Gears of War Judgment didn't deserve the hate. Sure the game wasn't similar in fashion to the original trilogy, but it opened the door to many fun possible directions for the franchise to evolve and become greater. Not to mention, it was a completely faithful developed Gears of War game, unlike the Sequel trilogy games (Gears of War 4 and Gears 5) in my opinion.

I remember forcing my dad to take me into Tesco at 2 in the morning to buy this game, we absolutely loved it and we finished it in one sitting that night, it was one of the last games I played with my dad and it will forever be special to me

To be fair, many of us just didn't like the multiplayer and stuff, but the campaign is solid if ya ask me.

The campaign was really good, it was nice to see some UIR representation in the gears games

My main complaint against was how they limited your weapon you can carry. I hated how instead of 3 guns, 2 main and a sidearm, you can only 2 at all times. And I couldn’t get used to pushing Y to switch weapons, preferred the d pad .

One of my favorite moments from Judgement was when the Onyx Guard interrupted the judgement and respectfully recommended postponing it to fight the Locust and his very clear hesitation and anger when he was told “Then it’s a short walk” I love that you can tell every emotion that Onyx guard felt even though he had a helmet on covering his face.

The campaign was pretty damn good it's just the multiplier was bad

Judgement feels like the halo 3 odst of gears of war. It's short, has a great story, things changed and the multi-player is okay.

Judgments greatest sin was the hugely lacking amount of content and post support.

I enjoyed the campaign for this game but the problem lied in the changes to multiplayer. When you have something that’s been core to the multiplayer for 3 games such as DBNO state, 4 starting weapons and the Locust characters, it feels more natural and right to have that and it wasn’t a smart move to change that aspect. It just didn’t feel the same. I still think Overrun was one of the best game modes they have developed though and I want that to return. I don’t hate the game, I just wish they didn’t change what was core to the previous instalments in multiplayer. The multiplayer died so quick and even a few days after it’s release in March 2013, the numbers were higher on GOW 3. If they didn’t change the multiplayer mechanics and included Locust characters within other multiplayer modes besides Overrun, I guarantee the game woulda got better reception.

I love this game, but I didn't hear any of the complaints here that I heard back when. People had problems with; -The lack of playable Locust in the standard multiplayer -The removal of Horde Mode -The change in control scheme -The nickel-&-diming with all the cosmetic DLC -The focus on aesthetics like Armor & Weapon skins -The lack of playable characters. -The small-scale feel compared to Gears of War 3 -Cole not quite looking right (this also goes for Baird a bit) -And my complain about the characters' personality/dialogue writing feeling a tad off. I personally Loved this game. It's fast and franetic with that arcadey kinda feel. Constant action and a cool story, althoug Karn had 0 personality and realistically no relevance aside from being the "face" of the opposing Locust force. And I get it; 1 was Raam, 2 was Skorge, and 3 was Mirrah. 4 faltered by only having the Speaker, but like Karn it's better than nothing I guess.

Gears judgement > Gears 5

It’s still better than gears 4-5

Judgements overrun mode was the best thing about the game. Kind of unbelievable that they never brought it back. Back in the day it was the only reason I’d ever play a gears multiplayer.

This game explains in great detail why Marcus knows who Baird is in the first game. Everyone knows the guy who disobeyed a direct order and fired a light mass missile on the city they were trying to protect. Granted Lumous was right and the COG did have a reason to save that missile which we see in gears 1 and 2 didn't work. Hell light mass tech never works, like it didn't even kill Karn just softened him up...

Really loved the campaign and some game modes. And I have to say the game had more inspiration/style, and more love put in the development than Gears 4 and 5. Remember the trailers of Gears 1? and 2? it was amazing that whas it's selling point.

"Why I was still not wrong about Gears of War Judgement"

Im am so glad that somebody likes Gears Judgment.Come to think of it Gears Tactics feels just like judgment just in turn base form.

Man epic should have never started Fortnite they should have continued in this game

The only gears with 4 player co-op.

This game was intense at times,they seemed to have tweeked the Locust "AI" to be more aggressive and I"ve never had to fight off so many enemies in such a short time before in a Gears game

The Coalition completely disgraced Paduk in Gears 5. He was a witty and respectable character in Judgement, they made him into just another crazy Russian in Gears 5... absolutely pathetic.

I didn't mind the game campaign it was decent it had some lore breaks lancer and kantus being there 30 days after e-day instead of 1 year for the lancer and 14 years for the kantus makes sense for gameplay but for the deeper lore no sense at all. The pvp really sucked that was everyone's main issue and it shows.

I only miss the breach-shot from this game, nothing else

The real war changing aspect that Baird and his squad did on Judgment wasn't using the lightmass missile to destroy Karn but it was saving Marcus back at the Museum, it was almost, for us who already played Gears of War from 1 to 3 and knew the end of the story, a feeling of "John Connor must be protected" from the Terminator franchise without the characters even know it. 20:18 That might be one of my favorite Marcus' moments right there, the sarcasticaly and always angry way he says "well, tell him good luck with that!!" is just so on point that cracks me up everytime I play Judgment's campaign😂😂

I wasn’t a fan of multiplayer and I hated how they got rid of the weapons in exchange for just a side arm and the main gun

I really enjoyed the campaign. Even from what I can remember I enjoyed the multiplayer. Never understood the hate. Judgement is kinda like Halo Reach, last game made by the publisher, doing a prequel, and experimenting with new and different concepts while going back to the roots of the series. Unfortunately both weren't appreciated in their own time

I definitely agree that gears judgement didn't deserve the hate and gears of war judgement in my opinion was the best gears game plus it was me and my family first gears of war game that we bought and we didn't know about the other gears games until later on.

Judgement is to GOW like ODST is to HALO

I'm playing Gears 2 and 3 again (I beat the hell out of the first one, completed the campaign a million time on every version, on 360, PC and Ultimate on Xbone, that's way i'm not playing it again). I want more of the original story (not the garbage of Gears 4 and 5) but now, after this video I'm going to include Judgment, I played the whole campaign just once when It came out and some multiplayer but I didn't like it, I was so hype but I was expecting the same formula of the first one. So thanks! I enjoyed the video and like the title said, I was wrong, I didn't get it at the time! For me Gears still have the potential to become a big franchise again!

I really liked Judgment because it gave us a real experience with the Gears Military and universe

So many good memories tied to this one... First combat game played with my then 5 year old grandson.. thanks for reminding me of those times

Just beat it today for the first time, and after playing gears 4 and 5, what a masterpiece judgment is!

Yeah i digged judgement, just beat it on insane - it's fun but I wasn't a terribly big fan of it's narrative , it's levels and dialogue felt cut short and half of what's said wasn't really all that gripping whereas in gears 1, 2 and 3 you're clinging to each syllable

This game was definitelly a treat. A prequel done right.

16:06 The reaction speed on that onyx guard tho.

Nah, we just didn’t like judgment because of the change of controls, gameplay(for example: asymmetric maps, humans vs humans) and lack of content (maps, characters) all of that coming from the multiplayer, which is where we spend most of our time, after beating the campaign. The story wasn’t the best, but it was interesting to know a little bit more about the lore of the gears universe, but it was just that: interesting. Also I understand (correct me if I’m wrong) that the game was rushed by Microsoft, that’s why Epic collaborated with People can Fly. Overall, judgment was a pretty interesting game, almost felt as an experiment, but an experiment that didn’t highlight.

Stupendous Video Brother!! I agree with your points, especially Loomis being the antagonist and the player base not understanding the Game itself.

Campaign was spot on. The challenges were odd, different, but interesting and fun. Only thing I dislike was how they handles controls for changing weapons and grenades. Paduk is great. One of my favorite characters. Was quite happy to see his return in Gears 5.

Me after playing 4 and seeing 5 "maybe I was too harsh on you"

Gears of War Fans: JUDGEMENT SUCKS!!! Gears of War 4 and Gears 5: Gears of War Fans: Perhaps we treated Judgement too harshly...

The only bad thing about this game was they changed the controls and limited you to 2 guns instead of the normal “2 primary and 1 sidearm”.

Overrun was life especially the ranked gameplay team work was everything

I think too, that they missed a lot holes in this game. How Baird is consider to get an promotion in Gears of War 1 if Coronel Loomis said that Baird is no longer more lietnaunt, its a private and that means a private for ever..

Honestly, this game hard a solid story and good PvE, but I'm a multiplayer player. This game played more like call of duty with wall bouncing rather then gears. No locust in multiplayer, you only spawn with one gun and a snub, the melee broke the gun play, the gnashed was inconsistent, this I just some of the things that ruined the game for me.

But they didn't keep true to the lore, the campaign takes place right after e day so they shouldn't have Lancers with the chainsaw bayonet, that gets created a year after e day. Baird and Cole joined the cog about a few weeks after e day, they were never in halo bay and also Baird wasn't an officer. All the novels where published way before judgement so NO they didn't stay true to the"fiction". Every other gears game made many good references to the books but I don't know what they were doing with this game. I did like some parts of judgement like overrun and it did improve on things but some of the story didn't make sense and it also breaks some of the lore. With the new game gears 5 I believe that's gotten way too much hate and it's far better than judgement and even 4. Anyway I'm still debating whether I'll play this game when I go back to play through all the games and read the books again.

GOW 1,2,3 & Judgement will always have a special place in my heart. I just wish Judgement was a little longer! I loved that they included UIR, I think it would be cool to see more content from their perspective.

I think judgment also just came out at a weird time, right before the next gen in 2013.. I almost forgot about it

Gears of War judgment is a weird game for me because there's a lot of stuff I like it and a lot of stuff I hate in it I'm still say it's the worst gears game in my opinion but there's still a some of stuff I like in it I like overrun I like the campaign but all the other modes where just not fun I really hated that decision of humans vs humans this isn't Halo guys Gears of War but that's just my opinion

I lived this game out as long as I possibly could and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I love this game my only complain is the controls

tbh i really liked judgement, but i never played the multiplayer. i also saw that gears 5 took it's worst ideas (like the b button being execute) from judgement.

Good vid, although I think a lot of your comments are subjective. I recently did all the Gears games on the hardest settings and Judgment on Insane with all the modifier things was the hardest for me- absolutely brutal. The controls did feel simplified but it looked gorgeous and hey theres nothing wrong with trying some new stuff in a kind of spinoff game...

Gear kicks ass no matter what these haters can go somewhere

The Only People hating on this game are a bunch of 30 year olds that have nothing in life i loved this game alot it really tied up the lore i was looking for its s really good single player game Gears was never a multi-player game so seeing so many complain about the multi-player its insane like just go play Halo or Cod ya little whiny babies this gama Is Great and you can say otherwise

quite honestly if they gave us locust in vs and our 4 weapons back itd be a neat game, but the jarring changes left a disgusting taste in my mouth

the only reason this game was bad to people was the multi-player, weapons system and the Lancer being in the wrong time

You know what I do wonder, With Loomis, his personality, and development after the story, if he saw the hopeleness of defending Halvo Bay to death and pulled out rather than have the humans lose another important leader, how would he have fared? How would it have changed the time line and trilogy? How much of a role would Hoffman have had as he would not have been the only Colonel? How different would COG decisions and ultimately the war have been? How would he have contributed to the war and trilogy games? How would he and Hoffman have got along? Would Prescott have trusted him more, particularly between 2-3 due to his staunch by-the-book and subordinate attitude? We'll never know. But I can imagine in the original game, at 70 years old, walking out of the King Raven after the jailbreak to present the light mass bomb plans to Delta, walking aggressively, with an angry and aggressive, imposing look (Hard to explain) due to how the war was going.

I think the Gears games shouldn’t have continued the story after 3, but release different kinds of Gears games in different periods of the Locust and maybe Lambent War. If people (including myself) weren’t as critical and syndical and gave the game a more open mind then perhaps the Gears franchise would be much different than it is now. For better or for worse is up to interpretation, but I do believe we wouldn’t have gotten a game like *Gears 5* if we hadn’t discouraged them. The fact RAAM’s Shadow was a better game than Gears 5 is just sad, a DLC outdid a full feature game. I hope we get another Judgement, it’s better than anything the Coalition has made thats for sure.

i played gears of war judgement and i loved it! i wonder if people still play it to this day

I remember playing the campaign for Judgement and it was such a great experience, Dark, entertaining, and challenging af, especially if u did all of the declassified objectives. An amazing prequel game and a great Gears game

I never tried Judgment because of the critiques and the hate it got, but I just beat the campaign and the aftermath, and I can say it's my favorite Gears of war campaign so far. Do give it a try, it is definitely worth it.

I’m replaying the game for the first time since it came out and it’s a lot better than I remembered it being.

I spent years on gears of war judgement's private matches (clan fights)... oh man gowj is definitely the game I most spent hours playing

Tried playing it again recently and honestly, the only thing that I don't like and stops me playing is the more arcade feel and the control changes. If they had just added a control option setting to bring back the d-pad weapon change I'd probably stand by it more.

Gears of war judgment was a great game. It started off to a horrible start (mutiplayer wise), but sadly, by the time epic fixed all of the issues like lack of maps, two-piece, shitty shotgun, not spawning with both primarys, everyone spawning with grenades that stick to opponents, etc most people had already went back to gow3. Also, it always bothered me how the gamemode overrun was seemingly forgotten. It was arguably the best edition to gears of war period, and was super fun. Not to mention, the campaign is my favorite of any gears, right next to Gow2. Still to this day my favorite gears game. Gowj is also the gears that brought us FFA to begin with.

Feel like it could have been a patch or dlc rather than a full price game

honestly judgement is one of my favourite gears games

To be honest I had no problem with the Campaign aside from the fact that the AI on Insanity can get you killed faster than the Locust does. However at times you can strategically plan around situations where you can use the enemies tactics against them, like on the Declassified mission where a bunch of Ragers with the breachshot try to swarm you,you can plug up on or two of the E-holes and set up the turret with a good line of sight to piss them off to force them to transform and then use the Sawed-Off when they get close and you have the ammo box that refills that on the left side for later.

I liked Judgement Aftermath was cool and explained the UIR SUPPORT thing And the campaign was *mwah*

When my brother got his first pay check, we went to buy an xbox 360 and all the gears of war games. We spend many years playing with an old play station 2 and having the posibility of playing by the time next gen of video games was the best experience we had.

Thanks for that. I hate it when people hate on Judgement. I love it. My 2nd favorite after the 1st one. The campaign is what I wish all gears campaign were: no talky-talky bullshit, all business. Combat is great and relentless in this game, and I couldn't get enough of it. It's a shame they didn't make a 4K remaster of it when they did it for 2 and 3...

My only issue with judgement was control scheme

Ah yes “Why Your’re wrong”

Brilliant video my friend, I enjoyed it and some very good points! 👍

I loved Judgement's campaign and story, better than 3's honestly. my only gripe with it was the change in controls with fast grenades and stuff. I loved Loomis he was that sterotypical officer still fighting the last war and a total hard ass, but was a solid military man through and through, one of the greatest officers the COG will ever see

I hope Mauler Elites return and come to "E-Day," to the Campaign and Beast, Horde and Overrun Modes. I'd also like to be able to spin the Boomshield like how the Boomer Elites can as a human.

All i wanted was for them to start the game with Retro Lancers.

Loved this game all around it wasn’t perfect but compared to what we have now it was golden

There is nothing wrong with prequels that try to increase the depth of a franchise’s characters and setting, but forcing sequels like Microsoft did for both this and Halo have only served to cheapen the original arcs anyone cared about.

Unpopular opinion: they should make a gears of war about rhe penjulum wars

So I can understand if you paid 60.00 dollars for this game and being mad but if you have all the dlc Maps and Charcters (which you can buy all Dlc charcters on the stor except jungle Tai) it’s pretty fun and cool and I’ve always liked the game especially Aftermath.

People saying gowj is bad are the same people saying gears 5 is the best gears game knowing damn well it’s not.

one thing for sure is, gears judgement is gorgeous. Look at those cinematics and the gameplay felt a bit more tighter than gears 3 sometimes which is awesome

While playing Gears 5 because it's free, I would pay a lot of money for a remastered Judgment on PC.

This game has my favorite Hammerburst sound and the best Markza in all of Gears.

gears judgment is really under appreciated i agree. judgment, even if it changed the gameplay, it still brought new openings to innovation and brought more stuff than they had changed.

Putting campaign aside, because I think the campaign was the best part of the game The main problem I have with this Gears game is they had so many downgrades that they masked as something beneficial 1. No Locust in multiplayer When I first heard this I was kinda upset, then I was told from Epic in some video that the main reason for the removal of the Locust from versus was because of there inconsistent hit boxes. After hearing that I was like ok, makes sense we will see how it goes. But after launch it became apparent that it was most likely done out of sheer laziness. If they no longer have to work on Locust characters, why is there only like 10 COG characters in the entire game?Especially compared to previous games which had multiple characters to choose from along with there different versions. Make it make sense 2. No downs Another apparent upgrade that in reality was a downgrade, idk what they were tryna accomplish with that one, maybe a faster paced experience but all it did was take away those epic moments of saving/being saved at the last second just before getting killed, something that Gears always had from the start. Idk if this is true but I heard that the real reason for the removal of downs was because if it was implemented they would have to spend more development time on it Which leads me to believe that Gears of War Judgment was just a shameless cash grab, and its why I regard this game as the 1st slap in the face from the devs to the fans, the other slaps would later come from The Coalition. Notice how Epic wasn’t planning on working on any other Gears games after Judgment, it was to be shelved…until Microsoft came in and bought it, only leaving me to think even more that it was just a cash grab Not all things were bad tho in terms of Multiplayer, I think Overrun was a very good mode that just needed a little tweaking to be even better. Why they abandoned that mode in future games is beyond me.

They took an extremely story based long mission detailed game. And turned it in to a wave based glorified mobile game. I’m playing through all of them and I’ve never been more upset about an installment of a game series.

At least judgment stayed in the grey truism dark and griddy world unlike 4-5 which are colorful and lost its identity

This game had so many things I wanted gears to have. The lancer had 60 rounds in a magazine again. You could use any weapon with the boom shield leading to some amazing combos. And I got to learn more about the uir and the early days of the locust war. But the control scheme really dampened the experience for me this game is my 4th favorite gears game but if it controlled like the other games it would be my 2nd favorite behind gears 2.

Uhhh im gonna have to say playing dress up is lame. Definitely makes the game cornier

Me and my good friend played this game long after it came out. The single player is legitimately good. The enemy randomization, depth of scoring, set pieces in the campaign, weapon sandbox are all good. I think it had the best campaign. No marcus and dom though. We also really like gears 4. Marcus is our favorite character, yet we don’t consider gow 1-3 as good.

i played this many years after release because i thought it was just another average expansion that couldnt compete with gears 1,2,3. after playing it though I will say that this game has the best gameplay out of all the gears games. theres more emphasis on moving around instead of hiding behind cover. the action was so intense the framerate would drop like crazy haha. poor 360. the campaign was great because we got to see the chaos of e-day and watch former enemies team up. highly recommend this game.

I just starting playing this game and its one of the craziest games ive ever played the amount of locust that you fight is insane and i love it

The more I play the game, the more I realize it's not that bad.

i didn't mind Judgement, the fact you played as Baird sold me. What i didn't like was the complete change to the weapon control scheme

Judgment was my overall favorite ngl

Campaigns: 1: GoW 2 2: GoW 3 3: GoW Judgment 4: GoW 5: GoW 4 6: GoW 5 7: Tactics (don‘t care)

It was better if you imagined judgment was a gears 3 DLC but on a separate disc. That’s how I got enjoyment out of it cause it had a bunch of gow3 content and feel, just not installed into the gow3 game. If overrun, FFA and the campaign (along with the customization) were added into 3, it would’ve actually made 3 the best game ever! But besides that… how can you discuss all that and not even mention the one biggest thing that upset fans… the removal of locust as PvP enemies? That and the quick swap system (that only allowed 2 weapons and a nade instead of 3 & a nade) that dumbed down the action so much, it just didn’t “feel” like a gears PvP. That was enough to make parts of the game not feel like a gears game anymore…. And you completely glossed over that when saying you didn’t understand how ppl said this didn’t feel like a gears game. It seems you understand just fine but intentionally didn’t address it. Idk why you chose to do that but that’s what made the game suffer the most. Sure some didn’t like the verticality (which I loved) as well, but it had hints of great gears content sprinkled throughout all modes in the game… but it also sprinkled enough changes throughout everything that took away from the “feel” of gears, and coming off gow3…. It was enough to taint the entire experience. I appreciate the game for what it is, but some of the smallest, basic changes made to streamline the action (red vs blue, no DBNO, no PvP active reloads) and make weapon access faster (quick swap) along with the wild customization took away just enough to make it feel like a “silly” version of a gears game. I thought the PvP maps were some of the best yet, but that can’t save PvP when it changes the most radically than ever before. It was a good game (miles better than gears 4/5), but again, if you view it as a dlc for 3 on a different disc altogether, it’s easier to swallow. On its own, too many changes took place to make it feel in line with the trilogy before it. THAT is why it didn’t land or resonate well with most players.