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Gears of war 2 is trash
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I'm inclined to agree with the OP, this isn't a very good game. It's certainly not good enough to justify the sales it gets.
For one, the story is terrible and it's filled with dull, lifeless characters who are too similar to each other to be interesting at all.
The weapons are poor - I loved the weapons in UT, why can't Epic be creative and come up with stuff like that instead of machine gun after machine gun and the odd shotgun?
The artwork on the whole is pretty poor. Yes, there are some pretty high poly models in there and some nice visual effects, but for whatever reason (disc budget or just poor work) the textures are awful. Get close to any wall and you'll see what I mean. It's a blurry mess.
The environments are boring and bland - brown room after brown room after brown room. All of the characters are brown too.
For one, the story is terrible and it's filled with dull, lifeless characters who are too similar to each other to be interesting at all.
The weapons are poor - I loved the weapons in UT, why can't Epic be creative and come up with stuff like that instead of machine gun after machine gun and the odd shotgun?
The artwork on the whole is pretty poor. Yes, there are some pretty high poly models in there and some nice visual effects, but for whatever reason (disc budget or just poor work) the textures are awful. Get close to any wall and you'll see what I mean. It's a blurry mess.
The environments are boring and bland - brown room after brown room after brown room. All of the characters are brown too.
Well if we are going to compare...Why not making every single game from now on like Halo 1? I can play hours of any other game and have fun, but in playing a single game of Halo 1 all the other games seem far less polished and not nearly as much fun. Just wish Halo 1 had online play :/
I can agree
When i played GoW1 i disliked it b/c I was use to like easier killing. It would take less shots to kill in like cod or halo.
When gow2 came out I thought it was the greatest. Now after playing it, even after the patch, matchmaking is ridiculous and shotgun/chainsaw is not balanced really.
If you have chainsaw out, the person gets shotgun and pwns u. Then if you have shotgun u get chain sawed, seems like you can never win.
Also the host has alot of benefits. Everyone once was lagged in game, can shoot unlimitedly but can't move. It was King of the Hill and the host had over 70 kills everyone else was 0 except for 1 lucky guy lol.
It was fun b4 but when u play over time, it gets ridiculous.
When i played GoW1 i disliked it b/c I was use to like easier killing. It would take less shots to kill in like cod or halo.
When gow2 came out I thought it was the greatest. Now after playing it, even after the patch, matchmaking is ridiculous and shotgun/chainsaw is not balanced really.
If you have chainsaw out, the person gets shotgun and pwns u. Then if you have shotgun u get chain sawed, seems like you can never win.
Also the host has alot of benefits. Everyone once was lagged in game, can shoot unlimitedly but can't move. It was King of the Hill and the host had over 70 kills everyone else was 0 except for 1 lucky guy lol.
It was fun b4 but when u play over time, it gets ridiculous.
WTF?
If you are losing with both weapons to both weapons then it means you suck not that weapons are imbalanced.
Well I beat it last night. Turns out I was under 10 minutes from the end of the game and just didn't know it. Silly me. I think people here are expecting something much different than they should be. It's supposed to be bland brown colours with ugly bald space marines, it's the Gears (Epic's) thing. Complaining about that is like complaining there are too many effeminate pretty boys in a Final Fantasy game.
Honestly, they took the first game then added MORE of it in a more refined way (looks better, more action, different environments, more gore, etc.) and put it out. Why would they change it? You should know what you are getting into you by this point.
Honestly, they took the first game then added MORE of it in a more refined way (looks better, more action, different environments, more gore, etc.) and put it out. Why would they change it? You should know what you are getting into you by this point.
actually they balanced the weapon lol. first GOW, everyone rushed in with shotgun. you can lay down some pretty accurate fire with lancer and the guy will just roll towards you and blast your head off. they weakened the shotgun for a good reason.
The second was better than the first in terms of quality of play, but the first will always be better in my heart (same with the halo trilogy)
Gears of War 2 is not trash, nor is it even mili-feet (?) next to it.
Gears of War 2 has one of the best campaigns I've ever played, and I have beat it on every difficulty (yes including recruit) and I have gotten Seriously 2.0 (100,000 kills.)
The only thing that is mediocre about it is the online play.
I hate everything about online play, which is the only reason I play CoD4 on 360 and PS3.
My work here is done.
Gears of War 2 has one of the best campaigns I've ever played, and I have beat it on every difficulty (yes including recruit) and I have gotten Seriously 2.0 (100,000 kills.)
The only thing that is mediocre about it is the online play.
I hate everything about online play, which is the only reason I play CoD4 on 360 and PS3.
My work here is done.