Gears of War Games Ranked from Worst to Best

Gears 2 - Barely remember it.

Gears 3 - Horde mode was extremely addictive.

Gears 1 - Best game with a friend.

From worst to best.....

4.) Gears of War Judgement.  I am not even going into it.  Solid game, but mediocre GoW

3.) Gears of War 3.  Everything was refined and better... Except its "darker feel".  Still a great game.  And it wasn't easy putting at 3.

2.) Gears of War.  The first installment was absolutely awesome.  

1.)  Gears of War 2.  It did everything 1 did, they just were able to refine, add and perfect.

Gears of War 2 is my personal favorite

I liked all the Gears games, with its over the top gameplay and story of the characters engaging in the Locust. That said, I had a personal favourite of the series.

Gears 3 - Althought a satifisying conclusion to the trilogy, I felt it being a step backwards from Gears 2, I'm not entirely sure what though. Too much Lambent on screen with the glowing yellow can be disorientating at times. Beast Mode was a fun addition, Horde Mode I didn't care much about.

Gears 1 - My first entry in the series, it had promise and it was enjoyable for me. Seeing the Locust and the bigger enemies for the first time brought chills in my stomach when approached, they were actually scary as the game depicted in a trailer for me. It had bugs tho, particuarlly in one sequence where you had to push a car and it wouldn't push. Multiplayer was brutal the first time and those weapon achievements are supposedly capped from Annex. (The only respawnable mode in Gears 1).

Gears Judgment - Underrated game to the community, don't know why. I liked it personally. The Declassified challenges scattered in the campaign made progressing it more intresting than before. The story did feel a bit out of place compared to its trilogy, but nice to see another perspetive in the world of Sera. The new multiplayer modes such as Free-for-All and Overrun are fun additions, changing the Gears dynamic. Not enough maps or people now to justify it enough now.

Gears 2 - the pinnacle of Gears yet. All the Locust that could appear on screen, more toys to play with and a proper matchmaking system from its predecessor. Cliffy B boasted that it would be "bigger, badder and more *** than ever", he was right. =D And the main two characters, you feel like there's a lot at stake here with them fighting.

Now I feel like playing Gears now, lol.

Edit: @bizarro, had you downloaded Judgment when it was free? And why does everybody hate that entry in the franchise so much?

2, 1, Judgment and 3. I only played the campaign on 2 and that was ok. 1 had a great campaign and fun MP. Judgment I put a lot of hours into MP, I loved it. 3 was the best though because it had downs and more game modes as well a better campaign, horde(put a ton more hours), beast was ok but overrun beats it.

Quite simple for me:

3 was the best due to everything being improved from two, the addition of buildable stuff in horde, beast mode, extremely fluent movement, weapon skins, campaign modifiers, heaps of characters with most notable being the Aussie Samantha Byrne. I could go on.

2 comes in second as it improved on everything from 1, horde mode being the most notable and best addition for me.

1 comes in last because it doesn't hold up when you're used to the newer ones, great for it's time and something truly different and amazing, but no horde and seriously robotic movement.

Judgement we shall never speak of.

No GX, I didn't get Judgement and from the sound of it, I'm glad I missed it.