Why are you making these rash judgements from one of thee crapiest game capturing methods and on top of that it's youtube quality? I guess you didn't notice the hostage taking, the fact that you can limp away from the firefight if your down as shown at 3:02 (I didn't even know you could do that until I saw this vid), the new scoreboard, minor destructible environments as shown at 4:52. From this video you are not going to be able to see graphical updates and technical updates because the video is so crappy, all it will show are new moves and very visible updates.
And of course Gears 2 will play like Gears 1 because sequals are basically updated versions of the previous version with a new campaign, that's the point. If they drastically changed how it played then it wouldn't feel like a sequel.
All I can say is watch out COD 4, because your #1 spot on Xbox Live is going to be drawing to a close.
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