Gears 2=Halo 3 in terms of upgrade from the predecessor.

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thekitchensink said:

jerseyboy609 said:

As we all know, Gears of War 2 will be a great game...so was Halo 3. In Halo 3, there were minor upgrades from Halo 2, i.e. graphics, few new weapons, few new maps with old ones redone, but the storyline was the same. Gears of War 2 is going down the same path as Halo 3 with the few new maps, with the remake of a couple of others, graphics pretty much stayed the same, but with better gradients, and the multiplayer only went from 8 to 10 players maximum. The game will sell a tremendous amout of software, only because its it will be over-hyped. Hell, I'm going to buy it myself, just because I like the franchise. To some things up...

 

Gears of War 2 will do the same thing as Halo 3 with its precessor

 

First, Halo3 is not a Gears predecessor. Completely different companies, completely different universes, completely different gameplay styles, completely different genre.

Second, Gears' would be a TERRIBLE game with sixteen or twenty-four players. It is the kind of game that just works better with fewer people. Adding one more person to each side increases tactical opportunities while maintaining the feel that each team member is vital. Games like Resistance are great, but when you have a twenty-man team, no one feels like they're all that consequential, individually.

Third, they are addressing ALL of the complaints of the first game--longer campaign with a bigger emphasis on story, party system, a lot more multiplayer modes, they're fixing all the glitches and exploits people didn't like (no more diving at me with the shotgun, bitches!), and there's supposedly some new feature that's so godly they're not even allowed to talk about it until E3.

The above means that it is ABSOLUTELY not going to be 'over'-hyped, no matter how much they hype it. For many (myself included), Gears 1 is the game that marked the true opening of this generation, and it's still in the top three or four, graphically, a couple of years after its' release. I need not even mention the fact that it's being made by a developer who has never--EVER--made a bad game. They also said they're pretty much in the fine-tuning stage now, meaning they have four months to devote just to polish.

 

So... yeah.

didn't know gamers cared about story in their games