@boringjob2: or cereal?

RET_Ghost

Play Gears 1. You can find it for $30 USD in most shops here in the USA. For the love of Contra, co-op and duck & cover cam play it!

Number 6

@sereal: Yeah, what?

Also, is your name a misspelling of "serial" or "surreal"?

boringjob2

@sereal: I don't follow your logic.

metalgear08

@sereal: umm... how it this a nail?

3xch4ng3

@sereal:
What exactly do you mean by that? This is one step closer to the 360s demise??

Please expound...

Lazlo

The flamethrower is really fun to play with. It was the only new weapon I found while playing. Sort of like playing Pyro in TF2.

Ganonmaster

Thanks for the small preview, too bad you can't talk more in-depth. But I am looking forward to the new Horde mode. It'll be interesting to see how far the previewers got.

exkon

You're not missing much from Gears of War 1..Theres not much to it with single player..All you do is hide and shoot, hide and shoot. Honestly, the cooperative mode in Everything Or Nothing is more fun than Gears of War, because you actually do something different in every level, and not so reptitive.

But the Multiplayer in Gears is something i have only tried a bit, and seemed really fun. It seems more like a multi-player game rather than a single player game.

wahrugene

"I found this game fun. That's right - fun. And it didn't matter one bit that I a) don't like shooters and b) never played the first one."

hmm, i never tried gears either, and from watching it, i couldnt tell if it looked fun or not. so, i passed up getting the first one used, I was planning on passing GEoW2 up for some other games this season since my money can only go so far, but after your qoute, i may have to reconsider this as one of my purchuses this season. It just seems people both into as well as totally new to the game/series cant stop praising it.

the_grimace

I. HATE. THE. HAMMER OF DAWN. Everything else sounds really cool.

RET_Ghost

I hope the flamethrower is better for using than the one in halo 3 that I seem to set myself alight with every time I touch it.

Hdfisise

Another nail in the 360's coffin.

sereal

@vickissv3: He doesn´t have to play every game ever released to be a gamer journalist. I´m also a journalist and I aspire someday to write about games and I never played Metal Gear, Final Fantasy and Madden.

lucasreis

@dkrefft: Konami had an embargo down on certain aspects of the game all the way up until the game's release date. October 15th is about three weeks before Gears 2 comes out. That's hardly something to complain about.

Doomstink

@Amsterdaam: my tummy is almost full, 10 replies!

sereal

@belo: I like this one better.

johnjohnbmx

@sereal: And you sir, with your non explanation are full of shit.

Eville1 says SKUse me a sec.

@sereal: You joke loses at making ANY sense...

bpapa9013

@sereal: Horrible troll, 3/10 for effort. Go try /v/.

The mini-machine gun might be amusing. If you have to keep cooling it down, it better be powerful enough to be worth the effort. I just remember like the one troika in the original multiplayer could chop down people easily enough, except it was impossible to get people to stay in the open enough.

formina

@dkrefft: There have always been embargos on highly hyped games..

Wasn't the MGS4 controversy about the lengthy cutscene, and Konami not wanting previewers to talk about that?

QuackerJacks

@vickissv3:

seriously!

hanspecans

@Ganonmaster: Well if you can't get enough of flamethrowers then wait for CoD5! :)

theEnemy

I was watching multiplayer Gears 2 at the BestBuy G3 event held at the University of Arkansas yesterday. It looked pretty bad ass. I wish I could have gotten to see some of the campaign.

MantisDragon

@dkrefft:

Um, this is different. Konami wouldn't let you talk about things in your review. This is a preview because the embargo for reviews supposedly doesn't lift until October 15?

OGHowie

@sereal: "Another nail in the PS3's coffin."

Fix'd.

belo

@sereal: please don't feed the trolls, guys.

Amsterdaam

how are you a " gaming journalist" and you haven't played the first Gears of War?

vickissv3

Dammit.. those awful vehicle sections are back?

CockroachMan

@wahrugene: I loved gears 1 single player, hated its multiplayer. Sure it was short, but it was fun while it lasted.

I know I put more time into it than I did with GTAIV, which bored me after 3-4 hours.

RuneX21

This IS going to be fun.

yashichi8bit

Remember when reviewers couldn't talk about certain stuff from Metal Gear Solid 4? Remember how much we hated on konami for that? Sure sounds pretty similar to me. I understand the reasons, plot giveaways and such, but isn't this very similar? We could talk about certain bits, but we can't give anything away. Why is no one complaining about it this time?

Just a thought.

dkrefft

@boringjob2: you also forgot cereal.

you guys lose at my joke.

sereal

Hated Gears 1's multiplayer, probably won't be coming back much for #2 if they don't fix the host issues and party system. But Campaign & co-op were great.

zacshipley

@lucasreis:

She, not he.

@vickissv3:

There are far too many games for any one person to play them all. People don't like shooters, it's not unreasonable to not have played Gears 1.

And to be honest, I'm glad we're getting a perspective not deluded by previous Gears play. If it's a fun, engaging experience from someone who has never played, I can only hope it's even more so for people who have.

B-Tizo

I'm not interested in the single campaign ( mainly for lack of alot of already mentioned things ). I do look foward to playing multiplayer. Oh yeah.

휘성

I just noticed that there is a slew of games coming out with flamethrowers as a selling point...

I already preordered the limitied edition soo...I'll be killing you with my golden lance...bitches...

Ibramgaunt

@the_grimace:
I had Gears recommended to me by my brother and his fiancee to be honest I don't think it was nearly as great as billed. Gears 2 looks way more like the type of game I was told Gears was so I'm hoping this one will be a lot better.

Mommar

@sereal: Congrato-fucking-lation. You created irrelevant bits and bytes.

lumpi

Oh, and about Gears.

Holy effin sh!! I really love the first game and this multiplayer mode sounds really cool. I´m a bad player online and I lose a lot but I still have a lot of fun doing it!! :D

lucasreis

Ha, okay so zero new information, just more taunting that I have to wait a month to play it.

kpugs

@Modus_Operandi: Took the words out of my mouth. See my comment below.

DaPress

Ahh, I'm glad that I know before hand that they didn't play the first, otherwise I might have had to /facepalm at some of the weapon descriptions/opinions.

Just as an FYI AJ, the Hammerburst is best used for a quick slap 'n drop tactic. It has a melee attack which the Lancer lacks (other then the saw, which isn't as useful in the first game as you might think) and when used in the right combo (most often by smacking them with a melee, then one burst from the gun) will drop the enemy so fast you'll get called a glitcher.

Jayl3w

@vickissv3: Not necessarily. Knowing the opinion of someone who never played the first is pretty valuable.

Obviously she (not he) can't compare contrast to GOW1, but she can tell us if the story stands by itself, or if it makes heavy ties to the previous game.

AlanR

This game is great and I hopefully will have my RRODed Xbox back in my house by then. Good thing I have MGS4 to play on my PS3 in the meantime.

What I don't get is why the reviewer with no background in the game writes these stories? Is AJ not the same person who wrote about FIFA 09 or Pro Evo 09 and said s/he finds soccer boring?

DaPress

@Modus_Operandi: Or like having a person who never played Fallout 1 & 2 try to compare them to the 3rd, or like having a person who's never touched a racing game give a bullshit preview for a new racing sim?

Oh wait!

Razgriz1

It is impossible for a revolver to jam. They will never go away.

say

No offense but it'd be nice to have someone cover the game who was familiar with the series. More than half of this isnt new, as many as these weapons and vehicles were in the original.

This is like getting a pre-view of Dark Knight from someone who didnt see Batman. "Oh and Bruce Wayne is secretly Batman. And he has this thing called a Batmobile. And he has a secret lair...". No shit.

Modus_Operandi

@thedoorsdk: I'm with you. I'm far more hyped over Dead Space and the rest of the October line up.

Razgriz1

@the_grimace: Story campaign is awful. It's highly stale and Sterotypical. I almost traded the game into until I found the joys of multiplayer. It's some of the best myltiplayer ( next to pretty much every socom , battlefield and CoD game )I've played.

It's worth the pickup for the online portions. I hope GoWII has improved the single player campaign.

휘성

@belo: That's definitely a step in the right direction.

theuglyteradon

*hands lumpi a mirror.

skrame ☆

Am I the only one who finds nothing about Gears of War at all interesting?

thedoorsdk

@B-Tizo:

actually it IS to be very unreasonable to be writing an article about a highly and anticipated sequel to a well known game and to have not have played the first.

Especially in a "non-review" no less?

Im not doubting the author's integrity, skill, or writing ability.

vickissv3

Gears of War 2 > ALL of PS3 combined!

*~*

Gigaheart

@AlanR:

Well obviously it's not valuable when we get a list of stuff we knew about 2 months ago and a couple of screen shots.

vickissv3

@Jayl3w:

To everyone basically, yea. I mean previews are not reviews but who do they think is interested in info about a games sequel? Most likely people who actually played the first game. Sure not everyone played GoW 1 but why would you write a preview for the sequel from the perspective of someone who never played the series before? Its just a waste. Nevermind that this article didnt supply any information that gamers didnt already know.

Considering this is an enthusiasts site that leaves this article as nothing more than filler.

Modus_Operandi

@thedoorsdk: "Am I the only one who finds nothing about Gears of War at all interesting?"

Nah, I think that dude Sloth™ (from Goonies) doesn't find much of it intresting due to being compared to Locust's.

:P

caleb

@Modus_Operandi: Definitely going to say hand you a /agree here. I mean, sure I've got no problem with someone who isn't familiar with the game and doesn't like shooter games giving an opinion on what they thought, but it's getting kind of old to see someone who doesn't like/doesn't know about a game/genre reviewing them.

Perhaps getting someone who knows a bit more about them would be a good idea?

Jayl3w

I have to admit Gears of War is probably the only exclusive game that has me interested in picking up a Xbox 360.(Besides maybe the few rpgs coming out) Maybe I'll wait to closer to the holidays for the good deals before finally picking one up.

Never had 3 new consoles at the same time before. This should be fun.

Sex_For_Pandas

@wahrugene: God I've been looking for another person who liked Everything or Nothing for so long now. You rock!

Gunhaver

@thedoorsdk: Well, personally I think the game is a lot of fun but I couldn't be any less interested in the lame story, stereotypical characters or (imo) terrible art direction. I'm sure there are some people who enjoy some or all of the above but I'm sure most people like it because of the fun gameplay.

Đipic

Soooo, that little thing about this game selling only to fans of GeoW or current 360 owners ... might not be so true?

"Surprise, surprise, surprise. That's not my finger either."

DARTH_TIGRIS

@B-Tizo: Sorry for the gender confusion. I didn´t even see who wrote the article in the first placve and assumed it was one of the guys...

lucasreis

@sereal: no u?

Jayl3w

@xboxkill3r:

what about 8th a Broadway? anything there?

vickissv3

If you live in NYC and are interested in the Midnight Launch Event I called up Gamestop on 33rd and Broadway and they are hosting the event. I had to pre-order because chances are you won't get a copy.

xboxkill3r

@thedoorsdk: Gameplay = Success. It's got good gameplay, graphics and great architecture (not necessarily level desing though). Good multiplayer and fun team based combat (good for co-op, online multiplayer, local multiplayer and solo with computer). Can't say there's much wrong with it other than the plot really.

Llost

Well, I do want to play this..I think I am going to have to miss it till the "dry" season, to many RPG's coming my way right now.

Jsp343

@Modus_Operandi: While I said in another post that a journalist doesn´t really have to play every blockbuster game that exists to be a good journalist I do agree that half of the information was old and it´s kinda like putting someone to play Street Fighter IV without having played the originals and saying "oh, they throw blue fireballs!" and "there´s a green monster, from Venezuela I think"...

lucasreis

A couple other facts that weren't mentioned in the list that could have been:

The smoke grenades now stun you and throw you around like a ragdoll when they hit you.

You can now get headshots with the torque bow. If you shoot them in the head, their head will get stuck to the nearest wall and explode within a few seconds.

The shotgun fires slower than it did it in first Gears.

They have also nerfed the sniper rifles, no more active downs, but to balance it an active reload makes you reload much faster.

The active reload for the flamethrower gives it a longer range.

All grenades can be stuck to walls to make traps, and if you're down with a frag you can press the right trigger to blow yourself up along with anyone near you. Otherwise the right trigger makes you raise your hand and call to teammates.

That's all I can think of for weapons right now, and most of that is probably already known, but for those that don't, there you go!

DrowningInMercy

I liked shooters but got sick of them. I still tried the first game on PC to see what the hype was about, and also because RE4 gave me a taste for stop & pop...

I admit I didn't play very far, but through the first level, it seems that cover - isn't. You'll get shot right through whatever you can stick to. And also, even assault rifles from the future are less accurate than muskets and flintlocks; guns were only really useful at contact distance. On a foundation like that, I just couldn't force myself through the rest.

fuchikoma

@thedoorsdk:

Yes.

OGHowie

@DARTH_TIGRIS: What, did you watch that GT Bonus Round, too? I really don't see how Gears 2 can stretch it's appeal beyond what it already has.

Xiedo

I am pretty excited about this game, the original was awesome so if they keep the same gameplay all Epic has to do is add weapons and this game will be really good. I am excited.

bmac320

@johnjohnbmx: Really? 'Cos to me, both comments are just opposite ends of the "dumb" spectrum...

Antiterra

@sereal: I'm guessing that everyone who respondd to sereal's post must be American and just does not get sarcasm. Maybe everyone over there lost their sense of humour with stockmarket crash.

CartBlanche2

@vickissv3: Fair point. While the argument ""you can't play em' all" is valid, GoW sold 5 million copies. I would think that puts it in the "must play" category.

Pwnieboy

@RageKage: and I mean Gears 1.

RageKage

No offense, but can whoever actually played Gears at the Kotaku Tower write the next summary?

RageKage

@lucasreis:

LOL. I'm not trying to be a gaming elitist but reading this article just makes me roll my eyes. He's excited about the Hammer of Dawn and has such illuminary pro tips as "It's only got eight rounds, though, so make 'em count!". Oh well gee golly thanks.

This would be fine for a site thats not a gaming ethusiast site, and is hoping to get "mainstream' readers, but do you actually think the people reading and article about GOW 2 on Kotaku arent ethusiasts that have at least played part 1? Really if you havent played the first thats fine but assume we have.

Modus_Operandi

@thedoorsdk: just play it and you'll find at least something interesting in it.

i like the art direction, gameplay and the the good ol sci fi Human race on the brink of extinction story.

ruba-dub-dub

I can't wait to play through the campaign mode, only to be blue-balled again after 6-8 hours of intense action.

I got a chance to play through horde mode @ N for None. This is what's going to keep me occupied for quite some time after beating the game.

def PD

@Gunhaver: Me too! I LOVED Everything Or Nothing. Best Bond game ever.

yeah write

@thedoorsdk:

The single player was short, but the things that drew me in the most were the cover system and multiplayer. I wasn't expecting to like the multiplayer so much. I'm a showoff. So spectator mode caters to me. I love a crowd watching me play. I love the comradery between friends as well. The way we watch a teamate play from the sidelines and compliment or laugh at them, but what I really enjoy is owning everyone with the shotgun. Watching their bodies explode! I can't get enough of it!

Orionsaint

No offense to AJ Glasser, but why do they put a person who sucks at shooters to do a non-review review? Let alone not even a fan of Gears.

Anyway, I think Gears of War is one of the greatest games ever made. I wasn't into online shooters till Gears. Now it's the longest game I've ever been playing.
I played it last night with friends and had a ball!

Orionsaint

@sereal:

Joke or sarcasm?

Orionsaint

Oh man, you made fun of Americans. You clever bastard.

JeanKonowalchuk

@RageKage: Why? Someone who has liked and played the first one is more likely to be more subjective about their analysis of it. Especially since it is rare you get a review from such a high profile title that won't be gushing over it with perfect tens via hype - versus a point of view that has never played it before which would look at it more objectively. If you want those kinds of reviews, trust me, there will be plenty of sites whose sponsors lobby their scores providing their insight.

TC

your not the only one. I have interest at all. The art style is horrid, the stereotypes is horrid, the story is none at all, the gameplay is very repetitive, cover...shoot...cover..shoot.

xiked

@Nocte: Yeah, ROFL 2 is MUCH more appealing...

lucasreis

@Modus_Operandi: Agreed!! :D

lucasreis

@휘성: You should preface shit like, "Story campaign is awful. It's highly stale and Sterotypical." with:

In my opinion,
I feel,
To me,
etc.

I thoroughly enjoyed the campaign, especially going through with friends in co-op.

rotcepsurt

Gaming Journalists do not play every game ever made. Its not mandatory. And some people hate gears, me included.

A FPS should have a good Single player campaign, then a good Multi. Single should come first, because, well, I but it for that (even though I do love the multi-player).

I will still pick up GoW2 just so I can't say I never gave it a chance. But, RFOM 2 is looking much more appealing.

Nocte

@CartBlanche2: Or, option 2: they (we) got it but simply found it lacking no matter how you look at it.

More importantly, what exactly prompted the mindless American-bashing?

Antiterra

@thedoorsdk:

I'm with you. I thought it was all mediocre.

loempiavreter

@Modus_Operandi: While it's always nice to get the perspective of an outsider, I also would've preferred someone already familiar with Gears 1 to have played the preview. Atleast then we could've gotten a heads-up on any changes made to the weapons/features/etc.

Especially when the writer is criticizing the Boltok for being a revolver instead of its usefulness as a gun. -_-;; "It's the future, right? Why do they still have revolvers?!" Um, to shoot people with?

GhostWhoWalks

@SaanZ: Wtf did Halo did for shooters,that is the one of the silliest things i've ever seen someone say on this site(i'm dead serious,and i really do want you to respond as this is going to be gold).

Can you speak to the quality of the build,the build that was at the EB canada expo last week was quite literally unplayable if you strayed off this tiny razors edge path that the MS rep wanted you to stay on.Stray off that path and the background/char would disappear,crazy never before seen lvls of pop in etc etc.
Now i refuse to believe that a game of that caliber is that borked this close to release,so i'm assuming they just brought an OOOOOOLD build to Canada.Can you confirm decent performance while NOT doing what the rep wanted you too?

xIvSlowDeath420

SO in otherwords, nothing new, just more torture that I have to wait some more, oh well, at least sometime hopefully soon i'll be playing some left 4 dead demo!

Cheroro

@Number 6: At this point in time it would be pointless to buy it........

Cheroro

@GhostWhoWalks: I think AJ's point was that revolvers are "old" technology, which should have been replaced in the future.
But of course, the crucial advantage of revolvers is that, besides packing a superior punch, they don't use casings and thus don't jam - not that guns ever jam in videogames, mind you.
So it would make sense that they'd still exist in the future. After all, in over a century, we still haven't come up with a 100% jam-free semi-auto.

But I'm no expert, I'm just taking the word of countless movie/TV/videogame gunmen who explain their preference for revolvers by their increased reliability (usually before saying: "Y'only need one bullet to kill someone anyway. 15-round clips are for pussies whose mothers I abundantly spit upon.")

Antiterra

@fuchikoma:

The fact that you player the game on the PC explains alot of that. Gears and Halo are the series that are just built for consoles and dont make decent transitions to PC.

SaanZ

I have to say Gears of War beats out Resistance on gameplay alone. The cover system isnt revolutionary but Id compare it to what Halo did for FPS games in general. The art style was pretty good, it wasnt always the reddish grey people complain about. The story had a good setting and unfolding like a good action movie were things mostly made sense. You never saw anything too impossible.

Multiplayer had connection and depth issues but it was unique from any other game with great maps and a great core gameplay and in regards to balance, if you're relying on one weapon your probably just not very good or playing with people who arent very good.

Resistance has a more fleshed out story and interesting weapons. But its gameplay was an FPS without too many gimmicks without its weapons (which were great, and I have no doubt in saying in terms singleplayer it was much better experience) But gameplay wise Gears takes it.

Gears 2 looks leaps better than the first in terms of gameplay with greater vareity in weapons and more gameplay elements. Mulitplayer has been fleshed out and the single player made more appealing with more unique scenarios. And no light tank levels... thank you.

Resistance 2 looks great as well and has its own strengths in terms of being a FPS with a huge number of players. At the end their completely different games and while Resistance has better polish the only reason to say one is much better than the other is that you dont have a PS3/360 or are just a fan of one console more that you want to admit.

SaanZ

@sereal: I thought your comment could be interpreted in one of 3 ways:

1) It's a nail in 360's coffin because the game is so taxing on the 360 that it will cause a RROD. Hence, a nail in the coffin.

2) You were being sarcastic.

3) You hate the 360.

Most people chose to interpret it as #3.

DugDawg

@belo: "Another nail in the fanboys' coffin."

Fix'd

FreakyFavabean

@TC: I would prefer someone talking about it in a way that gave me new information on the game as opposed to "This sounds pretty boss. "An Imulsion-powered satellite that rains down a devastating particle energy stream." Why didn't they just give me this weapon right from the start?"

Llanwar

@Nocte: Gears is 3rd person.

Saliu

@xiked:

"the gameplay is very repetitive,"

This could be applied to basically every game you've played in your entire life.

RichardNixon

Although an earlier post grammatically got it wrong. One thing they got right is the stereotypes. Now while I'm certainly not offended be the big black guy, with bad ebonics, and a little bit of overt black southern sass thrown in for good measure. I am getting a little bored of it. Every time I see it ( and it's not just Gears ) I'm like really... do the developers find this character to be the "go to black guy" to help insure mass acceptance. Hey I'm black so I have to ask, " Hey, all types of people. do you actually welcome this character in your games? Does he make you let out a chuckle for the right reasons or the wrong ones? If the default character was only this
guy, would you want to be him?" Every game we play, we are asked to stop being ourselves and be- a bounty hunter; an elf; a plumber; a wizard; a ninja; a WWII vet; a female bounty hunter etc... And most of us are excited to be any of those from months to year prior to release. That being said, would you wait with baited breath for ' The next most unbelievable game!" where the default character is a big dumb black guy?

Saliu

I'm not the biggest shooter fan.. In fact, wait for the blasphemy.. 3,2,1... I even hate Halo.

I picked up Gears when I bought my 360 because I thought it looked interesting, I put it straight in when I got home, played it and loved it.

Sure there were frustrating as feck moments, especially if playing it single player.. Dom is such a stupid bastard.. that's unfair.. Baird, Cole, Kim and Carmine also have their "dkgljdflgh!" moments.

But once you get into it and stop trying to shoot your allies for being stupid feckers, it's really fun.

I don't know what it was about it but I loved it..

Then I went online... and I sucked. Seriously I still suck after over a year of practice. But still, I love it. I love playing with people I've just met and people I've played with for months on end, shouting at eachother and screaming with laughter, it's something some take far too seriously, but mostly it's just a barrel of laughs.

Looking forward to Gears 2... And I don't mind someone who hasn't played the original giving a preview of the next one, I mean it is just a preview, it's not like she could give away anything we didn't already know anyway.. But if it helps get more people like her and me into the series, good for her and good for it.

/making no sense.

Ellegunis

@rotcepsurt: Who's opinion other then mine would I be stating? Don't get offended , everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Good for you.

휘성

@CartBlanche2: Your mother is a three dollar prostitute.

...

"Hah! Get it? It's sarcasm because your mother probably isn't a prostitute......guy? Hello?"

Sarcasm isn't translatable over the internet, but trolling is. Anywho, there's a new shotgun involved? I haven't seen it in any of the videos.

rdj

@DugDawg: If a battle in Infinite Undiscovery makes my 360 slow down realllly badly. Imagine what Gears will do to it.

휘성

@RageKage: Why? A non biased opinion is best. If it can appeal to a non gears fan . Then Epic have done their jobs.

This summary was good enough.

휘성

@RET_Ghost: i feel that if they just limited the use of it to rare occasions, it would have been nice. it seems over used, even with the limits placed. mainly the use of it in multiplayer gets on my nerves.

alby13

@sereal:

Don't worry, I got the joke.

RichMeisterMan

@sereal:

Wow. Congratulations, you trolled the shit out a ton of krying kotaku kommenters. Not that I condone (or condemn) trolls, but you've shown us all just how easy it is to get people up in arms on these damn forums. It's easier than posting a furry picture on 4chan.

MagickBocks

@rotcepsurt: I also enjoyed single player. I found nothing wrong with it except the length.

Ra is on House

@RET_Ghost: And its not even a real hammer! All i wanted was to see a big ass sledge hammer come down on someone but nooooo...

Ra is on House

@Ra is on House: Stick around. Banhammer Monday will roll around soon enough.

nenet

@dkrefft: Because Konami was trying to stop reviewers from talking about negative aspects of their game; load times, install times, cutscene length.

Essentially, here Epic wants to stop people talking about plot points and gameplay elements. Very different situation.

Guizzy

@Gunhaver: That game was great, from what I remember. It was a little frustrating that you had to share lives in co-op, but a bit of a challenge is always fun.

FreakyFavabean

@Gigaheart: lol keep telling yourself that

wocyob

@휘성: You made a fatal assumption there. You assumed Infinite Undiscovery was performing badly because the game pushed it to the limits and not because of poor coding.

Let's take some cases:

1) If you remember the first Geometry Wars, the game would slow down when it had a lot of stuff going on on screen. That game was some programmers side project. Geometry Wars 2 had much more going on at much higher frame rates and generally performs flawlessly but unlike the first game, it was treated more like a proper game and there was ample time to understand how to tap the 360 potential even more.

2) The original Gears was using the first generation UE3 and ran marvelously for the game. They modified this version of the UE3 as they were porting it to the PS3 for Unreal and added features to make it support bigger words and other features. If you remember GDC 2008, Epic revealed the next iteration of the UE3 that incorporated many more features into it such as soft-body physics, and destructible environments; they used this version to make Gears 2. Epic has even stated that the next iteration of UE3 will be released for the 360 life cycle and will have even more features with the same bar set for performance. Also take into the account that no one whose seen the game played has bitched about the frame rate.

I'm not sure what logic you based your statements on but I'm going to have to disagree with them.

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

@MagickBocks: Is society so lazy these days that taking fifteen seconds to call someone out for being a troll counts as being up in arms?

EmTeeZ

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): Anyways. Shutup.
I'm just imagining what could slow down the framerate.
No need to wiki me. Move along.

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@Gigaheart

While Gears 2 is going to be completely badass....
You can't forget about MGS4.

blex64

@rdj: Sarcasm is never translatable, even in person, if you don't realize how ironic it is in the first place. I thought it translated over the internet just fine.

superapplekid

"It's only got eight rounds, though, so make 'em count!"

WHAT?!? 8 rounds for the shotty? What about endless shotty duels?

moonrad

@lucasreis: WOW, I don't know what you are going to write about then. . .

Jagzi11a

@Number 6: I just bought it again on ebay for $22 USD

Jagzi11a

@MagickBocks: I really think this one was alot less intense than the festival of hate AKA the mac gaming console topic.

:[kotaku.com]

Jagzi11a

@DugDawg:no need to even read into it. . .

Jagzi11a

@CartBlanche2: one of many things we lost. . . along with my huge stockpiles of chocolate and bubblegum.

Jagzi11a

@Jagzi11a:
sorry, wrong link, this is the right one.

[kotaku.com]

Jagzi11a

@Razgriz1: OHHHH sweet heavens I can't wait for dead space, But i am really anticipating this game.

Jagzi11a

@zacshipley:

I'm pretty sure they completely overhauled the multiplayer system.

eponym

@vickissv3:
Touche!

Jagzi11a

@B-Tizo: ya but this was a major game of that year. Its not she didn't review the new Petz: Dolphinz game. It was GOW. It would be like not playing the new killzone. (that was for the PS3 FB's who don't know how big Gears is.)Also if she never played the first, she might not enjoy this one as might and give it less credit where credit is due.

Jagzi11a

wow never played gears one...it like having a 360 and never played halo 3...you have to play it at lest once..sad sad day

DespisedMC

"I found this game fun. That's right - fun. And it didn't matter one bit that I a) don't like shooters and b) never played the first one."

That's good to hear. I'm a huge fan of the first, so I know I'll have a blast. But it's good to know that this game will bring in new meat and even boost the numbers from where they are currently.

A lot of new content you've posted.

macr0planet

I'm glad to hear that it's enjoyable with out playing the first one, as I never have. Looks like fun though and I hear they improved some things so I think I'll try this one out.

DefHamster

same old ****

schnodder

I'm actually really surprised to see the amount of dislike for Gears in general in here. I personally loved the first game. The multiplayer wasn't the best in the world but I really liked the single player campaign.

Jimizzle

@Pwnieboy: Sales make it must-play? You better run out and get Wii Play then. : )

By the way, I've never played Gears of War either. Mildly interested but... shooters are meh.

JohnStamos2

how about we have someone who has a fucking clue review the game?

AthenaGroton

You weren't feeling the sniper and thinks it belongs more in stealth games? In a game where people stop and take cover the Sniper Rifle can dominate. That along with some other comments make this lame a** review pointless.

JemimaMarcellus

@hanspecans: seconded again.
GoW = Best game evah

TylDurden

@hanspecans:

ditto

xgarry225x

Why is he even writing about Gears 2 if he didnt even play the first one?.. thats been out for 2 years

FleshIntoGear

cant wait to play this game!! i wish the hammer of dawn would have been passed on this time around..
also..i could be wrong,but it always seems that aj has never a game in her life...

xgarry225x

Call me crazy, but I'm fairly confident that not playing the first Gears would universally make someone's impressions of Gears 2 stronger. Gears 1 definitely had some weirdness that I think was let off the hook simply because that game was one of the first tastes of the potential of the current generation of consoles. Not having experienced some of that game's issues may leave a better overall impression of certain concepts since they've received enough extra polish in the intervening 2-3 years; in the case of a Gears 1 veteran, this polish may only come off as marginal improvements.

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