Gears 2: No blinging up your guns

CVG writes: "With E3 fast approaching all 360 owners eyes are on Epic's Gears of War 2. And there's nothing more lead developer Cliff Bleszinksi likes than adding fuel to the fire of hype.

Touching on whether or not you'll be able to customise any part of your arsenal, he explained, "We're not really that kind of game. We're not going to allow you to bling out your gun. The Lancer's a Lancer, Gus is Gus, and Marcus is Marcus. Those are the identities we're sticking with." Fair enough."

[GUNS N SWORDS]

they already pimped out, plus isn't the game getting a few new weapons anyway, i'm more interested in that and seeing new finishing moves.

[pharmd]

when i play this, im not looking for hardcore customization... im looking for hardcore assskicking!!!

[NO_PUDding]

I kind of agree. But surely this would make it bigger and more badass. I just don't udnerstand why their ethos only applies in some places.

I am sure he is right about them being pimp enough though. It would just add a little extra gusto to the gunplay.

[power of Green]

Seems like a duplicate story saying the same thing as the text from a mag in the GOW1 vs GOW2 multi player maps visual comparison(on the front page on the top currently the hottest story).

[Strife Lives]

Customise ur guns.especially the Lancer.look to EA and Army Of Two for that.It makes sense story and setting wise.Delta Squad doesnt head back to HQ after a mission.they stay on the frontlines.no time to fiddle adding shiny plastic to guns and buying neon blouses in GeOW lol its all hardcore war against the locust scum

[tudors]

that is ofcourse if you mean the one that I have to keep posting genuine GOW2 pics and not the ones form the unreal engine tec demo.

[Agent VX]

Wow, this game is blowing anything away graphically on any system. Gameplay looks real tight, and overall, just looking better than the first one in every aspect.

Just another fantastic exclusive for the 360.

[PoSTedUP]

really? getting your hopes up that high are we?

[beans]

Talk about insecurity problems, 14 disagrees lol. Why are fanboys trolling so hard in the 360 news section trying to downplay anything positive 360. I bet whatever it is MS has to show at E3 is more important to PS3 fans then 360. 1st they claimed COD4 and Uncharted as being Gears killers when after playing them both I would still give the edge to Gears and now there even going as far as saying MGS4 is the best game ever when it's really all just there opinion. Sony and there fans have a bad habit of forcing there beliefs and claiming victory long before theres a winner. Also I don't even believe this is a PS3 site like some would think and see that some desperate Sony fans have gone as far as making numerous accounts just to appear bigger then they really are. Gears2 is going to set the bar even higher this time and colorless KZ2 and last gen looking RFOM2 (accept for the enemys) won't even stand close to this title.

[PoSTedUP]

contradicting yourself are we? well to say gears 2 will blow anything away graphically is just very inaccurate, and i tend to be a realist, so thats why "i" disagree. just cause i disagree dosnt mean im a fanboy.

"Gears2 is going to set the bar even higher this time and colorless KZ2 and last gen looking RFOM2 (accept for the enemys) won't even stand close to this title."- your not a fanboy huh? you kids make me laugh : D

[NO_PUDding]

lol CoD4 is a Gears and Halo killer.

Uncharted is below all 3 that you mentioned. It's just not good enough.

[beans]

I don't think it's inaccurate at all to give the graphics crown to Gears2 before release. You can cry foul and get defensive all you want but the bottom line is that this game is going to stomp all over the competition. It's obvious you Sony fans want to feel like you've got the best games and console but even more obvious it's all in your heads. This is a Gears 2 thread and if you don't like what Agent has to say then get out of here and quit being a little fanboy hater. People like you and those that agree with you are so predictable and insecure to the point where it's just sad.

[NO_PUDding]

Third person talking? Soemthgins is wrong in yoru head. That much is obvious.

It's also obviosu that a game in the Unreal Engine, won't ever be the shinign beautiful you want it to be. Infact scratch that, it will be shiny, but bloom and excessive specular mapping, don't make a game good. And I am being so very fair here.

Gameplay may be absolutely faultless, and superb, but the graphics aren't.

[Millah]

How are you all making claims like this when we've barely seen any real footage of the game, let alone played it. It may just be me, but I don't think the visuals are that BIG of an improvement over the original. Sure there are more details and more effects, but it really still looks very similar.

Lets wait til E3 when we see more gameplay, before we start making claims.

[Ali_The_Brit]

poor bots, enjoy your gears of war 1.5

Anyway im going back to the GOTY 08 MGS4 to customise my M4 some more ;)

later dumbsh*ts!

[ps360fella]

ok so was it really necessary to come here all the way into a 360 thread to say that, have u played gears.

[Ali_The_Brit]

i ddnt come into the xbox section, i always get stories from the "featured" page

and yes i own gears 1.. cant say i could be bothered to get past the 1st level though

[ps360fella]

ok piss off there is no reason u would not want to play past level 1 stop being such a damn hater

[Deadman64]

fella, he can't he has no life. All his life is comprised of is this console war. He wouldn't no what to do if it ended...so i don't know why he sits on sony so much...

[Ali_The_Brit]

to the two idiots above, the reason i didnt play past the first level is i had to motive to do so i didnt see the big deal and wasnt that intrested tbh

and i make a couple of comments and suddenly i have no life, i guess that means you have no life..wow how logical first prize goes to you, by that logic you have no life either.

[Deadman64]

Did I sit on sony or microsoft in my post?

Did I post a first comment on a 360 story only in order to get attention and start a war?

No and No. Who's logic works now?

[NO_PUDding]

Ali the Brit made an attack indeed, but it's the Open Zone. And I am sure he' be VERY happy is the console war was over actually, but only if Sony won (me too),a nd I ahet this console war, makes it sound so epic, and yet it's so insignificant.

Geow was udnerwhleming, especially when you play it a year later, after playing GTA$ (which is crap anyway), Uncharted or Rainbow Six.

What got people so interested in the game? Their blind sheep like following, so that when Madworld was the soundtrack for the advertissemnet - play over a fight, they were all suddenly hooked. And the 360 was as sparse on games as PS3 was back then.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Ali_The_Brit is just pisses because he is already done with MGS4, and now it's back to waiting till 09. Well... that or he's just jealous because the 360 has all the kick ass games this gen.

YUP YUP GEARS 2!!!

[Ali_The_Brit]

Jason you idiot i OWN a xbox elite, so either way its good for me :) i just doubt il end up getting gears 2 because gears 1 was nothing specail imho, im not waiting for anything i have the best of both worlds my friend i just realise sonys world is a much better place to be living ;)

[KBDuB]

Just ignore AliTheChick.. Ali doesn't even own an xBox.

[power of Green]

You're a fucin idiot. Go play that retared looking game its a mess and plays like a PS2 game and look like sh*t.

You played the first level in gow and didn't and stopped lol.

[Ali_The_Brit]

KB wnt me to prove i have a 360? i will gladly do so, just say the word, i have a 360 elite mass effect halo 3 and gears 1 and barely play it because i prefere ps3 exlusives and all multiplatform games i get for ps3 simply because my friends have ps3s and i like to play online with them where as i dont know anyone with a 360

Oh and POG, looks like crap? LMFAO yeh thats why pretty much every of the unbelivable amount of 10/10's reviews have commented on the amazing graphics and 1 even stated it was the best graphics on any platform (that bomb website video review)

[juuken]

Ali, you don't have to prove anything. The xborgs are so stupid that they automatically assume that just because someone supports Sony, that means they probably don't own an XBox.

[KBDuB]

Yea.. Go ahead. And, if you do.. then why the hell don't you sell it? If you don't use it, you don't like it.. then shut the hell up and sell it.

[karlostomy]

Sooooo. you own a 360 AND a ps3?

and MGSIV just came out?

My dear fellow.... what the faaark are you doing in these posts trolling?
What is wrong with you?

go play gears. go play mgsIV. go play halo3. go play resistance, go play uncharted. go play bioshock

Oh man.. two great consoles.. so many great games and you still here on a FORUM?

You a twit, ali... a big twit.
Just leave the trolling to the kids

[tehReaper]

Whether you own a 360 or not, you still shouldn't go into a 360 news post and bad-mouth a game that you have not played. The first level doesn't count, my friend. My guess is that you haven't played it at all. You just use that as an excuse to give some credibility to your opinion. Why would you buy a video game, and NOT play it? Sounds pretty dumb to me..

While the story in Gears 1 was unpolished, the multiplayer is what people like best. EPIC says that the story in Gears 2 will make up for the lack of depth. Add that to the already successful multiplayer modes, graphics, and gameplay..and you have a winner.

1.5? Just accept that Microsoft has some heavy hitters this year.

Denile isn't just a river in Egypt, my friend.

[Foliage]

"EPIC says that the story in Gears 2 will make up for the lack of depth."

Sorry to burst your bubble but Epic have always failed when it comes to story. Don't get your hopes up for anything more than mindless shooting and gore for this game. It's a bit late to try and stuff a story into a sequel, especially when the original title had a pathetic story at best. What do you build off of? Do you pretend that Marcus had any character or emotion? He didn't have any what-so-ever in the first. Just kill off Marcus and get the Cole train or Dom to lead because Marcus is a terrible character.

Aren't these the same claims put on UT3? I've played that game for the PC and once again Epic proved that they should just skip the story since the game will suffer.

I used to be a huge Unreal fan, and I also enjoyed GeOW, but don't kid yourself. Epic couldn't pull off a good story if their careers depended on it. These guys are great at deathmatches and weapon design, but fail in most other categories.

I just hope this game has more additions to it than some slight weapon/level tweaks and a better lighting technique. So far I'm not convinced. I'll still play it, and co-op will probably be fun even if the story isn't.

It seems like Gears will fall into the Halo trend. Good multiplayer mode and a pathetic campaign/story, then a bunch of sequels with very little changes. Oh well back to MGS4, the game keeps getting better and better.

[tehReaper]

I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but EPIC aren't the only ones working on the story. They went out of their way to hire a writer, something they haven't done before.

I'm not saying it will be the best story of all time, but they are focusing a good bit of attention on it. I don't have my hopes up, because I care more for multiplayer than the single player.

Like you said, EPIC isn't good at story telling. Add that to the fact that they had to build an entire game structure with Microsoft breathing down their necks. It's the same with Resistance, with Sony pushing Insomniac to get the game out for the PS3's launch. Now, EPIC and Insomniac have time to improve on what they didn't get to polish in the first games. R2 already has a good story setup, now they can focus on better gameplay, graphics, and multiplayer. GeOW2 has gameplay, multiplayer, and graphics already, now they need to step up it's story.

"Oh well, back to MGS4"

Uhm, okay? Did you really need to say that? That was just pointless. The game speaks for itself, you don't need to talk it up at the end of a comment about Gears of War..

[edhe]

And it's such a tight experience... so good \o/

[TheMART]

How many times is the same news posted on N4G?

I've read this already weeks ago...

[VMAN_01]

I dunno for me this game still looks largely the same to Gears 1 with a slightly different color pallete and some new moves such as grabbing enemies and the chainsaw battles apart from that it still looks the same as the first 1.

[PoSTedUP]

you absolutely correct. anyone who says it looks so much better than the first one is full of sh*t. its going to be crazy though. cant wait for it to come to pc.

[KBDuB]

It's a sequel to Gears 1, it's supposed to look "largely the same." -.-

[pornflakes]

Well, uncharted 2 will also just use the first engine but just a little bit pimped like in GoW.. so u also will play uncharted 1.5 right?

[CrazyOrange]

lol its headshot for him , go go dude

his 24/7 on this web site and keep saying that ps3 got billion of great games and endless fun i dont know why he wont leave and play instend of talking !

[NO_PUDding]

Depends what Ucnharted 2 chnages.

The engine doesn't need to change for it to upgrade, but it needs to be different, and GeoW2 looks nigh on identical to GeoW.

And Uncharted won't get better at graphics, but hopefully it will play better. It's a good game, but certainly not AAA, so it may well be deserving of the moniker '2'.

Otherwise I agree dude.

[KBDuB]

The whole point of a sequel, other than to finish a story, is to keep the same look as the previous game with some improvements on the engine. Graphics on sequels won't change too drastically from the previous game, unless there is a change of platform. So when someone like AliTheChick says its "Gears 1.5" then Ali might as well say EVERY sequel is 1.5 or so on..

[NO_PUDding]

Yer they won't chnage drastically, btu anythign that was wrogn before will be corrected. I think maybe you are one of those people who just buy those endless sequels coming out of EA.

Sequeuls should improve and develop upon their predecessors, if that means better graphics then that's what they intend.

[KBDuB]

I do buy sequels from EA... as long as I liked the previous games. As for games like Madden, I only buy them every 3 or 4 years. And, sometimes it's hard to improve graphics on a already good looking game. For how good Gears 1 looked like, they don't even need to upgrade the graphics.

"Sequeuls should improve and develop upon their predecessors" Where did I say they didn't/don't?

[Strife Lives]

You need to ajust the spectagoggles you got on.cuz Im playing GeOW and Fifa08 every chance I get.And GeOW2 looks awesome.

[Slayer OP]

We dont need another game pormoting that crap.

[meepmoopmeep]

i don't see a game like Gears needing weapon customization.
it wouldn't hurt to have it but it wouldn't hurt not having it.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Why don't we just play Barbi dress up and paint our armor pink with purple poka dots?

[strotee]

you wouldn't have a problem with customization of cars removed from Forza?

[KBDuB]

Um. It's not the same thing.. How many guns have you seen that look like the guns from Army of Two? Now, how many racing cars have you seen that does not have some type of customization? Exactly.

Besides, in Gears of War 1, how many times did you just get to sit around, to where it could have been possible to customize your weapons? In Gears, your always on the move shooting people.

Now, for Forza.. After a race, you go back to a menu and you have the CHANCE, unlike Gears, to customize a car. In Forza, you don't just go to a race then automatically start a new race after finishing the first race.

[heyheyhey]

really? sounds like exactly the kind of game that could use a customization system

missed oppurtunity i say

imagine sticking a rocket launcher or some sh!t on an assault rifle to blast some foolish locust

[Strife Lives]

Im sure theres cutscenes (which use the game engine) that would show you ripping up locust with the chainsaw.so, what would you customise? Remove the chainsaw and add a grenade launcher? Or maybe,we could equip a light weight armor on Fenix,but then why would he run like a duck in a cutscene? Surely it wont be the weight. i think from a realistic point of view,its better.I mean,in Army Of Two its ok.but these guys arnt mercs,their using government equipment. i can imagine how many people would get court marshelled in war today for equiping a homemade chainsaw to their M16, or attaching swinging mechanisms to grenades to throw em.

[KBDuB]

This, in my opinion, does not need customization. Would it be nice? Yea. But, certainly won't affect the game not having it.

[Matpan]

I share KBDuB´s opinion. I don´t see the place where gun customization could fit in this game. Unless it is too different from GeoW1 (gameplay wise). There wasn´t a stable "base" or place where you returned from time to time, neither there was any kind of workshop, be it mobile or on a fixed spot. Plus, the game had you o a constant pace and always on the move.

Maybe gears 2 has changed that a little and, in the end, this idea could have applied... who knows, game is yet to be released. As far as the gameplay and pace remains the same as that of Gears 1 I really see it as a pointless add on which would not make much sense.

You want to fire a rocket?... switch to a rocket launcher, and then back to your rifle. The guys in gears are always moving, you can only carry two main weapons... Run out of ammo? better find some or discard and get a new weapon, that´s the kind of game gears is.

Sure, gun customization is a nice and welcome addition in almost every game. I just never thought of it as an optin for Gears, at least the way Gears plays and the story goes...

Had there been a geek/techno-like character in the party and a pause every now and then for him to "customize" your gear... But then again, that would have made for a less constant pace, and probably you would have to be on the watch for this character not to get killed all the time. And those are two thigs I liked from gears since the beginning: The always "on the move" feeling and knowing my partners are as bad ass as me :)

SO as far as it goes, I´m ok about this not happening. I am in for the same kind of experience as that of Gears 1, that was a GREAT game. Gears 2 should be another GREAT game. I´m not against innovation, I just think some things (core aspects) are better left untouched, and in my opinion, adding gun customization would require for some core aspects of the gameplay to be touched up.

My humble opinion :)

[gall0t671]

haha yeah, its badasss knowing my teammates are as badass as me and i dont have to care about his ass until he gets downed.

[deno]

i just want to play the game!!

[Blackcanary]

Untill i've seen the full game in action i'm not gonna judge if it should have that option or if it shouldn't and when i say seen i mean bought it and playued it. I just hope i have the money to so meny games i want that are coming out. And untill i've seen the finished version just like i did with MGS4 i'm not gonna say that the graphics are better than the First GeOW or better than MGS4. Need to see the Finished Product in my hand to belive which is better and i was ablle to buy the first GeOW cheap of EBAY so i know from that if this is a game for me.

[running rampid]

can we all please stop bashing the graphics of gears of war 2. Question for everyone, How many of you gamers have seen a sequel of a game on the same console look drastically brilliant. take rs1 and rs2 on ps3. see a difference? i think not. kz2 looks so much better than kz1 because it is on a new console. you do not expect a sequel on the same console to have vastly improved graphics. the changes come in other departments.

[Truplaya]

tekken 1 2 and 3 looked vastly different on the PSone. But then i think Gears2 looks miles better than the frist. Watch the trailer in HD on the marketplace and you can see it looks noticably better. All i keep seeing is tiny blurry screenshots comparting it to things, which you cant tell anything from.

[NewShadow101]

Everyone argues about the graphics on PS3 and XBOX360. if we took killzone or MGS4 and put it on the 360, it would be the same thing. just because games are made by different studios. like Gears and MGS4... graphics arent better... they're different.

[PS3ALLDAY122]

gays of war hahahahahahahaha POOR BOTS HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 1.5 thats good poor bots NOT

[tehReaper]

Wow, I can tell right now that you're a loser.

[Dmack79]

allowing this to happen. It's because they don't have enough development time on their hands. If M$oft let Epic delay their only exclusive "AAA" to 2009, then M$oft's 2008 line-up would look %110 PATHETIC and even LAUGHABLE! :)

Man, It MUST SUCK to be a 360 xbot. haha

[DarkSniper]

With each impending news release regarding Gears of War 2, this already mediocre shooter begins to look worse and worse.

$niper

[tehReaper]

Stay out of 360 posts, troll. Just because you won't get to play it, doesn't mean you have to cry. Calling Gears mediocre, is like calling MGS4 mediocre. If you don't like Gears, then just STFU. Stay in Sony posts where you belong.

Bias piece of..nevermind.

[pimpstation]

Good point Sniper. The only "upgrade" I've seen in this one so far is that they've changed everything from gray to brown.

[tehReaper]

Wow, there's someone as sad and pathetic as DarkSniper. Who knew?

Why are so many droids in this post? This is getting rediculous.

[Spydiggity]

why in the hell is the subsection of another article now it's own article?

this is dumb.

does this site even post news anymore?

[princejb134]

dam no customization for gears
well its not like gears really needed it
but personally i didnt like gears much they turn around so slow and move to slow for my pace