Reviews: Gears of War 2 Review

When you take into account  the visuals, gameplay mechanics, features, online multiplayer, and overall story of Gears of War 2; honestly it's 10 times better than the first. When compared to other shooters, say Halo, the characters and the universe in the Gears of War franchise are more compelling, and frankly better written, that'll keep the player interested to progress through till the end.

Contra eh? What part? Podcast that one please!

I really like the game. I can't think of anything that looks better. And really, it's so preposterous and ridiculous that it just makes fun out of a really dark and miserable world. Between the worm and the Panzer Dragoon parts.....

Plus the characters are even more....like characters. I see someone mentioned Halo. I still really enjoy those characters a lot but these are also pretty fun. I can't imagine not having those 4 main guys in this series. And then you have the extra characters to give it some more.

AWSOMEE MANNNN!
WICKED!

great game, totally enjoyed it, worth the wait but online its a dissapointment

GOOOOOOD

I didn't watch this review until after I completed the game, and I know exactly what part he means when he says Contra. I remember thinking the *exact* same thing at that point. That "soft body" tech looked really awesome.

I like these reviews.

There's no pretentious bullshit.

Oh yeah, oh hell yeah, nice.

Nice ending lol, good video :D

ROFL @ the ending, that was pure win XD

O YEA !!!!!

Wow that looks amazing :)

I agree mostly with Jeff to be honest, Gears 2 is better in many ways including visually, story wise and gameplay wise too, even though mutliplayer still lacks.

One of the best games out on the 360.  So much bang for your buck.  I would agree that PvP multiplayer is fairly weak, but horde mode makes up for everything and to be honest I haven't played a game with such a great singleplayer experience in a while.

No berserkers?

I was not pleased with how Gears 2 played out. I think the story allowed for me to care about Dom more and we got to see some softer moments with Marcus because of it which I was fine with. Mainly, the game felt very mediocre to me. Yeah, I was shooting at locust and using meat shields, getting into chainsaw duels, grenade tagging and launching mortars from far away but that was decent fun at best. Beyond that, I hated every single boss battle definitely including the final boss.
 
I just didn't think that the whole 'More is Better' approach worked on this game. I didn't feel that any part of the game was epic, yeah I got to try out some new weapons but it was mediocre fight sequences interrupted constantly by the female chick in the game, and then followed by horrible boss battles.
I sincerely hope that Epic does some heavy refining going into Gears 3 because they do have good ideas in mind. I just don't feel that they were executed well.
 
Oh and Epic, please bring back the Kryll and Berserkers. They were two of the coolest enemies in the first game and they get replaced by Razorhail and Sires?? Seriously?

"come up and do you real rotten"!

Oooooooooooh yeah! Nice!

I'm going to guess Jeff ended up never reading the book.

I just played gears of war 2 for the first time. I liked it ok. thanks jeff