Gears of War - Race to E3

This is a collectors video about Epic racing to the E3 with all the pressure from Microsoft to present Gears of War for the first time.. It's really a fantastic video that shows how much suffering game devs go through when management comments come from those who don't understand gaming at all..
If it was up to Microsoft, the chainsaw would have never seen the light of day and the game would have been another generic shooter.. Thank god everything turned out as it did.
If anyone from Epic reads this, and in case it needs to be pulled down, I just want to say guys.. YOU ROCK.. Microsoft didn't deserve such a great game how much beef they gave you.. All of us Gears of War fans thank you!

[@swentojr]

“The chainsaw is a good representation of what Gears represents” Give this man a raise!

[@86Fallowcp]

They did, he was the head of the games since 1 all the way to 5

[@FreaKzero]

@@86Fallowcp wrong ... he only did 1 - 3 and Judgement Day And thats why 4 and 5 were so bad

[@cmkruger1697]

Wow, really glad Epic pushed for the chainsaw

[@a.jthomas6132]

IKR

[@Palendrome]

The documentary was fake and edited. No one was going to cut the chainsaw. That executive woman was talking about something else and they clipped her to make it sound like she wanted to cut the most important weapon in the game lmao, because they needed a "bad guy" for the documentary."

[@erikouwehand]

The game always included the chainsaw, this argue was about a trailer, not the game. The Documentary needed some created drama, so they created fake drama.

[@PaulHindt]

I don't understand why it was so contentious. Doom had a chainsaw 13 years prior to Gears.

[@xXxKingjonxXx]

@@Palendrome proof or doubt

[@sickbrain]

This is such a great "time capsule" of what game development used to be like in early 2000. Calling a guy "walking hr nightmare", discussing boob size of an NPC, taking about crunch in the open, actually playing live demos on stage... This stuff just doesn't happen anymore.

[@nothankyoutube]

Thank jeebus

[@brentsyoutube]

and wearing an "im retarded" T shirt lol. He would be fired for that now days.

[@chancefoy6287]

@@nothankyoutubeshut up

[@nothankyoutube]

@@chancefoy6287 lul

[@samuraispike4615]

This feels like the movie “Grandma’s Boy.”

[@JohnCrichton]

omg it does hahaha

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

I thought the same thing!

[@Tiocad]

When cliff was the force behind the series. It was a whole different game

[@johnmin7607]

Dhillon he was a douche back then but knew how to hussle

[@YuckFOUunltd]

@@johnmin7607 he also was a legend in Unreal tournament.

[@greedyjaguar3094]

now look what TC has done to gears :/

[@luthermartinez2794]

Facts

[@alio6051]

@@EggEnjoyer Um, so...what does love life have to do with how you act.. makes no freakin sense. Your jelly thats all my man.

[@SpontaneousWeasel]

Wow so cool to see this snapshot of games development from 2005 in 2024. The MTV style of editing is hilarious lol

[@James-iz9qb]

This feels SO MUCH more ancient than the mid 2000's....holy shit. Society has changed ridiculously in 15 years

[@joshuaroughan3350]

it was 2005 but I get what you mean

[@andrewherrera7735]

12:43 Look at the ugly 720p resolution monitors. I used to think that was a high tech look, now it feels like it should be in a museum.

[@lennybrewster4673]

And not for the better.

[@Ermac_______________________69]

Hardly a revelation. 1890 is much different to 1905, 1930 to 1945... 65 to 1980, 1985 to 2000. I mean, this is pretty normal for society to be drastically different after *15* years pass lol

[@Hitmonchris5678]

Now Woke Mafia Fucks Up Everything Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LynxenX]

Holy shit this was back when E3 actually mattered to the industry, like, A LOT.

[@big_guapo]

2:20 crying at this, why did they dedicate a section of the video specifically to this. its like someone in editing was out for him LMAOOOOOO

[@moviesynopsis001]

He was the editor, it was up to him to put it in. I think he was showing off his 19 yo piece of pussay

[@josephray9695]

That was bill gates making sure it was ready for Fall release

[@shimona500]

and later how they broke up

[@THEBIGZED]

I am 3 and a half minutes into this and it's already so insane to me that a company willingly published this. Insane how much culture has changed, but I guess it really has been 20 years 💀

[@marksapollo]

I’ve gotta give it to the guy, he lead a team to develop and make one of my favourite games series of all time.

[@Pingaheimer]

There is no way in which any hater can skew it to not give him credit, he was the lead designer.

[@contra7631]

​@@PingaheimerBelieve it or not, woke liberals still hate him.There are some woke youtubers made some bad video about him even though those videos doesn't actually say anything bad about him but those video titles are just clickbaits.

[@Neoyugi]

Video game industry in 2005: "Yeah we go out drinking, play games in the office, go shooting, we're one big family just mucking about all the time, just gonna pump out a lil game called Gears ofWar, no biggie" Video game industry in 2020: "We can't make a game we've been working on for 6 years, we ask out employees to crunch 50-80 hours a week to push out half finished products by deadline"

[@Tacklefatkid]

fr dude i miss this its so sad to see what gaming has become

[@thesecondantagoniser4008]

I think it's the company community that motivated these devs to get the game out the door. When you have a positive community drive - work is done with great enthusiasm.

[@n1njahawkssecondchannel84]

Facts

[@rcl5555]

Shipping a 2022 AAA game is at least 10x more effort than shipping a 2006 game (also only on one platform).

[@Neoyugi]

@@rcl5555 Not even remotely correct

[@Los714]

Damn this is like watching an episode of Orange County choppers when the time is running out on a build haha

[@kevinconboy7387]

The nostalgia hitting hard rn 🥺🥺😭😭❤️❤️

[@guybrush_lechuck]

Can’t believe they almost didn’t have the chainsaw, can’t imagine gears without it

[@Palendrome]

Completely fake. They were NEVER going to cut it and that executive woman NEVER even suggested that. These are edited clips, the filmmakers making the documntary needed a "bad guy" so they clipped it together to look like she was pushing that. She never even made that suggestion, she is talking about something else entirely.

[@Truntio]

watching this 2024 is just crazy. it was mind blowing back there

[@TBHJR]

I remember watching this on the Gears 1 limited edition DVD

[@deviantrat6001]

*Thank you for uploading this gem!*

[@cartophorse5084]

I am proud that they pushed for chainsaw assault rifle🥰

[@biocrap21]

Hey, just wanted to say thanks for uploading this! I remember watching it on MTV when it aired and I had the sudden urge to watch it again. I feel your description for the video is spot-on as well and seriously...thank God for the chainsaw! Gears of War was the game that got me hooked to the Xbox 360 and I can't believe how far it's come. I actually just bought GOW 3 and I can't wait to get started. Thanks again!

[@KashMunni120]

this 4 year old comment is also awesome.

[@jokerandthethief3719]

@@KashMunni120 your 4 year old comment also is awesome

[@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr]

⁠@@jokerandthethief3719your 2 year old comment is considered ancient now!

[@FoolishDuke]

@@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr I can't believe its been 3 months since you said this

[@ethericboy]

In adressing the locust drone AI in the game they obviously forgot to focus on Dominic Santiago because his AI is just horrible and an annoyance to play with remember?

[@smileforthesun]

2:00 I instantly know who is behind all the achievement names now 😂

[@BigWrangler]

Man i always get chills when i see a xbox 360 controller lol. Just brings me back

[@wut6922]

Cliffy has always been a weird bastard

[@stayin91degrees]

7:10 Cliffs shirt 😂 ohhhhh god the early 2000's

[@blindedby2monkeys]

7:11 his shirt LOOOOL

[@ViralZen]

Amazing how much they were talking about the chainsaw lmao

[@marcusjr2342]

God bless you Cliffy B, created my favourite game series of all time

[@JAIMEGARCIA-gw9re]

Different times. First time seeing this video. Can't believe Microsoft wanted the chainsaw out.

[@TheBroz]

Do you believe everything you watch?

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

Tim Sweeney in those fucking cars really tells you all you need to know about him

[@TUUK2006]

No, it doesn't. Jon Carmack was driving top-end sports cars before this. Does it saw the same thing about him?

[@bradthivierge827]

Fascinating to watch this in 2024

[@dougbfresh]

Oh god just also noticed Cliff's shirt at 7:10

[@ClappNcheeks1]

Back when developers were based.

[@iamtheliquor809]

:46 Rod Ferguson HAHA!

[@DOMinatorxXx42]

Gears of war was the game that pushed my dad over the edge and he cancelled my xbox live subscription.

[@elilopez8844]

Bro Bill Gates like yo you going to be ready, employee like uhh well make it happen.... Chill answer but he was sweating balls on the inside lol

[@leeeinfield]

It’s funny hearing these old people get in arguments about a video game chainsaw bayonet and having it end up being one of the most iconic things I got gaming now lol

[@antsjohnson6617]

Take me back mannnnnn

[@Zegeebwah]

Those were the days...

[@DamageInc86]

I only played the first gow like 3 times. Never got into it. But listening to the cliffy b's audiobook, and was curious about this segment. I wish there was some behind the scenes during the formation of epic megagames, and the jazz jackrabbit Era.

[@187Wretched]

Did everything have to be shot and edited like a reality tv show in 2005? The part with his gf lol

[@soulreaper453]

Love how this gets recommended to me when Gears 5 is at it's all time low sigh

[@illusoryquixot]

8:12 “Yeah I remember-“ poor dude got cut off lol, just like he does to me whenever we have a conversation!

[@dereka5017]

This reminds me how much I hate how things have changed in the last one and a half decades. It’s worse pretty much all around.

[@funkmachine9094]

so what happened in the end? was the game a success or?

[@JustinDiazJokes]

thats the oldest 19 year old holyshit

[@aliosha4434]

The birth of two legends.

[@georgyanokhin]

he lives for the applause

[@jason96]

Epic used to be great. Now they only care about is Fortnite

[@Born...]

This truly shows just how inept Microsoft is. Still to this day most would argue that they are even worse than what you can see in this video and what the description says. Imagine all of the things that have been behind closed doors at Microsoft that we did not have the chance to hear, like the stupid choice to get rid of the chainsaw from gear of war LMAO. For being "over the top and too violent". Just how many games have they ruined or decided to cancel over boneheaded decisions like this? They had the chance to make a helldiver 2 game with the Halo IP and instead of space marines it would be ODST and Microsoft said "we are not interested". Some of the most clueless people have been working there for a LONG time and the new hires are taught to just keep doing this garbage so the problem will never be fixed. How can you work at a company like Microsoft and have your hand nowhere even close to the pulse of your fans that buy your games as well as the rest of the gaming industry... BLOWS MY MIND

[@temblortumax2306]

Best line when he meets big boss and for sure he makes happen great job cliff

[@FangMorrow]

7:10 would not fly today🤣

[@blackraven85_1]

How would you know? You're not in the design departments of these developers

[@dawsynlarson696]

We need cliff back! Make gears great again 😔

[@TheGohthecrow]

He now hates video games in general ever since lawbreakers

[@KAOTICUPRISE]

LOL! " I love chain sawing people"!

[@FunnyGA1ex]

Does it come with a complementary gf9000?

[@Realmjumper4099]

Awesome vid thank you so much.

[@YTAnon10]

How great games were made, now look at modern studios… Diablo 4 lmao. Ironic how a neutered Rod Ferguson was head of that.

[@axelstone3131]

Brings back memberberries

[@dfdffdfdf1713]

how is it possible to have the xbox 360 elite console before the first gears of war came out ? if i remember correctly at that time only the white one was available 16:39

[@blackraven85_1]

Game developers always get new hardware before the public does. Never after a console is released

[@ChronoStrife]

Cliffy B, before he became Cucky B.

[@Visuwyg]

Haha this is so cringy :) Love it!

[@fabriciosilva9261]

Demais tudo isso ,gears pra mim foi revolucionário,a história de gears e insana melhor jogo de todos os tempos .

[@MortalShores]

them filming him at 31 kissing his 19yo girlfriend is CRAZY lmaoo

[@Juanpopspacks]

A year past legal what you mean

[@MortalShores]

@@Juanpopspacks that age gap is WEIRD no matter who it is or which way you cut it.

[@contra7631]

​@@MortalShoresSo? Its more weird when kids taking puberty blockers and choosing their gender.

[@MortalShores]

@@contra7631 ah youre that weird right-wing person that doesnt get invited anywhere cause you make everything political

[@robertmoore8602]

Bring back cliffy for e day

[@emperorarasaka]

No wokeness. No offense. No bullshit. Just fun. Man it really was the good times just over a decade back. I'm glad to have grown up then.

[@dordo123]

Are you sure? 14:33 .

[@contra7631]

​@@dordo123Maybe it wasn't much forced back then.Also notice how there's isn't even a single liberal women in the game dev team.

[@F0XD1E]

​@@contra7631​ A woman was the executive producer of the game. You think just because she's the boss and doesn't have dyed hair that she's not "liberal"? If right wing media existed at the time as it does now, they'd have plenty to complain about and call this game woke as well.

[@contra7631]

@@F0XD1E Look at newer ubisoft games and from many other studios.See their stuffs.Then you will know why gaming sucks now.

[@F0XD1E]

@@contra7631 The answer is corportitism and blaming anything else is just personal bias.

[@mariotaz]

Love it

[@tadpoled9928]

Cliff looks like a mixture between Owen Wilson and young Donald Trump from the 1970's to the early 80's

[@Deutschehordenelite]

Ed Sheeran on the thumbnail

[@ewwwt]

7:15 I knew I didn't like Cliffy B for a reason. way too big? I say they are not big enough!

[@adamharris-batt6333]

What a wild time, what has cliffy kissing his gf got to do with the game LMAO

[@TanKLoveR]

Cliffy b having a teenager for a gf explains sooo much, now i know why i never liked him and thought he was a douchecanoe. Turns out he's a creep too 😂😂

[@contra7631]

You sound like a fat liberal kid.

[@garethsmith6611]

Shocking video. not only from some who are still at microsoft, but how they swore and treated people and then showing evidence of CRUNCH, with people not even sleeping and going to work. disgusting. Great video for showing what really went on back then.

[@emperorarasaka]

Softness and moral policing from people like you has degraded our freedoms. Now its just generic formulaic wokefest.

[@contra7631]

​@@emperorarasakaI kinda agree now even small games takes years now and still are woke garbage and unpolished.At least in those times those dudes were edge lords so the game would be finished and not woke.

[@Cheddar_Wizard]

Cliff Bleszinksi... what a gamer chad. These guys were rockstars.

[@bl33zy52]

used to be until the whole lawbreakers shit

[@Cheddar_Wizard]

@@bl33zy52 Every dog has its day. And no can live on the mountain’s peak. Those few who live to see it can look back and find either satisfaction that it happened or disappointment that it’s no longer. I’m forever grateful for the Gears franchise.

[@deviantrat6001]

*Although I've enjoyed GEARS 4/5, nothing will ever beat 1-3 and it's thanks to Bleszinski.*

[@jagaloon14]

The story wasn’t as good but the gameplay is still phenomenal. Almost 20 years and imo gears has consistently maintained the greatest gameplay of any popular modern shooter franchise

[@jagaloon14]

Not a single cod or halo story ever resonated with me and I’ve never found the gameplay actually stellar. Just passable

[@Kickup12]

4/5 🤣🤮🤮

[@FlamingChickenTA]

14 years later people are still playing Gears Of War 1 online

[@dawsynlarson696]

Fr ?? I tried finding online matches on the ultimate edition version and got nothing

[@FlamingChickenTA]

@@dawsynlarson696 not too many on ultimate, at least not ranked. Player matches is where everyone is. Play GOW1 and play public matches about a good 200 of us still on

[@JusticeGamingNY]

@@FlamingChickenTA here i come

[@FlamingChickenTA]

@@JusticeGamingNY lmao all A1 players too bro.

[@JusticeGamingNY]

@@FlamingChickenTA nice

[@jagaloon14]

“14 years building up to this moment, since I started doing it.” And the game opens up 14 years after e-day. Never thought about that until now

[@Marchochias]

damn, when did he start working in videogames, when he was a teenager? he looks like he's in his 20s in this video lol

[@jagaloon14]

@@Marchochias he says at one point he’s 31 here, so he would’ve started at 17

[@jackonno78]

"im 31 and shes 19" -cliffy b

[@antsjohnson6617]

Stud

[@jlb4685]

10 mins later ''we broke up'' hahaha

[@BigWrangler]

God bless

[@jameshill8493]

I’m 24 and my girlfriend is 20, I’m getting people being weird about the age difference. Couldn’t imagine 31 and 19

[@zerocal76]

​@jameshill8493 I bet you're from the US. I am and anything more than 5 yrs ppl are shocked. Dumbest thing ever. I love being in my late 30s and my gf in her mid 20s. She's hot too 😁

[@gagatai]

I'm glad that they tried real hard to keep the chainsaw. Because it became one of the most iconic weapon in video games. Once you see the chainsaw gun , you know what game you are playing

[@godzilla7391]

Gavin Tai Yeah, seemed like from that clip, with the Microsoft reps, that they may have been trying to push away with it.

[@fansdenaruto1144]

Lancer

[@Palendrome]

@@godzilla7391 It's edited. The woman in this video did a whole video about it. She was talking about something else entirely and they clipped it to make it sound like she wanted to cut the chainsaw because the team making the documentary needed a bad guy for the story

[@godzilla7391]

@@Palendrome wow. Media has no chill. Sheesh

[@Pingaheimer]

13:00 execs trying to cut the chainsaw bayonet that became synonymous with the series. Good example of how dumb suits ruin everything and nearly ruined that.

[@PhyrexJ]

You dont realize its staged for the docu?

[@Pingaheimer]

@@PhyrexJ no how do u know?

[@The_Gent]

this is why games suck now days because of woman & perverts infiltrated gaming and completely killed dev teams like this #gamergate

[@ukaszpaluch4950]

Before the dark ages

[@ErenTheWarcriminal]

Before the Spencepire

[@XtraTrstrL]

Epic also didn't want to sell the maps as DLC, they wanted to do what they did with Unreal on PC forever, keep giving free content to keep players engaged and around. They believed more in the day 1 sales of the games in the franchise, so they wanted to keep people there so they'd get huge sales on Gears 2 and so on. MS ofcourse saw things differently, and that began the 1st map packs delays that went on forever, until Epic got upset enough to start putting out little blogs explaining that the maps were actually done early and it was MS struggling with them. They eventually gave in to MS after a final behind-closed-doors sitdown where clearly MS dropped bags of $$$$ on Epic, and the transparency disappeared and the $DLC$ map packs became a thing in Gears.

[@ds2disciple]

20 years ago it was still the same problem: Suits having control over the creative direction of the developers that they don't understand. Great documentary.

[@MrMrTravman]

It's hilarious you dont realize most of this was edited for drama. It's not real brotha

[@mewkatlol]

@@MrMrTravmanwhatev puzzy

[@Mike-jv8bv]

it was a problem no doubt. but ESG back then didn't exist, a new cancer among the studios.

[@frunglefraggle3819]

whoever directed this was a psychopath

[@Mowthelawn3]

I keep thinking of this comment the more I watch this and it gets funnier and funnier 😂😂😂😂😂 This shit is wild

[@Shuka4Beats]

😂

[@pgp]

It's funny now how Microsoft wanted to cut the Lancer lol

[@carminefan110]

We could have lived in a very fucked up alternative reality Thankfully the stars aligned

[@GetShrekd]

ms has always been the suckiest

[@BlindTrustProject]

No it's edited that way. Laura Fraser never talked about cutting out the lanzer from the game. It was edited from another conversation on a cinematic.

[@SuperSnakePlissken]

I was there for the midnight launches of Halo 2 & 3, Gears 2 & 3, Wow vanilla, Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King....kids today have no idea what it was like to gather with a hundred fans of gaming in the middle of the night and buy your game at 1 in the morning. Those were the days!

[@FunnyGA1ex]

Oh you’re one of THOSE …

[@awepizza]

Same brother, gaming lost its soul, at least the mainstream ones.

[@SuperSnakePlissken]

@@awepizza I would argue it started in 2012-2013 when console games began to be more mobile in nature. Over the last year we have seen console games become grindfests requiring almost pay to play in too many ways. I miss the days when games were 15-20 hour incredible adventures that you enjoyed, put down, and picked up the next one and rinse and repeat. That was the beauty of that 360/PS3 era. They still come but are far and few between.

[@jinlim6575]

the reason why the games suck now is because all the real designers realized they were just pawns for the coke heads but you can't make a game without coke head money lol...

[@htes-ng9ul]

The amount of mt dew in this video is insane lol

[@bigzgaming9487]

What a great time capsule of what life was like back in the day! It's the perfect blend of cringe and nostalgia. The fact that the game still holds up today goes to show how much of a labor of love this was for the team that worked on it.

[@winstonxarilo_]

The "Created by Geoff Keighley" at the end felt like a post-credits stinger lol

[@bto5stardraw]

5:45 "E3 ITS THE FUCKING SUPERBOWL OF VIDEOGAMES INDUSTRY..." and now the E3 is dead, all the videogame companies kill the event

[@MC_1993]

“I’m 31 and she’s 19” lol ok cliff 2:22

[@elgoat3038]

9:52

[@Hero11170]

Legal

[@SpNerCaspaNova]

It’s so funny bc his relationship has nothing to do with this doc, he thinks it’s about him lol. Cliff is the definition of narcissist. Still to this day.

[@GetShrekd]

​@@Hero11170 doesn't mean it's moral

[@Hero11170]

Im sorry you've been brainwashed by 50 y/o feminists​@GetShrekd

[@espirite]

13 years later and watching this and seeing Rod Fergusons face reminded me that i'm still salty for being banned from the Gears of War forums by Rod Ferguson for complaining about the bad matchmaking hahaha.

[@datsneakysnek]

America was better this way and I'm not gunna apologize for it 😂😂

[@femio18]

We need cliffy in gears

[@robertcollins4919]

"She's an old 18, and I'm a young 31" *Hi I'm Chris Hanson and you're on dateline nbc*

[@soto888]

To this day it's the number one fact about Cliff my brain goes to. Him dating a barely legal teen. It still creeps me out all these years

[@corpsemachine6949]

@D L She won't see this bro. and neither will the police, probably

[@dawsynlarson696]

@@soto888 I love cliff he’s an amazing dude for giving us this fuckin gnarly franchise but yea that’s fuckin weird unless they started dating and then later found out about each other’s age gap, still fucked up but a little less weird I guess

[@carminefan110]

I mean it’s weird and I definitely do not condone or agree but in comparison it’s the not the worst thing someone has done with “fame” or “power” considering it wasn’t “illegal”

[@ChRoNoLiShIoUs]

Go cry about it

[@dblundz]

Wonder how the Microsoft people that were worried about the lancer feel now haha

[@astro_case]

I miss these times.

[@ayylmaotv]

At 16:22 you can see the original cover behind cliff on the left. Interesting how it shows Marcus and Carmine but not Dom.

[@Can_0_Worms]

I never thought THE ayylmao was a gears fan! What a welcome surprise! :0

[@Artific1al2s]

That was promo/early cover until the final product was finished but still very cool we get to see it

[@Bubbagaming90000]

Apparently you where originally going to be able to pick doms gender so maybe thats why?

[@xjnavx]

Cliff needs to come back to Gears! Gears 5 sucks!!