Gears Of War 2 Review (bornagamer.com)

bornagamer.com: Gears Of War fans have been waiting for Gears Of War 2 ever since they completed the original Gears Of War, and now that time is finally coming Gears Of War 2 releases Nov. 7th and we've gotten our hands on it early and are bringing you the fans the first official review of this terrific third person shooter.

[Jandre02]

is this site legit?

[Flop Runs Deep]

And it proves Gears of War 2 has too many flaws to make it perfect!!

[theKiller]

so long for a biggest game of the 360 year!....ow wait there was no big game for 360 all year???OMG

it looks gear of war 2 turned out like i said gears of war 1.2!

[Imallvol7]

Can't wait to start playing it. The new commercial is AWESOME.

[La Chance]

Looks like Gears 2 is at least as good as the first one.

That means day 1 one purchase for me.Everyone who's already played Gears know what I mean :)

edit : just checked the first video , if thats the ad then yeah thats one crazy ad.

[Jandre02]

just like the last one

[Jock]

If GoW2 is as good as the 1st one then that means it's not that good other than the MP the Campaign was quite underwhelming to say the least and it's still just 6 hrs long in GoW2...

but good you get to enjoy laggy 5 vs 5 Player modes online...while I can enjoy 60 player online matches...^_^

[RebornSpy]

Was it a bad game, too? Of course not.

[power of Green]

Gears is an cover based 3rd person tactical shooter and R2 is and average frag fest title with lots of fragging(frantic mess/60 players) with average visuals lol.

[PS3n360]

Just cant stand the site of a burly hero in your games? go play Final F4gtasy so you can be a half boy half girl pu$$y with Prince's wardrobe. Gears doesn't make your favourite game less fun so what are you so concearned about?

[iHEARTboobs]

MGS4 was 6 hours long? Where did you get that from? It took me close to 30 with maybe a third of that being cut scenes. But i do agree, if a game is good, it's good regardless of length but i'm sure most would like their games to last longer than 15+ hours.

edit: Arrgh, that's true, and it goes both ways. But you know, you can't ever reason with fanboys.

[thewhoopimen]

Personally, I thought this review was written rather poorly. Yes the game deserves its score, but this review didn't get much into details and kind of breezed over some of the more interesting points about the game. Didn't learn much from this review except that the author loves the game.

[red5ive]

user review??

[Downtown boogey]

MGS4 wasn't 6 hours long! WTF, man? The cutscenes alone take about 10 hours. The avarage playthrough time (1st playthrough) for MGS4 is 22 hours. I managed to complete the game in 2h 34min tho ;)

[Omega4]

Im sure online reviews arent allowed to be released till Nov. 3 at least thats what IGN said

[Jandre02]

I think they reviewed the bootleg version. I was thinking the same thing as I was looking at it.

How does this no name site get to review it, yet we don't see 1up, IGN, Gamespot, Eurogamer, Edge, etc.

I don't think this is a permitted review, and it definitely isn't the final version since I would think it would be receiving a patch on release day.

And once again, I think R2 will be better, but I don't think we will need fake reviews to prove it. Gears 2 will be the second best shooter this generation, and I think epic deserves legit reviews.

[N4PS3G]

smells fishy

this site is completly covered in LBP media ..from the name to the background

and this is their ONLY game review

plus this game embargo end on NOV 3rd

.... emmmm .. im going yo say no

[trancefreak]

The website isnt mainstream with 1 review lol but im sure gears is still worthy of a 9 though :)

[Flop Runs Deep]

Not perfect!!!

[fufotrufo]

lol.. this is their first review ever

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

@fufotrufo

Shame they are reviewing a flop,isn't it?

[Deadman64]

Lord do you have friends outside of your fellow sony fanboys on here??

[fufotrufo]

umm don't think so

last time i cheked ..the review was for Gears 2 ..not Flopcom and Motorflop 2

:)

[lawman1108]

And THAT's a FACT. Viva Pinata sold more then Unfarted *OUCH*

[Lord Shuhei Yoshida]

I don't trust this review either.I'll wait for IGN or Gamepro to have their say on Gears of War 2

[titntin]

Its a dreadful review, and obviously derived from playing a downloaded version - its been available for a few days now.

[fafoon]

By Who ?

[MvmntInGrn]

9/10 is great.

[sajj316]

Sorry bornagamer ... but please prove that you reviewed a retail copy! If not, this review is invalid.

[titntin]

The pirated version is a retail rip - the code is identical.

You can argue about ethics, but the game being played by pirates is exactly the same as the retail code you will be playing when you buy the disc.

[sajj316]

tintin ... my point is that he is reviewing a pirated copy. Whether its a retail rip or not is not my argument. Allowing these types of reviews on N4G sets a bad precedence. That is my point.

[titntin]

Sorry - I missed your original point! Yes I guess I'd agree with that.

Though to be honest, it should be disallowed on the grounds of how lame it is. I feel guilty as I gave it the final 2 approval points, instantly regretted it, and couldn't withdraw them (if its fully approved you can't withdraw your approval.)

[kingme71]

First official review? I don't imagine that person was old enough to play M rated games by the text of that review.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Spam

[dkgshiz]

mmmmmmmmm, more generic sites!

[MvmntInGrn]

lol people anyone can right a review. And there are plenty of retail copies floating around.

[CViper]

this 9/10 is valid, as valid as anyone else without a degree in journalism, like 99.9% of the websites out there.

[stephen2005]

Another 9 game, huh? Man there have been alot of them lately.

Definitely a great time to be a gamer. There are just so many good games coming out.

[kevnb]

maybe ill repurchase a 360. For Gears 1, I only enjoyed the single player... which was just too short to buy a console over.

[name]

lbp getting a 9 from gamespot= flop though

[Freak of Nature]

Anybody that gives LBP or Gears 2 less then a 9.5 should be flogged...

[Freak of Nature]

This review seemed to be nothing but a "rehashed" everything we all already know about the game. In no way is this "up-start" came from no where site getting the first stab at a review of this incredible game.

Anyways,it's not too far fetched to quess that this game has block-buster written all over it. Titles like this and LBP for example are a rare breed,as special as they come....

[Jill Valentine]

ps3 fanboys bring the generic fps again. resistance su8cks, who cares about 60 players,more does not mean better.it's a gimmick ,you mad gears outsold r1 and gears 2 will do the same to generic fps 2.

[elorm9]

So what do you have to say about Halo now? That it too is a generic shooter? ;)

[bornagamer]

This review was by me, any problems with it or questions feel free to ask me and i did this review based on my opinions on this great game. I got this game 4 days ago sold to me at a gamestop where they broke the street date and i purchased it and reviewed it for my website bornagamer.com since then. thank you, god bless.

PS. I kept the review brief because I didn't want to spoil a big game for anyone.

[GiantEnemyCrab]

I have a question. If it's an "official review" then why are you not respecting the embargo that all "officially reviewing" websites have to follow?

[stickskills]

Mind showing us your gamertag so we can check out which achievements you've unlocked? Please don't pull the "I don't have a gold account or online", because you're using a PC and work for a gaming site, apparently. Just use a 48 hour trial, and log on so we can see what you've unlocked.

[stickskills]

This is supposed to be a review? There's nothing in-depth about this, it just seems as if they read a preview for the game, and retold information that's been known about the title for months now.

[bornagamer]

Watch the second video in my review, you will see the achievements i unlocked. I do own a retail copy, No bootleg stores sell before street date all the time. This is my first review I ever made and because it is a big title I wanted to put something up on my site, for viewers to see. I liked mostly everything about this game besides "Meatflag" as I expressed in the review. I also did not want to go in depth about the sotry because I did not wan't to spoil it. Feel free to PM me questions and i will answer them if you want to be spoiled, I just did'nt want that in my sites review.

[stickskills]

If you've unlocked the achievements, then you'll have no problem providing us your gamertag. I'll be waiting, thanks.

[bornagamer]

Check your PMs sir...

[m23]

Who is this guy? The writing is horrible and he didn't even talk about the negatives about the game, why it got a 9. I'm still waiting for the scans from oxm uk

[Egzekutor]

this is supposed to be the AAA title ??
Gears of Glitches 2

[stickskills]

I found out that his gamertag is Phillycustoms. As you'll notice, by looking at his gamercard, he has unlocked ZERO achievements for Gears of War 2. While it does show up on his profile, it's only because he would be running, what I believe to be at least, a ripped copy of the game.

How could you have beaten the story, with zero achievements? How could you have sampled a ton of multiplayer, with zero achievements? Unless you have another gamertag that I'm obviously not aware of, then I have a feeling you've pulled an idiotic move, like I originally thought.

http://live.xbox.com/en-US/...

You have well over 13k in gamerscore, so I'm sure this is your usual gamertag.

[bornagamer]

XBOX.com doesn't have the achievement's listed because the game hasn't been released yet. but if you add me to your friends on xbox live you will see that i do have the achievements you recieve when beating the game unlocked.

I DO own a retail copy, My gamestop broke street date.

[stickskills]

While I talk with my reps from Microsoft Game Studios & Epic almost daily, there IS an embargo on the title. Even if you are to own a legit copy of the game, you do realize that there is an embargo on posting a review for the title.

[air1]

i said it a million times, if a 9 is a flop than 99.99% of all ps3 games shoould have never been released.

[shawnsl65]

you do realise that most PS3 games are also Xbox360's game right? fanboys these day, you people are like a debate team. argue back and forth while us real gamers enjoy games on both system.

[bornagamer]

My review was a User review/opinion nothing more.

Here is a video for you though of the achievements....
http://blip.tv/file/1394019

PS. get off my case im doing nothing wrong.

[sajj316]

ok. thanks for the proof. Now show us a image of the game box with a note (preferably sticky) saying that this is for N4G users as proof! Just kidding ... although if you happened to have it ... it would be more credible.

Not sure about this but is his review under the game review embargo? He isn't gaming media ... but its still an online review. By that definition the user reviews on metacritic are also invalid :)

[N4PS3G]

I'm not who to disagree with your score ..and i don't doubt that you played it ..but this is just a user review and should not be counted in the actual score list

[stickskills]

They can be gained in the ripped version, so posting an achievements video does nothing.

[OOG]

lmao even tho its whatever....like really who cares about reviews....but really?????

Does this site honestly post wannabe reviewers now???? People who have no credibility at all?

[vmanj]

k im confuzed...how do gamez like farcry 2, GTA 4, Fallout3 have such great visuals,campaign, multiplayer and have a 30 hour campaign!!! If they can fit all tht onto a DVD than y does gearz barely have 8 hourz of campaign. i mean the graphicz arent tht much better than farcry 2z so are the devloperz just lazy or is tht the how much they can fit??? any1 no???

[JBblizzard]

GTA 4 is a sandbox game and fallout is more of an RPG shooter type so you expect longer gaming time. With a game like gears it comes with a compacted single player with a good online system to boot.

To answer your question, the developers could indeed make it a longer game. But you dont understand the amount of money, time, skill, it takes to make these games. Those 8-12 little hours takes years to make them look and play as smooth as gears do, than add custom monsters, sound effects, voice actors, etc Etc ETC... THAN toss in an online factor and co-op factor. Its really hairy man...

[FailStation3]

AAA kick ass.

[360 man]

the only flops im seeing of late is socom and motorstorm 2

so please sony people just give it a rest

[TheDeadMetalhead]

9/10? More like a 4.1! Hell, just look at this article!

http://www.n4g.com/xbox360/...

Queers of Flop 2 fails...hard. :D

[360 man]

look how can u talk about flops

when socoms getting 6.5/10s
and motorstorm 2 is getting 6/10s

[TheDeadMetalhead]

Too Human = 6.8
Infinite Undiscovery = 6.8

Both were hyped to no end
Both were supposed to be AAA titles
Both were flops

Too Human fails
Infinite Undiscovery Fails
360 fails
you fail

[Daz]

you both fail in life.

[Keele]

So 9.0 is a flop now? Do you even want to go there?

[lawman1108]

Your an idiot.......MGs4 ONLY sold 3 million and GOW2 will do that or better in 1 week.

[she00win99]

ms wants to remove the review because he didn't give a perfect score..

[shawnsl65]

haha~~~ nice avatar kz2?

"Sorry, we were contacted by Microsoft Game Studios and had to remove our review because it violated their review embargo for Gears Of War 2. We will repost this review upon Gears Of War 2’s official release. Stay tuned…"

"you gave it a 9! how dare u! remove it now now now!"

off topic: i guess people figure MS has so much money to toss around, people start to download games instead of supporting the company.

[she00win99]

"you gave it a 9! how dare u! remove it now now now!" - hahaha!!!

[Keele]

Children are so easily amused.

[Boty]

"Don't call people idiots when you're as much an idiot as they are."

By: Kelee
@ : Kelee

[Keele]

That would've been a good comeback had I called them idiots.

I called them children, not idiots which is why your post failed.

[Boty]

Right over your head.

I'm sorry Kelee for not clarifying what I meant.

What I really meant was that you were calling the pot black. Your the kettle.

[rbluetank]

the beta for R2 is great to say the least///

Yes R2 has blue ray; but still gears should be longer then 6 to 8 hours. Gears2 is a good looking game but the dev are lazy. you fight 5 to 7 enemies if you are luck in a single section. The 6 to 7 enemies in one section involves you "shooting the tank" and the level is complete with a check point. The game is very,very, very empty!!! They let you walk 3 blocks chewing bubble gum and holding DOMS hand until the next sections starts. you are doing the same thing over and over. you should be fighting block to block not three block apart from each other. the leaked videos of the boss battles let you know how "sdam" lazy the Devs are. they try to pull the same lazy "hitstee" tactics again but in a bigger,better and more badass approach. lol The monster bites the boat and you run into his mouth after you shoot him in the eye..WTF What happen to the boomshot,gernades,Torque Bow,flamthrower,motar,hammer of dawn or at least the mulcher.. Why on earth do you got to larua croft the boss enemies in gears of war2 instead of kicking his asstray with your weapons of mass destruction. i won't tell you how they copied the exact same monster in the facluty. opps!! i just did but it the last monster you fight in the game.. lmao my bad!! FYI i will buy gears2 but it looks disappointing to me.. there are alot great game out there that i do not want to mess up my money on this game that might not be worthy my money.

FYI
i want to thank you for the information you gave us on gears 2. there is too many games comming out this year to not be informed on what games are bad, good or great. Bornagammer

[macca28]

ive played and completed gears 2 and the pirate copy is the proper release that you will get in the shops there are hundreds of people online now with gears 2 and this game is the best game you will see this year on any platform

[robotnik]

Gears 2 = born to be a flop