Videogamer: Gears of War 2 First Look Preview

Videogamer writes: "Epic mega dude Cliff Bleszinski has revealed brand new Gears of War 2 multiplayer details to US site 1UP, which aim to address some of players' bug bears with the first game.

However, Epic won't be implementing clan support, a move which will disappoint many fans. The developer is instead concentrating on providing a "rich party system".

Chief among the Gears of War 2 online hit list is eliminating host advantage. To do this Epic will be offloading the voice server from the host to other servers. Bleszinski told 1UP: 'Host advantage is something we're very much concerned about. We want to bring the performance of everybody else across the board that much higher as far as network optimisation so everybody has a far more consistent experience.'"