Gears 2 got "drunk on setpieces", but Gears 3 has sobered up

[disolitude]

d21lewis said:

disolitude said:

I hated Gears 2 so this gives me some relief.

Every 5 minutes in Gears 2 it was some diversion which distracted from the core gameplay.

The first 30 minutes of that game has like 5 minutes of actual shooting gameplay. Then you have walk and talk custscenes galore, flying of some stupid creature, walk through some bloody worm and chainsaw its organs, drive a tank, ride some giant creature with a turret...

Only on the last level of Gears 3 do they finally get to it and offer what I paid 60 bucks for.

And I know I want the only one that thought so - http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/artie/gears-of-war-2s-campaign-sucks/30-15637/

I may have to go ahead and download Street Fighter 3.  I really feel like punching you right now.

I waited in matchmaking all night last night...but nothing! :)

Also regarding your earlier post, the way I saw it is Gears 1 didn't waste my time with trying to deliver a sub par story and laughable dialoge, Gears 2 did. Even in sngle player I preffered Gears 1 as I could turn on console, play for 30 mins, kick some locust ass and go about my day. In Gears 2 I would have listened for 10 minutes of radio dialoge, watched 5 minutees of cut scenes, play the standard Gears gameplay for 10 minutes and then have some Unreal engine 3 tech demo based set piece where I am flying the magic dragon.