The Gears of War That Everyone Hated 

Judgment was like the middle child, it was understood, and hate for a lack of reasons, even if it sucked, it still was hella fun

50% of the cutscenes in this game were just the four of them kicking/knocking down doors

Fun fact: the guy who worked on the multiplayer and pushed for the control change went on to work at 343 on Halo 5 and Halo infinite’s multiplayer..

Bro did not only condense and explain the story very well in 1 hour, he actually made it exciting and fun to hear props to you, great video

After watching all of this, my biggest issue is at the end. Karn survives a massive DIRECT missile strike and comes out looking untouched. Then soaks up some bullets and dies? The least they could’ve done was show him try to activate a shield or dig down to survive leaving us unsure if he lived until the boss fight. Or/and a mutated, distorted, damaged Karn pops up in the boss fight looking like a badass who took a direct missile strike and is still standing.

The biggest issue, for me, is the Locust in general. The whole idea of the Locust is that they mirror the COG to the most extreme with very specific ranks and positions. You would never see a Kantus Monk fighting on the front line or see Theron Guards outside from paramount positions of power. I get the random replayability outlook but it just goes against the game's core values of militaristic societies. The game was fun but dear god was it a mess, especially the multiplayer microtransactions. You think Dead Space 3 was bad, Gears of War Judgment was way worse.

Played this long before joining the military and I remember thinking how unrealistic this is. Holding a trial while being under siege? After the military? This is scarily accurate. Loomis reminds me of every other dumb power corrupted officer.

I find Judgement underrated and I really like it, but I understand the hate. View the game similar to Halo ODST, as a experimental spin off. It would have been more loved if it was marketed like that instead of the next major game

Honestly, Baird was easily my favorite character after a while. Normally those smarmy ass characters don't impress me, but something about Baird made him really fun and I loved him.

Gear of War 3 was one of the greatest games of all time. GoW Judgment could do only two things: repeat the same type of gameplay and story that made the first three games bangers or try to push the saga forward. They chose too little of both. My very first gripe is how they change the button layout. It felt unfamiliar for the wrong reason. Reprogramming myself to use the new layout took me out of the game until I learned how to switch to classic mode. Also, it was too many waves of enemies. It felt like a chore sometimes.

Bro rest in peace Benjamin carmine I wanted dude to live so bad because he was so bright and optimistic I was so sad and them furious he dudes the way he did took out all that rage on the locust for the rest of the game my battle cry was for carmine

I liked the story telling of Karn despite being feeble taking in and caring for a deformed corpser and how the two of them made each other stronger

43:02 Honestly, man, this was the part of the game where I went from feeling some type of way about Loomis to absolutely loving the madman of a character he is. Man's truly gave no fucks about safety or fighting the ongoing fight. He was so hellbent on holding Kilo Squad accountable for what the books would call insubordination that he was very much so willing to get everyone else clipped for it. Add in the personal comedy touch you put in for the edits, you got a sub in me lmao

Judgement having the Lancer (which is actually the Lancer Mk2) and the version of the Hammerburst which is the Hammerburst 2 and can be identified by its semi auto/full auto firing and visual appearance which are VERY anachronistic to the timeline due to the Lancer we know coming to be a decent time AFTER emergence day and was made by Adam Fenix with help from Marcus

I played through the entire campaign at a friend's house back when this was released. Enjoyed the campaigna bit, but I agree that Aftermathwas much better, despitebeing much shorter. Also, I always thought Paduk was one of the best things to come from this game, and it was cool to see him come back in 5

As someone that finish this game in the max difficulty i can tell, DON'T TAKE CHALLENGES, i try to finish this game with 3 stars each level and is pain with the extra objectives

Let's take an American classic, 3 games strong... and give it to Europeans. Beautiful idea

Judgement got me through a very tough time in my life. Even though it wasn’t perfect, it gave me better memories than the other installments. Kinda like ODST.

For me, Judgment has the one of the best PVP experiences in gaming, and that is Overrun. While sounding like just a simple mix of Beast and Horde mode together on paper, it is so much more in depth than that, with a lot of tactical game play that you can hardly find anywhere else. One player on the locust side can spawn as a Ticker, while the other spawns as a Grenadier. The Grenadier player can immediately throw a grenade at the Ticker player, who then eats the grenade. Then, they move forward, with the Grenadier providing cover fire while the Ticker eats away at the barricade. Alternatively, the Grenadier can use the melee attack to kick the Ticker over the barricade, who then explodes while also dropping the grenade it ate earlier for a secondary detonation. If the makers of Gear of War had ever expanded on this, they could have made one of the best PVP experiences even better, but sadly they decided to scrap it all because the story and other gameplay wasnt as good as previous titles. Some of my best memories of Gear of War was during private games of Overrun with friends, and I still miss some of those to this day.

With all the problems it has, I did enjoy Judgement. Got all the Onyx stars in insane with declassified missions even if it made kid me cry of frustration. And I'm glad you are a fellow Retro Lancer Enjoyer. Also I think the Breechshot was a pretty cool rewarding weapon for pulling those well place shots.

In my opinion, Judgement was a convoluted means to sell people a whole game packaged with the missing act from gears 3. This makes 3 like its predecessors, a 6 act story.

My cousin and I are running through the series in chronological order and we just finished our run through of this game. Its definitely not the best, but the arcadey action is something I can get behind as we delve into the series again. Very excited.

I love the video essay format of the last 2 videos and the random funny editing - please keep up the great work!

im really surprised you have less then 5k subs. your vids are very well edited and it seems you spend a lot of time on them, i hope you get the audience you deserve.

Really good video, well put together hopefully the algorithm will pick it up! One of the biggest issues i had with judgement was cog v cog in pvp and no dbno in pvp these 2 things alienated a lot of the original player base. Overrun was one of the greatest game modes ever made, i really hope it makes a return some day.

the multiplayer is what killed judgement, that shit was not gears of war

Its so sad, i loved judgement, the combat felt super intense, the city locations felt gritty and full of enviormental storytelling, as well as offering various rememberable locations, like the island fort.

No way you only have 2 videos! I was looking forward to watching more reviews! Love em

Bro you’re commentary was extraordinary, I love the way you convey the story and the characters while also being funny while talking about gameplay :)

Dude, you're gonna blow up in no time. Your content is amazing. I can't wait to watch you grow! I may not comment much but il be here! Stay awesome!

Amazing work dude!! This was a really well thought out and entertaining video, I hope you get more views It's nice to see a retrospective of a game from a saga I don't see many talk about nowadays. I really agree with all your points of how this game was designed and it's a shame since I think it really had potential if the developers actually tried to flesh out the universe and not just make another game for the sake of it or to follow the mechanic trends at the time. (Also considering that this game had less time to make in comparison of the others) A point that I liked that you mentioned is how the characters felt more like props than people, a thing that I absolutely loved about this franchise is, yeah it has action, war and all that but it also was so human, all the characters felt like someone with a story, emotions and personality, not just soldier characters from a gorey game, and the dialogues during the cutscenes AND the in-between campaign during gameplay really made that aspect shine, something Judgment lacked since it focused more on the arcade part and didn't let the characters be more than that. The players couldn't catch a break from all the none stop battling, which rapidly became tedious, and didn't even get more than a few pieces of lore from the main squad with really short lines and exchanges (unless it was a cutscene). Anyways Judgement had a messy construction, not so good changes but also had a few interesting ideas that I wish were develop in the other games: I really liked some of the new guns and the overrun mode is a cool concept to me

both of your vids are great man. I'm looking forward to the next one

Judgement is a very flawed game but it had a lot going for it, overrun was a great mode that combined horde with beast but didn't help that you only had 4 base maps and I feel they didn't go far enough with either side. I imagine having a silverback to try and fight the corpser at the generator or the locust being able to get karn or a beserker. one of the things that bugs me the most about judgement are the weapons you get, if this games set in the past why are we getting weapons that weren't invented until after?

Great content, you gained a sub. The trilogy was something that is instilled in my head whether it be the story or 1v1ing my older brother since we didn’t have Xbox live during that time. All time classic trilogy

Holy hell this is some good long-form content man! I hope you make alot more vids i enjoyed this alot :)

I love judgment, it has one of my favorite gears stories and still has the best version of the Markza. It also did something I loved and made PVP Red vs. Blue... But for some stupid reason they removed locust from multiplayer... Like why, I should still be able to play as an Armored Kantus on either red or blue. This game also has the a great art style and tone on par with GOW1/2's

The cleaver as a weapon was really buggy in 3 and Judgement. If any DBNOable entity goes down while swinging the cleaver they stand back up with no weapon, this can happen in Gears of War 3 but not nearly as often. It also leads to weird results when you beat a mission in the bugged state.

This was an amazing detailed overview of judgment! Please make more videos like this! Subscribed!

Had a buddy (Staff Sergeant X) in the military that would often tell me stories from his deployments. Once with his squad he was returning to base which was pretty much full of reserves and with no hesitation they started firing at his squad (miscommunication). Long story short no one was injured since those reserves couldn’t “shoot for shit”, met with the officer in charge and decked him straight in his mouth for making the order to fire. Was then demoted from Gunny to Staff Sergeant. Told me how the meeting went with his superiors and watching this video reminded me of this story.

Loved this video I think it was entertaining and funny but also a good dive into the story aspect of gears judgment. With the lack of Gears of war content on youtube compared to other games Id love to see more gears of war deep dives, Maybe into the online aspects of the game or even better other gears games id watch those in a heartbeat. Great work

By the way, when playing Judgment I discovered that you can chainsaw and beyonet charge Kantus (also works in GoW3). Also courpsers can be chainsawed in the face, but only when their legs are out of the way. Also also Therons wielding cleavers can block a chainsaw, which starts a duel.

One thing I like about Judgement is Sophia is the only Onyx guard to actually do something useful and not die in the entire series (excluding the line about her in aftermath ). Keegan technically counts too but since he’s technically not in the cog anymore idk if he truly counts as onyx

This is a great, well made and thoroughly entertaining video. Please make more like this, you have a natural talent for these kind of retrospective type videos on games. I will subscribe in the hope that you continue to do these and your channel gets big growth 👍

Amazing video I hope you keep it up. Hope to see many more videos like this from you

Great video! I liked the story structure of Judgement, but still it is weird saying I may have enjoyed Aftermath more than I did most of the main story cause of some of those challenges or Horde missions. There were just too many changes they made that threw fans off in this game

Judgement will forever give me my favourite Gears armor ever. Baird's Judgement set is perfection

wow this is first video of yours and its this high of an quality? im impressed

Gotta appreciate Paddock though, he is a nice change of pace in character. I really wish a gears of war with UIR vs Gears was a thing.

I laugh so hard on the locust just noping the execution. That was so well made, holy fuck

jst finished ur latest video and i found this soon after! i never knew about this game before so it’s great for me to learn about something new and experience it through your video HAHA you earned yourself a new sub! i greatly enjoyed your content!

Been a nostalgia trip watching this video, hell even an hour type vid too, glad I stumbled across this channel 🤩

your reviews are absolutely great. Please keep going.

The funniest thing about Loomis is that he seems to be a bad commander entirely because he is an incredibly skilled soldier. The end of the game shows us that he was entirely right about Karn. Using the missile is a complete waste, it doesn't even kill Karn. We expect Loomis is just an idiot politician because his orders amount to "shoot the giant monster until it dies you fucking cowards." Yet what ends up working in the end? Loomis picking up a gun and shooting the giant monster until it dies. He's still a dumbass. But he's a dumbass *because* he doesn't seem to realize that he and the soldiers of Kilo Squad are incredibly badass. He gives the order of "just kill the grubs idiot," because it literally always works for him so when it doesn't work for others he just says it louder and doesn't understand why other soldiers don't just win like he does. It's an utterly hilarious character.

very entertaining commentary I caught myself laughing out loud a few times even watching a game I hated, you held my attention for an hour. Very impressive work here for a channel of your size I hope you are rewarded adequately for it!

Gears 3 was the last entry I played. Thank you for this excellent video. I appreciate getting to see the story I missed without actually having to play the game. It did not look particularly fun.

Just found this channel and you rock man. Ive subbed and ill be watching the rest of your vids- come back n post soon!

37:25 Correction, it's called a silverback, and it's only got 1 minigun on it. The other side has a rocket launcher thing, you can press a button to turn it into turret mode to fire that side.

i havent played this since i was younger, and now I know why I only remember Paddock’s part of the story. Because its was the funnest chunk of the game 😂

I always had a soft spot for the little extra side story type things in Gears like the stealth dlc in 2, shadow of raam, and the extra campaign on this game is pretty good just like them. Sucks that the rest of it couldn’t match up.

Judgement was an upgrade in campaign when it came to immersion. The colors/lighting meshed so well! Idk what it was with saturation but everything just looked so good. It doesn't look as good in Gears 4 for some reason.

she went thru booty call entrance 💀💀

You didn’t have to do the Declassified Ops though. You could of ignored those and not be bogged down by the bad challenges if you didn’t want to. They just added an alternative mix to the gameplay.

Just finished binge watching all your videos, I really need a bioshock video from you at some point.

Loved the video , only slip you made was calling the planet earth 😅 but awesome video

The quick "I was against it sir" had me dying LOL mother fuckers do that shit in real life

Great video, please keep making more :)

dont know much about gears. but i watched the whole video! pleasantly surprised tbh excellent work man

Good vid, Man. Keep it up.👍🏾

For me, the best part of Judgment was the back of Sofia's pants.

This GOW was the first one I played so it holds a special place in my heart no matter how busted and different it was. I personally loved the game flaws and all

Me and my best friend played the entire series, when judgement dropped it was about a month after finishing 3, we grabbed it and immediatly felt the games change from GOW to call of Gears third person challange extravaganza. We got to Sofia's story and genuinely just lost the will to play. Like two people who just sat and did the entire series so far on the hardest difficultly and we just never felt the game was fun to play vs the others.

Would love to see you go through all the GOW games, this was swift and to the point. More memes though, the memes are what makes these videos worth it

59:06 "In this campaign, Marcus Fenix sends Dom and Cole to get a boat" I don't think Marcus was sending Dom anywhere by that point of Gears of War 3 :(

Judgment is actually my favorite in the series. It was a breath of fresh air incredible music, immersive, storytelling, and very fun game play. On top of the fact that co-op was extremely fun. This was the first game my girlfriend and me played through together and she loved it as well.

I actually really enjoyed your analysis of this video; though I do differ in my judgement of the game and also how I look at major titled-series like these. This is just an opinion, so feel free to let me know what your thoughts are. I would look at this game, as a, "filler," (like filler episodes in animes and tv series). Instead of promoting a huge game, this gives a studio a chance to give more backstory while testing different methods of utility within their game. Can it be buggy, yeah, and can it be shit in some aspects, yeah; but, the same as the filler episodes, it still satisfies us in a way that gives us more connection to the characters of the story. I barely remember playing this game; but, just watching your video actually made me remember that I really did appreciate the storyline for however horrid, at times, the gameplay could be. Thanks for reading and keep it up, I do really love the video!

very enjoyable vid. keep it up bro

Fun fact: there's no N in turret.

I truely believe Judgment has some redeemable stuff: - The campaign, overall amazing story telling and very intriguing - Overrun, a hero based competitive that should return - Art style/graphics still holds pretty damn well and its about 10 years old and it looks better than most AAA modern games I understand the hate the game got, about this time Cliffy B left Epic Games and very few people worked on this game.

51:21 I remember this happening to me. I love the genuine “this shii is crazy” lmaoo

Remember installing a countdown app for it as I was pretty hyped, the pvp and no horde made me play 2 or 3 while the story was ... neat.

I loved the game. I liked the experiments they did with the weapons and enemies. The story was okay but the environments we fought through were awesome.

I think ALLOT of people dont know that the Silver Back suit has a granade launcher, I think you Tap A once or something like that to activate it, you are stationarry, cant move while using it, then Tap A again to switch to gatling

Everything you said was exactly what I expected and I grew up on this game bro love your videos and this video allot brother thank you and keep up the awsome Master pieces of your own!!! Love you all stay true and loyal and morals etc 😊

I had fun watching this, dude your amazing do more content on series like this🤣🖤🖤🖤❤️❤️❤️❤️

Judgements only issue was its online play which was a major disappointment after gears 3 which improved on what everyone complained about on 2. Judgement has one of my favorite campaigns from the gears series. It had a horror element to it that was a little different and what I thought was a good addition to the series.

Having the only female character weak a skin tight suit and having her whole arc based around sleeping around and being disrespected by superiors for being a woman is the most 2010s videogame thing ever

The tripwire crossbow I always used it like the torque bow I’m actually sad it never came back in later titles it was an actual fun weapon

Overrun was so fun I’ve been hoping for it to come back every entry since

I've always really liked Judgement. The length is perfect I think, and its just a fun game.

At this point, you might as well call judgement underrated, cause going back to it, it was actually pretty fun to play (and the games made by the coalition kinda suck)

I really liked how you did this video and I think you should do more in depth gears of war videos just like this. Sir you have my respect and gained a new subscriber 🫡🫡

Thank you for this video. I played this game so much when I was younger, even finished it on insane/solo and it was a pain in the ass. The ragers were relentless.

Judgement has a really cool and interesting story structure, not gonna lie.

Noo poor Sophia 😭 she was done dirty an off screen death

Gears Tactics brought a fair bit to the genre that was largely dominated by XCOM. It was a good entry in the genre as well as providing tidbits to Gears 4/5. That was nowhere near a "baffling misstep".

21:33 That delivery on the "Oh, okay" was brilliant.

This doesnt sound like a bad campaing at all just mid. But I gotta ask, how tf did Karn survive that giant missile???

This game made a lot of players forget about this franchise. I have a couple friends who came over one day and i was playing gears 5 and they said "ohh you playing gears" i didnt even know they knew what gears was. And legit all 4 of them said they stopped playing cuz of judgement.

Plus getting to see more Clayton Carmine, AKA the only survivor of the carmine curse was the icing on the cake for the DLC.

0:44 Oddly enough, i found GOW Tactics to be one of my personal favorites in the series. Sure its not the gears people really want, but its has to me atleast, a satisfying gameplay loop, an ok story and looks great with good characters and voice acting. Good video though, you're clearly both talented and passionate about the series, exicted for what you will create next :)