Gears of War 2 (360)

Game Reviews for Gears of War 2 (360)

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  • turnondafun
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    This game is awesome! I tire of many games quickly and never end up beating them. This one on the other hand sucked me in and I played it every chance I got for a week to finish it up. One of the best storys out there and lots of great different levels to always keep it fresh.
    Nov 23 2009 · Like ·
  • ambuhmassacre
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    The campaign was a lot of fun. Although it was fairly easy and a bit too short, it always had you guessing what came next. As for the multiplayer, Epic totally messed it up by making the lancer have ridiculous stopping power and the shotgun have less power and not being able to blindfire with it. Also how they made it so easy to get kills with the boomshot, sniper, torque bow. Gears of War 1 is clearly the better multiplayer game. No noobs on that one!
    Nov 20 2009 · Like ·
  • Akira187
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    Guaranteed to satisfy the "gritty" need of even the hardest core gamer. This game is truly a pioneer in the realm of shooter gaming. Although not as an "emotionally moving" story as the Modern Warfare series, it does provide a tale that you will not soon forget and yearn for more.
    Nov 17 2009 · Like ·
  • IconSlayer187
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    I can see why they call this the best game on the 360 ever to date so far. I mean really it's a fan based game so it delivers and the constant updates and downloads of the maps are outrageous I love this till dead, it's my favorite shooter ever so far.
    Nov 16 2009 · Like ·
  • vashkey
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    Gears of War 2 is probably the most highly anticipated console game of 2008. With that said there have been exceptionally high expectations for the game. But does it meet them?

    Gameplay wise you can think of Gears of War 2 as the original with some new gameplay additions that bring a new level of depth to the game. On top of the already established gameplay mechanics such as roadie runing(sprinting), aiming down the sights and the cover mechanic the game has become so well known for we have new abilities such as sticking grenades to walls to use like proximity mines, new ways to execute your enemies like using them as shields. New weapons and equipemnt really bring new tactics in to such as portable shields. All in all I'd say that Gears 2 really has a great level of new and old ratio that most sequels should strive for.

    While the fantastic gameplay from the original has returned with some nice tweaks, the worst part of the original also makes a return... glitches. While the game is fun as hell, the glitches really ruin the experience. And Im not talking small stuff. I mean things that can ruin the experience somtimes. A few times I've had the game glitch to where I couldnt pick up ammo, weapons or equipment. And in one of the game's boss fight sequences the game was so glitchy that I had to end the session and load in back up for proper play.


    I can safely say Gears of War 2 is the most visually impressive game I've played on the 360 when it comes to detail and art. The game is just beautiful in every way and has improved much on the lighting and water effects from the original. Alot of things can be going on on screen, but in most cases the game runs pretty smoothly. Unfortunatly, texture popin makes a return in Gears 2. It's not quite as abrupt as it was in the original, but it's still kinda annoying.

    Gears of War 2 sounds great. Alot of the guns have had adjustments to sound alot and it just feel very nice. The voice acting is also pretty great. Some of the best voice acting you'll hear in the a shooter and the dailouge is great and ocassionaly funny. And for the sound track, it's hollywood quality. I would say though that I found the sound track for the original game a tad better, but this is still pretty good.

    Gears of War 2 provides a much longer campaign than the original(which provides 2-player co-op. Yeah, no 4-player :( . On your first run you'll likely be done in between nine to twelve hours. Theres plenty of reason to go back through too aside from the fact that it's a ton of fun. Once you beat it, you unlock the Insane difficulty and you'll probably want to go back and grab the collectibles scattered through out the game's five acts. And these aren't like the cog tags from Gears 1 where they were just there for achievements. These collectibles contain stories and stuff, further fleshing out the story, they arent just there for achievements.

    While the campaign is over all a much better experience, the boss fights don't quite hold up. While you do get to take part in much more epic scale battle, sometimes it just feels like you get the easy way out. Almost every time a huge enemy that seems like a pototentially awsome boss fight comes around, the game hands you a BFG and no other way to beat the boss. And the final boss is the most pathetic one this side of Guilty Spark. They don't ruin the over all experience, but they could have been better.

    I'd also like to mention that the campaign brings with it a little innovation. Each player can play on separate difficulties in co-op. For instance, one can be playing on casual difficulty while the other plays on Hardcore.

    Gears of War 2 brings a new game mode called Horde. This mode allows you and four of your friends to duke it out against Locust forces in multiplayer maps. It's bassically a game of survival. You and your friends try to clear as mamy waves of locust as possible. And each wave get progressively stronger. It's a pretty addictive and fun mode which is to many, their favorite mode.

    Then theres the competitive multiplayer. I've got to say the strongest area in this multiplayer is maps. The game comes with a surprising amount of maps. On the disc there are ten maps, then an additional five that come with a free code with the game making a total of fiften maps, right out of the box and their all great maps.

    There are more multiplayer gametypes than the original. But we still could have used more. And alot of the game types are just variations of other game types. We have Warzone, which is bassically team death match. Then theres Execution, which is team deathmatch, but in order to kill your oponent you need to use a special execution or a one shot kill. Theres Wingman, Which is team death match, but with five teams or less of two players. Then theres King of the Hill and Annex which is King of the hill with a hill that moves on occasion. And last is Submission, the most unique game type, it's basically neutral capture the flag, but the flag is a guy with a shot gun.

    So really, it's just three game types with a few variations of two of them. Hopefully we'll get new game types in the future.

    Interestingly during multiplayer while you're dead you can freely move the camera and spectate and while doing this take pictures. You can share the pictures you take and the theres an ingame scoring system. Not near as robust as what Halo 3 lets you do with pictures but it's better than nothing.

    The online multiplayer has improved in that theres actually a party system as well as other nice things taken from Halo, like the ability to bring up your friend list with a press of a button. Theres an actual matchmaking too with real ranks(although all the playlists seem ranked). And you can actually veto maps and game types now. It's different than most games though in that you can vote between two maps and game types.

    I gotta mention though that right now it takes quite a while to get a match up. Im not sure whats wrongs, but the guys at Epic are saying their working on it.

    Gears of War 2 is a fantastic sequel thats much better than the original. Unfortuantly though, the many glitches and the lack of variety in game types hold the game back from perfection.
    Nov 15 2009 · Like ·
  • sugar_spoon
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    This is definitely on my top ten list, of games I love. Mulitplayer is boss, and I loved horde. The story kept me going, and i really felt like I connected with the characters. D: i nearly cried at the loss of two of them, especially the first. I can play it over and over again, with so many different people. I love the fact we can both be playing on different difficulties. seriously 4.89 out of 5.

    looking forward to a 3.
    Nov 14 2009 · Like ·
  • awddsm
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    Alright story line, great co-op game.
    Nov 11 2009 · Like ·
  • Brutalsleeper
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    Dont get me wrong this game is amazing... but i just feel there are loads of much better games out there that dont get the attention they deserve because of this and COD.
    The campaign in Gears 1 was awesome but few things in Gears 2 campaign made sense it just felt more time was spent on Multi player. Multi player is still amazing but i always saw it in every game I play as a bonus mode and now it is coming out as a full on aspect of gaming.
    I am obviously being way too harsh on it, it is probably unfair of me to rate a game badly because one aspect ( Multi player) of it is better than the other aspect ( Story ) I like. But a few years ago you spent 80% of your time on a long and challenging story mode and then went on to have a few games on line. But now people go straight on-line before even bothering to attempt the story.I guess i don't like this game as much of most because it represents what I fear is to come for the game industry.
    Nov 10 2009 · Like ·
  • xKirax
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    La verdad es que ami me encanto!! soy un fiel seguidor de Gears Of War 2, y este juego ha llenado mis espectativas.
    Nov 4 2009 · Like ·
  • Max Limitz
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    Multiplayer characters move like snails in mud. There is no other strategy except that you run near your enemy and use your shotgun or chainsaw. No other tactics needed. Stupid is, stupid does.
    Nov 4 2009 · Like ·
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