@s2sxiii: It's an environmental hazard in one of the levels. Laser guided turrets that you can disable to gain access to power weapons etc.

Burguois

Looking great so far!

Wolfers

Augustus Cole: Warzone Linebacker

Burguois

@I_Hate_This_Place: They'll probably just keep playing Gears 1.....and won't be missed by anyone. Course then maybe they will all have to play each other all the time and will learn why they are so loathed. Probably not, but a man can dream, a man can dream...

QuasarSquirrel

November can't come fast enough, the 360 desperately needs (another?) killer app.

Helioz

I'm very excited about this. Looks fantastic, apart from the flamethrower (I don't like the flame graphics), and some added variety to environment and animation is about all I would ask for to improve on the original. Still my favourite 360 game by far.

stoneagedan

Man are the "shotguns of war" players going to be pissed the first few times they play this game online. I look forward to the inter-mission bitching between rounds with sayings like "yuh, but I had my shotgun. I was unstoppable in the first one with it. I should go host some rooms again". If you play the game now, there are actually retards who will get mad at you if you don't run at them with the shot-gun. If you kill them with the lancer, pistol, sniper, etc. you're not playing the game the way it's supposed to be played, and you get get booted or bitched at to no end. Host+shotgun= the whiniest bitches you have ever seen.

I_Hate_This_Place

Fire interrupts movement! Now maybe people will think twice before charging at an opponent with a machine gun out just because they have a shotgun.

Emperor_Guam

The Clifster delivers.

FLYBOY611

That's a damn fine looking action game right there. I'm definitely going to try to pick this up when it comes out. Epic, keep the goodness coming our way.

KeroseneClimax

Oh yeah, and remember Gears of War contains no archetypal characters, cause Cliffy B. doesn't like all that old cliche crap in most video games now a days.

Sammo21

yup. I'm still looking forward to this game.

MixPix

@OkayOctane: Yeah, I think I couldn't have been much more pleased with the game. It wasn't perfect, but it really worked for me. Definitely excited about the sequel.

wild homes gets retconned!

I'm actually a considerable amount more excited for Gears 2 than I was a few weeks ago. I think that they're really beefing up the online system so that my blood pressure doesn't skyrocket every time I get headshotted from around two corners.

HotFootMcCook

Graaaaaah!

Finally, FINALLY more footage of the game I'm looking forward to the most this year. I've had this little baby preordered since two months ago, and I'm thrilled every time I see something new. The very action-movie-esque (Y button) stomps look like they'll be great, but I'd like to see the ability to kill people WHILE they preform it, if you can't already. It would make sense that showboating could get you killed easily, at least to my mind.

I have a feeling though, I'll be holding a lot of meat shields. That just seems... it seems so right.

Jayl3w

I wish I could be more excited about gears 2.

Dont get me wrong,I adored the first one,and il get this day one,but theirs yet to be anything shown that makes me go WOW!

Tom Clancy's Samuraidino

This just makes me wish I worked at a place where my watercooler tales of my exploits, stunts and gratuitous kills in COD, GTA TF2 et all weren't met with stunned and confused silence.

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

He's fast changed his tone of "Games aren't movies." Moving on, five ways of entering cover still hasn't made me excited.

Fallible

I thought we weren't allowed to call him CliffyB anymore. Sort of like the Puff Daddy/P.Diddy/Diddy/Poppadiddypop of videogames.

Heliophage

@SigmundTheSeaMonster: wearing nice clothes=metrosexual?

SmokeFemur

Cliffy! Do you like my microphone? Smell it, doesn't it smell great? No seriously, smell it, it's like peaches. Please smell my microphone...please?

Honestly, that was really awkward having that microphone there.

sarcasmOD

Love the new "colour buttons of death" options. For a second it reminded me Kratos beating his enemies

goldwings

@wild homes gets retconned!: I agree, every time I see Gears 2 stuff, all I remember is good times from Gears 1. Sure there were a few dodgy and frustrating moments, but they were far outweighed by its good points.

OkayOctane

Hope those grenade traps don't get abused & overused on XBL.

CHU BOI

I actually look forward to this more and more every time they post something. I thought the first was really, really well done-- I know a lot of people thought the mechanics were too simple and the story was too one-note, but I loved it. I thought the characters were charming and the mechanics worked. I don't care if the core mechanic is simplistic-- if it works and helps create great gameplay experiences, I'm not complaining. The firefight in the Fenix mansion in the first game was one of the highlights of this generation, for me. I'm not super-excited about the flamethrower, to be honest-- it seems a bit far-reaching for something I like to play as a fairly close-quarters game-- but I've got complete faith in these guys to pull it off.

Go Epic!

wild homes gets retconned!

Hmm??? Where is the negative tone or spin? Kotaku whats wrong, I don't come here for straight up stories.

immikeulate

It may be the same old clips that have been out for a week or so repackaged but hot damn if it doesn't look awesome.

Gray665

I think in a previous trailer they said it was an auto-cannon turret type deal.

Dual45s

MORE Gears of War 2 !!!
LESS Cliffy B. and metrosexuality!
MORE buttons to curbstomp!
LESS "tolling of bell" to tell you ya made it!

SigmundTheSeaMonster

what was that weapon with the laser sight?

s2sxiii

Most excellent. Sounds like what GOW should have been. Maybe it will get me to finish the single player this time around.
I just don't appreciate Shane or whoever is behind the MIC shoving it up his mouth.

PsycheE

Do want!!

Eragon117

I think Cliff has found a new perscription of happy pills. Aside from that the game looks great on all fronts.

TakuFangirl

Hoo boy! Can't wait. I love having things to say about stuff I like.

thezman

The only thing I dislike about the Gears games is it's art style. Blech.

ƒox

flamethrowers and grenade traps = Epic win?!

DugDawg

Cliff Bleszinski is three apples tall.

Yonderboy

The grenade traps are going to be exactly like the proximity mines from Goldeneye. I'll bet getting killed by them will suck just as much, too.

moutski

@Jayl3w: The hammerburst is a beast. I love using it against a rushing shotgun host. They don't know what hit them, where-as they can run through an entire active-reload lancer clip most of the time. The people I play with cover the map with lancer and sniper fire. Only one of our teammates like the shotgun. If we get close, it's usually the pistol we're using.

I do see an exodus from Gears 2 back to Gears 1 after a few weeks of getting their asses kicked. I've seen some on forums who are still confident that they will be able to wall-bounce all over the map to get close enough to wall bounce shotgun you. I await their screams of anger as they die.

I_Hate_This_Place

Grrreeeaaattt
this game looks awsome, as long as the balancing issues are fixed its gonna be awsome.

mackattack93

@I_Hate_This_Place: I'm hoping those idiots just stay on Gears1. I prefer the Hammer Burst, a perfectly acceptable weapon choice, but every time I kill someone with it I get screamed at for being either a glitcher, an idiot, or just kicked without a word.

Hopefully this'll be as balanced as they hope and I can just enjoy some good 'ol fashioned tactical fun shooting at an alien... subspecies... thing.

Jayl3w

Blah blah blah GoW 2 is cool, totally. I agree.

But what's the deal with CliffyB's head? Is is impossible for him to hold it straight up and down? is it stuck at a 45 degree angle due to some horrible accident?

He should get a headset for his phone instead of trying to hold it to his ear with his shoulder all the time. Maybe that would help.

Slothboy

@art_zombie: Yeah, hopefully no more of the un-skippable "marcus walks while finger pressed to bluetooth earpiece" talking for five minutes scenes. On the many replays through the game, those parts would annoy me to no end.

I_Hate_This_Place

Everything I've heard about what they are tweaking has me going 'These people really do care about balancing their game.' And I think it's a really fun mission statement to have that they want a 'Watercooler moment' every few minutes. It's keeps the design streamlined and cuts through that boring downtime that you find in most games (and coincidently a few times in the original GoW).

art_zombie

When I read this headline I cringed.

cornunderscore2x

@CHU BOI: Man I'm already planning on abusing those babies.

They actually don't stand out too much which kinda bugs me because sometimes having a trap visible is a deterrent for someone moving through an area. It fits in with the art style more but even a faint glow on the grenade traps would be appreciated.

outforprophets

I haven't played since Halo3, COD4 came out but I do remember being insanely frustrated when I emptied my active reloaded Lancer into a tumbling enemy and he destroys me with one shotgun blast. Looks like the complaints have been heard. Thanks Epic.

ReyDEEEEZY

(Though I mean that in the nicest way possible.)

Moonshadow101

@Swift_: He was Sony's best friend during the UTIII PS3 exclusivity thing.

I think that makes him a whore, technically.

Moonshadow101

Cliffy is quite the Xbot. He loves to impress upon everyone that Gears is exclusive, even when not necessary at all. I'd prefer just to hear about the game in an interview. I mean, I'm obviously already following the game, no?

Anyway, it looks gorgeous and like a total blast. I'm not hyping it over new IPs by any means, but I'm very excited.

Swift_

@I_Hate_This_Place: Agreed. Can't count the number of times I've been called a "noob" for aiming with left trigger and unloading an entire magazine of Lancer into someone holding a shotgun from half-way across the map. I'd say more skill exists in the precise movement of the right analogue stick to perforate that sonofabitch than in up-close twitch reaction shotgun fights.

Excited for this sequel. It's going to be one of the most fun co-operative experiences on consoles to-date, can't wait to hop on Live with my Gears buddy. Let's hope they announce 4-player co-op soon, that'll just be more icing (frosting) on this lovely, lovely cake.

aesthetis

I am excited by the fact that they have expanded their color pallete from brown/grey to brown/grey/olive drab/yellow/blue

3inst3in

I can't wait.

AndrewG009

Im elated that the machine gun will have stopping power when someone is running directly towards you with shotgun. That was a major issue that really irked me during multiplayer.

zombiefrank82

I thought my eyes were going to melt out of my head when I saw the in-game graphics. My god, this beast is pretty. I... must... not... rub... in... PS3-owners'... faces....

Ajax

For those of us in Europe 'water cooler' moments are the same as 'coffe break moments.' Most Americans have their breaks and small talk around the water cooler while most Europeans still have their breaks around the coffee machine.

As for the game itself, it just seems to violent for me. Or it is just me? having seen the wrong trailers??

thurauh1

@Viet0ne: Good to see you Viet0ne. This article was lacking a Sony fan presence. Now, why the other guy even brought up RFOM is beyond me, as one is a FPS and the other is a third-person shooter. Both have different stories, different engines, different systems even. The only common factor they share is release period. But, it's still good to know your there to shut em down /sarcasm

I_Hate_This_Place

These games could be so fun if they weren't so damn ugly.

idkmybffgreg

@rlgnsto:

Scripted Enemies, textures are not as good as gears 1, draw distance not as good as gears 1.

Gears 2 is shaping up to be a sequel of average quality. The dude says your fighting hundreds of enemies on screen, I barely see a few couple dozen, and those few dozen aren't fighting you. They are scripted to run along a predetermined path and not react to anything. Hardly a fight.

Since all the gameplay videos of any fights still show your only fighting a few enemies at a time, Gears 2 is like Gears 1.1, not even gears 1.5.

Viet0ne

Lookin' forward to it.

belo

GoW beat R:FoM when it came out, GoW2 will beat R:FoM2 again......... hopefully

rlgnsto

I think Epic is doing everything right with Gears of War 2. I couldn't be more excited about it. They've upped the badass immensley, and the promise of a focus on story stirs a little bit of hope in my heart... I mean hey, it doesn't seem TOO possible but... I mean they said they're tryin', and that's all we can ask for right now.

Anyway, in lieu of the Mark Reign fiasco a few articles back, this trailer proves that Gears of War does tactical action, and it doesn't damn well. Maybe you don't have as many intricate gameplay options as Bioshock, but fuck me I can't think of a game that's more immersive. Adding 3 ways to execute enemies, tweaking bullet graphics, uping the grahpics even a good nudge, all add to the experience. It adds to the fun, and that's what this game is about.

I'm still playin' it... Halo got old for me before this did, as did CoD4.

I can't believe how many new things are getting put in the game. It's like reaching into a candy barrel hoping for a good piece of extra candy the second time around, only to discover it's all a giant bag you can take home.

Garro

Gears of war had more draw distance than resistance?
Plz stop spewing lies, resistance had way bigger environments than gears. And there is no draw distance issues in either game!

StrifeHawkins

@art_zombie: I agree. Some parts of Gears dragged on but some of the set pieces were incredible. If they make good on their promise to have such experiences with that amount of regularity then it's going to be one hell of a ride.

Burguois

It's 10 player co-op deathmatch, not 8 player. The vid says "You and a friend team up against 8 other players."

Gears 2 is otherwise about 5v5s now... CliffyB Crazy Eyes!

Xiedo

@Ajax: Hmm... yeah, cos graphics alone will make PS3 owners glow with jealousy.

Maybe we should get some hands-on time before declaring this such a great game. Especially since the first one was SO glitchy in the end.

Seriously.. in a shooter, having enemies pop a foot or two instantaneously is fucking awful. Especially when they're coming through a door that you're aiming at in anticipation... then they just pop in the room 2 ft in front of the door, just past where you're aiming... thus screwing you.

thezman

@Xiedo: You're right about the 10 player co-op.

Where'd you get the 5v5? I thought it was 2v2v2v2v2.

Fenris Wolf

2v2v2v2 i remember those back in the day... oh wait it's only been invented now?! o_o

ahah jk, with the stupid heal and respawn thing it might be quite the novelty!

pyropetey

I really hate videos like this one...

Interviewer: "How's the campaign?"
Developer: "It's big. You go lots of places."
Interviewer: "How's the multiplayer?"
Developer: "Aww, shit son! Here's how this is goin' down dawg!"
*queue 10 minute in-depth, step-by-step explanation of everything multiplayer.*

They spend maybe a minute talking about the campaign, the story, the characters, motivations, etc etc...things that really get you involved in the game. And then just go all out for a solid TEN minutes talking about the multiplayer.

I know if I'm a big 'story' buff, maybe the 360 isn't the console for me (although Oblivion, Mass Effect, Half-Life 2 + ep1 ep2, and Lost Odyssey say otherwise) but come ON. I really want some info about this world and what's going on in it. Can't you tell us about that and not this other multiplayer junk please?
:(

PathRifter

@hyperhyper:
and the fanboy of the day award goes to...you!

TakuFangirl

I think I'll wait an additional 6 months and play it on the PC again (like I did with the first one). One thing I've learned over the years is that nothing worth playing is exclusive on the 360. Plus there will be a ton of other games to play in November. Looking good though

hyperhyper

sweet!!!!

YourAnthony

Man, I hadn't been properly hyped up for GOW2 before this vid. I really enjoyed the first one but didn't know how much the sequel would change up the formula. Now I can't wait for launch day.

unmarkedone

Woot! I hope we see more of GoW2 at E3. Make it happen Epic!

Salen

It definitely is a hell of a ride

mcool93

@Jayl3w: yeah, animations (curb stomp, chain kill, etc.) are interruptible now, said it in a different vid interview a while back.

xoforoct

And people were saying Gears 2 looks just like Gears 1. So much for that.

This makes me wish I had a 360, this and Mass Effect.

kadaj24

Uh Cliff, you game is probably gonna rock, and Im super excited, but I really dont want to hear from you anymore. At least not like three times a day. Just go make your game.

Anyway, I dont really care that much about the single player or the "watercooler" moments, I just wanna play online and kill some french people, HURRAY!

B1S1

@everybest: I take that back. I guess my view would be unbiased and all yours would be biased :)

everybest

I don't usually like shooters but I like the multi-player. Not having a 360 or having played Gears 1, I don't really care much for this. The 2 man team deathmatch sounds really exciting though, and I wish Resistance 2 would do something like that. Anyways, it sounds a little complicated, but not having tried the first game, my opinion is biased.

everybest

Gunfire interrupts movement? Ouch, that's going to slow things down a lot.

GTA4er