http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3773/new_better_more_epics_approach_.php

"For Gears 2, we really started off with this process called, this idea of just "New, Better, More." We just decided to, across probably 15 different systems in the game, from animation, to gameplay, to story, to weapons -- we just looked at them and said, "What would we like to do new, what would we want to do better, and what would we want to do more?""

"Yeah, we were doing that all along. It wasn't a matter of, "Now that we've shipped, let's go mine the forums..." We're pretty forum-aware, as a company, and so we were always knowing what people wanted. And, you know, the party system, we would've loved to have had it, too, but we sort of ran out of time on Gears 1"

"That was really something that we brought to Gears 2: "How do we bring back tactical combat?" How do we bring in things with stopping power, and balancing the shotguns, and those sorts of things, which we really felt like the online experience should be, from a player perspective."

bah I stopped reading at page 3... most of it is kinda boring...

Directly against forum rules mr Squilliam.

Post some content.

Like condensing the six pages of bull into five sentences of awesomeness.

Kerb Stomp.

Horde Mode.

Bots.

Blown' stuff up.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre!

So, I'll sum it up in 3 words:

Bigger, Better, and more Badass.

Then I'll sum that up in one word:

More of the same.

Fixed!

LOL.  Touche.

Double-fixed.

triple-fixed.

Derailed in less than 5 posts. That is the spirit, you must keep improving.