GoW2 is to gaming what The Da Vinci Code is to literature. The masses love it, but there simply isn't much substance. It's a mindless shooter that satisfies people's thirst for blood and gore. It's just dumb.

Gears 2 is great! I played part one online and thought it was lame! too slow for me. Gears 2 made me really appreciate the covering system and the team concept. As for the shot-gun I find if you take time to aim at the head you will get more out of it! the lancer is not overpowered. It's a chain saw you not supposed to be able to with stand it. I will say this once you start it up and head toward someone it's a pain to stop the weilder with bullets.

I tell you what's also dumb, those old games from our past like Pacman and space Invaders - eating ghosts is quite absurd isn't it but still terrific fun

Slightly odd point you're trying to make

the campaign is awesome. the story is stupid nobody cared for it,but the multiplayer is pathetic. no balance everywhere you look

This article is funny. It's as funny as the article saying LBP was a flop, yeah right!

Anytime you change something in a game sequel people complain. I know a few people who do not like the new firing system in the game, but most love it.

"But sadly, not many of the changes were very good". Based on what?

That says it all, I was hooked on the first, played it for 6 months straight online. But with the new matchmaking, not being able to choose what type of game to play, and the fact that peeps quit and you cant get them replaced and the loss of map rotation, having to go back to the lobby after each map and find a new game have ruined it for me. After a few weeks I dont want to play no more. They screwed it up big time for me, and many of my friends.

Perfect mix of strategy and speed and just about everythng and more of Geow1.I tried to play Geow1 this weekend,but its so primitive compared to Geow2. From sticking grenades onto walls to moving when you downd. But FIX THE EFFIN MULTIPLAYER MATCHMAKING.we dont want it ! so what if we get stuck in games with Noobs? Everybody needs to learn.we'll just chuck them into the deep end,but THEY'LL SWIM. . .Sooner or later.Give me unranked matchs.I want to find a game now,not 30min.the update dint work for me.My NAT is open and on a 7Mb Line its taking 30min to find a proper game.Im sick of having to play Wingman all the damn time.cuz thats the only place I find a game in 2 min.just because it needs 2 players per team.Thank Goodness Wingman is a great multiplayer game. . .

i think everything's fine .. nothing needs to be fixed.

2 is an example of how a developer tinker with a games fault and completely ruin the experience. everything about gears of war 1 was faced paced from finding a match to being destroyed if you waited around too long and didnt have a strategy. but gears two is opposite. if you wanna win a match just have 3 of your team mates wield the chainsaw and you can tell whos gonna win the match. finding a game is a chore as it takes me almost 15 mins to find a game, playing it is even worse. in gears 1 to get a chainsaw kill was a gamble if the other person was using a shotgun but now the chainsaw is just a godly weapon that even a shotgun to the face cant stop. as of now i am giving epic time to fix it, if they do listen they have kept me as a customer for the third game but if not then thats it for me i will be selling my gears of war games and moving on to a different game to get my alien ass kicking kicks.

The game is a lot of fun to play for both single players and multiplayer. The party system was a great addition. I just wished they would fix the stupid bots so they would act more human. So many times bots just sit around and do nothing and the games end in stalemate.

Can someone name a true AAA title were the "gamer" are floating in the skyline,underneath the map, glitching outside the map, turning invisible online and with your team mates if you choose,weapon glitching,riding on the back of monster in the sp/online game,screen tearing into focus,and (DOM!) is as bad as it gets. he gets stuck on a wall or lost. There is more i left out but this an example. Can someone name one game in gaming history that has all of these flaws at one time for one games? Ok! (Gear1) really, can you name one game? Gears2 has all of these flaws and it is call AAA. i smell bullhits!

why is there only 8 enemies you can fight at a time on these big "@ss" boards. they have a lot of room on the boards you fight on to have more then 8 enemies to fight at a time. they have alot of background enemies but the foreground is 8 or less. Epic can not even fix/remedy all of these bugs and concerns on their own engine when they are the same as 2006 gears1. This tells me that they are not that good of a dev or the engine sucks. it might be the latter engine "sucks first"!

"But sadly, not many of the changes were very good, as quite a bunch of users have complained that things were changed from the first game for no reason whatsoever, and that now, a lot of problems have made them resell their copy or throw it on a shelf to gather dust."

I like that line right there. I might have more scratches on my disc than dust. But thanks to the HD Install, I don't have to worry about that.

Anyway, I think the guy who wrote this article is a "tad-bit little too late" with this subject. Believe me, there are a thousands of gamers submitted feedback to Epic about these issues before he thought of writing this article within the first week of release of Gears 2.

Besides, I hate that Old-man on Meatwagon, that Mofo's shotty will drop you with ease on Insane. LOL!!!

Im a massive fan of the first game, played it to death and was well excited by the second coming. But how did they get the multi player so wrong. 5 players are to many the game loses its close intense feel, power weapons are everywhere and take basically no skill at all. The new maps are all open and two big which doesnt suit the game and finally the shotgun sucks! All the crap about "well if you learn to aim" im extremely accurate with the blind fire and am punished for not aiming two inches in front of me? Oh and when was the last time a smoke grenade exploded and knocked someone to the ground for 20 seconds? its a canister?
If you go back to gears 1 (which i have)you will find a faster, smoother, more intense game that fills in like 2min with no gay match making.
Im sorry but i really believe epic just got lucky with the first game and they can keep their "noob" friendly 2.0

I am playing through SP and its ok, but honestly I was more compelled to finish R2 for some reason faster than GOW2. I am enjoying it, but not nearly as much as I did GOW1. Online I have no intrest in for this title

My complaint is that the author used the line "This results in big lags."

well, it's not quite a complaint as it is a punch-line.

Its only people that have not given the deep multiplayer strategys and tactical skills a shot! this game is full of techniques. my crew and I have been having so much fun with this game till 5 in the morning all this holiday season. So much fun I don't have a single game on my ps3 able to hold me like this one has and i have home,R2,lbp,and socom they all pale in comparison! I still have hope for my ps3 because the hype for killzone 2 is through the roof and they say the visuals are better than gears 2,if thats the truth that game will rock because gears 2 graphics are off the hooK,but graphics is not every thing gameplay is the main thing and gears 2 has that,they just need to stop stand-by glichters!!!

People aren't using the shotgun? Really? I am pretty sure that the few times I die, it involves the other teams shotgun. What is this guy talking about? Everyone is using the same weapons the same way as Gears 1. All you have to do is actually AIM your shotgun in this game, that's all. If there is little lag, then the shotgun is fine, but when I get on the queen of englands server, my character is shaking more then michael J. Fox.

Its not NORmAL lagg it happens to peoples benefit like you behind them and all of a sudden they behind you! its people that ruin these online games,its been happening for years. They need to boot peoples whos signals drop all of a sudden to keep them from cheating because people just can't help themselves but to cheat! Its sad really.The other day we fought a invisible player who killed everyone!that glitch has to be killed.

ya campaign was ok, but I don't care because multiplayer is freaking awesome.

This game has an amazing campaign one of the best I have ever played for a third person shooter. I haven't played due to the multiplayer. The shotgun is so pointless for the player it should not even be accessible. The A.I. has not problem though preforming a 1 shot kill with the shotgun why can't I!?

okay, I have had the f***king annoying disc read error problem, from day one, brand new disc, all other games/DVD's run fine (even scratched ones). Either this is a hardware error or a disc production error. I have to keep putting the disc in and out of the 360 to get it to recognise the disc, 6/7 times, sometimes for 20-30 minutes before it will recognise the disc and load the game. I have it installed, and it made no difference. After the system has recognised the disc, i can go to dash and all over the NXE, and I can go back and launch the game fine. If i take it out though, i have to go through the 20/30 minute open/close drive fun.

GRRR.

Come ON! Epic knows about this:

http://www.eurogamer.net/fo...

http://forums.epicgames.com...

I am not alone, I'm very pissed off, and I deserve to play the $60 game I paid for on my premium 360, not fight with it every day to make the damn thing load.

*sigh*

Though when it does load... lovin it! Gears PWNS ALL!

"the weapons became gravely unbalanced, their power having been dramatically modified, as opposed to the first game"

"Another quite frequent user complaint that we have seen is the fact that the online matchmaking system is really faulty, as it sends users from North America for example, to games that are hosted by European users. This results in big lags, which render the game almost unplayable by the North American gamers."

"The famous accessory of the Lancer, the chainsaw bayonet, is also a bit too powerful, as there is nothing the players can do once it begins to rev and they can just see their character being sliced up in tiny pieces."

"...some new weapons and multiplayer modes. But sadly, not many of the changes were very good, as quite a bunch of users have complained that things were changed from the first game for no reason whatsoever, and that now, a lot of problems have made them resell their copy or throw it on a shelf to gather dust."

Yep. All true, I have experienced all these faults personally. I have been chainsawed through mounted mulcher fire = lol. Gears2 MP is ruined. Matchmaking sucks & the MP feels like an arcade game with horrible lag. All my friends are... er, were Gears hardcore players. Now we all play COD:WAW.

Great job Cliffy B.

EPIC FAIL

i played gears 1 mp for about 8months strait and i am enjoying gears 2 a bunch. especially since the other night i fired up gears and got a prompt to download an update ever since then i can finally get in a match in a few seconds. i don't see how the chainsaw is overpowering, you get close to someone you get chainsawed that simple. i think alot of gears 1 players that were shotgun noobs are pissed because now they have a much harder time just running around with the shotgun and can only use in close halways the way it was meant to be used.

other than the past few weeks when it took forever to get into a match (which is now fixed) gears 2 MP is awsome. lots of variety between submission, warzone and horde.

I'm a competitive player..
Gears 2 just stabs all the competitive players in the back..

Anyone can play and rape with a chainsaw or just nade tag walls and kill downed players..

It's PATHETIC..

The game nearly takes no skill now..........

I enjoy hoping BACK onto GoW and just running through kids..
I am seriously enjoying GoW 1 more then 2..

GJ CliffyB... You killed what could have been a GODLY game..

Sure, the new stuff is interesting for a week..

But, GoW 1 StYl3 > GoW 2 StYl3...

Boomshot on canals is epic fail.

No complaints here. This could be my favorite game ever. I love everything about it.

i thoroughly enjoyed the campaign in gears 2 and the multiplayer for the first few days before the world discovered the chainsaw could run through everything

i'm not a bad player but seeing what people are doing with the chainsaw is annoying, the experience isn't fun for me now and it isn't competitive, it went from the idea of a tactical game to chainsaw fests where no tactics are used

games of king of the hill get so stupid because you will have guys who just walk around with the chainsaw and they can't be touched

i can usually only play 5-6 games before i get fed up with it and go play something else, it is everything but fun in the current state

I dont see what the big problem is. This game was remarkably done. The online was the not the best, but the story was fantastic and better than the first. People didn't dog MGS4 for having a mediocre multilayer. It was praised for its story.

i was jumped on a euro server, those french guys can play but the lag a awful, and to look for a game takes FOREVER

gears 2 has amazing multiplayer

my only gripe is that there might be a little lag in some game matches...

Good. Wasn't needed at that time. Let the power of the consoles get a few iterations down the line before remakes are done.

1 and 2 for sure 3 was ok Dom's death felt rushed to me. Judgement was meh 4 was ok and 5 I thought was boring.

4 & 5 had some bullshit practice’s for MP characters and skins.
Judgement was very casual.
2 had the best maps and good gameplay if it wasn’t laggy.
3 had okay maps (too open) but the gameplay was the best.
1 was solid all around.

My ranking :

1. Gears of War 2
2. Gears of War 3
3.Gears 5
4. Gears of War 1/ UE
5. Gears of War 4
6. Gears of War: Judgement

Judgement has the weakest campaign and multiplayer. Gears 5 would probably be ranked lower if it’s multiplayer didn’t mature well. The game improved significantly in terms of progression and content from launch overtime. While, Gears of War 1 was the most influential title of the series it hasn’t aged as well as it successors.
Gears of War 2 is number one for me due to its plot, introduction of horde and personal nostalgia, despite 3 being objectively better, in my opinion.

I Haven’t not played the spin-off titles, as they belong to genres that don’t interest me.

As an aside: I waiting for my EARNABLE or FREE COG still Spartans to be added to Halo Infinite. Spartans Emile and Kait were in Gears 5 mp, so 343i should reciprocate the Coalitions cross-over.

1,2,3,5,4 and Judgement for me. The first game is hard to beat imo.

1) 2
2) 3, 1
3) Judgement
4) 5
5) 4

Based only on the campaign. 2 was almost perfect; 1 (as a start for the franchise) was amazing too. 3 had some issues, but mostly very enjoyable. Judgement tried to move some stuff around but mostly stayed with the same crew and very basic story. 5 and 4 (campaign-vise) were pretty bad, didn't feel like they were important for the Sera as a whole (maybe that's how it felt to me).

Gears of War 1 is one of the coolest games ever made. A really unique blend of shooter and horror. The art direction was stunning, the music was excellent, and the overall atmosphere was really special. It also looked incredible back in 2006.

This series need a god of war style reboot, the cover and shoot mechanic is old news now they gotta do something to mix it up again.

Other wise its lterally 7 games of the same thing with minimal additions to the gameplay

Now that I finally own an XB one day I'll try the Gear games on Gamepass.

The first 3 are the only good ones in my opinion with the original Xbox 360 Gears 1 was the best online. The rest where not good imo.

Gears 1 was the best hands down. Dark and gritty from beginning to end. Gears 2 was an incredible sequel that ranks close to the first imo. Don’t think they will ever recapture the magic of the first two games. The emphasis has shifted and propably won’t go back.

I have all 5 mainline games from sales on the Xbox store... I need to play them one of these days

Gears and Halo 3 made me pick up a 360 immediately after playing at a friend's house. Great times there. Gears was something new and different from everything else

Nah I never laughed so hard in a games death during part two.

Game series is ugly art wise, plays super clunky and is just lame. I hate gears.

I remember booting Gears 1 on day 1 back in 2006 and my girlfriend at the time said “how could games look any better from here.”

Not only was Gears 1 special for its visuals, but the gameplay felt so fresh and innovative. What a time.

360 era gears doesn't miss, amazing games. One era, ain't a big deal, really not missing much with it

Gears 2 , Gears 5, Gears 1 and the others in what ever order