Gears 2 multiplayer details revealed

By Tom Bramwell Published 26 June, 2008

Four modes explained.

Epic has revealed four multiplayer modes from Gears of War 2, including novel twists on traditional team deathmatch and capture the flag.

You can also check out loads of new screenshots including graphical comparison shots between the same locations in Gears 1 and 2.

Gears 2 will eventually include 12 maps when it goes on sale, and through those you'll be able to play the likes of War Zone, Meat Flag, Wingman and Guardian.

War Zone is basic team deathmatch, but with five players on each side, while Wingman is five teams of two players each, which sounds like an interesting dynamic.

Guardian, meanwhile, is another five-on-five, except one player on each team is designated the "Guardian", and has to run around spouting pinko lefty nonsense about the environment. Or possibly has to run around without being killed, because once the Guardian dies no one else on his or her team can respawn that round.

Finally, Meat Flag is capture-the-flag with a live character as the flag. A possible example is Franklin, the petrol station "old timer" from Gears 1.

Epic has also said that of the 12 maps, there's a re-jigged Gridlock and maps called River and Security among them.

Another cool detail is that maps will feature portable shields - in effect, giant riot shields that you can also plant in the ground to act as cover.

As designer Cliff Bleszinski has previously said, the cover system is much the same but with a few tweaks - and one of those is that when you snap to cover, you'll be snapped to the corner so you're less open to flanking fire.

For more on Gears of War 2, check out our recent preview and interview with Cliff Bleszinski and Kudo Tsunoda.

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  • bioreit #1 4 years ago

    "including graphical comparison shots between the same locations in Gears 1 and 2."

    /Looks at comparison shots in gallery

    So they swapped the grey filter for the brown one, huh? Interesting....

    I keed, I keed!

    Actually, only just bought Gears last week (only had a few sessions round friends' houses before) and reminided myself of how good the single-player in co-op is. And also had a bash at the online multiplayer - which is good, but the lack of a party system for ranked matches is a real pain in the proverbial.

    So, rambling over(!) I'm looking forward to Gears 2 because 1) the graphics look amazing compared to the first one and those weren't exactly shabby (where are all the peeps who said Epic had maxed out the 360 now, huh?) and 2) there's going to be a Halo/CoD4 party system, which will fix my only issue with multiplayer!

    I think it's time for a woohoo.

    WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!

    Ahem.

  • LazyDan #2 4 years ago

    "...while Wingman is five teams of two players each, which sounds like an interesting dynamic."

    I'm sure this was in Halo 3, and I liked it very much. Sounds like it's much more suited to Gears though, so looking forward to that. Sort of an Army of Two style mode?

  • alimokrane #3 4 years ago

    Im sorry how does this qualify as news today when we learned of such details a month ago ??? Eurogamer, I suggest you subsicribe to Behind the Time Newspaper
    Edited by alimokrane at 26/06/08 @ 09:39

  • mcmonkeyplc #4 4 years ago

    Wingman = Multiteam in Halo 3

  • CreepinJesus #5 4 years ago

    Multiplayer Gears was naff.

  • Monkey #6 4 years ago

    Yay, looking forward to this!
    :)

  • BobsUncle #7 4 years ago

    BLOOM-ing 'ell!

    Gears MP was shit anyway, and full of American pricks talking 'smack' and slagging you off if you killed someone they had downed first.

    GRAW MP was so much better as it linked you to nearby people. Oh yeah, and didn't take a hundred headshots to kill.

  • Laika #8 4 years ago

    Nick_JCL: Don't forget Kotaku as well

    Kotaku and Neogaf.

  • hahayou #9 4 years ago

    You could do 4(+?) teams of 2 each in Quake 2, never mind Ha10yearslater. :)

  • Benno #10 4 years ago

    guardian sounds good

  • Benno #11 4 years ago

    i like the meat shield as well