Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360)

Back in November 2006, Microsoft and Epic released Gears of War to excite players in the holiday season, and it did. Receiving exceptional reviews and glorious praise (including from me) the game was one of the systems best exclusives that year and still is played by die-hard fans to date on the game's brilliant multiplayer suite. It pushed the system to the limits, and is still the best looking game on the system in my opinion. But that was so 2006-it's been two years now and with a bevy of games being released using the same cover system, including Mass Effect, Kane and Lynch, Uncharted and more, the system which Gears refined has now been used a lot since. The ...  Read the complete review

As much as I enjoyed the original Gears of War, it was kind of like an interactive Steven Segal film; juvenile, exaggerated, and preposterously macho. I half expected meat-headed hero Marcus Fenix to spring out during the closing credits dressed as a Red-Indian Chieftain and belt out YMCA with the rest of his earth-saving COG crew, completing this festival of homoerotic bonhomie. This was a shame as the plot, whilst hackneyed in principal, was competent enough to sustain a more thoughtful exposition than it received. The sci-fi tale of humanity under attack from horrific alien blah blah blah has been bludgeoned to a bloody pulp so many times over I'll spare ...  Read the complete review

At last! This long awaited sequel has come! Gears of War was one of the first Xbox 360 games that really opened people's eyes to next-gen gaming. GoW was not without it's flaws, but it had a heavy cinematic feel, fantastic graphics, smooth and well thought out gameplay and excellent multiplayer. It was a shining example of what an action shooter should now be. Gears of War 2 is no different except - well - it is different. It's a whole step forward from the excellent first game. First of all, fans of the original will be relieved to know that the third person cover-then-shoot gameplay is still in tact. Throughout the game you will be ...  Read the complete review

Ok I'm not going into a big synopsis of the Gears of War 2 story mainly because you should experience it and check the events in the story for yourself . Gears of War centers around Delta Squad and their struggle against the Locust Horde The setting for the game is a fictional planet named Sera. Gears of War 2 picks up six months after the events at the end of the first Gears of War. In Gears of War 2 the Locust have returned with a vengeance, and to top it off they can now sink entire cities. Along with all of this, Dom is searching for his wife, trying to find her before its too late. Humanity is on the brink of extinction, their last great stronghold is now in ...  Read the complete review

Gears of War 2, oh where shall I start. Ok, it was the highly anticipated sequel to Gears of War, and guess what? It delievered. It came back better, badder, bigger, more gore and brutality, another story that leaves most games in its dust. Graphics, that may surpass every other game in the market. And still with its innovative cover system. Ok time to stop woffling, now to get serious. Lets start with the story. The story follows the four main characters as in the first Marcus Fenix, Dom Santiago, Damon Baird, Augustus Cole "Train", and the Private gear Anthony Carmine, brother to Ben Carmine from GoW. But the only difference is ...  Read the complete review