Gears of War 2 Comments by Ellie Gibson

Arbiter... what the are you even doing on this site? All you do is whine like a little bitch on every single 360 article.

Good gods, the more I read about this the more I'm loving it.

But seriously guys, it seems that everyone likes to bash a successful product. Halo 3 was bashed because it was, well, too Halo, wasn't it, and Gears 2 is now being bashed for being... what... too Gears?

At the end of the day, casting aside all hype and fanboyism, playing the original Gears was a huge highlight of gaming for me, and I've since played the campaign through five more times, twice co-op with different people, and a few solo on higher difficulties. I just don't get bored of its visceral charm. Nothing I've played since, on 360 or PS3, has come close to capturing the same level of entertainment I get from playing Gears.

And the look on my mates face when he saw the Gears 2 gameplay trailer was priceless. He only has a PS3, so he's no xbot, but he was utterly blown away by the massive scale and silky smooth framerate, let alone the fun that the game seemed to be.

And for those of you saying its all about set pieces, yes, perhaps it is, but then, so are most games. The difference with Gears for me was that the Locust AI was smart enough to give you a different experience each time you encountered a scenario.

ignores chemical Ali_sdf_pwn3d

"I'm guessing Ali_sdf_pwn3d is blatantly taking the piss, as no human is that fucking stupid. "

Well obviously he is taking the piss but if you want to see people who are really that stupid -> swam.

You know, sometimes I think people a like Ali_sdf are actually serious. It makes me really depressed and think someone should rape them in the arse until they DIE

Highlight of the year would be Dead Rising 2.

I'm going to be very dissapointed...

"The others won't count, so players won't be able to rock the system and play at getting headshots the entire round just to get their Achievement"

Well I for one am pleased to hear players will not be able to "rock the system"... o-o


The movie looked rather impressive, even though I wasn't really into GEoW 1. Certainly one to watch.

How about this thread actually discusses GEoW 2 for a change. Everybody who descends into fanboy name calling is a c*nt, bar none. It doesn't matter which game or which platform you like (and be sure that nobody else cares which game/platform you use as wank material), you all look equally like twats. Grow up ffs.

Arbiter your not educating anyone just boring people to tears with your constant bitching at least Ali_sdf_pwn3d comes out and says what he really thinks, even if it is insane ramblings it's at least mildly amusing.

As for Gears 2, Cliffy B could take a shit in a box and slap a Gears 2 logo on it and I would still buy it, I can't wait for this game!

Cheers Arbiter, another Solid Gold quote!

I also love how you hide away here in the comments because you know you'd not stand five minutes spouting your total bullshi.. sorry, "education" in the forum.

This is a mess.

Anyway, I love GoW and I'm certainly going to buy this one. GoW online has still to be beaten as my most played game on live. Everyone who is saying 'Gears 1.5' are retards. What do you expect? It's a sequel. Look at MGS1 and MGS2, RE1 and RE2, Halo1 and Halo2, etc. All are highly rated with little changed in the sequels.











ps3 suxx teh dicks

COCK

kangarootoo: Well, we can always talk about how I'm going to chainsaw your arse into oblivion.

/reads own comment

0_o

/posts

is it half term?

Yes, I hide here because I don't want to get duffed-up by you and your girlfriends in the forum... riiiiiight...
How frickin old are you, kid?

You hide here because you know your posts won't get locked or deleted by mods.
Also you're less likely to be openly mocked here, which you definitely would be in the forum.

You stay here because you know for a fact you have nothing to say that's not negative fanboyish drivel.

I need to try this Gears game. I still have an unopened copy at home. I heard it's good.

I think GoW2 looks promising, I was waiting to fight a Bumak all the way through GoW1,

As for the usual dribble on these boards, what exactly is stopping me going to the shops and buying a PS3 with KZ2 or RFoM2 if i decide i want to?

How the fuck to any of you win anything? How the fuck does gears loose? What the fuck are you morons talking bout?

"stopping me going to the shops and buying a PS3 with KZ2 or RFoM2 if i decide i want to? "
Nothing really, apart from the fact that those games do not exist... it might be enough of a reason, not sure though.

EG. I WOULD REALLY LIKE MODS IN HERE TWO!

with the GTA vs article and this and the killx2 article i've put a massive amount of people on ignore this week.
it's really getting stupid!

i would also like to see Dead Rising 2 :)

the trailer for this looks very nice. a bit more collurfull would be nice. might just get this. but fable2 is more my kind of game. and out in the store about the same time this launches...

kiddie graphics? the first was the benchmark for this gen, the second looks better. we have no idea if KZ2 will match it let alone surpass it.

thankfully i'll get to own and play both unlike some idiots who close their minds to anything other than a certain "brand".

@Xerx3s

Anything is preferable to fanboy rantings. My arse is prepared to take a bullet for the sake of the thread :)

Sorry Miiiguel,

Please insert "upon their release",

Better?

My friends are really excited about this game.
Myself I'm amazingly indifferent. I played the first, completed and enjoyed it, spent quite a while on the multiplayer had fun, now I want something different. More of the same just wont interest me. Hopefully it'll be different enough to tick that box.

Ali_sdf_pwn3d, congrats on being the first person in my ignore list.

...before adding that you'll be able to get all Achievements whether in single-player, multiplayer or co-op...

GOOD! Finally! No more having to play ranked matches against total dicks :/

((If you come up from behind someone, you'll take the chainsaw up between their legs and behind them and... You know." There's a titter from the audience. "Yeah."))

This is shown in the trailer and looks badass indeed.

...before adding that you'll be able to get all Achievements whether in single-player, multiplayer or co-op...

Very good news. I always preferred campaign coop over multiplayer in GOW.

I expect this and Metal Gear Solid 4 to p'ss all over GTA4.

GTA4's cover system is crap incomparison to Gears 1.

GTA4 - jack of all trades, master of none.

gtas cover system doesnt work right


THIS GAME LOOKS AMAZING!!!

I am sure the pre-orders will come flooding in, but the quetion is will it bring radically different ideas to the franchise or will it be as someone has said "gears 1.5." To me it is just another genre which is not that different to say Gran Turismo or God Of War. Just more of the same and the only people who will most likely pick out the finer points be it good or bad, will be the hardcore fans of the game. Other than that, I can see this flying off of the shelves like the proverbial locust hordes.

@chronum

Is anything ever radically different?

Whether it's Halo, Metal Gear, GTA, Mario 2D, Mario 3D, Resident Evil, etc etc

It's almost always evolution rather than revolution, and when Gears 1 was so good, that's fine by me.

Heh, this comment section just became about 30 posts shorter.

With all due respect DiamondIce, at least the first poster said SOMETHING. Flaming someone and then posting that you have nothing to say isn't exactly riveting reading for everyone else, is it.

He seems a nice enough guy to me. Probably people don't like him because Epic seem to parade him around as a 'LOOK! HE MAKES GAMES AND HES NOT A FAT SWEATY BAGEL INHALING MORON!' kind of guy with his mug everywhere.

Arbiter, get a grip.

Everyone knows this, but it's still not like it's an in-engine cut scene or anything is it? Everything is still being rendered and going on about AI is irrelevant since it's only the CPU that is affected by AI, and the CPU handles a very small portion of the graphical workload.

And when you factor in that GoW2 (or GoW) isn't meant to be oblivion, it's really just nitpicking.


Btw thankyou MattDamon, finally someone with some ****ing sense. Do people want GEARS OF WAR 2 or do they want a new series?



Just a note to all the 360 players (of which I'm one): didn't you know that you're not allowed to have a really special gaming experience on Microsofts "evil" console? No, this console can't have any groundbreaking or landmark games, truly special games only come out on the Japanese Nintendo and Sony consoles (sarcasm btw). So what it's a shooter and it's a little shallow maybe, why does that mean it can't be as awesome a gaming experience as Final Fantasy or any other more "deep" game?

"Shut the fuck up, ali, you're out of your element. What the fuck are you talking about? Killzone 2is not the issue here, dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, ps3 fanboy is not the preferred nomenclature. SDF, please."

Nice!

I told those fucks down at the league office a thousand times that I don't play GoW on Shabbos!

aww, did the PS3 fanboy get banned? can only read the replies to his rantings now...


anyways, wasn't too impressed with the gears vid to be honest. it all looks a bit 'uncanny valley' to me - looks so good that the small details that are wrong really stand out, like some of the wierd lighting/reflection effects + some iffy DOF stuff. and the explosions aren't too good either. course, it's a standard-def video of a high-def source, so it might just have been the video encoding... the scale of the thing certainly looks pretty amazing tho.

High light of the year? Considering the last game got a 7.

0?

Surely the problem people have with Cliffy B is that he says things like "share the love and share the magic"? It's cringeworthy.

On the topic of the game, it looks pretty good but no matter how good the gameplay it would really benefit from having a decent storyline.

Who gives a crap about the story line ?...It's a action game all the way and does well. If you want a story line go for a adventure or rpg: Oblivion, Lost Odysee, Blue Dragon, Eternal Sonatra. Great action movies don't really bother with some boring deep story.

Games are getting too...shallow.

No offense to Epic, this is probably how most game developers are doing there games, but why are the concepts, scenarios and story so shallow, its always the 'good' guys against the savage 'bad' guys, there is almost no depth in games anymore, this seems more prominent in american games.

While i do realize that this is to appeal to the target market, which adores such shallow ideas, thus the word 'badass' is constantly repeated, and although by saying that i,v answered my own question, i still need to ask. ;)

When will we ever have games that are more than just 'kill the bad-guy', with 'bad-ass' characters spitting 'bad-ass' words that lack any depth or meaning.

The way i see it, the more mainstream games become, the more shallow they will be.

I think the only way to achieve deeper scripts and scenarios, is for easily accessible game developement tools to become available to users world-wide, then we may start to see unique creations by different individuals.

Seems i got carried away.....now this looks 'bad-ass'. ;)

I don't remember many great 2d action titles bothering with a story. WHO CARES ?...This is pure big beefy gory action. Why waste all that time and money on story telling!

Who gives a crap if it's not got a particularly strong story when it's so much fun to play? There's a time and place for extensive cutscenes and that's in RPG's, not action games.

Shallow? Fucking hell, you take a game that is purely centred around action and then complain about the lack of depth? If every game was as deep as a normal wrpg, I wouldn't have time to play games at all.

I thought Halo had a decent story driving you on, whereas HalfLife2 had absolutely nothing driving you on. For me, I do like to a have a purpose for playing through something beyond great action. In my mind, thats what multiplayer is for, and exactly why I abandoned the HalfLife2 singleplayer in favour of Counterstrike and Day Of Defeat.

Plus it doesn't have to be particularly overblown, just well crafted. Pure flash and action films nowadays are generally derided because we've all seen examples where the blend between action and story has been hit perfectly by Hollywood, making us all a bit more demanding.

Oh GOODY. More cocksucking Gears of War. More tedious whining american children in my ear. More tiny levels and rabid fanboys banging on about ooooh teh shiny. More pretence that a game with very few weapons, variety, or fun is somehow the be-all and end-all of gaming. As opposed to an essentially on-rails corridor shooter with identikit grey backgrounds, grey protagonists and grey enemies. I. Can't. Wait.

Although the massively gay characters are always good for a chuckle.

Well the gameplay is flawed...the cover system is shitty than just crouching behind a wall and standing up and shooting and then crouching again plus you can move alittle out towards corner of wall and shoot better than leaning your whole body bullshit.

plus the game doesnt let you jump piece of shit.

if the game had duke nukem time to kill gameplay mechanics might be good game.

Also...

Another Unreal 3 engine clone? No thanks.

Bring on the Frostbite, Crytek 2 Engine, Rage, Dunia, Avalanche etc etc

I'm getting pretty sick game developers pumping out the same old games using Unreal 3 tech, they mostly suck, none of them push boundaries, none of them are decent.

With these new engines we're getting advanced new technology that is actually making the next-gen consoles worth buying:

-Frostbite we're getting fully destructable enviroments

-Crytek 2 we're getting massive highly detailed enviroments with highly interactive enviroments

- Rage we're getting new streaming textures technology

- Dunia we're getting massive open seamless worlds

etc etc

Unreal 3 engine games havn't pushed beyond what the source engine did over 3 years ago. Basic physics, basic decals, basic animation system basic games. The only thing it does is throw around more polygons and provides pre-coded shaders.

Gears of War, Unreal Tournament 3, Bioshock, Area 51, Rainbow Six: Vegas they all could have been done on the Unreal 2 engine, granted they wouldn't look as 'pretty' however fact is the basic gameplay elements that create the game are no more technically demanding than any of the games brought out on the PS2 or Xbox.

Granted it's intressting to see how different developers can skin their models or the differed gun noises they can come up with for basically the exact same particle, decal and animation effect.

GOW is still the best looking console game. And a great action game too.

Truth speaks the truth. Gears was awesome, visually and gameplay-wise, and the phenominal sales proved that the Gears formula was spot on.

Gears 1.5 would be just fine for me but a full-on Gears 2 with new features will just be icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

TRUTH speaks total shit.

JYM60 - Why because simply I prefer the 360 to PS3. Well personally the 360 is a better gaming platform, I have seen nothing on PS3 to change my mind. JYM60 sorry if I hurt your ps3 feelings.