Anthony Carmine: *Gets Sniped* Dee Bee Geek: "Oh no, I liked him!" Yeah, so did we, along with Benjamin, and almost every other Carmine 😂

"is everyone thick in gears of war?" me: Yup

The original gears trilogy is a god tier game! You're missing a lot of story and lore just watching cut scenes. You miss out on a lot more just playing the game (there are comics and books with so much more).

The story of Gears of war 2 is one of my favourites. Flaws and all

10:03 "No, I liked him!" Lesson 1 of Gears: Never get attached to a Carmine. Sad, but true.

Baird is honestly my favorite character. You don't really see a lot more of the character development and personality just by only watching the cut scenes because a lot of Dom's (the other guy always with Marcus) are in game and in game you can really feel the bromance of these two characters all through out this and in gears 2 and 3. Gears of war has always been one of my favorite series mostly because of the bromance you feel from these characters.

13:25 “What is that thing” That sir, is General RAAM, my favorite Gears Character

Parts of the gameplay is key. Take for instance Cole Train. You learn he played Thrash Ball before the war. You get much more of their personality. Baird looks a lot better in gameplay, because he's smart he figures out solutions mid combat. He has a lot of snark but he does what's needed intelligently. Even the weapons are important to the future story like how they killed the first Berserker, they used the Hammer of the Dawn. Basically a satellite laser that can destroy a city powered by imulsion. You also learn about General Ram, the Nemesis guy. As well as learn why they were afraid of the dark, even many story points seems out of place without playing the game in the dark. Basically you will die if you go in the dark, no question.

That moment when the credits roll and you realize you've just spent 40 minutes watching someone watch the Gears 1 storyline...

Go for gears 2, you’ll see more personality development for Dom

You are missing a big ass part of the story just watching cutscene's a lot of the story happens during gameplay

My history teacher actually Motion Captured for the Berserker in this game, he is 6'8

Honestly, I’ve enjoyed every gears of war game so far. The main cast of 4 and 5 may not be GREAT, but I thought the games themselves were pretty good. Looking forward to gears tactics ngl.

I’ll try and explain the main parts of Gears of Wars history to my knowledge just so you’re caught up with everything that’s happened before the events of Gears 1: (Without revealing any spoilers) Sera is the name of the planet they are on. The planet is home to a natural fuel source called Imulsion, and eventually a war broke out between the COG and the UIR forces to cease control over it. This war went on for many many years until eventually, a scientist by the name of ‘Adam Fenix’ created a weapon called ‘The Hammer of Dawn’, which is essentially a number of different orbital satellites positioned around the atmosphere of the planet, that fire down onto the surface and incinerate anything and everything in its way. This weapon eventually forced the UIR to surrender to the COG, and finally ended the war. The locust are a sub terrain species that have lived underneath the planet for years in secret building a civilisation/army (I won’t spoil how they came to be there). Emergence day or E day, is essentially the day in which the locust revealed themselves by finally emerging from the planets surface to eradicate the human race and take control of the entire planet for themselves. For the record, Emergence day happened only a few short weeks after the war between the COG and the UIR had finally ended and took everyone completely by surprise. The locust ended up killing millions of people by nightfall on Emergence day, and as a result, the COG became desperate and had no other choice but to use the Hammer of Dawn to incinerate most of the worlds major cities as well as many of their own people as a result, in order to kill the locust and stop them from completely taking over the planet. Marcus Fenix somewhere around this time was given orders to stay at a bridge and guard it with the Hammer of Dawn to protect a convoy that was eventually going to cross over it, but he disobeyed his orders to return to his fathers house along with his friend Dom in order to save him, but sadly his father ended up dying. As a result, Marcus Fenix was court marshalled for disobeying his orders, and sentenced to life in prison. Then 14 years later we arrive at the beginning of Gears of War 1. Hope this helps 👍

I recommend you watch a “game movie” instead of “all cutscenes” because while slight, the differences are noticeable. Specifically, game movies usually combine cutscenes with notable in-game dialogue and boss fights. Helps you not be too confused when fighting just ENDS

10:03 RIP Anthony Carmine 13:28 RIP Lieutenant Kim 15:16 RIP Unnamed Alpha Squad Member 28:14 RIP Unnamed Soldier

5 really explains who the “woman” aka the locust queen is.

Are you gonna watch the Gears 2 cutscenes next? Imo Gears 2 is the best out of the Gears games.

I played Gears Of War before on my sister's Xbox One, it was pretty good.

Halo, Fable, and Gears of War are my favorite Microsoft IPs. The first Gears of War game was one of my first Xbox 360 video games along with.........Sonic 06... :P (and back then, I did like Sonic 06 but now, ehhhh....)

The side man Dom becomes one of the best parts of gears 2 and 3 prepare to experience tears of war

For the Halo lore stuff, HiddenXperia or Halo Canon are great sources for Halo lore.

You need to play the entire saga, the tree first are the best, that tell you someone who grew up playing them.

10:04 everyone liked him

You should really see the cinematic for all the games, by gears 5 you'll know the origin of the locust, the new cast members and see the squad grow closer together... but be warned- gears 3 has a scene that made men cry.

I played gears of war when I was 7, I’m turning 19 in about a months .time flies

fun fact: the guy that plays the voice of Marcus Phoenix, also plays the voice of Bender from Futurama

The Cole Train runs on whole grain Baby, WHOO!

Oh man I missed these days I remembered the multiplayer for these games were insane man I really loved how easy it was to get a head shot in this game especially on a moving target

The remastered cutscenes really help illustrate what's happening compared to the old ones. Like how RAAM was listening to their coms vs just executing some random guy.

This man is gonna end console wars. Praise him

“You have poorly mistaken my friend” Broken euro english 100

On the Halo lore I'd also recommend Hidden Xperia, he dives into some lore as well.

Gotta play Gears 2 and 3. Dom needs the love (and Cole needs the "WOOO! YEAH BABY!")

I grew up on Halo 3, Gears 1 and Modern Warfare (1 and 2). Honestly wish I could go back. Edit: Battlefield also came in at a later time. Bad Company 2, BF3 and BF4 also got a lot of play time from me.

I'd love to see you watch the rest of the Gears of War games, they're awesome. Never played GoW series myself (I'm also a Playstation guy) but I did watch the cinematics as a long, long ass movie. I think it was like, the first three games crammed into one video (4 or 5 hadn't been released yet when I watched it) and it was like 3 or 4 hours long. I recommend watching them, as a movie if you're not gonna be playing the games because it really does feel like something that could be watched, and enjoyed. Definitely worth sitting down to watch, even if it's not gonna be the 3 or 4 hours long video like I watched. I must've been really, REALLY bored that day to sit down and watch all of that 'movie'. Regardless, I enjoyed the 'movie', so to speak. Pft, who said you need a Gears of War movie when the games make a movie unto themselves?

The device was a sound resonator, it emitted a super charged sonic blast that caved in their tunnel systems in the area of effect.

The one who dies by the sniper, the one that states his gun keeps jamming is a Carmine and they die in all gears of ear except gear of war 3

Your main locust enemies, You got your drones, grenadiers, snipers, then you got your hard to kill, beserkers, seeders, corpsers, and reavers

The Locust technically are aliens,they're just subterranean. This takes place on the planet Sera,if I remember correctly.

Trust me, General RAAM (pronounced r-ah-m) is so iconic as a boss that the guys that do Killer Instinct for Xbox One made him a guest character and even utilize the Krill for him.

Omg I was waiting for you to look at gears of war. Really enjoyed this please do more

I just realized something that I've never heard anyone talk about. Anthony possibly helped the gears in a very significant way. The thing he picked up and threw in the hole in that 1 cutscene looked a lot like the geobot that Baird grabbed on the way up that mapped the locust tunnels in a later cutscene.

Fun fact: Marcus Fenix is voiced by John DiMaggio... best known as Bender from Futurama, and Jake the Dog from Adventure Time.

Gears of war was the reason i became an Xbox fan boy back in 2006. Their new games with Gears 4 and 5 have really let me down from a hardcore fan perspective. The original 3 games still hold a special place in my heart.

Please do more gears reactions gears of war is my one of my all time video game franchises. Gears of war was the sole reason why I got an xbox after playing it a friends house. The amount of time invested in the series playing the stories over and over again is something that I will always cherish

This changed gaming forever. There are third person shooters before Gears of War and third person shooters that are either Gears of War or heavily inspired by Gears of War. I heard an interview with a dev from the suprisingly fun title Transformers: War for Cybertron, and he straight up said "we weren't going to do it better than Gears of War so we essentially lifted their core gameplay and controls for our game." A totally valid strategy in my view.

You gotta play it man. The first Gears was revolutionary - perfected the third person cover shooter mechanic, and is REALLY fun. I’d recommend it man.

Marcus voice does fit the character. Rough, serious and a badass plus the voice actor of Marcus is the voice actor of bender from futurama

Wait he’s got a chainsaw on his GUN! literally everyone when they first saw that

Answering your doubts: . Anthony Carmine was the name of that Cog gear who got sniped (remember his name). .Raam was the General and final boss. .The woman of the end is the Locust Queen. .The Locust are not Aliens, they used to lived in the planet. .The planet is called Zera - all the characters names: Marcus Fenix Dominic Santiago Damon Baird Augustus Cole JACK Hoffman Anthony Carmine (killed by headshot) Minh Young Kim (murdered by Raam) Anya Stroud (the control woman) General Raam (killed by Marcus and Dom) .Creatures: -Locust (Drone, Granadier) -Berserker -Corsper (big ass spider) - Theron guards(the ones who killed that gear in the neck) -Reaver (the creatures that jump and flew) - Kryll (those things that where flying around Raam) -Tempest (that big Fly in the end) - Wretch (the monkeys) -Boomers (the fat locust with granade lounchers) -Brumank (the dinosaur with guns) -Nemacyst (the things that destroyed the helicopter) I would like if you react to Gears 2. This saga is one of the best of Xbox consoles.

This game still looks good. Crazy that it's been almost 20 years. Just realized its a remastered version, but still. The og still looks great.

The voice for Marcus is the same as Jake the dog from adventure time.

that was pretty fun, glad Gears still puts a smile on people's faces 13 years later :]]

For the next halo reactions, you should also consider reacting to lore surrounding the ODSTS, Marines, Unsc ships, lore surrounding humanity, and of course lore about the unsc Spartans.

The one that you say his personality is the least worked is Dominic Santiago, he's Marcus best friend since childhood. His personality is more seen in Gears of Was 2, you need to see it!

This guy is gonna love his frenemy console

Happy to see you enjoy more amazing games

A bit of info. The locust aren't Alien, they're native to the planet Sera(thats the name of the world in gears of war) And the cutscenes don't explain at all why they were scared of the dark. Basically theres these creatures that look like a swarm of bats from a distance except there's millions of them swarming the sky and they eat anything that's meat down to the bone that's stupid enough to step into the dark.

Honestly really wanna see you go through the gears franchise. It's so amazing and theres so many parts that just tug at your heartstrings. However, i think it's kinda important if you play through them rather than just watch the cutscenes.

Dom's background is expanded upon in Gears of War 2, so I hope you give it and the other installments of the franchise a chance

Gears of war is my favorite video game franchise. I also absolutely love the designs of the locust!!! + the gameplay is super addicting!

In this first GoW, the characters have been awake and fighting for like 3 days straight.

the reason why Baird was so unhappy about marcus being the leader is because he was once a Lieutenant but was demoted to Private. You will know why it happened in GoW: Judgement, And that story takes place before this story you just watched

It was foretold that someday the Star Wars: The Old Republic videos would be finished but not before the seas dry and the mountains crumble. Not before Earth is but dust floating around a dying star. Only then will the video emerge like a phoenix from the ashes of humanity for some weird aliens to enjoy.

baird is the smart ass he is because in gears of war judgment he was originally a lieutenant but got demoted because he didnt follow orders, later on in the series marcus and baird have a real special relationship along with literally all the other characters. probably just as special as the halo relationships

The guy who got shot in the head was Anthony Carmine.

The "aliens" are actually Locust. The Locust were created by Niles Sampson, a crazy scientist making "the perfect soldiers" for the war.

The young guy with the helmet that lost his head was Anthony Carmine. If you continue to watch cutscene movies from the the all the gears games you will see more of the Carmine family. Edit: just finished the video and yeah you should definitely watch the cinematics from the rest of the gears games.

Voice of Marcus Fenix is Bender from Futurama so you know and can't wait for Gears 2 still my favourite of the franchise

Imagine experiencing that General RAAM end fight for the first time through only the intro and ending cutscene. So much lost

The Beserker in Gears 1 was the scariest shit I had nightmares about her when I was young.

Part of the reason for Gears 5's quick price drop was because it was being pushed as the flagship for the new Xbox Gamepass Ultimate service Microsoft hyped up so much at E3. Having Game Pass basically gave you the same game and perks as if you pre-ordered the physical copy.

This franchise is the reason why I bought my first-ever Xbox console only 4 years ago.

Funny how hes checking out gears when he has deebee in his name

Still waiting for the GOW gameplay dude. I hope it comes soon.

Gears of War 2 had one of the best stories imo out of the whole story easily #1

Most of the reason why i started playing gears is because when the first came originally came out for xbox 360 my dad wanted to play it co-op with me. We had been doing that with the halo games and figured another xbox exclusive could be fun to play. That started a tradition of us playing every gears game together on launch day and we could not have anticipated the wonderful story that played out. Dee Bee i honestly hope you can pick up these gears games at some point and play through them, there is so much more character and story played out during gameplay and its one of the most fun third person shooters out there. Also really hope you pick up those halo games too since you are now a fan.

I find it so funny he has never played gears of war yet his name is Dee Bee Geek like the DeeBees from Gears 4 lmao

Marcus Fenix is voiced by the same guy who voiced Bender in Futurama.

you've earned a subscriber good sir. OG Xbox Owner and day 1 Xbox live member here. Love your vids! P.S. Gears did great, there just isn't that much dependency on physical media as there once was.

Short story, helmet guy (carmine) is basically Kenny from southpark

I really recommend watching the trailers for each game before reacting to the game itself. Gears of War 1, 2 and 3 have some of the best trailers ever.

HaloFollower and Installation00 are both fantastic channels to learn about some Halo goodness.

There's an entire book series that is canon to the main series and explains a lot between the games. There's one between Gears 1 and 2, 3 between 2 and 3, and 1 that's a prequel to the first game. They also give some backstory about the time before Emergence Day and the early days of it. There is actually a reason the soldiers are so much bigger than normal people. They are under a much higher calorie diet than the average person, I believe 2500 compared to 1500. And Cole was a Thrashball player, which basically is Rugby so he's just beefy. Marcus is basically the Master Chief of the Gears series. He's only lost his cool three times that I can think of, only one of those in game.

Dom really comes out of his shell in 2 and 3

Anthony carmine is my favorite he looked to Marcus as a legend remember the helicopter scene when he said are you the Marcus Fenix he was surprised when Marcus said yeah

It was the Queen at the end that was riding the bug.

Gears of War was the other co op game series I grew up with along side my older brother (first being halo) the series is near and dear to me. Please do more, I know you'll love it just as I did many years ago. Gears 2 is the best in the series

Testosterone of War : The T H I C C squad.

I’m so glad I found your channel, because I am loving you reacting to games. I really hope you keep it up, although I know there’s not that many of interest. As a suggestion, I think watching all the trailers from EA’s Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2 could be interesting, although a lot of the later ones for the second game are more like developer updates. No matter your thoughts on the games themselves, those trailers are incredible.

Having put thousands and thousands and thousands of hours on all of the gears games and loving the lore as my favorite game I was super stoked to see this video. Gears has kinda went downhill multiplayer wise but the story is absolutely fantastic, books, games, comics, all of it.

So their are 5 carmines, anthony carmine (who got shot in the head), Gears of war 2, Benjamin Carmine (who died by some tickers) Gears of war 3 Clayton Carmine ( Survived) Gears war 4 Gary Carmine (Killed by the COG) Gears 5 The Carmines family have a niece Lizzie Carmine ( died by the hammer of dawn😢) Gears 6 ???

Dis boy needs to get himself an xbox and check out some of these games for himself, hours of enjoyment will be had by all

Also you said that the side character (Dom) doesn't have as much character development or personality which I can understand cause you only watched the cutscenes, but if you actually played through it you would learn more cause you are with him all the time and if you played co op second player would be him

He said he liked carmine true fan right there

Dom has a lot more personality in gameplay

Gears as a whole was really good! As a lot of others have said, you only get half the story basically by watching the cutscenes, there's a lot of info given during dialogue between the characters as the game progresses and they learn new things. But I would totally recommend watching and/or playing every Gears game!

Gears 2 was actually the first video game I and ever played, followed by I believe Mercenaries 2: World of Flames, and maybe Halo Wars.

Fenix is voiced by Bender from Futurama, just a bit of info.