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blog.mlive.com review : Gears of War 2's bugs hold it back from greatness

Staring down the scope of your Longshot sniper rifle you see a Locust drone in the distance. You pull the trigger. Face explodinates into a fountain of gore.

You creep around a corner, your hulking frame clinging tight to the wall readying your Lancer's chainsaw bayonette. You swing out and jam on the B button. Nothing happens. You press it again. Nothing happens. You wind up on the receiving end of a brutal melee attack.

You crawl on your hands and knees, bleeding out, towards Delta squadmate Dominic Santiago for him to revive you. Nothing happens. Screaming in agony and frustration doesn't break Dom's preoccupation with finding his wife. Not you lying helpless at his feet, not anything. You die.

This is the game you've been waiting for the past two years. This is Gears of War 2.

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rbluetank6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

this is a real person review. He seems to not be paid by anybody. Everything he talked about was from really playing the game. i have experienced alot and more of what he is saying about gears2. i had Dom force mount a four foot high wall and get stuck there. i was forced on the sp mission to restart the mission because of his actions. a couple of times he would pop up behind me at a strange angle and we both were stuck in a glitch moment. Gears2 has every flaws of the last game and more. the game is still tearing into focus..WTF they worked on this game for how long...?? over 2years and the same flaw from the last game appears. This game is broke or the engine it rides on is.. I will not be buying this game again!! i will rent to own. Vck the reviews site. (1up,ign,gamespot,ect..) This is not acceptable!!! Epic are lazy flat out. The boss fights are stolen and port over badly into gears2. i can not even play online because of this developmental mess.. someone over at Epic should be fired!!! Mark Rein get the vckout of your lamborginee and "delegate a reinvestment of procedure" within your company. Your game Fails big time!!! LAZY LAZY @ss game. Quite coping everything and do something original and you will be fine....

tehReaper6050d ago

Okay for one, I doubt you've played this game. Judging from past comments, you've been downgrading 360 games for a while now. Not one positive comment.

For two, EPIC said they would try and fix most of the bugs.

Just chill. If you don't like Gears, fine, don't play it. No need to go around N4G trying to downplay its' success. It won't work, my friend.

Rigmaster6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

The first Gears of War was a disgrace.

* The laughably fake marketing shots Epic put out

Epic was given a free pass to put out 5000x5000 16xAA marketing renders as 'in engine' screenshots by the gaming press because the horrible graphics that had earned the Xbox 1.5 label from gamers. The gaming press needed some game to keep the illusion that the PS3 and 360 were somehow duking it out over graphics power

* The anemic single player campaign that had to be cut down in size due to the smaller than last gen 360 DVD storage format

Because this was the single must get 10/10 reviews title for the 360 the gaming press gave the game a free pass on single player length while completely slamming other titles that actually had longer single player campaigns

* The absolutely broken online

The Gears of War forums were insane back in the first few months after release with what a complete disaster the online was. Massive lag making the game almost unplayable, glitching and cheating and host advantage problems due to the poorly implemented P2P networking and Microsoft's failure to pay for dedicated servers. It was a weird duality going on with Gears of War. People were crying about what a total POS the game was in forums where they were amongst other 360 owners but then claiming the game was the greatest ever in more public forums.

The game is a testament to how a company with unlimited money to spend on marketing and all sorts of backdoor deals and payments to gaming review sites can manufacture 9-10/10 reviews for a game.

One just has to look at the most infamous of all Gears of War reviews:

http://www.abjecthubris.com...

Now imagine if that game was being reviewed for the PC, PS3, or Wii...

Fable 2 and Banjo were supposed to the the other two big first party titles and that didn't work out for Microsoft. Left 4 Dead is crossplatform. Gears of War 2 is all there is for the holidays. There is no way in hell it wasn't going to get absurdly high review scores no matter how buggy the game was or how it has the same outdated Unreal Engine graphics.

Gue16050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

Wow, the 1up review for GeoW1 was sick Rigmaster ! lol

people are going to mark your comment as fanboyims even though you're showing proof but anyway, there's no worst blind than the one who doesn't wants to see. =|

Yoma6050d ago

thanks god, a REAL review!

Bonsai12146050d ago

thats the first the i've read that review.. haha. its amazing how he can still give that an A+.

ultimolu6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

Damn Rigmaster, you did your homework. o_o
And that's ridiculous if the game received an A+ and had those issues. It should have gotten a B+.

Oner6050d ago

Bubbles Rig. Seriously. I try to stay on top of how much BS is spewed in the media about gaming (especially bias) and without question that has to be the best information I have EVER read. I honestly don't know how that one slipped by me. ABSOLUTELY GREAT POST.

ANYBODY who cannot see the proof right in front of their own eyes are sheep. Even after saying that I can say & agree the Gears line is great fun but to receive the highly praised accolades it gets does a disservice to the gaming public and proves the media bias plain and simple. There is no question about it.

Again Rig, great post. Nothing short of a bombshell.

Why o why6050d ago

thanks. hope u dont mind if i use that on somebody in the near future to shut them the fcuk up about media bias and corruption

bubble

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PoSTedUP6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

but the media judges ps3 games when they have bugs! >: o~ biased mofo's

good honest review. we need more reviews like these.

EDIT@ #1- ah you beat me to it : P~ good to know we are on the same page though ; )

you need more bubbles friend, here.

theKiller6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

his bubbles wont increase even if 100 users gave him bubbles, its up to the mods to increase the bubbles, and let me tell u this, they hate users anti 360 and pro ps3, and they decrease their bubbles very fast, when nasim make a new account, in one week he will have 1 bubble but when pp or bloodmask make a new account they last with it for months until they get 1 bubble!

this bubble system is pure BS, just use ur comments wisely and put everything u want to say in one comment, and if its not enough make a new account!!!

badz1496049d ago

I see...and now you have trouble!(in term of bubbles!) I'll lend you a bubble!(like I could) but seriously...+1 for you

ape0076050d ago

another hater,yes it has bugs but very few

the game is great,nuff said

Rigmaster6050d ago

Would you even try if you had the amount of cash Microsoft has to throw at the gaming media with your game?

theKiller6050d ago (Edited 6050d ago )

at the time am writing this there is 4 reports from the bots and the type of reports r Lame with one Bad Editing.

show how intolerance the bots r when it come to bad reviews for their games.

also notice the advertising in N4G, it stats that gears of war 2 the best 360 game ever!!! what happened to halo 3??

LOL poor bots, they call it best game ever and yet it has many bugs and cant even beat one years old ps3 exclusive in graphics "UNCHARTED"

Gears of War 2 didnt bring any innovation or technical break threw, its just the same as gears of war 1 with very small improvements that took them 2 years to make!

any way i might download the cracked and better version of Gears of war 2 on PC sometime next year, my pc could handle gears 2 so certainly will handle gears 2!! and whats the point to spend money on it now?? certainly its not the best shoot em up game this year, certainly there is many better shoot em up games then gears of war 2 this winter that managed to make break threw in the technical, online and scale.... ahhm.."resistance 2"... ahhhm 25GB vs 8GB

Yoma6050d ago

this is when the good reviews comes .

blackbeld6050d ago

Gears of War 2!!! It's a SHAME!!!!! How could they mess this up... Damnn.

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Gears of War 2 Remake was in development “10 years ago” but was scrapped by Xbox

Ayi Sanchez: "Old work. I did this 10 years ago now as part of a material test for a remaster of Gears of War 2 that never happened."

RaidenBlack99d ago

lolz,
hope we're still getting Gears 2 & 3 for PC, as per rumors

Cacabunga98d ago

Xbox always taking the right decisions

XiNatsuDragnel99d ago

Wow... just wow Microsoft sigh at it again 😑

Lightning7798d ago

Weird, in mean they had no studios to make anything really new so there's a part of me thats kinda glad they scrapped it. If they released this back then it would of gotten ridiculed for remakes and remastering stuff. Now they have new and interesting games so the collection is harmless.

CrimsonWing6998d ago

Geez, Xbox, something like that I would’ve bought Day 1. Great business decisions over there.

lucasnooker98d ago

10 years ago it wasn’t such a big deal. The games were only a few years old by that point

CrimsonWing6998d ago

Gears of War: Ultimate Edition came out in 2015 (essentially 10 years ago), having a follow-up to that on the then next-gen console would’ve absolutely been welcomed, in my book.

LoveSpuds98d ago

I can only assume the the Gears of War Remaster flopped so they decided to scrap the other remakes?

Seems short sighted to me as I really enjoyed the 1st remaster. Regardless, I'll snap up some remakes to play on my PS5.

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Ranking The Gears Of War Games From Worst To Best

The Gears of War series has been a consistent deliverer of quality for Xbox, but which games are the best?

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KicksnSnares1092d ago

Gears of War is my favorite video game franchise, and the Locust is my all-time favorite faction.

My rank list:
1. Gears of War 2
2. Gears of War 3
3. Gears of War 1
4. Gears of War 4
5. Gears of War 5
6. Gears of War Judgment (No Locust in multiplayer was a disgrace)

ChasterMies1091d ago

Agree 100% with this ranking. The campaign in Gears of War 2 is among the most fun campaigns ever made. It’s been downhill from there.

Zombieburger6381091d ago

I’d say gears 2 and 3 are pretty even. I absolutely loved both of them.

darthv721092d ago

2 is still my favorite but 5 is also up there (for me). Then I'd say 1, 3, 4 and Judgement. Tactics isnt the same type of game, so it seems odd to rank it among TPS when its a strategy game. So I make that one all its own. Pretty fun game too.

Jericho13371092d ago

The first is and has always been the best one imo - the story, the levels, the set pieces, the soundtrack - as close to perfect as a campaign can get.

I’d say the series had been on a continual downhill slide until 5.

Om4ever1091d ago

Naaaan ... 2 is the best by far

MadLad1092d ago

3
5
2
1
4
Judgement

I love the series as a whole, but 4 was pretty by the numbers, and Judgement was just ok.

LoveSpuds1092d ago

I played them all since picking up a Series X about 7 months ago. Personally, I don't think time has been kind to the earlier games and they feel very slow and repetitive to play. Whilst the newer games may be prettier, they stick with the original gameplay mechanics too much in my view so as a whole series of titles, I think they are pretty average games.

Not to say they weren't fun and I have a lot of nostalgia for 1 and 2, I just think there are far better action games out there.

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Gears Of War: The Franchise For You

What's the best Gears of War game for players? Where to start? This guide should easily lend a hand.

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Old McGroin1225d ago (Edited 1225d ago )

It's brilliant but personally liked part one more. It's the only one that had a near horror movie vibe to it in parts, the atmosphere was amazing.

Also, the commercial for it was 🔥🔥🔥

https://youtu.be/wy8LRlS1SC...

Neonridr1225d ago

Mad World was such a perfect song for that trailer. I loved part 1 too just because it was so fresh at the time. The series has been solid, but experiencing everything for the first time was pretty awesome.

ChasterMies1225d ago

Gears of War 2 has one of the greatest campaigns of all time. Carmine, all that juice, fighting inside a giant worm, and riding monsters.

Knightofelemia1226d ago

Gears 1 and 2 will always be my favorite Gears titles. The scene where Dom find his wife and then has to shoot her was an epic scene.

monkey6021225d ago

I always found that scene laughably bad myself. Fantastic game though.

1 will always be my favourite. Most were great with the exception of 4 being okay and judgement being terrible.

They still have the most satisfying headshots from any multiplayer game around.

lucian2291225d ago

Nah I laughed, the acting was soooooooooo bad

KicksnSnares1226d ago

My favorite Gears game list
1. Gears 2
2. Gears 3
3. Gears 1
4. Gears 4
5. Gears 5
6. Gears Judgement

Gears Of War is my favorite video game franchise. I can’t imagine how Gears 6 will look in UE5 after watching Hellblade 2 gameplay trailer

RetroCaptainSteve1226d ago

Or if they remake 2 and 3 with that engine.

KicksnSnares1226d ago

There is a rumored Marcus Fenix collection (Gears 2 & 3 remake) in the works at the Coalition. Hopefully, it’s true, but I doubt it.

Profchaos1225d ago

For me you can't beat gears 1 the original was so fresh and revolutionary at the time.
Then basically I'd rank it 2,3,5,4 and judgement

Viljong1225d ago (Edited 1225d ago )

One of the reasons why i got the series x. Been fan since the first game.

myfathersbastard1225d ago

Played them all recently on gamepass. Great games. But my favorites gotta be gears tactics. Don’t know why. I just had a blast with it lol

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