Top 10 Favorite Games Of 2008 - #8

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Gears of War 2 Likes & Dislikes

What I liked about the game

• The story: Bigger, longer, deeper and sometimes emotional.
• Epic in every way: You actually feel like you're a part of the COG now as they fight the Locust Horde, instead of an Army of Two (pun intended).
• Gameplay is still solid: You don't mess with success.
• Great original soundtrack: Very underrated.  One of the best this year.

What I disliked about the game

• Some Acts were downright ridiculous: Slicing up arteries?  Four hearts?  Waste of an Act if you ask me.
• Final boss battle was a joke: Made me miss good ol' Raam.
• The walls are still sticky: Thought they would've fixed that problem from the first game.  Still tremendously frustrating.
• Uneven weapons in online play: Underpowered shotgun and overpowered chainsaw on the Lancer.

The Lowdown

The Countdown So Far

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Gears of War 2 Likes & Dislikes

What I liked about the game

• The story: Bigger, longer, deeper and sometimes emotional.
• Epic in every way: You actually feel like you're a part of the COG now as they fight the Locust Horde, instead of an Army of Two (pun intended).
• Gameplay is still solid: You don't mess with success.
• Great original soundtrack: Very underrated.  One of the best this year.

What I disliked about the game

• Some Acts were downright ridiculous: Slicing up arteries?  Four hearts?  Waste of an Act if you ask me.
• Final boss battle was a joke: Made me miss good ol' Raam.
• The walls are still sticky: Thought they would've fixed that problem from the first game.  Still tremendously frustrating.
• Uneven weapons in online play: Underpowered shotgun and overpowered chainsaw on the Lancer.

The Lowdown

The Countdown So Far

Understandable.

Hmmm, I actually found that act to be incredibly entertaining O.o
I see your reasoning for the position though.

I liked the worm act too, but I see where you are coming from. It did get monotonous after awhile. I loved Gears 2, though it definitely is not my #1 GOTY. Probably like #4 or 5 for me.

I thought the shotgun was over powered. The range for the weapon is humongous. You could get blown into pieces at medium range.

The chainsaw is, well, a chainsaw. In multiplayer for GeoW1, the weapon was useless since you would get knocked back from one shotgun blast; making the shotgun the only useful infantry weapon. I thought the lack of chainsaw-knockoffs were a good move.

But I do agree. It defiantly doesn't deserve GotY.

is giant bomb going to have its very own GOTY award show

reasonable criticisms. :)

I agree, but I thought the heart act was kinda cool.....

Ranked matches really aren't even much fun anymore since everyone uses the chainsaw and or melee.

Toxicity worked well for that trailer I have to say.  The chainsaw bayonet in this game is ridiculous in that nothing seems to stop it.  You shoot someone and they still come at you and also sometimes it doesn't work even when you are right up at someone.  I really enjoyed the campaign this time round even though the last 10 minutes was ridiculously easy and the last boss was a joke indeed (come back RAAM, all is forgiven).

You know, I feel you put this game right exactly where it needed to be. I agree with you 100%!... except for the part of it being "Epic". I just never got that feeing from this game.

What I disliked about the game

• Some Acts were downright ridiculous: Slicing up arteries?  Four hearts?  Waste of an Act if you ask me.
• Final boss battle was a joke: Made me miss good ol' Raam.
• The walls are still sticky: Thought they would've fixed that problem from the first game.  Still tremendously frustrating.
• Uneven weapons in online play: Underpowered shotgun and overpowered chainsaw on the Lancer.

Man, when are you going to put up a game I have actually played? :P

Hmmmm, considering this is eighth, I'll be even more interested too see what lies ahead.  I'm getting the gam at chrsitmas, so I've still to formulate an opinion on the game.

I didn't get a chance to play it. I did hear it was quite good though.

I really didn't like that act either.

That's probably my favorite act in the game. It's so amazing.