GEARS OF WAR 2 (Zero Punctuation)

[@bibniebt]

He forgot to mention the rock worms, animals with rock hard skin that act as mobile...you guessed it, chest-high walls

[@DOOMchaoslord]

+The King of the Penguins again mother nature at work again

[@timebomb4562]

good ol mother nature always delivering the chest high walls

[@NoTimeNoEffort]

That was also the one legitimately memorable part of the game, it was FOR ONCE being creative with how taking cover works. When I say legitimately memorable, i mean it, that level and those walls are the only thing I remember of the game, along with a REALLY shitty boss that looked like the predator and was annoying as hell to fight and the ending where they doom the last bastion of humanity like fucking idiots

[@Biodeamon]

no he mentioned that

[@SilverKnight16]

"You have to remember that popular things are popular for a reason, because they're good. "Or because Will Smith is in it." XD

[@tmsplltrs]

That aged poorly

[@magnusfundal1970]

@@tmsplltrs 5 years before After Earth. A shame. He had a good streak.

[@3ofSpades]

I would say that's still accurate.

[@101Crock]

Spoiler Warning: The lab you go to in the game is where the locust where created. The locust aren't aliens, they are actually humans who where experimented on.

[@crylec6534]

+101Crock cool

[@101Crock]

Crylec Ya, but Gears of War 2 never tells you this, only the books do that.

[@crylec6534]

101Crock yeah but only die hard fans will read the novels and comics

[@marioreyna9303]

Not all locust. The sires were just locust human hybrids

[@101Crock]

***** Wrong, here is a direct quote from the wiki. "It is unknown for how long the Locust Horde have lived in the Hollow, but it has come to be understood that their creation was after the research project led by Niles Samson that oversaw the research on several Lambent-infected Imulsion miners at the New Hope Research Facility" gearsofwar.wikia.com/wiki/Locust_Horde

[@kylehyde9913]

I typed "chest high walls" and this was the first video to pop up XD

[@thomasbruinsma]

You were looking for that awful steam train game weren't you?

[@kylehyde9913]

trouble1993 No idea which train you are talking about. No; I was just curious. I wanted to see how close the words "chest high walls" and the Gears of Wars games were. Apparently they're almost synonymous, according to youtube search function.

[@Terf1988]

classic yahtzee

[@duomechtra1234]

Still the case.

[@xanderfulton3186]

It’s still there six years later

[@ThatFanBoyGuy]

"Some things are mainstream because they're actually good" -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Thank you, Yahtzee, for saying that

[@mikeJRthe2nd]

Do people not realize why Yahtzee always talks about the negative? Because if you were to not talk about it then it wouldn't get any better? Yahtzee once said that the worst thing you can do to someone is tell them they are good when they are not. This is why he does what he does, he does go a little overboard with his metaphors, but those are really just hyperboles.

[@charliehorse8401]

I know why you had to go to New Hope facility! During the Pendulum Wars, the big event thet took place before the Locust War, humans figured out that emultion was a very powerful resource. See, the planet Sera (the planet we are currently on in this universe) has basically almost run out of all of its natural resources. And emultion is one of the only resources left in abundance. There are a whole bunch of emultion mines all over Sera. The miners who were digging the emultion got sick. And they were all sent to New Hope facility. All of the tests done to those miners at the facility slowly turns them into strange beings. After New Hope facility was moved to the mountains, some of those unfortunate minors (now turn to test subjects) escaped. And they lived out the rest of the pendulum Wars living Underground, evolving into the locust. Bear in mind, the pendulum Wars have been going on for over a hundred YEARS! Trust me, it pays to know the lore. I hope I helped clear some things up! I love your Channel. You have a way of critiquing My Favorite Things without making me angry. And that I love about you. You stay awesome you crazy ass bastard!

[@pjemrey6676]

You're looking at it from a Gears 5 perspective. Back when Gears 2 came out, nobody knew what New Hope was about (and in hindsight, I feel like it was just made to fill in lore holes later)

[@christianbethel]

'Emultion'.

[@CallsignFinch-exe]

Dude 2021, why doesn't this have more views?

[@Hotfox999]

I don't have an argument for that Will Smith comment.

[@SoupyGuy193]

ME NEITHER... except that i do *badum tish*

[@Morec0]

***** Yes, but that has the hand of Shamalyan on it, so it doesn't count, as Shamalayn is to acting what Satan is to cold baths.

[@Morec0]

***** I disagree, citing that Shamalyan destroys evertyhing he touches; so what you have is a matter anti-matter effect, leaving the whole of the example a moot point.

[@Morec0]

***** As it is utterly your right to do so in any scenario, good sir, especially on something as trivial as internet debates. Cheers!

[@SoupyGuy193]

Oh god, i am ACTUALLY witnessing another respectful people talking to each other in a civilized way? INDEED I AM good work, the both of you :D (the internet needs more people like you)

[@hyperx72]

I'd like to see him review vanquish- A chest-high-wall tour of a colorful shooter where everyone is either a burly space marine who gargles gravel or a dude in armor. The Russians are bad guys, you have 3 weapons, regenerating health, and there are quick time events. Yet somehow me and about every other reviewer I've seen say its insane fun.

[@NobodyEvenReadsNames]

He eventually did review Vanquish after it was rereleased.

[@hyperx72]

@@NobodyEvenReadsNames Oh yeah.

[@Servellion]

Of the Gear of War games, the second was my favorite though Dom's AI derpacity did leave me utterly dry eyed in GoW 3 when he heroically sacrificed himself to save everyone. As I saw it, we were finally fucking even. All those forced respawns because Dom decided to wander off while I'm crawling about with most of my organs hanging out, trying not to die were repaid by his perma-death.

[@Jacksonrox13]

I agree. Gears 2's Chapter 4 on Insane drove ME fucking insane because every fucking time I'd start a firefight, the idiot would run out, get shot and downed, and then expect me to go up and revive him when there's 30 fucking enemies still shooting at me. So either I ran out of time and he bled out, or a fucking Bloodmount would step on him and kill him. Grrrrrrrr... Gears 3 was pretty crap with the emotions, bad with the storytelling and had some AWFUL voice acting (for fuck's sake America, either hire an actual Australian actor or DON'T attempt our accent) but it did have some very interesting set-pieces, as well as some interesting new enemies.

[@isalt5]

@@Jacksonrox13 "For fuck's sake America, either an actual Australian actor or DON'T attempt our accent" Honestly, I don't think that would help all that much. Chips Dubbo, Purna and Vanille (from Halo, Dead Island, and Final Fantasy XIII, respectively) were voiced by actual Australians, yet their accents were derided for sounding "fake". With the exception of Dubbo's case (whose accent was seen as fake by other Australians, if you can believe that) most of these skeptical yokels wouldn't know a genuine Australian accent if it stripped naked and got all touchy-feelie with them.

[@Rhylum]

@@isalt5 This video/comment is super old so it probably isn't worth adding on to, but it is worth mentioning that all of the voice actors who voiced characters with an Australian accent in Gears are all Australian.

[@Caboose039]

I think I know why characters in Gears of War snap to chest-high walls, their muscles are so hugs they form a gravitational pull to which chest high walls are drawn. This also explains why Anthony and Benjamin Carmine died away from chest-high walls, while Clayton, who has arms like a car tire, did not.

[@eggdrasilwarthog6507]

You know that a game is good when yahtzee has problems to find any major problems with it

[@srawadernam2367]

im in high school and ever since i started watching yatzee my grades have improved so i now think that listening to yatzee makes you smarter

[@McAwesomePants]

"Aliens r bad." "Actually, aliens r good-" "AAAAAAAAAAH"

[@FlintSparkedStudios]

The rant about chest-high walls was cracking me up because it's so true.

[@MercuryAlphaInc]

"I've been sitting here sticking skittles up my nose for half an hour-" ^ Best intro EVER. I was laughing my ass off from the get go!

[@stars111535]

I love Gears of War and I respectfully disagree with Yahtzee's opinion, but that doesn't warrant me disliking everything he does just because our opinions differ on one particular subject. Was that so difficult?

[@dragonkingofthestars]

stars111535 yes: (revs up chainsaw)

[@Rockymann27]

stars111535 But he is right on all points about gears of war 2 though.

[@kekula69]

+stars111535 that was difficult

[@NotAFakeName1]

stars111535 I disagree with him about entire genres, and I don't dislike everything he does.

[@exerberus2316]

Bah,Come join me in DOOM mien freund,Were you can run and gun,without coverbased shooting.

[@spartanx9293]

3:29 those particular mutants are the locust you dink

[@CyrusBluebird]

"Aliens R Good; AAAAAAAH" Anyone thought of Warframe revisiting this?

[@soldier257]

“Rendered in every loving color of the dirt spectrum”. So fucking funny XD

[@Biodeamon]

the game was great. it had an incredibly long story for a non-story shooter and the gameplay never seemed dull due to the amount of bits you could splatter people into

[@brandonmoore4244]

that moment you realize that will will smith smith is a correct sentance

[@Metalfear18]

Yes, will smith will smith.

[@dydlus]

Will Will Smith smith Will Smith? Yes, Will Smith will smith Will Smith.

[@3ofSpades]

"It's a giant worm! They're sinking cities with a giant worm!" -Marcus Fenix, Gears of War 2

[@Kemonokami]

Fun fact: Marcus Fenix is voiced by John DiMaggio, the guy behind Bender Rodriguez and Jake The Dog.

[@brianc3761]

Here in 2022... ahh I remember enjoying this review. Sure the ending aged like milk but the rest is great!

[@arrownoir]

If you walk into a room with chest high walls, it's time to turn back and run.

[@MilitaryStyx]

the joke in a lone scientist being able to find out where the locust hq is, is assuming that military intelligence has any of it.

[@Lorendrawn]

Yahtzee wasn't sure if he unreservedly liked gears of war 2 Reason is, he liked the game but would later go on to hate what it stood for: messy story and chest high walls

[@katana292]

OMFG the only one of his videos so far that made me burst out laughing so hard that I started coughing halfway! CHEST HIGH WALLLSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[@Terrorizingz]

The way you explain dom on campaign is so true

[@ZeroHero3d]

Ah. Yes, but let's not forget the Freudian Trap: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And going inside a giant worm monster is just going inside a giant worm monster.

[@TehRyder]

It's the same song. Available on the escapist website, The Zero Punctuation Theme

[@toporosas110]

I like how he says "chest high walls"

[@Nite-Mite]

@MrDeadSpace44, that kinda makes sense, and we also know about the Corpsers too (giant native spiders of Cera). But what about the Queen? Did she sympathize with the locust and help them fight the humans? And what's up with the Brumaks? And was that Giant worm a native creature too? And those reavers that they rode?

[@helsingS_]

Just to clarify those super mutant things Are what eventualy became the locusts. Also they used to be human

[@sagan1976]

His remarks are always spot on.

[@AngelofDarkness907]

Take a drink every time you hear "chest high walls."

[@sir.mannington]

what about the worms that you can use as portable chest high walls

[@DarknessCalling]

It's actually quite hilarious to listen to Yahtzee try and hate something so hard, and still fail because under all the popular game mechanics influence, remains a game that is, above all else, good.

[@JohnyYumaWasARebel]

you had me at shooting armored dinosaurs

[@jacobholdcroft]

here's a bit of help towards finding the answer the person who made the song is called Ian Dorsch afaik.

[@violinmadness]

yahtzees special move: nose machinegun-skittle barage

[@ColonelMcboot]

That's what was stuck in my head while I was playing Mass Effect 3

[@ASpaceOstrich]

The cover in gears of war is mainly used for slingshotting yourself into tosspots and sawing the bastards in half.

[@SwerveStarEx]

Regarding the scientist's computer, and the military not being able to get the data... Well, you ARE the military getting the data.

[@deafweasel99]

when yahtzee sneezes... Skittles everywhere... that's cost him a few job interviews in the past.

[@Y00bi]

Sera is basically just Earth, but not Earth, but it's basically Earth.

[@trustworthytim4762]

I'm not buying this one. The first GOW was terrible, I don't care what the reviews said. If it takes me six tries to get a Berserker to smash a door, then it isn't good.

[@MrFrexys]

Maybe you should get better at it then.

[@eggdrasilwarthog6507]

I also disliked the first one but the second was much better and you really dont need to worry about the difficulty if you play on easy or normal

[@eggdrasilwarthog6507]

***** Then I guess that cover based combat just isnt your thing

[@NinurtahRS]

That was their attempt at a shooter puzzle. If you cant do a puzzle, you suck.

[@trustworthytim4762]

Well I'm sorry for sharing my opinion. Maybe I just don't have the time to play it to death and finally learn the intricacies of the shooting. I have way more things I could be doing with my life. Epic can keep making them, because Gears is the wave of the future apparently. I just think Mass Effect and Spec Ops did this better. By the way, how come my character is wearing a car's worth of armor, and he can only take about six hits before dying? It's obviously slowing him down, and it does nothing to stop bullets. Good for you, being able to kill more gray brown grunts in a gray brown corridor with gray brown characters than I can.

[@soldier257]

I cant believe Yahtzee actually called a Gears of War game good with a straight face

[@PyramidHACK]

Can't wait for the Nicolas Cage version with every character portraying Nicolas Cage's face..And Rob Schneider as supporting character.

[@gameguy20100]

he's actully written 2 books 'mogworld' and 'jam'

[@SamsGFX]

i love gears but i was crying with laughter through the whole of this

[@allicanseeissh1t118]

50 shades of chest-high walls A book by Gears of War

[@oscarmike1012]

Gears is awesome

[@Kulnir]

Never noticed the V for Vendetta reference at 2:16

[@VanguardFencer]

ALL HAIL THE ELITE GIR! Now go take your place atop The Square Piggy.

[@heresy8384]

3:01 IT IS THE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNEEBLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADE

[@lifesearch205]

It Will. And it will also have DLC of Men in Black III.

[@williamcooper8599]

Did he review GoW 1, I can't find it

[@noelshen1580]

No, he didn't. He did 3 though.

[@LydCal999]

Don't shorten gears of war when God of war is a much more common household title

[@williamcooper8599]

Aiden Nelson I'm annoyed because there's no point to your comment. People know what I'm talking about, we're on a gears of war video if you didn't notice. The only point I can see to your comment is to antagonize me. Maybe you're too dumb to infer I'm talking about Gears of War and not God of War, but it seems pretty obvious to me.

[@Leo-xi1zw]

+mjc0961 Do you actually fucking know what the word 'pretentious' means?

[@gorkaaustin5306]

+someone23 he doesn't

[@Twardz]

Has anyone mentioned that the locust AREN'T space monsters and the the COGs AREN'T space marines?

[@Biodeamon]

also you can't just run up to people with the chainsaw because it'll cause you to stagger. twice. for some reason as well as how hard it is to find a base when its undergound

[@greatdslayarr]

I had WSmith: Chronicles on the Will 64 back in the day

[@killa432546]

Guest starring Keanu Reeves as everyone else. Gotta make Will look even better with contrast.

[@Never_heart]

ya the whole mutant part human part locust thing after the worm level is never explained as far as I know even in the third game.

[@globox123456789]

Freudian. Sigmund Freud. Famous Austrian psychologist.

[@FiresofShadow]

@MrDeadSpace44 not quite read the books by Karen Traviss (who also wrote the story for gears 3). They say that the locust (and lambent) were always under the ground

[@Tralfazz74]

Are overalls the chest-High walls of clothing?

[@ZacKariahSheridan]

Oh, I do know Sigmund Freud. I just needed to know what the word meant. Found it now, thanks

[@KainSarafan]

Yup. I think it was the quake 3 arena engine that made COD not sure though. Agreed though about those engines being better than unreal. I can't even understand why Unreal is still around.

[@edisontrent618]

4:03 Guess he found the Cowboy hat wearing giant spider, eh?

[@Zinodin]

Hahaha, easily the best off joke I've heard backed up by an awesome unrelated picture :D Take my thumbs up, good sir!

[@bahamutsmith9484]

Clearly never watched one of these reviews in your life, have you? It's always 'negative' but you can generally take from the closing lines what the actual opinion of the game in question is. I'm not a fan of shooters in general but the closest I got to liking the mainstream bunch was Gears. Not only did I enjoy the campaigns more than I ever expected, the cover based nature of it (that, at the time, was quite new) meant that my lack of skill was less of an issue. Plus I was addicted to horde.

[@Ironbat92]

@MisterPeople25 No, but Ice-T is in the 3rd game.

[@TheSnowman95]

this is one of my favorites

[@spennyb89]

I disagree with a lot of his critical remarks, but those are definitely not what I watch for. haha, I love this!!

[@claycarmine7466]

I genuinely don't remember a quick time event, when was it? (I mean I believe him, I just don't remember it)

[@grecofamilyaccount1386]

EDF Guy at the very end when you are riding the Brumak you have to fight a corpser and then there are the chainsaw duels

[@claycarmine7466]

ImperialJudesmen138 Greco oh yeah, thanks

[@Salorlor]

I hope it comes out for Willdows and Macinwill

[@jutheto]

Well with the hopefully more hardcore Willii-U coming soon, maybe a re-release with enhanced controls and more Will Smith may come

[@JHawke1]

Will there be a will-u release?

[@BalKrishnaDasa]

wait, there won't be a version for the Wii Smith? damn

[@DanCuthbertson]

WOAH! now I love your Zero Punctuation videos.......but did you just take the piss out of The Shawshank Redemption!?!?! o_0

[@leprechaunluck24]

I didn't expect praise lol

[@NicolaiResch]

Get these in HD :)

[@bluelightman1]

THE ONE TRUE GOD If i warship any one its THIS GUY i like your style

[@LazyPeanut01]

I got Mogworld for christmas :) really loving it so far.

[@Leostar-Regalius]

i like the reviews, they are somewhat harsh but their still good

[@BulldozerBilly]

2008, when "Thick"(aliens) didn't make me think of "Thicc"(aliens).

[@TheLarres]

why not release it on the WIILL smith

[@Spinosaurus1231]

thanks

[@1krani]

Why hasn't he reviewed Space Marine? That game was surprisingly good.

[@ZacKariahSheridan]

Could I ask what Yahtzee means by Froidien as he says it quite a bit and I donb't seem to get the jokes.

[@LupineVolt]

Will-U review it?

[@salmonbelmont7758]

wait what, I zoned out halfway through the video

[@5209memo]

Do Not Mock The Chest~High Wall God

[@BacteriumsBud]

@MrDeadSpace44 I had trouble just working your comment out.

[@zyfigamer]

IT'S A GIANT WORM! THEY'RE SINKING CITIES WITH A GIANT WORM!!!

[@Eculc]

is this going to be like that 50 cent game? that would be cool.

[@Csp499]

4:32 I'd imagine the logic behind gb7zone7's fame.

[@lunavixen015]

The thing is, isn't ripping on the engine or the creators, he's critiquing the game, you know, like a critic is supposed to. The Unreal Engine was a PC design with multiplatform capabilities, as it was designed for the game Unreal Tournament, it's flexibility and ease of access is what has led to it being used in GoW and the other games.