Exclusive: Gears of War 2 vs Gears of War comparison video

Eurogamer Portugal published an exclusive video comparing Gears of War 2 and Gears of War. Enjoy!

[elorm9]

It looks better than the first...

[Mandaspt]

For me, its more of the same. Im not saying that the game is bad, but does not bring anything new.

[na2ru1]

was the 2 in front of War.

[lokiroo420]

From the video I thought the first looks better, but maybe thats just me, anybody else? Again this is just from the video shown so....

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I can't believe people don't notice the difference in game?!

There is far better texture and detail on everything. I noticed it immediately and was wowed. To me, this game is graphically one of the best I have seen this generation. This game should really be played to tell the difference, not from a video with compression artifacts.

This game is also a sequel on the same platform, so with some optimization you will see some differences. However, expecting leaps and bounds in graphical department is not going to happen. That is the side effect of having a system that is easy to program for. You get almost all the power immediately, but there aren't many chances to tweak for more improvement....

All that aside, it is gameplay, storyline, setting and finally graphics that set the game apart... not one or the other.

[Rigmaster]

The real test of how little the difference between the two games graphics are was back a few months ago when someone posted sideby side comparison shots and got the labels for the images switched.

And...

Huge numbers of people went on and on about how amazing the improvements were and how they really liked the new look and were declaring triumph that it proved the Xbox had more power in it still.

And then it was pointed out they were accidentally hyping the Gears of War 1 screenshots...

[rbluetank]

gears1 wins hands down on everything else. gear2 is a major fail on story and lame boss fights. gears2 online just sucks lemons compared to gears1.

[denied]

graphics are the same YAY

[denied]

look the same lame as hell..the point of making a sequel you need to make some inprovement on the graphics,which you dont see any at all...call me a fanboy but atleast i ma bein honest..:P

[SnprSlick]

Oh? I thought the point of a sequel was to improve on the past games.
Gameplay-New game modes better mechanics.
Graphics-a few touch-ups nothing too big.
Story-hell of a lot better

I didn't know that graphics made a game....

[StephanieBBB]

I can understand Denied and imo graphics is a big part of having the difference between an expansion like wotlk or a sequal that would be wow 2.

Gears of war 2 feels like a expansion to gears of war imo or it's walking on a very fine line between expansion and sequal. I read somewhere that Uncharted 2 will have the same graphics as original Uncharted and if that happens I will see it like an expansion too.

A true sequal to me is a total new experience but with the same characteristics as the first title. Killzone 2 is a great example of that or fable 2. Im afraid Gears of war 2 doesn't coop with time like other titles.

But Gears2 is still great. Don't get me wrong.

[RememberThe357]

The end of Gears 2 was pretty damn good, but I much preferred the close combat of the first.

[diefor]

It looks better than the first. More bright.

[freeman29]

Gears 2 rocks ;).

[Fobuo]

Other than that,the graphical leap is minimal.

[MURKERR]

shows how strong the 1st was, improvements were made to how characters controls and the story, graphically 360 hasnt got the power to surpass the original by huge margins

[elorm9]

It just seems to me like there's more sharpness and they used more colors

[sniper4534]

men that website is so slow i takes 5 minutes to to stream a 5 seconds clip lol

[AngryHippo]

....more PS3 fans caring about a 360 title than 360 fans. The game is fantastic, it sold millions and had great reviews, and yet people still complain. It seems to be the only people complaining about there not being a massive improvement over the original graphics wise are PS3 fans?!go figure.

In my opinion there is a vast improvement in graphics over the original, bigger scale, better textures, more variety in environments, and awesome flesh effects. I think the game looks amazing. Stop moaning people.

[Time_Is_On_My_Side]

Lets not jump out of our seat here, yes the first game was a true next generation game at the time. Even though this wasn't mentioned much the first one had problems with its covering system. You press "A" for everything and the covering system was sticky. When you try to run you go into cover and when you want to run out of cover your roll onto more cover.

Now with PlayStation 3 titles running at 1080p at 60fps when Microsoft said was impossible it isn't as new anymore. You have to look at times at time frames to see what was considered amazing to compare it to now. I haven't picked up the new one because of that reason you're in cover like 90% of the time. So if the covering system isn't working properly why would I buy the sequel?

[caladbolg777]

Your comment, although its contents may be valid, are muddle by the fact that you're a twat.

[baum]

"The game sold millions"

lol, it's not like you can play the whole game before buying it you dips. But if you can, what's the point of buying it?

"Review scores"

Paid lobbyists.

[Gue1]

dammit! i don't have a single friend with a fully functional X360 to play GeoW2. i don't have anywhere to go now to play it and the game looks so good.

[rev20]

I just downloaded the Gold lancer on GoW2 saves me having to buy the limited edition.

http://marketplace.xbox.com...

Don't know if its a mistake or their just giving it away.

[DNAgent]

They both look the same. Are they trying to compare something other than graphics?

[redmac]

agree, what is the big difference here. Both looks almost the same.

[sugard0]

I see a difference in lighting, but as far as textures go, they are both the same. Not many things happening on screen except for in the cutscenes, and it looks pretty linear. But none of us can say that this is not possible on the PS3.

[dkgshiz]

PS3 is more powerful, its just facts. And they did have UT3 on the PS3. UT3 looks the same as GOW 2.

[dkgshiz]

Why? Because its the Unreal 3 engine. GOW 2 looks the same as GOW 1, and UT3. GOW 2 looked a little brighter.

[TruthBTold]

I have never really played much of GeoW so I dont know the scenes by heart so for me its hard to tell the difference between 1 and 2 because they look very similar. Not that its a bad thing but just hard to see much difference between them. But Gears to me is the best game on 360, truly looks great and very badass.

[Siqness]

of course it wud look the same u idits....they both use the same engine

[chfthnder26]

obviously u guys that say it looks the same have not actually played the sequal everything about gears 2 is bigger literally the environments, the amount of locusts on screen, the battles and the monsters it is really truely an epic game to play oh and as soon as you start playing the game u can tell the graphics have been improved

[baum]

The dialogues are sh1tty in both anyway

[austere]

yep looks pretty much the same except a few more flashy lights on their armor I think. Which doesn't really matter since almost everyone believes the first Gears (and now the 2nd) are one of the best looking games made for consoles.

[JasonXE]

You start off saying "Hey this is gears of war 1" but when you enter the locust caves....oh will you think differently or at least slightly differently. They definitely did some extra fine tuning.

[tehReaper]

Yeah, when I first saw the caves I was surprised. So much detail and the colors really stand out. It didn't give me a depressed feeling like the first game's caves did.

[SIX]

The caves really do look good. My personal favorite is when the town collapses into the caves. The fire and particles is really impressive. I do find that the models on the characters and their armor is a little low res though when compared to how they are in the first game.