rootninja

First off, don’t be afraid of insane mode.  It just means you shoot from a little further back than normal most of the time and don’t bother trying to get up close to chainsaw anyone.  So you’re left with the multiplayer and the horde.  The horde mode really is the shining star here, but it’s too bad this is where things also began to fall apart.

1. It will take forever to form groups on xbox live.  And when you see your group fill up and you think it’s about to start, don’t count your chickens yet.  It will probably reset and start trying to find players all over again.  When you’ve played a full round of multiplayer in public xbox live and the round is finishes, you will get kicked out to the main screen and have to start matchmaking all over again.  The only save here is that if you’re in a party with friends, at least your group will stay together, but you’ll still have to wait forever to find another group to play against!
2. If you join a multiplayer or horde match using public xbox live, you’ll start from wave one with no choice.  If, at any time in the middle of playing, someone leaves the match, a new person can’t join.  So you’re basically screwed.  This has a much worse effect in multiplayer.  If a player or two on your team leaves, too bad so sad.  Your team is probably going to lose.  It won’t balance the teams between matches, or let a new person join in the middle of a fight, a la call of duty style.
3. The whole roll up on someone and blast them with a shotgun to the face trick from the first Gears of War hasn’t been fixed.  So forget the lancer or the rifle.  The shotgun is your best choice from your starting arsenal in multiplayer.  If you can get your hands on a bow or boomshot, by all means take it.  But it’s just too bad there are no modes where people get different guns, or where everyone only gets a specific gun.  It would have been nice to have a pistol+sniper battle with no machine guns allowed.
4. Oooo, check out my gold lancer or gold rifle.  woop-dee-doo.  How about different models of each type of gun or a few more choices?  Sure there’s three different pistols, but there’s only 1 rifle, 1 lancer, 1 bow, 1 boomshot, and 1sniper rifle.  While the weapon types vary tremendously, the selection is rather limited.
5. Be prepared to get stuck taking cover, or going into cover facing the wrong way.  It’s just too bad that Geow2 is basically Geow1 all over again with new maps and a few new guns!

And my bonus gripe:  In the campaign mode, you’ll find yourself running around as a group of 4, sometimes splitting into 2 and 2.  Why couldn’t they have made it FOUR PLAYER CO-OP?!  Tweak the story a little here and there and wam, it would have been great.  I give this game a 7 out of 10.  And no, i’m not paid to rate this game at all.  After the initial wow factor wears off, you’re left with just “meh”.  Screw this, i’m going back to Call of Duty 4…

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