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ArcAirbender:
I used the search option, but to my surprise there was no topic created to share our expectations, experiences and stories about Gears of War 2 (GoW2).

Did I miss something here? If I fucked up please explain!


I bought this game today, after selling my GTA4 copy for 45 bucks and paying the difference. I just finished the tutorials, and in a couple of hours gonna try to horde mode.
I got a very familiar feeling when first trying it out, but noticed the visual upgrade, a little more refinement in the controls (things stuck way less than before, easier to do the stomp, so on and so forth) ; but these are only my preliminar impressions, and I'm about to dive into the game in the next few days.


Thoughts, comments, references?

Oh, and speaking of references, here's the complete poem the game used for its trailer, and a little history of how J.F.K. liked it very much:


"I Have a Rendezvous with Death"
by Alan Seeger.
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was a young, early 20th century U.S. poet, a contemporary of T.S. Eliot, although very different in poetic style.  Seeger died at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916 while serving in the French Foreign Legion.  "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" was one of John F. Kennedy's favorite poems and he often asked his wife to recite it.
I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air-
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.
It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath-
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.
God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

And of course, here is the link for the trailer in low quality: http://trailers.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/6236/t_gears2_e32k8.mov

I'm sure you can find the high quality at gametrailers.com

CursedMortivore:
Absolutely pointless to play online. With all the glitchers it is completely pointless to play online.

Have fun with the campaign mode. I hear it's alright.

TheFuriousWombat:
The review in the New York Times considered it a very fun, if banal and overly cliched, action game with laughable attempts at story and emotional depth. It makes me happy when the Times reviews video games.

Jimmy the Squid:
Wait, I thought the Gears of War thing was to intentionally poke fun at action/war film cliches while providing a reasonable game. I just naturally assumed that no one thought it was a serious story and script, what with the token, incredibly urbane black guy, the tough as nails main character who is at odds with his superior officers despite being a more than capable solider. etc... I mean in the first one they even made reference to one of the dead Gears having a two year old kid, c'mon they can't have produced this and thought people would take it seriously (unless I am much mistaken and Michael Bay had a hand in the production of the game).

dennis:
I find I enjoy the game more if I think of it as a summer action blockbuster, as CliffyB asks in the introduction to the manual.

Co-op play is greatly improved from GoW1. Good things include: being able to crawl when downed, NPCs in party able to revive you. Bad things: the divide and conquer play scenes are still frustrating when one of the human players dies.

The "A for everything" control philosophy still sucks. So many times, your character does something you don't want him to because of overlapping contexts. Too many times, you die because your character SWAT turned instead of mantled, or instead of roadie-running through the doorway, he takes cover next to it, meaning that Mauler you were running away from kills you.

Love the new weapons.

Haven't played deathmatch yet, but news of glitches and glitchers is disheartening.

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