G4tv.com Gears of War 2 Hands-On Impressions (PAX)

G4tv.com writes: "One of the biggest reasons to come to PAX 2008 is the first public hands-on showing of the highly-anticipated Gears of War 2 multiplayer modes. We put some time in with the game and are ready to give you our hands-on impressions of Epic's great follow-up to the highly addiction multiplayer of the original Gears of War.

So is the game 'bigger, better, and more badass?'

Yes. Yes it is. If you were a fan of the original Gears, we're pretty sure you're also going to love Gears of War 2. It takes everything that was great about the first game, amps it up, and adds a lot of new things to freshen up the gameplay."

[Filet of Children]

Aaaaand my excitement for this game jumps another notch :)

[Gam71]

2 people think this hasn't made your excitement jump a notch.

So are you lying? and do those strangers who know nothing about you actually know something that you don't about what you like and don't like?

[Filet of Children]

Yeah, but 5 people so far seem to agree with me. I figure that two of the agrees cancel out the two disagrees, so in reality 3 people agree that I'm excited about the game.

And really, thank heavens. I genuinely thought I was excited, I'd hate to find out that I was mistaken.

[Gam71]

Whoa, Ok read the sarcasm in my post.

i was on your side. Clearly over your head.

I was having ago at the people for disagreeing with you that your excited about a game.

How would they know as you're talking about yourself so they have no right to disagree.

In future i'll leave you to it as it'll obviously cause trouble with you.

[Filet of Children]

I think maybe *my* head isn't what anything went over, friend ;) Recalibrate your sarcasm detector and get back to me, haha.

[Gam71]

reality is 5 people agree (including me) agree that your excited not 3. The two don't cancel anything out.

The two are from trolls who disagree because you said you wanted a game thats on the 360 and not their console.

2 people that shouldn't be here.

I'm excited about this game and don't want people telling me i'm not.

[mfwahwah]

In reality, 3 peopled didn't get excited. 5 did. Not including post 1. Agree / Disagree saves bubbles by allowing us to comment with it in situations like that. Don't like it? Then don't pay attention to it.

[JOLLY1]

It is an absolute blast!!!! I also played another shooter that is coming out around the same time. It was a total let-down graphics weren't up to Gears and the controls just don't feel right. Oh well, glad I got Gears coming!

[etownone]

Gears is one of my favorits games of all time, and the multi-player is the most additive fun i've had in years... so i'm totally jealous...

BUT.. you gotta let it out.. what was that other game you played that let you down? c'mon, you can tell, nobody's listening :)

[JOLLY1]

It was resistance 2. I am not trying to start a flame war or anything. Everything just didn't look good. I only played the multiplayer maps. That might be the reason they didn't look too good, but still. The multiplayer Gears maps looked awesome! Yes, I know there are less people playing in the map, but the eye candy was so good!

[etownone]

thanks bro...I kinda had the feeling you were talking about ReFOM2..

game still looks good IMO.

[JOLLY1]

It just doesn't look great. It just looks typical.

[Dyingduck]

Sounds like an over-hyped flop - the author tries so hard to make it sound "interesting" and "refreshing" but overall, nothing seems to be "innovating" comparing to the superior version of Gears1 on my PC atm...

Nice try.

Now, going from R1 to R2 => definitely noticing a big change/improvement

Gears2 seems a bit dull, boring and linear like the first

[AngryXbot]

More of the same.

This is the same game as GeOW1 except with some minor additions. Lmao its true what they say: GeOW 1.5

Yes, one point fking five.

[Gam71]

both killzone and resistance needed BIG improvements whereas GoW1 didn't.

But if trolling here makes you feel better.

Heres a tissue for you.

Hope you enjoyed r0.5 and killzone ifonlyitwasthee32005trailor.
And hope you enjoy r"finally 1" and killzone maybee32006trailor?

[pp]

Nice try its hard to admit your jealous also good news gears of war 2 is xbox360 exclusive and will not be coming to pc ever so driods get a xbox360 and enjoy this monstrously graphical powerhouse of a game gears of war 2 only possible on xbox360

[Filet of Children]

That's not entirely accurate though - word is that Epic won't be porting the game to PC, but that's not to say that they won't have someone else do it.

[Gam71]

wont happen.

if epic wont they wont hire out

[cemelc]

Of course they would say "its not coming to the PC",anyone with half brain would wait for a pc version of anything, cos PC got more power than anything, thats a no brainer.

Why the hell will you buy a 360 version if you know its coming with improved graphics, and can add your own mods to it. Are you crazy?

They are going to wait till february and say "the PC version is on the way", thats just natural or else nobody would buy the 360 version, see in the video games world these things happens all the time bioshock(PS3), eternal sonata(PS3), gears 1(PC), fable(PC), dead rising(wii),Mass Effect(PC),the soon to be announced Tales of Vesperia(PS3),all of the square RPG, probably as soon as square buys Tecmo well see ninja gaiden 2(PS3) and dead or alive(PS3), the only difference is that in all this games developers have to get rid off the bugs and add content in order to appeal to the PS3,PC or Wii crowd to buy their games, so all things considered you will have to expend 10$ more on DCT on a game that already cost you 60$ in order to be on pair with the others versions that already bring all that to table, so you expend 70$ on a game and ill pay 60$ sounds fair to me, no wait in this case is even cheaper cos is a pc game so.... suck on that.

[InMyOpinion]

Haters can try to downplay it all they want. Gears of war 2 won't disappoint.

[THE TERMINATOR]

same old, same old.
Get ready for alot of bribed reviews.

[Daz]

So sony are good and dont do nothing wrong . lol get your head out sony arse.

[doshey]

i still aint buying it cuz i dont see a reason why i should buy a 360

[Atomic]

.....

[Atomic]

With a phrase like that , you know the game is targeting the 13 years old crowd.

[GameOn]

when 13 Yr olds arnt old enough to play it.

[Atomic]

you haven't played on Xbox live?

[GameOn]

I have. I play gears quite a lot online. About 5%-10% of the people I play are kids which isn't too bad. Maybe I get lucky.

Now I think about it I do spend quite a lot of time in private chat as well. Any how F*ck annoying little kids on live, I just mute them straight away.

[divideby0]

I will have to find a free trial Live subscription for this game. Since I no longer support the pay to play games online...and thats from a day one Live gold subscriber

[LittleBigKillzone]

It might just be my imagination but does it seem like this game really isnt as hyped as its suppose to be?! I think ever since sony unveiled more videos and info about Killzone'2 multiplayer, more revealed about LittleBigplanet, eyepet, and more info about resistance 2 that Gears 2 just doesnt seem to be as hyped anymore nowhere near the hype of Gears 1

I have to admit, I own both consoles and Gears of war was and probably still is my favorite game this gen but for some reason Gears 2 just doesnt seem to impress as much anymore that much after seeing such games like Socom,resistance 2, LBP and Killzone 2.

You have to understand that when Gears 1 came out there was NO other games worth looking at and certainly no other games that looked as good but now Gears 2 just seems more of the same. MS doesnt even seem to be hyping Gears 2 as much as the first one.

[Gam71]

they dont need to hype it and with a tag like yours i 'm sure you're concerned about a non ps game.
I believe you when you say you played the first one,
and i didn't laugh when you said you own both consoles

Of course GoW2 doesn't impress you. Your a troll.
Your here to spread you bias which is negative against this game.

Littlebigkillzone and you're trying to be impartial?
do me a favour.

you're a troll. You have no interest in gaming or this game. You just want to make yourself feel better.

GoW2 looks better than r2 lets hope they improved the gameplay from the first for r2, same for kz2, lbp i can find puzzle games on kontraband so unless its budget it's a rip-off, the first socom was good so maybe this will.
In fact maybe they all will be but one thing i've never understood is how trolls can say a first game was bad (r2 kz2) but think the second will be better when the say because a game like fable was crap (their opinion) then second will be as well?
Guess thats why they're trolls, but then they say a game (GoW1) was good but the second wilol be bad because its like the first one!?!

what do you want? the sequal to be a racing game? rpg?

Of course it will be like the first thats what people want, more of the same. A continuation of the first game they enjoyed so much. Just because kz2 and r2 needed to be remade completely to become good games doesn't mean a good game to start with does.

Stick to your ps loving threads (which seem to involve a lot of 360 hating even though the thread hasn't been hijacked by 360 owners, insecure) and leave our threads to us.

[RoidRage]

Resistance is a generic shooter, and Resistance 2 looks to be more of it. I would take Gears over any PS3 shooter, including KZ2.

Gam71 +bubbles for saying pretty much exactlly what I was thinking.

[PiTCHBLaCK]

Lots of bashing, someone speaks there opinion there
called a fanboy or a Liar, go figure.

[v1c1ous]

"Smoke Grenade (UPDATED) - Get ready for this... smoke grenades are useful now. Extremely useful. All players start with two smoke grenades and will actually use them. The new smoke grenades will send enemies flying with a forceful explosion before laying down a smoke screen. This is great for clearing out the area around a power weapon and grabbing a bigger gun while your enemies struggle to their feet."

Uhh...smoke grenades were always useful :/

when you're pinned in an area by a sniper, a smoke grenade was sometimes your only hope of closing the distance.

sometimes i set off a smoke grenade in a far away area to confuse my enemies and pick them off from a safe place.

[zethos56]

G4 is slow. The improved Smokes were reveled back at E3 I think. Atleast now I know that there are two.

[TheXgamerLive]

You girls have sand in your Vagina's again?

[mfwahwah]

"Thankfully, adding two more players doesn't seem to have slowed down the game and it runs smooth, even is the most hectic firefights. We cannot comment on how these two extra gamers will affect lag over Xbox Live as we were playing over a local System Link."

Is this a joke? Do they really think that 2 extra people can lag out a 360? Seriously, I didn't even have that as a concern lol.

[Gam71]

I didn't get that either.

Unless more on screen means the xbox slows down and thats the "lag" they are talking about but if they are touting 100 enemies on screen then an extra two in multiplayer shouldn't be taxing on the console.

[JOLLY1]

What people are worried about is internet connections. Also when explosions and physics happen in the levels, that all has to be sent to all other 9 people that are playing. It is a lot easier to have 60 players online with nothing happening in the environment, than it is to have 10 with levels that can be manipulated.

[Droid]

-lmfao. it's funny cuz it's true! hahaha.....K.

"At the end of the day, Gears of War 2 takes the team-oriented gameplay from the original game to the next level. There are more options, balance fixes, and two more players. We still regularly play Gears of War, and we're looking forward to playing Gears of War 2 for the next 2 years."

--Gears 2 is going to be the #1 MP experience in gaming history. NOTHING offers this much depth in the gameplay departnment.. NOTHING. PERIOD.

...and you poor droids will be playing the sequel to a generic launch shooter and another flopped shooter on PS2. choose your pick! LOOL. enjoy those orgy chat rooms. more = better! right?

[pshizle]

5/10 from xplay???

so no one bring up any other shooter

GEARSOFWAR2 will be amazing!!!!!!!!!!

[Tacki]

I think you're talking about Gamesradar? They were the ones who did those ridiculous game reviews based on demos and limited play time. But really there's no reason to pit any games against one another. Least of all a FPS and a TPS. There's already enough of that in these comments. Not exactly saying you were... just saying that it shouldn't be done in my opinion.

On topic now, I'm really interested to see how much of a defense the shield will be against a flamethrower. I'd assume you'd still take damage from the flames... but I'm curious just how much it will be reduced, if at all. All sounds perty nice though!

[batichon frandy]

BETTER THAN MGS4

[KILLERAPP]

Hey jolly you’re a joke when you stop creating 6 to 7 accounts to give your self’s bubbles and stop been a fan boy then you can talk, go home to your mother and cry and stop tacking about R2 just because gears doest innovate doest give you the right to talk about other games that you don’t even play. Idiot, fan boy.