I've already played through the game once on Normal and going through it now on Insane Co-op. I'm not the super Gears player by any means but even Normal seemed kinda easy to me. I probably only got downed 4-5 times the whole game and had to restart maybe 2-3 times. Insane is definitely a lot harder so I think Hardcore would be a good medium. I read some reports from reviewers that were asked to play through the game on Hardcore for their reviews. I guess that it probably the preferred difficulty for most adept gamers.
Please please don't take this the wrong way but my GF started playing Gears 2 as well and never played the first. She watched me play it a little bit and thought it looked fun. She doesn't play many Shooters (I think Halo & Bioshock are the only ones she ever was interested in) and even she commented how easy Casual was. I know the impressions won't change a whole lot on level design but the enemies are a cakewalk on that difficulty. If you want to just plow through it I guess it would be ok but a higher difficulty would go a long ways I think.
I read the rest of the post but didn't feel like replying in pieces but I'll just say I enjoyed the way the levels were mixed up. The variety and scale was probably the thing I liked the most about the game.
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