Intro: Series
Gears of war starts out as this COG Soldier named Marcus Fenix, who is just got out of prison for disobeying an direct order to serve duty, and save his father Adam Fenix. Dom Santiago is Marcus Fenix's Friend, who both of them, and 2 other guys named Cole, and Baird, teams up. All of them is in a Squad called Delta Squad, who's job in the first game was to retrieve the Resonator, map the Locust Horde's Tunnels (Locust are the main enemies of the Cog in GoW), so they can get a Lightmass bomb (Gears of War version of Nuclear Weapons) and bomb the Locust out of commison, and save humanity. [Spoiler] The locust survived the bombing, and is in the hollow, an underground place under Jacinto (Jacinto is Humanities last refuge in GoW). So now Delta Squad is back, and there job this time is to prevent the Locust from sinking Jacinto.
Story
Gears of War 2 has a better story this time around by introducing new characters. Tai, who is one of the new guys that will help Marcus and Delta Squad in GoW2. Dizzy, who is the driver of the Derrick that Marcus, and Dom rides in (Derrick is a Big rig that the Cog use in GoW2 to get to the hollow where the locust horde is underneath Landown, a city by Jacinto) Maria, who is Dom's missing wife, which Dom is searching for in the game. Also there's many other characters that I can describe, but won't because it will ruin the game for ya.
Emotions are a big deal in the sequel because you feel connections to the characters, and the characters will make you feel what they are going through in the game even though there not real. For example, Marcus cares about others and is a little bit more soft towards his teammates and others. Another example is a Scene in the Latter part in GoW2 when Dom finally finds out what will happens to his Wife, Maria. [Spoiler] Something bad happens to Maria, but I won't tell you because it will also ruin the game for ya.
The game does aims to what Epic Games explains their game being more "Bada** and Badder" which stays true to what Epic games claims the product to be.
Story: 10/10
Graphics
The Unreal 3 Engine does get more graphical to the game by adding realistic water effects that are simular to what is in Bioshock (which uses a Modded Unreal 3 Engine, which it's purpose is to create realistic water effects for the Underwater Dystopia of Rapture as the setting of the game [Bioshock]), and more realistic Character body animation that reacts to the bullets in game.
Gears of War 2 looks fantastic in 720p to 1080p HDTV, if you have a HDTV that can handle the game. The native Resolution of the game is 720p, which is with the majority of Xbox 360 games, and the game can get early xbox 360's the RROD on the Systems (short for "Red ring of Death", which means the CPU and GPU on the system is broken).
The Gore Filter in the game does do it's job to shelter younger audiences, but the Language Filters is not.
Also the Graphics is still top notch even it has the Gore Filter.
Graphics 10/10
Sound
Sound is really good, better than in Gears of War, So if you have a sound system that is 5.1, I recommend cranking this game up, but the Music does get tiring in some moments of the game. The language Filter does not do it's job, it only blocks religious words like gd or gdit, to explicit words like the f, and s words, but not all the bad language (such as Jack***, or A-hole, A**, wth, etc.)
Recommendation for Parents with kids that want to play this game, not recommended because the Gore is still accessible with the filter on or off, and the language filter does not block all the words.
Sound: 8/10
Multiplayer
Multiplayer in Gears of War 2 is better than the first one, but is still in good positions in the most played Xbox Live games, but not as much as Halo 3.
MP 8/10
Replay Value
This game is great on Harder Difficulties, and the online is great factor to make you want to replay the game again.
8/10
Overall: Recommended for People 17+, but Game is a Must Have. (9/10)
Rating: Mature 17+ for Blood and Gore, Strong Language, and Intense Violence
Posted On: Jaunary 12, 2009 at 6:00PM eastern Time USA
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