Gears of War 2: Official Thread

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Ok, seriously, played over the bit I played co-op yesterday single player, and all my complaints have pretty much vanished. WTF? Lag makes the game THAT bad? After this run (as Dom) I'll probably just host.

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I dunno what it is, but playing Gears 1 the other week with Razor, I kept experiencing a few glitches I had never seen for the 2 years I had been playing with it. I have no idea what causes it, but you can play through the game and not have a single problem, and then other times it can be bugs galore.

It's just a shame that this was the premier co-op experience I was hoping to play this year, and the demo for l4d trumped it, hard. The campaign is sweet, but only when there's no lag or bugs.

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Originally Posted by Destin

Gears 1 - Act 4 shits all over everything in gears 2 story. It was extremely fun, and only more fun on higher difficulties. Also the gimmicks in 1 (At least the beserkers and kryll) were alot more fun than razorhail and riding random shit. I always skipped the caves and junker levels, maybe thats the bad parts you guys remember.

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I don't really like the driving stages in Gears 2. The level inside the giant worm was awesome though.

Question about Horde: If you play up to a level and then leave and resume later, does it count towards the achievement, or do you have to do all 20 or 50 stages in one sitting?

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

It's just a shame that this was the premier co-op experience I was hoping to play this year, and the demo for l4d trumped it, hard. The campaign is sweet, but only when there's no lag or bugs.

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Play Horde. It is better than co-op campaign. Campaign is decent for the story and set pieces, but for pure survival/intensity, Horde rocks so hard I don't give a shit about the campaign.

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Originally Posted by Melf

I don't really like the driving stages in Gears 2. The level inside the giant worm was awesome though.

Question about Horde: If you play up to a level and then leave and resume later, does it count towards the achievement, or do you have to do all 20 or 50 stages in one sitting?

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Yes, it does count. I'm not sure what happens when you join a horde game and then finish it though. I think you may personally have to beat each wave. Though you may be able to play the last 10 waves by joining and then go back and play through 1-40, but I am not sure about this.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

It's just a shame that this was the premier co-op experience I was hoping to play this year, and the demo for l4d trumped it, hard. The campaign is sweet, but only when there's no lag or bugs.

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Thats a shame. I absolutely loved co-op campaign. So much that right now it is my GOTY. Not to mention that horde does indeed kick ass. I wouldn't doubt that it even takes longer to actually beat, at least on hardcore, than the campaign would. It could take a couple of hours to just finish of 10 waves, and thats if you are on a roll. Team work is absolutely necessary. I think L4D will be an awesome co-op experience, but I think I will be playing Gears 2 far longer than I will L4D.

The driving stages were terrible. You'd think that they would learn from the backlash against the UV turret in the first game, but somehow they took it as a sign that they should put even more vehicle segments to "add variety."

The driving segment in the tank was kind of fun. Not 100% fun, but more like 60% fun. The flying sections though, garbage. Like I said to you manner, that shit was straight out of the Enter the Matrix game.

<3 the Brumak though!

Also: Torque Bow headshots really are pretty much the greatest thing ever.

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Originally Posted by mannerbot

Also: Torque Bow headshots really are pretty much the greatest thing ever.

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absolutely fucking agreed.

Also matrix is exactly what i thought when you were in the flying sections.

also i still like gears 1 campaign better.

The body count is much higher in this one; it is better