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#1 Nov 08 2008 at 10:25 AM Rating: Excellent
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So I've shelved Fallout 3 for the time being and I just picked up Gears of War 2 - the original was the game I played the most on my X-Box 360.

So who's playing Gears of War 2 on here? Neph? Bhodi? Totem? Bueller?....Bueller?

The Gamespot review I read gave it a 9.0 - this is my favorite part of that review:

Gamespot Review wrote:
The first Gears of War was brutally over-the-top in its violence, and the sequel manages to take this even further. You now have four ways of executing your enemies, all of which are mapped onto the face buttons of the joypad. X performs the standard curb-stomp, B delivers a quicker blow to the back of the head, and Y flips your foe over for repeated punches to the face. Finally, the A button lets you grab the wounded enemy to use as a meat shield, affording you some protection until you decide to finish it off with a neck-break. The signature chainsaw move has been adapted so you cut upward from the crotch if you approach from the rear, and if two players ready their saws, they enter a duel that's won by whoever taps the B button the fastest. These new additions improve on the already gritty and satisfying melee combat of the original Gears of War and make close-quarters combat even more gruesomely rewarding.


Smiley: yippee
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#2 Nov 08 2008 at 11:06 AM Rating: Excellent
YAY! Canaduhian
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I think Neph's dad took his Xbox away. Smiley: frown
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#3 Nov 08 2008 at 11:39 AM Rating: Decent
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Oh. My. God. I want this game really bad. Me and my friend have been waiting for it since we first heard about it. Hopefully I'll be getting it tonight. I'm very looking forward to it. :)

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#4 Nov 08 2008 at 5:11 PM Rating: Good
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Got it. Played it. About half way through the campaign mode now, the story-line is pretty cool. I've got a pretty solid group of players, and we managed to muscle through 50 waves in the horde mode today on normal difficulty. Just for grins, we bumped it up to insane on wave 50, and were lucky to get a single kill among us.

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#5 Nov 08 2008 at 5:15 PM Rating: Good
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Lolgamespotreviews.
#6 Nov 08 2008 at 6:23 PM Rating: Excellent
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Kakar wrote:
Got it. Played it. About half way through the campaign mode now, the story-line is pretty cool. I've got a pretty solid group of players, and we managed to muscle through 50 waves in the horde mode today on normal difficulty. Just for grins, we bumped it up to insane on wave 50, and were lucky to get a single kill among us.


Yeah, I'm on Hardcore from the get-go in the campaign. I'm embarrassed to say that I'm having a difficult time completing that escort mission. I'm able to take down the mortars but I can't seem to knock out the reaver fast enough. I knock out the two reaver riders, but I'm not sure what area of the reaver to focus on to take it down. It takes like 2 or 3 ramming hits from the reaver then I get the crash down the mountainside cutscene...then start all over again.

Haven't tried Horde mode yet but looking forward to it. I want to do the campaign first before anything else.
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