As an owner of the 360 and not the PS3 I'm not going to get involved in a comparison of Gears 2 compared to R2 in this thread. This video looks excellent and if I had a PS3, R2 would be a definite purchase. There are good times ahead for owners of both the PS3 and the 360.

It has begun...

This does look better than most clips I had seen up until now. It needed this "boost". Is it a new way of showing stuff lately?

R2 had rather lousy clips (imho) up until this one. Motorstorm 2 had lousy clips up until the news release with new build-footage.

Why not show the best you have when you have it?

Previous footage of the game was lousy because they had the game working enough to show off, but had hardly anything in the way of polish.

He is? Elaborate?

In the first game, nearly everything story related was narrated by another character. Despite being the main character, Hale wasn't that interesting in terms of his actions. He rarely spoke and the lack of dialog made it feel (for me at least) a little akward whenever he did speak since it's like "WOAH! He spoke!".

I'm glad we're playing as Sgt. Hale instead of Sgt. 'Mime' Hale.

A scripted trailer? This is almost like bullshots since once you're actually playing the game the AI, etc, kicks in and the graphics take a hit.

I mean it sells that  hes a person of authority, but a special character....I dunno. Got anymore info?

lol i go for killzone 2 xD but anybody that likes resistance =) good for them that is looking great

I'm saying compare the first game's cut-scenes which were more still image with a narration oriented to the second game's opening cut-scene and now this one and you'll see that Hale is going to be getting some real screentime and importance as opposed to,

"So Hale did this.... and then he did that" *shows a very short in-game clip before going back to still images* "Then he did something else"