 2

all I thinking in my head for the first minutes of this video that it would be funny if the rumours of a new gears game is true and to build up hype they remaster 2 and 3 so you have an excuse to play though them again

15:01 DEADPOOOOL YEAH!!!!

"Who wants toast!?"

Skorge is definitely at the level of Raam, he was a badass, the problem is he was such a wasted character, the final fight and his death just felt like any other Locust. He should’ve stayed alive for Gears 3

Gears 2 hinted at the Locusts origins, and 5 outright put it in your face

Oh let’s get into it boys wooooo and the best carmin ever, he made it pretty far and I'm so glad I was an everything kid growing up, xbox PlayStation Nintendo, I only just got to personal PC rig 4 years ago

you should cover one of the saints row games if you haven’t already, best ones are 2 and 3 imo

Please check out the metro series

Gears of War could really use a remastered version, not a remake though as we all know how awfully Sweet Baby modern remakes go. Gears is a fun franchise with an interesting universe and I think it could find a renewed audience if it had modern visuals and controls.

Do Mafia Series Please

That’s one down !! Now I just need a Witcher 3 video 😭

Adeptus Mechanicus be like: 18:08

Old Gears of War still holds up today, this trilogy still is the best EPIC ever did and I don't think it'll be topped, don't get me wrong the new Gears games are good for a new generation but the first 3 (chefs kiss) now let's get ready for the Gears 3 video, I'm a grown ass man and what I know is coming still hurts

Brothers to the end

Best Game ever 💯

10:54😂😂

One of the best games ever made

This video should be 3 hrs long….atleast

Sorry, splitsceen doesn't work for me.

Love your content 😊😊😊

2:25 "Squirter Locust"? 😉

My end card as RDR and RDR2, not GoW and Halo lol

Still waiting for Injustice one and two.

The only other game that was just as good as Gears of War in my eyes is Mass Effect.

You are wrong for saying families and showing dom with his wife 😭

Fucking finally

I am once again asking for watch dogs video

When gow3 coming out???

I need a Titanfall 2

Anyone else feel this video’s vibe was off..? Seemingly short for such a long-ish game and kind of an indifferent feel in narration

Why does Dom kill his wife with a 44 magnum. I'm just saying.

i am not afraid to admit that i always thought myrrah was hot

LISAN AL GHAIB!