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Revisiting Gears of War 2 and 3 — Do They Still Hold Up? (Jason's Retrospective)
Jul 4, 2026
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Revisiting Gears of War 2 and 3 — Do They Still Hold Up? (Jason's Retrospective)
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Happy 4th of July, people. It's Friday
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night and uh I want to give you a
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retrospective of two games. If you
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notice, I've been playing Gears of War 2
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and Gears of War 3. I've been making
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gameplay VODs on the channel the past
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week.
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These are my old uh discs. So, Gears of
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War 2 and uh
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Gears of War 3. All right,
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retrospective.
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Uh these games came out before JVGS was
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a thing on YouTube uh back in uh 2008
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and 2011. Um
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two and three released. Uh I originally
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bought an Xbox 360,
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like probably a lot of you, for Gears of
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War because that game at that time was
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seemed like was just up my alley.
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And uh I was one of the weirdos that
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actually had a PS3, waited a year to get
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the PS3 at prior uh you know, and I got
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the Xbox 360 at after. Glad I did,
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obviously. Um
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so
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Gears of War 2. I originally played
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these games back in release date. Uh
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Gears of War 2, I really didn't like it,
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honestly. Um
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it was grandiose, it was bigger and
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everything and you know, it wasn't as
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confined, had less horror elements and
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stuff and uh
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more elements to the story, more
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elements to the presentation. Um but for
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some reason back in 2008, I didn't like
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it. I mean, well, to this day Gears of
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War is my uh you know, favorite.
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Um
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so it was weird though because I played
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uh we played uh Gears of War, you know,
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last last week or this week and I beat
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it.
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I like it more the second time, you
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know, years later playing it. I don't
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know why. The game aged pretty damn
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well, actually.
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I enjoyed myself. Maybe it was I was at
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a time of my life where I didn't like
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any game, but
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I actually like Gears of War 2 um much
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more the second time, years later
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beating it. That's weird, I know, but
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that definitely happened. Now, as far as
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Gears of War 3,
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um
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to this day, I still think Gears of War
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might be the overall best Gears of War
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game. I'm trying to think if uh
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if there's a game better than it. My
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favorite Gears of Gears of War Gears of
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War 2 2006, obviously. That's my
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favorite like personally. But, if you
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like pay me to be a journalist or some
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[ __ ] I would say like overall
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presentation-wise, this is the best
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version of that. And I'm halfway through
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the game. I'm making a
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you know, lots and lots of gameplay view
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with these and that's basically why I'm
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even talking about this game right now.
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So, yeah, Gears of War 3 um I don't
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know, the presentation's just better. I
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mean, you get the
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you know, you play through Gears 1, you
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play through Gears 2, and you get all
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these these tidbits and information
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about, you know, the different cities of
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Sera and uh different characters and
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stuff. By Gears of War 3, you actually
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experience the different cities like um
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Mercy and uh where the, you know, Hammer
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of Dawn was first dropped and
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everything.
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You know, Dom dies. Spoiler alert,
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Dominic Santiago dies. I don't know if
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that's a good thing or bad thing still.
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I just experienced it a couple hours
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ago.
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Poor Dom. Uh
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maybe it's me that I'm older playing it
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now, but I'm literally laughing at the
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emotional aspects of of of Gears of War
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3. I don't know why. It's kind of cruel,
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actually. Um so, I just got to the part
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where uh you meet up with Ice-T aka
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Griffin of Griffin Industries.
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And where the Hammer of Dawn was
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dropped. Uh yeah, so Gears of War 3 is
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just
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it's like they nailed all aspects of 1 2
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and put 3 together. By the way, I also
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love Gears of War Judgment. I like their
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story. So, Gears of War 3 it really
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encapsulates a lot of the Gears personal
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stories like Cole Train. You actually
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get to see him in his football, you
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know, re-
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you know, reliving his football days and
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stuff. And then a lot of the characters.
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Um
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you know, just just just it was a great
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culmination. Reminded me of Halo 3. You
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know, you played the first Halo 1 and
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Halo 2, you play Halo 3. It just kind of
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tidied up everything really good.
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So, yeah, that's about it. That's
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basically why I'm making this uh
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retrospective Gears video is because
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I'm finally adding these VODs
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to Jason's Video Game Source.
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Um cuz I normally just play new
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releases. So, it takes a It could take
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years for me to go back and play games
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that I uh play played and beat before I
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ever started this YouTube channel or the
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platform.
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Um I mean, there are so many past games
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in the, you know, early 2000s stuff that
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I want to play and add still.
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So, yeah, that's about it. Uh
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Make sure you check out the platform
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jasonsvideogamesource.com. Make sure you
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check out my brother's uh streaming at
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Bobby
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Vegas Gaming.
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And yeah, these are just great games,
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you know? It's all about the gameplay
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mechanics, the cover shooting.
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Uh I mean, let's be real. Nathan Drake
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wouldn't be in cover shooting if it
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wasn't for Gears of War 2006.
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Now, there was cover shooting in the
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multiple games. I forgot the names. I
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actually played them.
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Uh cover shooting, but they're just hot
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garbage. They just sucked mechanically.
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Gears of War just bought bought up
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polish this to the
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cover shooting and everything. So,
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that's why we got games like Vanquish
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and all these games that came out in
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2000 after 2006 basically
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uh with cover shooting and everything.
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The Gears franchise and uh perfected it.
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And basically, yeah, also reason why I'm
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playing these games
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uh because of E-Day, you know? E-Day
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looks looks good. We'll see what the
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Coalition does with it, you know?
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But uh I have high hopes. I'm pretty
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pumped for E-Day. That's another reason
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why I'm adding these gameplay VODs uh to
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the channel and everything.
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So, that's about it, people. Americans,
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have a safe and uh
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fun beer-drinking, hotdog-eating 4th of
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July fireworks.
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Surprised I don't hear any right now, to
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be honest with you. But uh
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you have a safe uh 4th of July weekend.
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I will see you in the next one.
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That's it.
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Bye.
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