GEARS OF WAR - The COG MOVIE (Gears of War Lore)

[@_The_Black_Cerberus_]

What I find funny about the Onyx guards they’re supposed to be battle hardened gears with the best equipment and gear but every time we encounter them in gears judgment and gears 3 they’re complete push overs getting beaten by standard locust losing both Azura, onyx point and their counthouse base in halvo bay to the locusts

[@CodyseusRex]

Yeah it seems they are more arrogant than confident

[@TheCorrodedMan]

It’s a result of them having degraded in strength throughout the course of the Pendulum Wars. Take a soldier off the front lines immediately after training, give them top notch equipment, good food, clean water, and luxurious surroundings, and they’ll eventually become just as soft as the common citizen. It’s demonstrated beautifully in Frank Herbert’s Dune with the slow decline of the Sardukar; those guys were meant to be unbeatable too, but years of living in mansions and eating roast lamb crusted with crushed diamonds had made them so damn soft that a handful of desert hermits could hand them their asses on a platter without even putting in a minimal effort.

[@castillogrande8926]

Did I expect to watch an hour and twenty minute video about COG lore at 2am? No. Do I regret it? No. Will I in the morning? Well, I obviously don't think that far ahead.

[@rodrickhatton8636]

Watching while drying my dreadlocks

[@M45KY]

I am here, I am you... 😅

[@limit_skate6710]

Same

[@karlkirby2003]

Just happy to me now lmal

[@jeremiahperkins3701]

3:30 am lol

[@Crimson_Downpour]

RIP Tai Kaliso!!! I was not expecting to have my heart ripped out on my birthday when I played this amazing game. Also, RIP to Kane Te Tai. The real life Tai Kaliso. With respect.

[@ssww3]

Gears of lore

[@brazengo6763]

I literally came back to the video to type that lmao beat me to it

[@Mortalcoil801]

I still like going back to watch this. Pretty awesome stuff. It’s great to listen to on the bus.

[@KingAbzTV]

that's awesome to hear man, I've always wondered if people rewatched these videos, that confirms it haha thanks!

[@insaneadem5014]

Basically the cog is evil, but the only barrier to extinction on sera. The gears universe is dark.

[@TheCorrodedMan]

The COG is “amoral,” not _evil._ They genuinely want what’s best for the people of Sera and humanity as a whole, but they are by no means limited in what they’ll do to achieve this goal.

[@alisemssemanini2774]

Wait till you hear about warhammer lore

[@ollaniuspius1211]

Late to the party, but it is still good to see a Gears youtuber still alive and around. Keep up the good work, and here's hoping we get Gears 6 this decade!

[@cssib]

Oh yeah! Thanks for compiling this and the new script it sounds great so far. Keep it up my man I've got faith in you

[@KingAbzTV]

Thanks man that really means a lot! Appreciate you!

[@cssib]

​@@KingAbzTV Your worth it brother, you put in the effort and are doing the franchise justice❤

[@joshindepena679]

Excellent work as always

[@Catmandan42069]

It's movie time baby whooo

[@Kryll2k]

this vid was long but every second was worth it thanks for being one of the few gears youtubers left we appreciate you

[@dellyrunks2426]

Big man I full on love your channel I always wanted to get more of gears lore but I was never interested in reading comics so your a blessing to expand on this gears lore itchi I've had for years thanks again for your work on the gears lore videos bro

[@KingAbzTV]

That’s really awesome to hear. My pleasure sir 🫡

[@isaaclauer9812]

The best gears youtube channel for gears. If anyone asks about gears, I'll reccomend ur channel!

[@mushman7775]

So far this is the perfect thing to listen to

[@Walshy94]

I know it's not your usual kind of video, but I think you should do a ranking video of ALL the maps in the Gears franchise, since I haven't seen anyone else to ever do it

[@jadepanda8191]

An hour and 19 min of king abs this is a blessing 😭🎉🎉🎉

[@generalkarn9356]

Indeed

[@AShinyRay]

Jesus what an absolutely amazing video! A feature length one too! Well done mate! ❤

[@KingAbzTV]

Thanks brother, much appreciated! 🫡💙

[@todrickburks8904]

Good video man!

[@KingAbzTV]

Enjoy! Thanks, really hope many will enjoy this lore movie for years to come!

[@JustKandyMan1]

Honestly the work you put into your Gears videos is on full display and really do a grand job of providing the lore of the series. Fantastic job dude!

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you for the kind words my friend! Glad you appreciate the work!

[@richardwright1542]

One of the best im going to be rewatching this one 😎👍 super fire 🔥🔥🔥

[@KingAbzTV]

Hell yeah 😎🔥

[@strikeforce1500]

What I love about GOW, is how the COG ain't exactly the good guys. Like the Empire of Man from Warhammer, they are a crappy option,in,literally, a planet of crappy options. A bit like real life!

[@zidaneuddin]

That’s my entire week sorted🎉

[@soon7117]

AWSOME JOB AS USUAL ❤

[@taylorjacobs937]

Replaying some gears right now man. This is definitely a treat 🤝🏽

[@fxn09here]

Best 1 hour and 20 minutes ever spend

[@AlwaySolkim]

Let's go guys, help the gears

[@undyingwolf]

4:23 Not to mention that in E-day Ramm targeted Pendulum war veterans specifically those of high rank

[@deizel27undeaddark40]

Was excited to sit down and watch this when you announced it. Awesome video like always

[@braydenciatti9750]

Keep up the good work

[@bartisreallykewl]

So gears of war is just 40k scaled down to just one really unlucky planet. That’s kinda awesome tho,

[@Silentjolt183]

You are not wrong I was about to say the same thing because the similarities of the two different games the only difference is the scale between the two of them 🤔

[@anima4real866]

I've never really looked into gears of war lore. I'm happy this was recommend to me.

[@LiamA-du9eb]

Got yourself a new sub bro !!!

[@KingAbzTV]

Welcome to the channel my friend! Thanks!

[@patricom05]

Just earned a sub, good stuff king

[@Matty_Cs]

When I want to learn about the Gears of War, this is what I want to see. Keep it up

[@dancoultish2450]

Great vid as always abz

[@generalkarn9356]

Might have to watch this video 2 times

[@KingAbzTV]

By all means! 😁

[@sp4cepigz174]

Holy shit dude to see the work just improve in quality and growing community you’ve earned it bro good shit

[@KingAbzTV]

Thanks man, a lot more to come but yeah I’m pleased to see the growth too!

[@1hchar]

I burnt my food while watching this. Do I regret it? No, am I still going to eat it? Duh

[@brother_bear_one7340]

They retconned the bayonets in 3. They went from useless to instant kill for gameplay reasons.

[@diorkster]

It’s not they were useless it was just not as effective. You can still penetrate the locust with the bayonet, but you need to put enough force and speed behind the charge to do the trick.

[@lisatso81]

Great video

[@bryangarcia7318]

I always enjoy watching these videos because I always end up learning something new that makes the gears universe make more sense. Back then when Gears 4 had first came out I was a bit thrown off by the swarm just by the way some of the creatures looked but after I got the lore hookup from King Abz, I realized that they were just new development stages of the old locust that had their imulsion crystalize on their skin because of the imulsion countermeasure weapon. The snatchers are all the reavers that had survived Jacinto because of their tentacles, and I believe that they`re the ones that create the pod around the victims while they`re ''snatched'' and they just eventually drop the pods. Because of Dr. Niles Samson, the locust were the perfect hybrid so it`s technically always going to find a way to survive, so by using humans it basically melts us down and uses our energy to make another organism with locust dna. To be honest those gears that survived the locust war should`ve just burned the bodies instead of just dumping them away. Yet again it didn`t really matter since the COG themselves basically funded it by mistake. I`m always gonna love gears no matter what because of all the deep lore that I learn here. And don`t even get me started on Halo.

[@richardwright359]

Hell yeah another hour of gears lore 😎👍

[@NarkoHamponTV]

Abz the Gear

[@RadicallyGlad]

Never understood why the COG didn't have ships all along the coasts shelling the Locust

[@Cocostinkypaws]

Maybe the cogs navy were occupied by locust naval forces or leviathans and had to handle their own battles or something. That, or Cliffy B never thought about it in the writing lol

[@PKM9107]

To be fair they had the hammer of dawn which would do way more damage than any bombardment from any warship. But ultimately because you can only get so far with that. Billions of people died on E-day and humanity never really got a foothold after that. Ships only have so much range and locust were an enemy that mainly fought from underground so they could easily have avoided any shelling for the most part

[@bryanfarmer1693]

Love your content brother

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you brother! Glad you enjoy the vids!

[@matthewgaviola8885]

5:00 It’s also heavily implied that the COG aerial capabilities had been essentially neutered by the efforts of General Jod Lombard, who insured that a dedicated COG Air Force would never reach fruition, and that research and development into other forms of aircraft beyond helicopters, particularly fixed-wing strike craft (namely the Petrel strike-fighters) would be shut down. Undoubtedly as a reward for his efforts, the Aiglar helicopter company gave him a position on their board of executives

[@Chief-Seventy-Six]

What about the Condor and Vulture and Kestrel from gears 4 and 5? Anyway Thanks for something to watch while grind minecraft hardcore.

[@cjevans6464]

Cole probably had to make his own armor because he couldn't fit in any other because he's a absolute unit

[@vigilmain1087]

this was fucking awesome thank you

[@KingAbzTV]

My pleasure, much appreciated 🫡

[@vigilmain1087]

@@KingAbzTV of course boss

[@Cocostinkypaws]

Been a fan of Gears since the first gears when my dad rented it for me at blockbuster…and I never once thought that Sera was Ares backwards 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@BIGBRAINED8159]

You should make a vid about uir weapons and the uir movie, that'd be awesome!

[@jakebob7521]

Hi i love Your videos

[@KingAbzTV]

Thank you I’m glad you enjoy them!

[@JOKER2THE2CLOWN]

Hey king abz! I’m planning on making a gears of war dnd type game for my friends to play. I’ve been binging these videos and I want to say thank you. If you have anything for dnd relations to gears Id love to see it! Obviously no issue at all if you can’t! Thanks for the lore!

[@eduardomaldonado430]

Nothing but bits! I think I got some in my eye. Wow...blood guts, just another day on the job. I could do that all day long. Thanks for the great video abs! Keep uploading these bangers.

[@KingAbzTV]

Got some on me! Thanks my friend glad you enjoyed it!

[@dottietyre9062]

The lightmass missile reminds me of the H.A.V.O.C. Doomsday device from Evil Genius 2 a nuke that used compressed atoms which were released upon detonation for maximum well...havoc. I hope the newer games give you a custom character to play as imagine a game set during the Pendulum Wars where you pick your side and weaponry oh the possibilities...

[@nadiagonzalez6176]

Great video good job

[@anthonypena5886]

Good Lord video

[@cvi4057]

Is just me or does Marcus Phoenix look like the lead singer to Disturbed lol

[@jimparis5073]

I sorta see it can’t lie 😂 just weird sometimes knowing he’s also bender and Jake the dog

[@ThirdEye-47]

​@@jimparis5073 hes also Jack from vampire the masquerade bloodlines. He's just badass no matter what role he plays.

[@jimparis5073]

@@ThirdEye-47 never heard of it any good?

[@ThirdEye-47]

@@jimparis5073 if you like older games like star wars knights of the old republic or maybe mass effect 1 yes. Its a lil old but the story is amazing. The conversations choices are top tier. Just make sure if you get It to download the unofficial patch

[@carltam9264]

I wonder if there will be a Gears of War Prequel game for the pendulum war.

[@faisalaljarbou8842]

55:42 what mod is this ? I don't remember it in gears 3

[@10K_MMore]

You should do a vid on why the C.O.G are the bad guys in the pendulum wars

[@D123-c9y]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[@doomguypigeon448]

Man I used to be an Xbox player but I switched to PlayStation so I have a hard time saying which is better but gears of war is one of the Xbox games that I miss so much I remember when I was young me and my brother played the one where you need to go into the hollow and you had those giant vehicles and when the corpser popped out we were panicking because it was just basically eating our bullets

[@nofacetobi726]

Prolly better if this was called a documentary...

[@NikosM112]

You must make a video on the planet sera. It's atmosphere, animals, human body, the planet's nature etc. That will be very interesting.

[@KingAbzTV]

Find ‘the world of Sera in Gears of war lore’ & ‘the Unknown creatures in Gears of War lore’ on my channel. Covered those topics already my friend!

[@elijahspeller6796]

This video is nice... However... I'm hoping a revised version is included soon covering fabricators..Jinn...Db industries..etc

[@ThatFalloutGod]

"Despite being Socialist, the COG were authoritarian..." That's Socialism by design.

[@COrraThereal0ne]

Definitely National Socialists

[@i_consume_bricks]

Unrelated but what happened to the scions power to revive and make swarm more powerful go? Or was this a fever dream

[@KingAbzTV]

In gears 4 they bolstered the swarm troops with osmium dust, dunno how that worked tbh and it wasn’t explained as to how (not to my knowledge anyway) I think they just tried copying the Kantus’ healing. But yeah in Gears 5 that wasn’t the case with the scions, probably an oversight or they just scrapped the idea.

[@anthonypena5886]

Are you going to do the Warhammer 40k then the chimera guns and the game killzone

[@SwesomegamerX]

if netflix needs notes i’m sending them round here

[@lmelchor676]

I want you to do what it the dog met the ones from halo wars

[@chefyboy2748]

Nice 👍

[@aurionblackfyre8480]

I always find it funny how cool and badass onyx guard are suppose to be but they just suck in game

[@BaxterAndLunala]

While I do appreciate COG aircraft from both the Pendulum Wars and Locust War being present, if Hivebuster armor from the Swarm War was in the video, then why weren't the Kestrel drone helicopter, Condor transport plane, and Vulture bomber not included?

[@GlennKurusu]

This video is about human-operated COG equipment. The DeeBee line is considered autonomous.

[@BaxterAndLunala]

@KiraYamato609 I know, but last I checked, Condors could be piloted by a human too.

[@jimparis5073]

I thought jack was just it’s own name 😭😭 I don’t care this is my jack. There are many like it but that one was mine

[@Generalphoenix8438]

I do like the cog as a milletary structure has some effectiveness and as the games progress you want to see more of the pendulum wars instead of what they dod from judgement to gears 5. The sequels arent canon for my love of the trilogy. The lancers are one of my favourite weapons with the mark 1 retro lancer actually being my favourite one when replaying gears 3 on insane. I just wish for judgement we got the retros on judgement with explination and made the stiry so that during the end part the mark 2 lancer is introduced. These games are a vital part of my gaming life these were my first xbox 360 games and i fell in love with them more in my teens and wouldnt stop playing then. Our highschool even had a contest on who was the best player in vs matches. I won a few but one player would destroy us all. And through my channel i have now become a true fan by beating 1 to 3 on insane.

[@pimplimpgaming616]

I watched this while i played fable 2 making drinks for ppl in the pub making crap gold lol

[@Palmerrip]

Anyone wonder if the Seran civilization is apart of the Warhammer 40k Universe?

[@thesorrow4664]

18:00 Anya was a baddie back in the day

[@dominickcollins-nicolas2403]

What would happen if some of the dragons from Lord of the Rings like Smog and other dragons his size Were Somehow placed into the Gears of War universe Zack ago couple of ways

[@LessSoyThanYou]

The COG being socialist makes total sense because a government has to be authoritarian to seize the means of production and commerce from the people. The COG actually looks a lot like a more sympathetic early 1940’s Germany in terms of rationing, military indoctrination and leadership structure. The willingness to cast aside and then use its own people is also very alike.

[@blickman5090]

*CHEERS* 🎉

[@Soder_elite]

I don’t know if I heard right but I could’ve sworn I heard cole 3:35

[@Rasta1105]

Back after gears of war e day announcement.. gonna re play every damn game

[@DragonBallfan3982]

I am excited for gears of war E-day

[@Victorious_Battle]

Fμ¢&in kewl, dude. 🤘😎🤙

[@whyisyoulying2]

Who came here to binge watch these videos after the Gears of War E-Day trailer

[@eezokk]

Damn man, gears universe is just modern day woes on grimdark steroids

[@odysseus-hq6qq]

centaur were if a monster truck and a tank had a baby

[@XXAnthonyCarmineXx]

So marine and navy are the same in gears ?

[@BestGuitarTutorials]

They're the same in real life too. USMC was founded to defend US Navy ships from pirates and remains a department of the Navy.

[@nashandra6634]

Dang. Minh is kinda like Leandros

[@santamuerte4767]

You forgot the onyx crates

[@common_wolf]

Running through gears chronologically I found on reddit. Been a blast.

[@rrjdog]

I better get my Energy drink

[@Rawr93]

❤

[@tsohghuy]

Hi abzzz

[@KingAbzTV]

Hello!

[@felipedelrioalvarez6335]

Please uir weapons

[@Driscoll1997]

Can someone explain emulsion to me please.

[@wittycognomen4931]

COG Intelligence Agency. Mate, of course they have a CIA.

[@gomethabank1]

Hour and 20 mins about a dead game is crazy

[@NikosM112]

Not dead. Just not as popular as CoD, Halo and other shooter titles.

[@KingAbzTV]

The game Gears 5 is pretty dead, but Gears of War as a franchise will never be dead 💯

[@gomethabank1]

​@@KingAbzTVme personally i haven't played gears since 2 years ago started playing 1st gears game cuz of my dad had alot of fun but now it's dead

[@gomethabank1]

​@@KingAbzTVstill gonna watch the whole video😂

[@mrandrew1017]

❤❤

[@clutchranger7060]

Helmet > no Helmet