Official Gears of War 2 Discussion Thread

i'm no die hard fan of either GoW or Halo 3, but I'm noticing that quite a few things are being taken from other games like the shield thing, the proximity grenades.....it just felt unoriginal.....even the meatbagging doesn't seem too new of a concept.
I just hope that there isn't going to be a line for chainsaw kills like there was in the first one. I hope it is slice and go, not wait for the guy to finish his chainsaw cinematic so you can chainsaw him after he's done chainsawing your teammate.
 
[quote name='Wolve11']
I just hope that there isn't going to be a line for chainsaw kills like there was in the first one. I hope it is slice and go, not wait for the guy to finish his chainsaw cinematic so you can chainsaw him after he's done chainsawing your teammate.[/QUOTE]

seems you haven't been reading up on the changes in the game. you should be happy.
 
[quote name='RelentlessRolento']seems you haven't been reading up on the changes in the game. you should be happy.[/quote]

I haven't really. Like I said, I am by no means a big fan of this game, but I will still give the sequal a shot because mainly everyone on my friends list will be playing it. If I don't like it though, i'll move on. Still I'm liking a lot of the changes they are making.
 
[quote name='Wolve11']I haven't really. Like I said, I am by no means a big fan of this game, but I will still give the sequal a shot because mainly everyone on my friends list will be playing it. If I don't like it though, i'll move on. Still I'm liking a lot of the changes they are making.[/QUOTE]

Cliff said in another video that is one of the things they changed that they didn't like. They want chainsawing to be risky, and if you do it, you can easily get killed while doing it.
 
In the new GT vid, they said if you're running and you're getting shot, you actually slow down. So really, no more of those easy shotgun kills. Heh. Sounds like they're really trying to balance the weapons this time around, or at least make each weapon useful.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']Cliff said in another video that is one of the things they changed that they didn't like. They want chainsawing to be risky, and if you do it, you can easily get killed while doing it.[/quote]

That was one of the many things that really annoyed me. I could be shooting a guy several times with a shotgun from point blank range only to have him dive away and then come back and chainsaw me.
 
[quote name='Quintessence']That was one of the many things that really annoyed me. I could be shooting a guy several times with a shotgun from point blank range only to have him dive away and then come back and chainsaw me.[/QUOTE]

Well, that in particular is still probably possible. It's just that now, while he's chainsawing you, your buddy can kill him while he does it.
 
I am wondering, since now your enemy's can be hurt while chainsawing, if there will be additional animations for when someone is getting chainsawed and the person dies. I would like to see someone dead on the ground from only being half chainsawed.
 
[quote name='ighosty']I am wondering, since now your enemy's can be hurt while chainsawing, if there will be additional animations for when someone is getting chainsawed and the person dies. I would like to see someone dead on the ground from only being half chainsawed.[/QUOTE]

Probably just explode like in the first Gears.
 
just one factor im waiting to see which will determine whether i get this game or play GOW on launch night for the 2nd, will multiplayer have tanks, planes, and crap. If so, I will buy this game and piss on it.
 
[quote name='dudedizzle27']just one factor im waiting to see which will determine whether i get this game or play GOW on launch night for the 2nd, will multiplayer have tanks, planes, and crap. If so, I will buy this game and piss on it.[/quote]Your gimmick stinks.
 
i havent been really keeping up, but i just watched the vids in these past 2 pages and this shit looks sick

definitlely a day1 purchase for me
 
[quote name='dudedizzle27']just one factor im waiting to see which will determine whether i get this game or play GOW on launch night for the 2nd, will multiplayer have tanks, planes, and crap. If so, I will buy this game and piss on it.[/quote]


No vehicles in Gears. CliffyB says that is UT only.
 
[quote name='help1']No vehicles in Gears. CliffyB says that is UT only.[/quote]

yea, i'll be gettin UT3 next week (free $10 giftcard at circuit city FTW) :)
 
I haven't seen much of the videos to be honest...X360 fanboy reported it as "new" and they had already reported the UTIII one a few days back.
 
Yeah, it's all the footage I've seen on UT3. I don't get it, but you weren't the only one to send it my way as new.
 
Most likely hitting Nov 9th:

Alright kiddies time for some sleuthing courtesy of the Gears of War Official Forums. The Gears site has a new splash page up (above) and in Marcus' hand are some Dog (Cog?) Tags. Immediately upon discovery, there was the speculation that this meant death and loss would play some larger part in the game's story. But then someone decided to take a closer look at the number sequence visible on the tag: 033-116-117-126-071.

Seemingly random right? Nope. Match those numbers with one of these ASCII tables, and you'll get yourself the following letter string: "ESC N O V 9". We'd love to beleive that this was simply thrown in there to mess with the community, but it seems to be too much of a coincidence to be something wholly meaningless. Is this an early "word" on the release date? We sure hope so.
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http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/07/08/rumor-gears-page-hints-gow2-release-as-nov-9/

Makes sense...not sure why they even had to encrypt it.
 
[quote name='zewone']They encrypted it so it would be cooler and get more word of mouth. Easy to understand.[/quote]
Why do you have 2 Gears pictures in your recently played games?
 
[quote name='Littlefields']Why do you have 2 Gears pictures in your recently played games?[/quote]

Gears PC.
 
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/07/12/gow2-day-one-revealed-bots-confirmed-and-more/

Coming straight from last night's airing of GameTrailer TV's pre-E3 episode of exclusiveness comes a truckload of new Gears of War 2 information. The two biggest announcements are the revel of a new multiplayer map called Day-One and confirmation that Gears 2 multiplayer will in fact support multiplayer bots. Oh yeah.

The Day-One map takes place on the city streets where a ginormous emerge hole has opened up smack dab in the middle of the map where an angry Seeder will pop out. And when he does, watch it, because it causes mini-earthquake. Also, Cliff confirmed with Geoff Keighley that Gears 2 will in fact support AI controlled bots in multiplayer, very similar to bots that are oh so prevalent in the Unreal Tournament series.

Other snippets of information that we've gathered from the 20+ minute episode include mention that the execution move where a player's arms are ripped off and then get pummel with them, well, sadly that move has been cut from the game (probably too violent for the ESRB or something). Though, we do also learn that the Subway map will be making a return, Centaur tanks will be playable including an active reload option, the campaign takes place six months after the original Gears and Cliff heavily hints at a Locust Queen boss battle as well as a sequence where you'll actually be mounting a Brumak. Oh, there are also going to be an exclusive set of red Gears of War 2 Xbox 360s released as promo items. Now sit back and get your watch on ...

http://www.gametrailers.com/gametrailerstv_player.php?ep=27&sd=1&ch=1

Wow.
 
Sucked they couldn't get that one execution in, hehe. The new map they showed looked interesting to say at the least. I hope it works better in game rather than in theory, because Bullet Marsh's Kryll and Garden's poison gases weren't so great.
 
6 new vids on GT, most of them were walkthroughs but there's a good multiplayer vid. Looks awesome, I'm worried about that smoke grenade thing. It was a good idea, but it looks really useful now and since you start off with it, it's like starting with one of the heavy weapons. The video is just of one dude playing against bots, so you shouldn't be surprised if you see guys getting killed easily.
 
I haven’t really kept up with Gears of War 2 news but today during the E3 announcements they mentioned a new multiplayer mode called ‘Horde’ which is apparently a 5 player co-op mode where you defend against wave after wave of locusts that get increasingly difficult. Is this old news? Does anyone else have anymore info on it?
 
[quote name='shinryuu']After replaying the walkthrough vid, did anyone notice that nade? Was that the poison nade they were talking about before?[/QUOTE]

Yes
 
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