Gears of War 2: Official Thread

**Cowdisease** · 31 Aug 2008, 12:45 PM

5v5 was cool. It's not a drastic change from 4v4, but it does bring a little more mayhem to the battles.

I forgot about Wingman, so if I play Gears 2 again today (but priority goes to playing Left 4 Dead at least once), I'll ask the guy running the station if we can play that.

**Cowdisease** · 31 Aug 2008, 09:35 PM

The line for Left 4 Dead was too long, and the time spent waiting would have been better served playing Gears 2, so that's what I did today, so here are more impressions.

We couldn't try Wingman, because like CTF, it would have taken too long, and it would have been a pain to explain to everyone that it's 2v2v2v2v2. Got to play more Guardian as a result.

I'm really liking River, and I'm sure it will be a definite addition to the TNL map rotation. The two-story shed is on both sides of the map, and each contain a sniper rifle. The sniper scope looks really cool here. There are two boomshots, one on the top of the bridge, one on the bottom. Not sure where the flamethrower spawns, but it's in there too.

I wasn't too sure about Security since the button to deactivate the laser area is on the opposite side of the map (you'll have to go inside the building and walk through a narrow corridor to reach it. However, after I saw the detachable sentry gun in action, it's worth the hassle to press that button and enter the area.

The gun works similar to the Halo 3 detachable turret where you have to use two hands to carry it and walk really slow with it. You can't move and fire with the turret. However, when you do fire, your character plants it down, crouches, and fires a ridiculous amount of bullets. When you move with the turret after firing, your character stands up and picks it back up. It's an awesome animation sequence and seeing it mow down an opponent is a thing of beauty. Destined to be a TNL favorite.

Chainsaw duels is where it's at. One guy came at me with a chainsaw, so I chainsaw him back. We duel and I win. His teammate is standing next to me and tries to chainsaw me and I thought I'm dead. However, I somehow chainsaw him back after I finish chainsawing his teammate. This causes another duel, which I win again. Awesome.

The flamethrower is great. I saw it used to interrupt a chainsaw duel, which killed the opponent and left a burnt body. The charred remains look hilarious. I'm pretty sure we're going to be yelling BARBECUE! during multiplayer matches.

That's it for impressions. Now we wait two more months. If you guys have any questions about the playable demo, let me know.

**K3V** · 31 Aug 2008, 09:58 PM

You are a bitch for playing this before the rest of us, but thanks for the impressions

**Cowdisease** · 31 Aug 2008, 10:03 PM

One more thing. They also demoed the New Xbox LIVE experience while I was waiting for Gears 2. 8-player private chat and you can form a party of up to 8 people on the dashboard. I think you can also launch into a game from there, but Gears 2 had me distracted, so I'm not 100% sure.