Few videogame trailers have stuck with me over the years like that of the first Gears of War. I make it a point of order to go back and watch Marcus Fenix’s silent saunter through the streets of Sera, backed to perfection by Gary Jules’s iconic cover of Tears For Fears’ ‘Mad World,’ at least once a year. It’s quite possibly the best game trailer ever made, and now the rumors of a Gears of War Collection on Xbox have made me want to grab a Lancer and tango with a Corpser once more.
Originally released back in 2006, Gears of War quickly established itself as a mainstay in my early adolescent rotation of shooters. While Halo will forever remain the benchmark for narratives within the genre, for me, Gears is my Roman Empire – I’ll never stop thinking about Marcus and Delta Squad, as well as the comedic offing of everyone unfortunate to stem from the Carmine family tree. However, shortly after Gears 3 launched in 2011 I moved to the blue side, swapping out my Xbox 360 for a PS3. After that, I never took much of an interest in the current era of Gears, despite them now sitting among the best Xbox Game Pass games I could simply pick up and play with a sub.
But while I thought my years of getting dogged on in GameBattles lobbies and Supermanning kids for cellphone montages were behind me, January’s report that Gears would be getting the Halo Master Chief Collection treatment began to awaken something within me that had long laid dormant. And now, after hearing that Gears could be making its first Xbox showcase appearance in years next month, the urge to put the Boomer in the hands of, well, this boomer, has once again arisen.
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