Only 12 people online is a bit low for a shooter game

One Word............LAG!

Yes for a massive big area shooter but Gears is about strategic close combat... having a huge map with dozens of players would ruin that... quantity does not equal quality....

OT: Having finished Gears 1 for the second time yesterday I´m even more exited about the new one than before... all I hope for is that they up the single-player by an hour or two...

Gears 2 is going to better all around. Here is the tech demo if anyone doubts it.

I like the smaller numbers in Gears online. It offers a different experience and you really start to develop rivalries in-game. Though, IMO, 8 players per server is too few. 12 would be preferrable.

Well I'm definitely hoping for a longer single player ^^; thats my primary focus on games after all. 4 player split-screen would be friggin stellar :D or at least 4 player online co-op. But please, PLEASE work with the following:

More enemy types, your working with an alien race :D Get creative xD

More Weapon types, one of the biggest turnoffs about the first one for me ><

More COLOR o.o; EVERYTHING was either gray or brown :x Please remedy xD

Change the shooting sound effects :x

A few more "Epic" Battles, corridors are fine and all, but I really liked the more open areas.

Make the bosses not suck! Far too easy in Gears xD ESP in co-op.

gow1 was a good game, it really was the 1st true next gen game, although after 1 playthrough i traded it in.

hopefully it will have a longer single player.

looking at the maps on unreal3 on ps3 surely gears 2 will look better than gears 1

Yo! Gears of War 2 is gonna be so BOSS!!!

I love the thread titel =p.