8 Hardest Gears Of Wars Bosses

Since 2006, the Gears of War franchise has been going strong, remaining one of the jewels in the Xbox crown not called Halo. With five numbered entries in the main series, and a spin-off to boot, the franchise has recently diversified from its humble third person shooter roots with both the turn based strategy game Gears Tactics, and the RTS mobile game, Gears Pop!

There are many hallmarks that make up a Gears game: the gruff Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad, the iconic Lancer, tight corridor fights, and of course boss battles. Throughout the series, there are loads of high intensity battles Marcus and Delta Squad have to frag their way through, fighting tooth and meatshield to come out the other side unscathed.

It's par for the course when you're trying to save Serra and its people. But when the big bad boss rolls around, the difficulty can be... challenging, especially when you made the mistake of thinking you're a badass grub killer and selected Insane difficulty.

So let's take a journey through eight of the hardest boss battles of the Gears of War franchise when played on Insane. Props to one and all who beat every one of them.

Gears of War 3 was an epic game to end an epic trilogy (at the time), and it had many epic boss battles from start to finish. At the start of Gears of War 3 you find yourself aboard the Sovereign, sailing the ocean looking for somewhere to call home. Unfortunately for us and the crew, the ship comes under attack from lambent monstrosities that explode their imulsion juices everywhere upon death.

Just when you think you're getting the upper hand towards the end of the chapter, you're gifted the silverback, an exo suit with meat mincing mulchers. Every gamer knows such gifts do not come unnecessarily. The exo suit was a sign we were about to fight something massive. One turn of the corner later and we're greeted with an all too familiar enemy from Gears 2, the Leviathan, except now it's got a lambent upgrade and it's eating the Sovereign for breakfast.

Armed with the silverback, you need to shoot its big ass glowing eyes to smithereens. But then you're like hey, what's that? Are those pesky polyps crawling out the leaking eye socket? Of course they are, so now you have to shoot polyps, lambent drones jumping out from the sea, as well as the huge kraken like monster eating away at the ship. Even in the powerful silverback, this boss fight requires good movement to evade the polyps, whilst allowing your guns to cool down so you can blast the drones sneaking up you on back to whence they came. Still fun though.