Gears of War 2 was the Ultimate Gears game. And I personally have yet to see any other Gears game match it.

If they make an Ultimate Edition for this masterpiece, I'm instantly buying it

Dom finding Maria will always be in my top 5 gaming moments of all time.

Not only a fantastic campaign, but the birth of Horde. The Horde map selection was also the incredible.

This game will always hold a special place for me. I was in 8th grade when this game dropped and I was bullied everyday at school and hated life. Getting home and curbstomping some locust ass was my solace in life. Shame to see what the series has become (and gaming as a whole)

Playing a level inside a worm was terrifying and amazing. Love how the teeth chomps you and your boot goes flying.

Gears of War 1-3 and Halo 1-3 are from an era of gaming that will both never be topped, and never be witnessed again. I feel sorry for kids growing up with the gaming industry as it is; a soulless husk of its former self that's dedicated more to the dollar than the actual idea of fun.

This game was my childhood and to this day I still play it weekly and have probably had 10000+ hours on the campaign alone as I didn’t like the multiplayer but goddamn this game will always carry something that no game ever has for me (maybe except halo 3 but still). Due to all these hours and me being a kid, when gears 3 came out and Dom died I cried so hard my nose bled... that man was like a damn brother to me. RIP.

I actually cared about the characters in Gears 2. It kept the great gameplay, blood, etc. but added weapons, enemies, and a gripping story: No robots, a reason to fight, and not overly repetitive

Prescotts speech always gives me tingles because it makes me feel that I’m in the game listening to his words of inspiration to his gears and hearing them all cheer makes me sit up straight in my chair and prepare my self for all the badass moments that this game has to offer

Hearing the Gears of War 2 theme still gives me chills

Every time I see Ben a little part to me dies

I remember my nephew coming over to my house all ecstatic about getting gears of war 2 and telling me all about how cool dizzy was and how frightening that one locust with that staff chainsaw thing. When I saw that bit for myself I was shocked at how quick that dude dispatched the cogs in that scene

Party like it’s 1999 achievement oh I remember the countless hours working for that achievement

Even just the music was amazing

The coalition gears of war games do not even come close to being as good as the original trilogy.

There's just something about the Gears' lore that always entices me, getting so absorbed in the lore. I remember playing the first chapter in Gears 2 in the hospital, and just taking in everything, imagining what that hospital looked like on E-day. Loved taking in the little things in the game

This game truly has a place in my life. The best gears story for sure. I’ll always remember the amount of rage I had at the multiplayer and the amazing last stands on horde mode. I look back on the memory of this game fondly

Goddamn, this game still looks amazing 13 years later. I remember getting it at midnight, playing it all night, and then skipping school the next day to play it some more. Good times

Gears of War 2 Ultimate Edition, release it. It will sell instantly than instant coffee.

I always thought I was alone in my opinion on this being the best one. It was my first gears game and I always thought nostalgia was why I thought it was best but now I have actual reasoning! Lmao I love this.

One through three, this is the best series of games that I’ve ever binge played the campaign to.

Gears 2 was a perfect sequel but gears 3 was a perfect ending.

I remember I used to be such a god when I played this back when the multiplayer wasn’t laggy. A lot of fun times chatting with randoms online, truly people that knew what they were doing. A shame that I cant even enjoy multiplayer in the newest games

Cole's "mommy don't let the bad man hurt us. F*** you!!!" Always makes me laugh.

I do remember kind of being bored with GOW3 because of the stalks. Its a game where theres nothing out and out WRONG with it, but just doesnt feel necessary. But GOW and GOW2.....so many good memories. I miss playing games with friends. Wasting Saturdays, eating pizza and going through the levels with pals. And real GOW players know that relief when they hear that electric guitar chord.... such a brilliant way to subtly restore calm.

I agree, Gears of War 2 had everything. I just played through it again and was thinking to myself, man they don't make games like this anymore.

There’s so much I forgot about this game. Of course the big moments like finding Maria and two killing him self. But the amount of obstacles thrown at the team on top of that - rift worm, leviathan, sires, scourge, and the lambert introduction. This game really had it all. And again, I have to emphasize how well you talked about how good the characters , character development / script was. Insanely under rated incredible game that I was too young and naive to fully appreciate when it came out

I think the thing I admire Gears of War 2 for doing the most is introducing and getting me to care about the Maria plot line. For a majority of Gears 2, I really didn’t give a shit, as Dom’s fixation on finding his wife wasn’t really properly established until the beginning of this game. My primary objective as the player was just to eliminate the Locusts by any means necessary. After all, I kicked RAAM’s ass in the last game, so now we gotta take the fight underground and wipe the Queen out right? But the cutscene where Marcus and Dom have that miniature argument over whether or not to go after Maria sold that entire plot line for me. I think Marcus’ lines about “focusing on the mission” and “everything we’ve been fighting for” were exactly what was on my mind in that moment, but seeing Dom’s unbreakable conviction towards saving his wife really buried my investment into that plot. And because of that, I felt myself tearing up when they reunited. You wouldn’t really expect a gory action shooter about big muscular men chainsawing overgrown moloids to move someone to tears, but everything ain’t what it seems, ya know?

I think this is the first game to ever make me cry. Amazing combat, outstanding characters and a gripping story. Especially for the time.

Gears 2 was literally my childhood, im going to be picking up a Series X just to replay this, my 360 is dead. Dying in Gears 2 felt a bit rewarding, as dumb as it sounds, but I loved the crawling mechanic, as well as the blood filled screen when you bled out for long enough, or once you died, the gore made it 10x better.

What a freaking masterpiece, one of the greatest campaigns.

The GOAT. Only Gears where you can replenish Longshot ammo with ammo boxes.

This game was the reason for the end of my first relationship and I have 0 regrets

The whole reason I got a 360 was for gears of war 2 😂 I still remember running around costco with my cousin, pretending to chainsaw everything I saw. Ah! Some of my greatest memories 😢

This is like the Golden Throne of gaming right here. The title holder. I've seen friends break down in tears, & I heard its given people nightmares & it has changed the gaming world forever. The characters are some of the most beloved & iconic in any series, the war is hell, the effects of it traumatize everyone, & you genuinely cannot play the game again because of just how harrowing an experience it is. You just don't get games like this. It's in a category all of its own. A masterpiece. And I feel very bad for all the people who made the trilogy so flawless, only to have it taken all down & destroyed by "Gears" sequels that were just corporate cash cows. Fenix: "You are pissed today" Dom: "You're DAMN right I'm pissed. I miss my FAMILY"

Games like gears of war 2 turned me into a gamer

I just replayed this GoW2 campaign on my 360 for the first time in over ten years. Epic masterpiece and still my favorite of the original trilogy.

I LOVED Gears 1. So much so that when Gears 2 dropped I actually didnt want to get it because I was worried it would ruin my memories of Gears 1. I like gears 2. The story was good, but the highlight of the first game for me was always the sheer panic that the berserkers instilled in me. I was disappointed there were none in gears 2.

This is one of my favorite games of all time and definitely favorite of the series.

This game was freaking amazing, me and the boys lived for this. What made it so good was it took actual skill to be good in the multiplayer.

Gears 2 definitely puts in the WOW factor to keep players entertained

It felt really impactful from the get go. The tension was there from the start, because even after all the work you did in the first game Humanity was still on the brink of losing. The campaign made you really feel like you were at war, and I really cared about all of the characters. I feel like this game had the best character development in the series. Dom’s finding Maria is so haunting. You want to find Maria so bad because you see how her going missing effects Dom, but once you find Tai something in you already knows that she’s not going to be okay. You don’t want to believe it but you know it’s true. And then you find her. And she’s healthy and alive and it’s a shock compared to how Tai was. And then it’s all ripped away when the illusion is gone, and we feel Dom’s pain. We feel like Marcus, watching our best friend have to put his wife down. We feel like Dom, knowing we came all this way and it was just too late. The drama, the tension, the incredible gritty atmosphere. Carmine makes it surprisingly far into the game before he’s killed, and I honestly didn’t think he was going to die when all of a sudden he just did. And in my eyes this was Gears of War combat at it’s finest. Gritty, weighty, raw and bloody and made you feel like part of an actual war, like part of an actual team. The new Gears of War games lack weight and intensity, just like Crowbcat showed off in his video. They lack a real reason to keep fighting. Gears of War 2 gave us a reason and then just kept adding more onto it as we lost more characters and the tension rose. And the campaign’s maps were excellent. It featured enough fantastic setpieces to make you feel like a part of something bigger, while keeping enough boots to the ground hardcore action to remind you that this is a real war and to keep you grounded. There’s enough variety in the types of engagements that you never get bored of playing, and the core combat loop is great and keeps you constantly engaged snd challenges you without pushing you to the point of constant stress. Believe me there’s stressful parts, but that’s always the perfect amount if stress. Like seeing Reavers crash down onto the battlefield, or the whole part about being in the gut of that monster that Carmine dies in. They sprinkled in small glimmers of hope with each victory. They brought you places the new games could never imagine. This game was incredible and every part of it helped to build this fantastic universe and this even more fantastic game that I am so glad I played.

There’s needs to be a remastered in 120fps

Gears of War 2 just felt like someone stabbed me with a syringe that was hooked to a barrel of testosterone. Honestly has to be one of the manliest games of all time 10/10

Awesome video brother!! Great work!! 100% agreed with every single point!!

Gears of War 2 not only has the best soundtrack in all of the Gears games, but I believe it's one of the best in all of video games. Hell, I legit use the Gears of War 2 ost for my D&D campaigns.

Playing Wingman on BloodDrive with my cousins are some of my fondest gaming memories ever. GET TORQUE'D

This video is awesome bro!! Ima sub to man✊🏾

God this brings back memories! I played the shit out of this game for YEARS! multiple campaign playthroughs, endless weekends playing horde with friends, sleepless school nights with matchmaking. It was truly an awesome game and I feel like after the OT gears era community gaming fell off. What a game this was!

I grew up on Halo and Gears. It’s absolutely my favorite game series ever with Halo as a VERY close second

There's about 15 games I play every five years and this is one of em'.

Tell you what man dang ol great video man tell you what

So many hours on this as a kid. Been playing gears since 06

I remember when my brother and I got Gears of War 2 our Xbox decided to get that beautiful red ring.

Life is different after you bounce off a wall and pop a head as your gun is dropping or golf someones head off into bodying their homie like it was a combo

You will never understand it if you weren't there, from the campaign, MP and horde, this game had it all, it is so sad to see what the franchise have become though

Gears of War 2 is The Empire Strikes Back of the franchise. I love it! My favorite campaign by far.

Me and my dad used to play this on co op all the time, good times

I miss this game so much it was my most played on my 360

2:51 BURRRRRRRNNNNN!!

The enemy variety in the game it's so many new enemies

I spent endless hours with this game Damm miss god old days 😪

The ending of this game was mind blowing, that last cutscenes still memorable

When my parents finally got me a 360 for Christmas, this is the game they chose to pair it with. I'm so glad they did, this game is so fucking good, they took the original Gears and just added and improved on it so much with all the new weapons and executions and the incredible story. They need to remaster this man.

Gears 3 Horde mode was peak franchise

My xbox friends and I built a small clan to play Gears 2 multi player. We called it the K1 clan, some of my best memories were playing with them. I was young and it wasn't the easiest time of my life but they helped me through it without even knowing. Thanks guys, I'll never forget

I used to co op play this with my brother. We played through it so many times (solo and co op), it never got old. Simpler days.

I still find it crazy how after all these years, i find matches on Gears 2 faster than Gears 4 or 5

1-Perfect atmosphere/OST 2-Perfect story/sound design 3-Perfect mechanics/MP IMO.

What sealed Dizzy for me was the transition from reluctance to enthusiasm to devotion. At first he sees his time with Delta as an obligation ("I ain't got no choice... Family got the groceries, but daddy got conscripted [...]."). Then through the trek to Landown he gets more into it, enjoying his time with Marcus and Co. With quips and compliments. ("Nice one boys! Mhm! Smell that Brumak barbecue.") And when the squad's ready to deploy, it's Dizzy who jumps up and goes head to head with Skorge ("I'll hold 'im off boys! Y'all get your asses on then!"). It's brief, but it's a complete arc for a character who could just as easily been "Cowboy hat guy" and nothing else.

That gnasher was a beast is all ima say

Personally for me GoW 3 will always be my favourite and people may disagree that its not the best but for me it is, growing up playing as Dom and having him sacrifice himself for his team really got to me since I always played as a support player in the campaign, helping my brother with ammo and the side line support and watching him do what he did in that cutscene and supporting his team even to the end made me really like the campaign since it got to me all the way through. The desperate feeling with everyone being hungry and tension is high because of the lambernt being a high threat really makes me enjoy the game and this isn't even including the online play, horde and beast mode.

Playing this game on insane is a truly terrifying and exhilarating experience

Great video this really bring me back to the good old days of the 360

The multiplayer was pretty broken and frustrating garbage, but the campaign and horde are masterful. Some of the best in gaming

We need a Pendulum Wars spin off game!

I played gears of war 1 on my xbox elite back in 2008 but sadly never finished it. Till this summer, when I was on a medical leave for couple of months, so I bought XBOX series X and I finished all 5 gears of war games in one week, one after another. And I must say, I never had so much fun, some of them I played co-op with my coworker and some I played solo. But still, I had so much fun with them. Can safely say, it's one of the best gaming franchise ever. Hope they release gow6 soon :D

Great job!

They need to remaster this… it really was a masterpiece

Cliff used to be a big name in the games industry before he lost his mind. Hopefully the next GoW game won't be a let down like Gears 5, which isn't even a Gears Of War game from the beginning sadly...

especially the trailer the last day omg i love watching that trailer, one of my favs

It’s the world, gritty-ness, just straight up fighting on their turf, the different types of locust and variants. My favorite Boomer variants were the maulers, and the blood mounts. Out of all the gears games, gears 2 stands above all of them story and lore wise. Of course the game is from 2008 and has it little clunky moments, it’s still fluid and smooth nonetheless. I always wish it can be remastered and implemented with gears 5 mechanics, just the movements and fluidity of wall bouncing.

Gears 2 is easily one of the best scores in gaming.

It was the first gears of War I had ever beaten. Me and my brother on co op. One of the best stories very emotional.

Gears 2 will always be my favourite campaign of any game, I remember being blown away the first time playing it

Gears Pop! will save the franchise

Gears of War 2 was my second XBox 360 game back in the day and I remember being one of the first if not the first game that actually got me into the story and campaign of a game. I was a teenager, so video games (since the Super Nintendo) was, for me, most about the fun and distraction but with Gears of War 2 I remember actually wanting to know more about the story, its character and not only what would happen next but what happened before, wanting to play Gears of War 1 after finishing 2

RIDICULOUS sub to quality ratio man. This is top-notch!

Easily the gears game I put the most time in. Prescott’s speech is still one of my favorite speeches in any work of fiction.

I remember first playing it, went over to my buddy's to spend a night and from there on it was history

Nothing but facts! It’s a disgrace they haven’t remastered it

Back then we didn’t have fabricators and currency for upgrades for horde mode, we had limited ammo and a few boomshields. Good times.

The campaign was so god damn FUN 🤩 such an awesome story!

hands down my favorite Gears of War.

my brother and i had over 30K online Execution kills combined, an amazing game really, the prime time of online gaming in my opinion, before the skins and money grab

I still replay this even now

I sat through the whole video with tears in my eyes accompanied by goosebumps all over my back. Totally agree with everything you've mentioned, Gears 2 was an Excellent sequel, indeed. But what's most important is that Gears 2 is a Stunning Gears sequel that has aged like fine wine, remaining The best Gears sequel to this very day. It's a game that brought me emotions so intense & so powerful it's awe-inspiring just to think of & recall them in my memory. Thank you sincerely for this video. It was a truly well made essay.

I miss 2007 to 2013. Great game days..

Thumbs up for the Cole Train's epic speech in Gears of War 2!