Honest to god BoB, if you draw EoFF's PS3 fanboys into my thread about a glorious game and they tit it up with their usual drivel, I will actually filter the words "Loony BoB" to "Lonny Bob" FOREVER.

Anyway, we've all been enjoying the Gears 3 trailers, but having fantastic trailers is a staple of the Gears series. Time for a trip down memory lane!

gears of war (mad world) - YouTube

Here is the original Gears trailer. I had just got my Xbox and was about done with Saints Row and Dead Rising and decided to buy a new game and I saw this on the ol' telly. I thought it was great and loved the idea of some guy standing steadfast and just blasting into some giant monster with his machine gun without either one flinching. So I bought the game based on this and knowing nothing else about it! It turned out very well. If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't have nagged DAAAAYN and SIR STEVEN of GLOW into getting this game... and who knows what joviality we would've missed out on! Apparently the instrumental for Mad World is background music in Gears 3.

Gears of War 2: Last Day (Game Trailer) - YouTube

Given that this is a game featuring a gun with a chainsaw on it, absolutely visceral curbstomping and the most incredibly brutal headshots I have seen in a video game, the trailer does not reflect that at all! There's no action whatsoever. Even the King Ravens don't crash! It syncs up to the music perfectly, and the tension created showing Marcus and Dom going down in the grindlift is great too. Plus Baird only appears briefly as a silhouette

So there you go, I am that determined to distract from the "I DON'T PAY TO USE AN INFERIOR ONLINE SERVICE ON AN INFERIOR* CONSOLE" argument that I am willing to discuss the artistic merits of trailers for 5 year old video games.

*don't hit the reply button to argue this, because if you do you are wrong. Your console is inferior and mine is the destiny of all mankind. My corporation is better than your corporation. It's time you faced that fact and committed ritual suicide to avoid dishonour.