it’s the massively popular military
sci-fi shooter centered on mankind’s
desperate fight with subterranean
creatures welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look back at the
story of the Gears of War franchise this
series was developed by Epic Games and
published by Microsoft Studios it made
its debut in 2006 for the Xbox 360
before being ported to the PC the game
was instantly celebrated with critics
and gamers alike applauding the game’s
focus on cooperative play tight
over-the-shoulder third-person gameplay
top-rated production values mature
content fleshed out characters and an
incredibly rich storyline the trilogy
took place on Earth’s leg planet called
Sara in the tales backstory the world
emerges from a 79 year conflict over a
new radioactive energy source called
emulsion the end of that war resulted in
the establishment of the coalition of
ordered government’s or Cong
unfortunately the piece didn’t last long
a race of deadly creatures emerged from
beneath the surface and began wiping out
the planet’s population in an event
known as a merchants day following that
incident the COG began using space-based
weapons to blast areas of the planet
from orbit the first game kicked off
with the introduction of the series’s
protagonist
Marcus Fenix Phoenix was a cog soldier
who was put in a Cell for abandoning his
post while trying to save his father he
was rescued from an abandoned prison by
his friend Dominic Santiago and was soon
promoted to the leader of Delta Squad
due to a shortage of troops and you’re
in charge charged in Phoenix as
sergeant Santiago and Phoenix were then
joined by Cole who was a former athlete
and Baird who was the team’s mechanic
the team was equipped with assault
rifles topped with chainsaw bayonets
that they called Lancers together the
group was sent on a mission to
annihilate the locust by gathering recon
on their tunnel system in order to
deploy the light mass bomb however in
Gears of War two the team was informed
this strike didn’t do much to stop the
locust due to poor Intel as a result the
remaining human survivors were forced to
gather at Jacinto there they formed a
base of operations on a mass of hard
rock that the Locust Horde could not
penetrate this was in response to the
hordes use of a giant worm to sink the
human cities it’s a giant water they’re
sinking cities with a giant the team
then took the battle back to the locust
after venturing underground they
discovered that the locust were taking
human prisoners the squad located Dom’s
wife but he was forced to euthanize her
after finding and killing the worm they
discovered Intel that led to a locust
city called Nexus the squad traveled
there to slay the locust Queen and
learned that these creatures were caught
up in their own civil war with those
infected by emulsion that the locusts
clean because of this the Queen ordered
the sinking of Jacinto in an effort to
flood the underground and drown the
infected after learning this Delta Squad
decided to sink the city themselves
before the Queen was able to evacuate
this move killed both the infected and
non infected horde forces however
humanity was left without a stronghold
and people scattered the third game
picked up 18 months after the fall of
Jacinto the gears moved their operations
to an island base and an aircraft
carrier called the Ravens Nest the COG
had disbanded the Queen had somehow
survived and the infected locust were
evolving into a deadlier threat this
forced humanity to take on one final
fight for survival
known for its gripping plot and
high-octane action Gears of War was
easily one of Xbox 360s most cherished
series and one of gaming’s most
memorable franchises
but so often the legacies that believe
I’m not the ones that we intended
sci-fi shooter centered on mankind’s
desperate fight with subterranean
creatures welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be taking a look back at the
story of the Gears of War franchise this
series was developed by Epic Games and
published by Microsoft Studios it made
its debut in 2006 for the Xbox 360
before being ported to the PC the game
was instantly celebrated with critics
and gamers alike applauding the game’s
focus on cooperative play tight
over-the-shoulder third-person gameplay
top-rated production values mature
content fleshed out characters and an
incredibly rich storyline the trilogy
took place on Earth’s leg planet called
Sara in the tales backstory the world
emerges from a 79 year conflict over a
new radioactive energy source called
emulsion the end of that war resulted in
the establishment of the coalition of
ordered government’s or Cong
unfortunately the piece didn’t last long
a race of deadly creatures emerged from
beneath the surface and began wiping out
the planet’s population in an event
known as a merchants day following that
incident the COG began using space-based
weapons to blast areas of the planet
from orbit the first game kicked off
with the introduction of the series’s
protagonist
Marcus Fenix Phoenix was a cog soldier
who was put in a Cell for abandoning his
post while trying to save his father he
was rescued from an abandoned prison by
his friend Dominic Santiago and was soon
promoted to the leader of Delta Squad
due to a shortage of troops and you’re
in charge charged in Phoenix as
sergeant Santiago and Phoenix were then
joined by Cole who was a former athlete
and Baird who was the team’s mechanic
the team was equipped with assault
rifles topped with chainsaw bayonets
that they called Lancers together the
group was sent on a mission to
annihilate the locust by gathering recon
on their tunnel system in order to
deploy the light mass bomb however in
Gears of War two the team was informed
this strike didn’t do much to stop the
locust due to poor Intel as a result the
remaining human survivors were forced to
gather at Jacinto there they formed a
base of operations on a mass of hard
rock that the Locust Horde could not
penetrate this was in response to the
hordes use of a giant worm to sink the
human cities it’s a giant water they’re
sinking cities with a giant the team
then took the battle back to the locust
after venturing underground they
discovered that the locust were taking
human prisoners the squad located Dom’s
wife but he was forced to euthanize her
after finding and killing the worm they
discovered Intel that led to a locust
city called Nexus the squad traveled
there to slay the locust Queen and
learned that these creatures were caught
up in their own civil war with those
infected by emulsion that the locusts
clean because of this the Queen ordered
the sinking of Jacinto in an effort to
flood the underground and drown the
infected after learning this Delta Squad
decided to sink the city themselves
before the Queen was able to evacuate
this move killed both the infected and
non infected horde forces however
humanity was left without a stronghold
and people scattered the third game
picked up 18 months after the fall of
Jacinto the gears moved their operations
to an island base and an aircraft
carrier called the Ravens Nest the COG
had disbanded the Queen had somehow
survived and the infected locust were
evolving into a deadlier threat this
forced humanity to take on one final
fight for survival
known for its gripping plot and
high-octane action Gears of War was
easily one of Xbox 360s most cherished
series and one of gaming’s most
memorable franchises
but so often the legacies that believe
I’m not the ones that we intended
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