Gears of War

If you’re like me, you wholeheartedly really enjoyed Gears of War.

It was one of those very hyped semi launch games for the X-Box 360, and became somewhat of a phenomenon with action figures and a feature film in production.  It was definitely a rich and beautiful game to play and once your done; you want that sequel big time.

Fourth quarter 2008 will see the release of Gears of War 2, the announcement was made in February 2008 at the Game Developers Conference by lead designer Cliff Bleszinski.  This came as a sweet little surprise to Gears fans because it almost seemed like a sequel would be too far off.  Epic Games looks to do it again with what is promised to be an even more surreal and visceral experience, using an upgraded version of the Unreal Engine 3, and plenty of new additions in gameplay.

Preliminaries for GOW 2 clue us in that you can now have Chainsaw duels with an AI combatant, and that there is a deeper Coop mode where each player can have a different difficulty setting.

Another couple of sweet features are the fact that you can use a downed enemy as a human shield and that there will be more vehicle missions, including the addition of the Centaur tank, a tank with giant monster truck wheels! 

There will be a whole slew of new characters and enemies as well.  As far as the story goes, it takes place a while after the detonation of the Lightmass bomb from the end of GOW and follows Marcus and Dominic as they deal with the Locusts’ new plan to subjugate humanity. 

From what I have seen so far, the game looks awesome and it makes my palms sweaty just thinking about it.  You can check out some footage here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxoU8wCEr2A

Lets not forget the Multiplayer mode either, which is definitely a whole other ball game and promises lots of DLC and new advancements.

The game is gonna be great, as with the first one this GOW looks like the developers just really care about delivering an amazing unforgettable product.