Gameplay tips: -Reloading in the white square will reload your gun faster & give your bullets a damage bonus for a few seconds, if you hit the reload too soon/late your gun will jam. -Emergence holes will close by itself but only after unloading all its enemies. Close it sooner with a grenade. -You can blind-fire your gun (and grenades) from cover, just shoot without aiming to fire your gun in the general direction you’re facing. This lets you stay hidden from gunfire. -Hold B to use the chainsaw on your gun, get in close and witness the carnage.
I'd like to add: -When in cover, you can sometimes quickly switch/change cover by using stick+A -Use LB (I believe LOL) if you need to know where your teammates are -If you run towards a door, you'll automatic kick it open
Oh heck Jonesy. You gone love gears of war series. Played it when it first came out in 2006. I've ended it over 20 times and still love playing it. It's just fun. Grubs!!!
It's so funny how you point out the combat arena at 10:05 by noticing the waist-high cover blocks, looking back I think it was this game that originally gave people that instinct. I remember reading in the manual something about the devs being inspired by playing paintball matches and it shows in the combat for sure.
So glad you’re choosing to play this. I think you’ll really like the story. Just a bit of background on this game, the world you’re on is called Sera (not earth), 14 years ago a race of underground monsters known as the Locust horde attacked the surface of the planet killing people everywhere. You play as Marcus Fenix, a veteran soldier (soldiers are gears) imprisoned these last 4 years for disobeying orders. The COG stands for Coalition of Ordered Governments, that’s who you (and your fellow gears) work for. That’s all I’ll say.
It's so cool seeing someone experience the Gears series for the first time, one of my favourite series of all time. The first game is a bit clunky but they do get a lot more fluid with each game. The setting where the games take place is the Planet Sera, which is a the Greek God Ares spelt backwards. The Locust is the name of the enemy faction as a whole, some of the human characters call them Grubs as like a nickname, then there's different types of Locust. The standard foot soldier of the Locust are called Drones of which you have different types of them as well. For example the Grenadiers are the guys that usually have Shotguns and they use grenades as well, they tend to rush and be quite aggressive. Definitely look forward to seeing you play the game more 😁
Uh oh, this’ll be good, you’ll love all 7 games in the franchise and you’ll love Marcus and Dom. Love you jonesy and keep up the great work. Tips, reload at the right time with the white scare to get reload faster and make sure you abuse the weapons you use, when you see a emergence hole use a grenade to take them out, and when you shoot the locust (the guys you’re fighting snd the ones who were making those notices) in the knees, they’ll go down and you’ll get a chance to execute them by getting close to them and pressing X, use the chainsaw by holding B , it’s extremely cool, when you’re using the troika, it’s important you use aim to get better shots
Brings me back to 2006, when my buddy was the first one in our friend/gaming group at the time who bought an HD console. He brought it to the apartment and we played the hell out of this one.
Smashing it again, this is the first time I’ve seen gears played lol only noticed adverts over the years, I think Destiny had my soul for too long I missed loads of games ❤
Gears is a series that really doesn't have an equal, one that knows what it wants to be (for the most part): angry, funny, and so grim you'd think you were in Warhammer - and while I'm all about Master Geez, Fenix & Co. grows on you... and make sure you count the Carmines as you meet them ☠
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....this is one of the better series from the xbox 360 gen. luv seeing people play the older games like this. looking forward to your playthrough
I'm super happy that your playing gears of war, my all time favourite games but I hope you continue the story of halo later on still more story to tell
Gears of war is one of my favourite franchises. I adore these games. Hope you have as much fun playing these as I did the first time I played back in the xbox 360 days 😊
Love gears of war great memories. Yeah I can see where your coming from about London and as londoner the locust do remind me of some of my neighbours 😅😂😂
Oohh man!!! this is so cool, I love Gears of War! :D I'm just watching the intro, you said you want to play this before E-Day, but I do hope you end up playing the other games :D! that would be amazing!!!
I can't believe that no-one suggested you play Gears of War! Easily one of my top franchises ever, and arguably best franchises in general. I really hope you do all the Gears games; I'll be there for them 🤙 You're going to love it; it has a fantastic story and gameplay, but get ready for the feels in this series. One piece of advice if i may.. Always play the tutorials in the Gears games, asyou get a bit more story with them, and often introduces new game mechanics and characters.
I was going to recommend this definitely needed this series! Another great series recommendation is dead rising with its remaster coming up 1-3 are amazing and would be great to see.
TOASTED!! This is so generous of you especial on top of your membership 😭 Thank you so much! I'm loving this game so far and I can't see myself stopping any time soon! Hope you're having a wonderful day
Hi Jonesy! 👋 I've never played this game or watched a Let's Play before, so this is gonna be a great first-time experience for both of us! HOORAH!! 🙌 My first question was the same as yours: "Why were you in prison?" And, secondly, "Why were you not pardoned along with everyone else?" Thanks for the awesome upload, Jonesy! I hope ur having a great week! 😊
ONION!! so if you've never seen this game before you wont see any of the mistakes I make 😂 of which there are 0 of course!! Thank you so much Onion, hope you're also having a great week
I wish more ppl would play the OG gears trilogy! I understand it’s hard due to the fact 2 and 3 can only be played on one console unfortunately but I always love seeing ppl react to this series! It’s funny, great story, and action packed!
I can understand; I've been wanting to play Bloodborne for ages, but can't afford a Playstation, and Sony aren't releasing a PC release, at the very least. :(
Hey there wassup, new here just wanted to say great job first time playing Gears of War. I really enjoyed watching your reaction to the gameplay and storyline
Humans vs reptiles, that be the story. When you reload if you hit the right bumper again when the line is over the white you'll get what's called an active reload, this will give you enhanced ammunition and better ammo capacity for a certain amount of time.
I was looking in your channel for the E-Day reaction, but I would also suggest/like to see a reaction to the original Gears of War trailers. They were something else back then. This is a great series and one that I love.
13:37 I definitely have a tip to make it better. Go to the control options and turn the aim sensitivity down; it makes a world of difference, and allows you to be precise in your aiming.
Marcus was in prison because he disobeyed orders from Hoffman (his colonel) because Marcus tried saving his dad. Hoffman needed him to deliver the targeting optic to another soldier who had the hammer of dawn (very powerful weapon) to assist other gears soldiers who were in need of it & to prevent the locust from taking over the east barricade in Chancery Bridge. It resulted in the death of all gears except 2
Interesting, this will be another new one to me. Although I think there was a Windows release of the first one at one point it was pretty much an Xbox title and I would have been playing PC games at the time (and before it). I never owned an Xbox or a PlayStation so have only seen others play the popular titles from those systems. Looking forward to checking it out.
I've not played 4 or 5 but in ranking my favorite are - Gears 2, Gears 3, Gears Judgement, Gears 4, (seen all of it) Gears 1. Never got into one as much but Gears 2 is one of my all time favorite games.
Just speaking it share cause I've not looked back on this series in years but like with any story and better budget it was improved upon, gears 2 let go of more of that dark horror for a more of a gritty hopelessness with more vehicles, environmental obstacles, great story telling, added characters, weapons, music, locations, it was just really good for what it was. Gears 3 felt more colorful visually but also like post apocalyptic dust bowl, just fun.
There is a book series for the gears of war pre gears of war 1. It tells what happens at aspho fields. I highly recommend reading after you play the series.
@@JonesySpaceCat not that I remember, but it is definitely in line with the prequel that is coming out. So maybe wait to read till after you play through the series.
Also love the playthrough of course! Welcome to the gears journey! Also Anya and Marcus had a thing for his jail time that’s why she looks at him the way she does in the beginning☺️
Nice to see you getting into another great series of games. Unlike Halo, grenades are much more valuable and need to be used only as needed. Hopefully you’ll get the mechanics down for up close melee fighting, cause that is some of the best bloody messes to make. lol.
Gameplay tips:
-Reloading in the white square will reload your gun faster & give your bullets a damage bonus for a few seconds, if you hit the reload too soon/late your gun will jam.
-Emergence holes will close by itself but only after unloading all its enemies. Close it sooner with a grenade.
-You can blind-fire your gun (and grenades) from cover, just shoot without aiming to fire your gun in the general direction you’re facing. This lets you stay hidden from gunfire.
-Hold B to use the chainsaw on your gun, get in close and witness the carnage.
I'd like to add:
-When in cover, you can sometimes quickly switch/change cover by using stick+A
-Use LB (I believe LOL) if you need to know where your teammates are
-If you run towards a door, you'll automatic kick it open
29:55 That noise was the sweet sound of a Locust head popping like a melon. :)
I LOVE IT
It's a dream come true that you started gears of war it has more story than halo CE via cut scenes
😭ah thank you Gary!!
MORE story ?! Then you haven't played it.
@@Chino56751 yeah more story than halo CE no two ways about it I never said more than other halo games
@@garyhigh8099 Halo CE is literally the genesis for the whole series. Saying this has more story is Broadway levels of comedy
@@Chino56751 is it the best I don't think it is
Ohhh...Anthony Carmine. Never Gets Old. 😂
Oh heck Jonesy. You gone love gears of war series. Played it when it first came out in 2006. I've ended it over 20 times and still love playing it. It's just fun. Grubs!!!
It's so funny how you point out the combat arena at 10:05 by noticing the waist-high cover blocks, looking back I think it was this game that originally gave people that instinct. I remember reading in the manual something about the devs being inspired by playing paintball matches and it shows in the combat for sure.
I wish more games still had manuals 😭
So glad you’re choosing to play this. I think you’ll really like the story.
Just a bit of background on this game, the world you’re on is called Sera (not earth), 14 years ago a race of underground monsters known as the Locust horde attacked the surface of the planet killing people everywhere.
You play as Marcus Fenix, a veteran soldier (soldiers are gears) imprisoned these last 4 years for disobeying orders. The COG stands for Coalition of Ordered Governments, that’s who you (and your fellow gears) work for.
That’s all I’ll say.
It's so cool seeing someone experience the Gears series for the first time, one of my favourite series of all time. The first game is a bit clunky but they do get a lot more fluid with each game.
The setting where the games take place is the Planet Sera, which is a the Greek God Ares spelt backwards.
The Locust is the name of the enemy faction as a whole, some of the human characters call them Grubs as like a nickname, then there's different types of Locust. The standard foot soldier of the Locust are called Drones of which you have different types of them as well. For example the Grenadiers are the guys that usually have Shotguns and they use grenades as well, they tend to rush and be quite aggressive.
Definitely look forward to seeing you play the game more 😁
Thank you MT
Carmine comes around the corner with his chainsaw "and then a hero comes around"
the cole train is the best character in gears. hope you enjoy his amazing dialogue and shenanigans lol
I played this game obsessively for years. I have never had more fun playing a game series.
the guy who voices Marcus voiced bender in futrama john DiMaggio
this blows my mind!! 🤯
And Jake from Adventure Time
@@vanhelsing9245 And Joker in Batman: Under The Red Hood, Animated Movie.
John is goated!
Gears of War is one of my absolute favorite series. I'm so excited to see you play it.
Uh oh, this’ll be good, you’ll love all 7 games in the franchise and you’ll love Marcus and Dom. Love you jonesy and keep up the great work. Tips, reload at the right time with the white scare to get reload faster and make sure you abuse the weapons you use, when you see a emergence hole use a grenade to take them out, and when you shoot the locust (the guys you’re fighting snd the ones who were making those notices) in the knees, they’ll go down and you’ll get a chance to execute them by getting close to them and pressing X, use the chainsaw by holding B , it’s extremely cool, when you’re using the troika, it’s important you use aim to get better shots
Only 4 are any good though.
@@thewatcher3429 yeah that’s true
Brings me back to 2006, when my buddy was the first one in our friend/gaming group at the time who bought an HD console. He brought it to the apartment and we played the hell out of this one.
ah the good old days 🙌
Now we're talkin
Lets gooooo
you have to play gears 2 and 3, probably the best ones in the entire series
Smashing it again, this is the first time I’ve seen gears played lol only noticed adverts over the years, I think Destiny had my soul for too long I missed loads of games ❤
Gears is a series that really doesn't have an equal, one that knows what it wants to be (for the most part): angry, funny, and so grim you'd think you were in Warhammer - and while I'm all about Master Geez, Fenix & Co. grows on you... and make sure you count the Carmines as you meet them ☠
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....this is one of the better series from the xbox 360 gen. luv seeing people play the older games like this. looking forward to your playthrough
I'm super happy that your playing gears of war, my all time favourite games but I hope you continue the story of halo later on still more story to tell
Gears of war is one of my favourite franchises. I adore these games. Hope you have as much fun playing these as I did the first time I played back in the xbox 360 days 😊
I love your videos ❤ the reason Marcus was sent to prison is because he ate his lunch during work hours
😂😂
Thank you Patty
Classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I love this series especially the OG trilogy the story is amazing spent thousands of hours playing the multiplayer so many good memories
Blast from the past! this with Cod, Halo, you're making me re-live my high school days haha
Always love watching gamers experience my cherished love...gears for the first time.
Seeing someone learn gears for the first time warms my
Heart
😊❤😊
Love gears of war great memories.
Yeah I can see where your coming from about London and as londoner the locust do remind me of some of my neighbours 😅😂😂
this, cod mw2, and halo were three franchises I grew up with throughout school
I hope you play through the whole franchise because I love it. Marcus on my top ten of favorite characters in gaming.
Oohh man!!! this is so cool, I love Gears of War! :D I'm just watching the intro, you said you want to play this before E-Day, but I do hope you end up playing the other games :D! that would be amazing!!!
I'm a day late, but I am very excited to see you play another one of my favorite games!
I can't believe that no-one suggested you play Gears of War! Easily one of my top franchises ever, and arguably best franchises in general.
I really hope you do all the Gears games; I'll be there for them 🤙
You're going to love it; it has a fantastic story and gameplay, but get ready for the feels in this series.
One piece of advice if i may.. Always play the tutorials in the Gears games, asyou get a bit more story with them, and often introduces new game mechanics and characters.
Another classic series, great choice you will love these games!
I was going to recommend this definitely needed this series! Another great series recommendation is dead rising with its remaster coming up 1-3 are amazing and would be great to see.
God I'm so old I remember playing this senior year of hs. Phenomenal series if you don't count gears 5
I'm so stoked for what is sure to be an epic playthrough. I hope you enjoy the rest of the game and are having a great week!
TOASTED!!
This is so generous of you especial on top of your membership 😭 Thank you so much!
I'm loving this game so far and I can't see myself stopping any time soon!
Hope you're having a wonderful day
Dude let’s go! Gears is one of my favourite franchises. The first game has aged a little now but it’s still a great starting point. Have fun!
Zac this game is SO much fun!!
Hi Jonesy! 👋
I've never played this game or watched a Let's Play before, so this is gonna be a great first-time experience for both of us! HOORAH!! 🙌
My first question was the same as yours: "Why were you in prison?" And, secondly, "Why were you not pardoned along with everyone else?"
Thanks for the awesome upload, Jonesy! I hope ur having a great week! 😊
ONION!!
so if you've never seen this game before you wont see any of the mistakes I make 😂 of which there are 0 of course!!
Thank you so much Onion, hope you're also having a great week
@@JonesySpaceCat Any or all mistakes will be tactical and all part of the bigger picture! 😊
I've seen playthroughs of Gears on youtube, but never played.
I gotta check this franchise someday.
I wish more ppl would play the OG gears trilogy! I understand it’s hard due to the fact 2 and 3 can only be played on one console unfortunately but I always love seeing ppl react to this series! It’s funny, great story, and action packed!
I can understand; I've been wanting to play Bloodborne for ages, but can't afford a Playstation, and Sony aren't releasing a PC release, at the very least. :(
you're in for a ride and a good story ❤
the lore to this game is amazing.
Hey there wassup, new here just wanted to say great job first time playing Gears of War. I really enjoyed watching your reaction to the gameplay and storyline
Ah thank you so much soul. Gears is one crazy ride and I've been enjoying every second!!
Humans vs reptiles, that be the story. When you reload if you hit the right bumper again when the line is over the white you'll get what's called an active reload, this will give you enhanced ammunition and better ammo capacity for a certain amount of time.
Oooooooooooookayyy Jonesy Was not expecting this 😁 you have amazing tastes 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Another amazing playthrough Jonesy ❤❤😁😁.
I love this series! Have played every one. You will enjoy this one!
I can't wait to get stuck in!!!
@@JonesySpaceCat keep up the great videos, I try to watch all of them.
I was looking in your channel for the E-Day reaction, but I would also suggest/like to see a reaction to the original Gears of War trailers. They were something else back then. This is a great series and one that I love.
You are going to have an amazing experience with this game.
I can't wait
13:37
I definitely have a tip to make it better. Go to the control options and turn the aim sensitivity down; it makes a world of difference, and allows you to be precise in your aiming.
you are gonna love this game.😎
it's part of my childhood.😎
I love this game SO much!
Don't mind if I comment(In a badass accent) This game is pretty cool. You got this, got to stay calm and collected.
Beautiful art of war
So excited for Gears!!
This Game looks really cool! It’s like a mix of Halo and COD definitely entertaining and action pack.. I love it! 🥰
Another 360 trilogy that everyone needs to play. Great choice!
Ah thank you brandon!
Hope you enjoy it 😊
Nobody might not have mentioned it but I bet, including myself. Are excited on you playing it! Enjoy dear and gonna have a blast
😊😊
You are about to embark a journey that made many of us men we are today.
Excellent
I remember seeing the old trailer for the first game. It had Mad World by Gary Jules playing and it got me intrigued.
that was for e-day right?
Or did they use the same song for this game to?
@@JonesySpaceCat it’s seems they used the same song. The trailer I was referring to had Marcus looking at a statue head and shooting a big spider.
@@kane09walkerhave you played gears yourself?
@@whimsicalman I have, I played the original trilogy. Although I haven’t tried 4 or 5 or the one with Baird yet.
YESSS LETS GOOO 😎
love the channel
Marcus was in prison because he disobeyed orders from Hoffman (his colonel) because Marcus tried saving his dad. Hoffman needed him to deliver the targeting optic to another soldier who had the hammer of dawn (very powerful weapon) to assist other gears soldiers who were in need of it & to prevent the locust from taking over the east barricade in Chancery Bridge. It resulted in the death of all gears except 2
The game doesn’t tell you that, that’s why I thought I’d tell ya 😅
Marcus and master chief.two best characters in shooter gaming.also gears 2and 3 campaign are on halos level
I love Gears of War! I hope you try out the other games as well.
Oh I will, dont you worry about that!
This is a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
I love this franchise. It's the only reason I own an Xbox.
Thats what im talking about get in there great action scene's different from halo im looking forward to this play through
Hope you enjoy it Solo 😊
Interesting new game 😂🎉
hope you enjoy it 🔥
Interesting, this will be another new one to me. Although I think there was a Windows release of the first one at one point it was pretty much an Xbox title and I would have been playing PC games at the time (and before it). I never owned an Xbox or a PlayStation so have only seen others play the popular titles from those systems. Looking forward to checking it out.
Ah thanks Myers.
Hopefully when I can get a gaming PC I will dip my toe into the world of PC gaming🙌
You could upload gears of war Tuesdays
Halo 4 Thursdays
Elden ring Sundays
Best of jonesy all round
haha goodbye life.😂😂
If I could I absolutely would! 🙌
Wow a different game finally OMG.
Fun video I subbed you better beat this thing. lol.
haha you know I will beat this thing..... and the others! 🙌
If you get the chance: Check out the trailer for the game. Has Gary Jules’ “Mad World”. I think Mad World has become synonymous with Gears of War.
I've not played 4 or 5 but in ranking my favorite are - Gears 2, Gears 3, Gears Judgement, Gears 4, (seen all of it) Gears 1. Never got into one as much but Gears 2 is one of my all time favorite games.
Just speaking it share cause I've not looked back on this series in years but like with any story and better budget it was improved upon, gears 2 let go of more of that dark horror for a more of a gritty hopelessness with more vehicles, environmental obstacles, great story telling, added characters, weapons, music, locations, it was just really good for what it was. Gears 3 felt more colorful visually but also like post apocalyptic dust bowl, just fun.
I liked Gears Judgement's characters and story telling, it just added to a great series. You should make a Gears of war ranking vid.
Gear's of war games are the best Xbox classics some missions can be tough so take your time and use your team as support
I'm loving it so far, thank you so much Elder 😊
@@JonesySpaceCateven in the boiling hot weather I still need my cup of tea lol
daamn straight from Halo to this. these franchises sculpted my early years thanks to my older brothers showing them to me
There is a book series for the gears of war pre gears of war 1. It tells what happens at aspho fields. I highly recommend reading after you play the series.
ah yes, called SLAB?
will it have spoilers for the other games?
@@JonesySpaceCat not that I remember, but it is definitely in line with the prequel that is coming out. So maybe wait to read till after you play through the series.
NICE!
Pulling back ur left thumbstick is a easier way to pull outa cover
Tis game is the reason I stay on xbox love the game ❤
I know nothing of these games as never had an Xbox but it should be a fun playthrough
Oh Ross, this is such an insanely fun game.
I hope you'll enjoy the rest
I see gears I sub🤣
Also love the playthrough of course! Welcome to the gears journey! Also Anya and Marcus had a thing for his jail time that’s why she looks at him the way she does in the beginning☺️
I see comment I like
Im here for gears!
Hope you enjoy😄
back to back bangers first halo now gears
🙌🔥🙌
Welcome to gears community
I love it here!!
Thank you for the welcome!!
Cool game🤗😎
cool comment
Nice to see you getting into another great series of games. Unlike Halo, grenades are much more valuable and need to be used only as needed. Hopefully you’ll get the mechanics down for up close melee fighting, cause that is some of the best bloody messes to make. lol.
the melee take's me a hot minute to grasp.... I kinda get there eventually 😂
AINT NO WAYYYYYY 😮💨
YES WAY
@@JonesySpaceCat THEN YOU DA BESTTTT BAEEEE ahhh so fun
For your first time playing gears of War it was pretty good 🙂😅
Jonesy jumping into Gears of War! You're in for a treat with these games! The story in the original trilogy is absolutely epic! (No pun inteded).
I'm loving this game so far 🙌
This as a great story
hard agree!!
When is Jonesy going to release the next part!! im getting impatient!!
soon!
really fun and brutal game, as a 15yo i tried it but it was too bloody and scary for me but good choice anyway
I’m sold
me too!
16:45 thankfully there arent many of those moments in the Gears games, right? Right?
😂😂😂
We NEED Gears 2 & Gears 3 Ultimate Edition
Gears of War is the best game ever made.
No argument here!
ah this looks good 😎
Illegal, its SO much fun!!
I would defo recommend