Would say overall pretty good video overall. Can give some information out from having an untouched version of the Xbox Underground's Jan 24th 2011 engine leak. 9:10 There actually a ton of pretty cool unused weapons from both concept and actual in-game implementation across the franchise. Like the Ripper/Buzzsaw was a saw that would bounce off different surfaces and fired in similar way to Torque Bow and Unreal Tournament's Ripper. The Stim Pistol was also an early phase idea for Gears Judgment's Stim Grenades that existed during Gears 3's development. 33:00 The Master Boomer did have a proof of concept map, though this was pretty much a visual-based scripting set. Which did have the Butcher walk around with wretches jumping off of it's back. There also does contain an non-rigged model of the Boomer itself, along with unused voice lines for whenever a wretch jumped on a COG character's head. 53:22 From what I remember in the builds from around E3 2010 there were other cut enemies. Like just standard Locust Drones, Shriekers, and Grinder. Then later on they added the Reaver during late 2010 to early 2011, which was eventually scrapped. 56:50 From what I was told privately this demo was created originally as a proof of concept inside of Gears Judgment's build of the version. As in the video there is proof as well you can see a mouse cursor throughout what was leaked. (Btw you can use JW Player to watch different archived pages from the WayBack Machine) There also was a different variation made for Gears 3 early on, but it only ever was used to test AI characters to interact with the environment and move using the mouse. web.archive.org/web/20140916041956/kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iLaPeNqjxuDGdmg.html 58:00 Yeah, the original earliest lineup from super early RAAM's Shadow map scripting was Barrick, Harper, Tai and Valera. However there voice lines that were repurposed as to when Kim was added in as a playable character. The original location was also supposed to be in Tollen instead of Illima. Along with maps made heavily focused on an older man (likely later Dr. Wisen) and Jace going around saving kids during the day and night time. There were also another couple of super early concepts for DLC campaigns as well mainly Marcus trying to hold off Tollen road, rescuing Anya inside a bank vault, and lastly him disobeying orders to save his father. As for Carmine I do have a theory that he's likely placed there due to the fact that Epic were likely working on Recruit Carmine's model at the time, so it looked pretty cool as a marketing idea.

I love how the only carmine to survive, Clayton, is insanely jacked, even compared to the other characters, like mans just a total badass

Marcus complaining about a lack of home depot around will forever hold a plaxe in my heart

Dom's beard was indeed a meme in the old fandom! Specifically because of the double meaning of "Beard", the plot with his wife, and his relationship with Marcus. The joke was that Dom grew a new beard because he had to get rid of his old one.

gears of war is really big in latin america, especially mexico. when the X360 launched in mexico (about 3 months after the US launch), the console was bundled with the first gears of war, which made it very popular around here; at least that's how i first played it when my best friend got the X360 as a birthday gift. as far as i know, the biggest gears lore YT channel is a mexican guy.

I shit you not, the entire reason I got into Gears of War was because of the Carmine family, watching Carmine lore videos, Carmine voice lines in Multiplayer, needles to say I yearn for a Gears game with a helmeted cog that isnt a throw away joke character

For the language and accent part at 1:28:57 , the COG was based in Tyrus and the people are said to speak in Tyran which could be a totally different sounding language than English. So I just think they all speak English just so we can follow the story line and narrative since it would be a LOT of work to create an entire new language. Same could be said for Gorasni(Republic of Gorasnaya), but Gorasni is more akin to sounding like a Slavic language.

You'd think that content creators would pick up on the popularity of characters like the Carmines, the soldier's soldiers and regular guys given a gun to do their part. It's empowering. The Imperial Guard are popular in 40k for a reason. Plus he has a helmet, safety first.

Gears is one of my favorite game series, thanks for finally making an iceberg on it!

As a fan of this franchise I really appreciate this video and I thank you for making this video and I can't wait to see more icebergs

Thanks for making this, the gears community needed a good iceberg for this franchise, I learned a lot. Fun fact: since the games take place on Sera, there’s no England 🎉 , the protagonists are from the country named Tyrus, so they speak Tyran, the equivalent of the English language

3:01 can confirm, Ben is best boi. Also, an extra bit of info that I was surprised wasn't on the iceberg: In Wasteland 3, near the Southeastern area of the map, you can find a case marked with the name "Fenix." Inside is a Gears lancer which you can actually use. Though the chainsaw doesn't work, it fires explosive rounds with 99 armor penetration which basically negates any enemy's armor.

Hello! Thanks so much for the shout out, I was happy to help out with some of the entries as I'm a MASSIVE gears fan as well. Excellent work man as is come to be expected from this channel. 10/10!

Honestly, Clayton is my favorite Carmine. Idk why I just love his look and dialogue. Each brother has pretty good lines tho

Your videos have made me realise that surprisingly a lot of shooters have a lot of Easter eggs, Cod, Gears, Battlefield, Halo. It's an interesting observation

I can imagine the sequel to "Gears Tactics" being "Locust Command"

I’ve been hyped for this video I was really looking forward to it. Thanks so much for making these, I can’t imagine how much info you have to organize. Thanks man!

I have so many good memories of horde mode on Gears 2 split screen. I never understood a lick of the story but the chainsaw execution did activate something primal in my middle school brain.

I love that doms toms was just John having fun and riffing for a laugh and they loved it so much they put it in an easter egg.

On the Resistance subject, both Gears and Resistance shared a fair amount of similarities. For example: both games take place after major conflicts (WW1 for Resistance and the Pendulum Wars for Gears) both feature antagonist that have reptilian aesthetics, etc.

One of my greatest personal experiences with gears of war is playing through gears of war one's campaign on insane which was hard as balls! Me and my friend had just gotten to the part where the Theron guards show up and kept getting our asses royally handed to us over and over again growing more and more frustrated and especially has time was limited. Then on our final attempt I took cover, and got stuck! On what we dubbed as the rock of doom or possibly the boulder of doom and at that point we both burst out laughing in hysterics with me laughing so hard tears and snot were rolling down my face. At that point we just got off and finished it another time but damn I don't think I ever laughed that hard at anything in games especially out of sheer frustration and just how fucked up the timing of that glitch was like a sick joke and troll sent from the universe. Also 3 was the best one in terms of story weapons and gameplay modes

Carmines for my case was the voice and the standard gear helmet. Adds some mystery to his face which was all the rave back in the day, example being master chief

Ironically enough, people bought that rev 9 skin for the simple fact that before the update on the skin he was so damn skinny he was not able to be seen on screen, he doesn't do emotes so he doesn't get affected by gunshots so the only thing you can hear is the clanking noises when he walks, and a lot of sweat players use that skin in multiplayer just so it was easy level up, and on top of that you can sit in a dark corner and people will run right past you. Literally the most hated skin in the game for the longest time 😆

i will point out, the lancer is a rifle, and the boltok is a pistol, however high-caliber it is. i figure the boltok is gonna be chambered in something akin to either .50 AE or .500 win mag. the lancer, given it's sheer size, is probably chambered in something like 7.62 NATO. So, if Dom put her out of her misery with a boltok and left a sizeable exit wound in the back of her head, the lancer would probably saw her head in two

i always loved gears but its not popular enough to see people making videos on it so im glad you made this video and put al the effort in like that.subscribed

I’m just glad that DRAKE DID NOT DO ANY JACE LINES

I’ve never had an interest in this franchise, but it was an extremely fun watch. Also; love the stuff relating to Resistance at the end. That series is pretty fond in my mind, and any mention of it is pretty great in my eyes.

I recently started playing gears to see what all the fuzz was about. As of recently i have finished the story modes of Gear 1 & 2 and currently im on act 2 in gears 3. i have not played any of the multiplayer modes but it has been fun up until now. And the games look great on my 360 collection. So this iceberg has been interesting and very insightful into both the fandom and franchise. thank you for making this.

One of my childhood favorite franchises, at least the first 3.... So much to unpack here

Glad that you keep making these icebergs its the only videos I look forward to every month no matter the topic

I really want a MCC type Collection of Gears game to release on PC, because my friend who loves gears didn't have an Xbox growing up and never was able to play the og gears, and was only able to play the first one when the Ultimate Edition came out on PC, I kinda wish we could both just play the whole series on PC one day.

I have never played Gears of War and I have absolutely no interest in it BUT I will watch this video anyway

The Cole Train runs on whole grain baby! Whooo!

We are getting gears of war E day baby

I always assumed that the game took place in an uncountable amount of time in the future and that Sera was a colony planet.

wait a second you're saying that gears 5 came out in 2019 and that it's been 3 years. man, time goes by, it feels like it came out not that long ago.

I've been playing Gears for years and I'm surprised that there was a lot of things and easter eggs I never even knew about

Yooo best early birthday gift I can receive. Been hyped asf for this iceberg Catch 22 about seeing an iceberg about your favorite series is that you know most of the entries. But I realized that most entries I didn’t know where cut content. I didn’t know about the cut gears 3 chapter dlcs nor the rocket launchers, the construction boomer , the fire starter origins cut lines, the original characters for raams shadow or how Alicia was originally an onyx guard. I’ll add in another cut content that wasn’t in this iceberg but another gears iceberg I saw. Palace guards in gears 2 where suppose to have giant swords like cleavers. This me realized how poor cut content in gears of war is archived. An interesting note is that supposedly there’s still undiscovered secrets in gears 3 and in gears 4 multiplayer. There’s also rumors that the slab Easter egg is still unsolved. But nonetheless, love the iceberg and video 🔥🔥

Not sure what it is about Ben Carmine but he's my favorite of the carmines and I use him whenever I play horde or multi-player

I CANT BELIVE YOU MENTIONED MISTBORN!! Everybody needs to read it Brandon Sanderson is a genius!!

This is what I needed, I just finished all 5 including judgment but skipped the DLC’s

19:57 Oh my god I thought I was the only one who remembered that movie. I've talked to other people about sad Christmas movie's but no one else remembers Jack Frost. Wasn't expecting to see someone mention it on an almost two hour long Gears of War video of all places.

Love all your vids!!! This was another great one wouldn't think a video game franchise would have so much content outside of the games

although i know nothin about gears of war i rlly enjoyed this video im sure these videos can take a while to get out but i appreciate your hard work cuz these videos always come out pretty top notch. great content man keep it up and thanks again for helping me remember supah ninjas in the second spiderman iceberg lmao

Don't know if you'll see this, but on the Gears of War EU front I HIGHLY recommend the novels 'Jacinto's Remnant', 'Anvil Gate' and 'Coalition's End'. They chronicle the events between Gears 2 and Gears 3, like the disbanding of the COG and the beginning of the Lambent Pandemic. I also recommend the novel 'The Slab' which goes into detail on Marcus' trial, imprisonment and time in... the Slab prior to Gears 1.

After losing my job, your iceberg makes it just a bit better.

I've been so hyped for this iceberg even though I've not played a single gears of war game

my favorite video game series ever, love to see it

I have not even seen Gears of War gameplay but I’ll watch this video at least 3 times because its Pigpen content

This actually just made my day. You pump out great content Pigpen.

Always a better day when Pigpen uploads

1:39:31 My theory about the lambent and why the Kantus aren't effected by it is because the Immultion is a kind of "halo flood" situation where it is the dominant species and possesses a type of hive-mind. it can control itself and make decisions like a fungi. it can *choose* who to infect... i like to think that the the detail of inhaling the fumes has a sort of effect similar to taking mushrooms, lmao, and gives the Kantus some sort of spiritual access. remember they can revive locust on command... fkn wild

Marcus going off about his tomatoes was the only enjoyable thing in the “Gears” games

I loved Anthony and Ben because they were relatively regular surrounded by a bunch of jacked uniquely dressed people. Same reason the imperial guard > space marines

Now I know what I'm going to watch while sleeping

Glad griffin was talked about on this list. He was my main skin in gears of war 3

27:59 Absolute tragedy, I remember asking friends a bunch of times if they wanted to do shadow of Raam specifically so I coulf play as the Theron Elite with the Elite Sawed off, the kill animation where you impale them in the air then shoot them in half was awesome. I also exclusively used Theron Elite as my multiplayer skin as soon as I had it.

1:08:40 I remember playing a casual match of koth years ago and having that happen. I didn’t know about it and remember being blown away by how cool it was.

Found your channel through this video and I just had to come back after the Netflix announcement,after seeing some of your other vids i just have to notice how stuff happens relating to the ice berg after you make a vid on it

Keep up the work make love these iceberg videos

Best iceberg channel in existence

Waiting the GEARS movie is like looking for a needle in a mansion full of mirrors. It's painful.

The tomato plant freak out had me dying 😂😂

19:13 actually in gears 5 versus mode you can switch all the weapons to the actual cluckshot. Not just a skin.

As huge gears fan myself,i did find odd that aren’t lot of dedicated channels to gears.I’m thinking starting one myself,it’s so wired.Gears is huge and has loyal and dedicated fanbase but fact is aren’t a lot of people talking about it is criminal.My guess to why is not talk about as halo is it’s just wasn’t every xbox player cup of tea,which fine.I’m huge halo as well but still there’s a countless waves of halo and mainstream channels not that’s bad or anything,I love them and people behind them.Still I wish gears got more love.That’s just my two cents.

Ill have you know, your videos kept me company while I was trying not to die from a severe hangover yesterday. Thanks for all your dedication & hard work, these 1hr-3hr long videos are 🤌🏻🤌🏻

In spanish colors can be used for him=rojo or she=roja Rojas its just a plural that happens to be a lastname

Can't believe the first GoW was released more than 15 years ago. I remember my friend had pre-ordered and got it the day it released, I think it was either November or December in 2006. We stayed up that whole night playing 2p campaign until beating the game. I introduced my brother and a few other friends to it and we were all hooked. We played online vs almost everyday for months, then did the same with Gears 2. We played the rest of the games but never played those as seriously as 1 and 2.

I've noticed that as well there's like no updates for Gears 5 anymore there's barely any servers up and it's quite frankly depressing

So I have been a massive fan of gears since first hearing about it ba k In 05. I read all the novels, comics and every passing article in any magazine ever. That being said, I'm surprised that you got so much, out of just the games. Great work, I've been waiting for some good gow content.

YESSS IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

54:16 Actually Frank west appears on the PS3 version of lost planet 2. The gears characters you got from completing the campaign on the Xbox 360 version like you said in the video. The kill zone skins and the monster hunter skin where downloadable content. And for Albert Wesker and Frank west you put in codes in the in game slot machine to unlock them long with a bunch of other cosmetic items.

Imagine gears of war animated movies like dc animated ones, so many stories

Wow cool. Never saw that retro sawed off and execution before! 28:30

It’s funny how people talk about no lambent kantus but what about the fact of no lambent corpsers lol

Fortnites character roster starting to sound like a new "Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny"

I was waiting for a decent Gears of War Iceberg, so thank you for this

Just playing this game for the first time. Remember watching my dad play it when it first came out, but never got my hands on it. Enjoying it so far

I really like the Carmine family and I don’t know why… “Oh my god, they killed Carmine!!”

I no joke for the longest time didn't know that Gears wasn't set on Earth. I remember playing Gears 4 for the first ti me and thought I was fighting against India for some reason in the prologue scene. It was only when I started playing with my friend through the series on Insane back in 2019 that it actually dawned on me.

Gears’ Easter eggs were top tier. I always remember doing the cluckshot and sawed off chicken ones in 3. One thing the author of the iceberg forgot to mention was the fact that you could actually use the Infinity Blade in a Judgement map called Museum. I don’t really remember how to get the sword but it was similar to a lot of other Easter eggs where you have to activate/shoot some objects around the map. It wasn’t anything special tho, it was just a reskin of the cleaver but in the shape of the Inifinity Blade Also another cool Easter egg in Infinity Blade, you can actually fight 3 giant versions of the wretch in game. I wish more games would add silly Easter eggs to their games like how Gears always did. It just adds more fun to the game imo. Your iceberg videos are awesome!

Regarding Sera=Mars, the plot keeps hinting at it with the natural disasters. Gears of War keeps adding Martian weather to Sera. The windstorms and draining of the sea both actually are real. It was 50/50 before the sequels, but adding the wind of death just is too on the nose.

I'd say there's a few things you left out, but a lot of these iceberg videos just border on fun facts. So good job with

Legend has it there's still another 25 Carmine relatives just around

I remember my dad buying me a GoW comic and it was the issue where they introduced Barrick. I remember being so hyped when it was announced that Barrick was gonna be in the Raam's Shadow DLC because Barrick was introduced as this baddass soldier. They even did a great job at the voice acting on making him sound like a heavy smoker in which he is in the comics

1:26:30 in Claytons Drill Sargent Skin in gears 5, you can see Ben's note he wrote to clayton in his back pocket covered in blood

Let’s go! Gears of War.

Late to this video, but im surprised you haven't mentioned the long history of chainsaw jamming in Gears 2. If you chainsaw jam you can break out the map in multi-player as well as kill players from across the map. The game absolutely freaks out, you can even fight the NPCs in the background scenes during campaign. There's not alot of documentation of this glitch, every videos are almost 12-14 years old and aren't 100% accurate and missing alot of minor things. I've been wanting to make my own videos to showcase the wierd spots you can get to in the campaign, however I would need to buy an old Xbox 360 to do so

Having Master Chief fight Zavala would be the funniest encounter to have in Fortnite! Xd

2 hour GoW iceberg? We’re in for a rife

in spanish subject-verb agreement is done by singular/plural and masculine/feminine unless it's an irregular adjective or something. so you've got rojo/rojos roja/rojas. camisa roja or camisas rojas toro rojo or toros rojos

I totally want to go play the games again now and see all these.

Wake up babe another pigpen video dropped

"Rojo" is male, "roja" is female. Both mean red. In english there's no gender distinction in nouns and adjectives, but in latin derived linguages, every single noun and adjective has a gender. General rule: if it ends with an "o" It's male, "a" It's female

Hell yeah! I can't wait to finish this Gears Iceberg.

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO😢

I've been waiting so long for this video thank you so much

1:30:52 this reminds me of an advertisement I saw for a ghost tour when I was visiting New Orleans a few years ago that had the Gears logo on the poster

I remember me and my buddy played gears 3 and he told me to use my chainsaw. I tried and he countered me and then killed me😂 we just laughed so hard and every time I tried to use my chainsaw I’d just get killed

The Dom's toms part made me feel so bad for Marcus