And I find it kind of funny

I have a theory that every singleGears of Wartrailer was originally set to the song “Mad World.” Like it worked so well for theoriginal trailerback in 2006 that Microsoft just decided to use it for every game in the series, but at the very last minute some licensing issue got in the way. Instead, they begrudgingly replaced it with one of the other songs I listened to as a depressed teen, game after game.

Seriously. Just look how well it fits with theGears of War 4trailer:

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There’s no denying how well that works. I might be biased here, but I’d argue it at least sounds better than thatawkward Simon and Garfunkelcover the trailer originally used.

I haven’t tested it withGears 2or3yet, but with half the series in my corner I’m just going to call my theory confirmed.

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