Have faith in Ted, he will deliver... He always does.

Isn't the only 'real' requirement for a sequel to either carry on the story with a new single player campaign or make a completely new game from an old concept (like TF2)?

OMG.....its UP!

It depends on your perception. I want more than that.

Ok I take back what I said earlier... the crow has been served.

I'm just starting the second walkthrough video... holy crap gore, lol.

That guy at the end of the first one was screwed lol. Nice water effects too.

Maybe you haven't been paying attention but Gears2 is improving all of those things as well. 

Main character - more focus on Dom and his story background.  I like this approach because he seemed more human-like and not meat-head like than Fenix was.  Also a slew of new supporting characters.

Single player campaign - Better story focus...they hired a book author to help with story devlopment.  More weapons, new cover mechanics (including movable shields, player shields), new enemies.  New vehicles are rumored as well (ala Brumak)

Graphics - Have you seen any of the comparison videos they put out with things they were adding to the game.  Looks to be a very nice improvment in destructible environment, textures, lighting, effects, framerate, size of battlefields, and sheer number of enemies on screen.

Online play - hoard mode, 5vs5, lobby system, stat tracking, and just overall flushing out of the online experience.  The guys at Epic stated themselves they were surprised at how popular Gears1 MP was because it was essentially a tacked on experience.  They've been beta testing this in-house since at least April of this year and it should be much improved.  I know because I have a friend involved in it.

OT: Gametrailers has tons of HD feeds up now.  Even so I don't see how any crow will be served because even in HD it's still a horribly compressed flash feed.  The same can be said for Gears2 because most of that footage has been from E3 or shortly after.

I'm getting them both. Anybody who's played the two originals can attest that they are totally different experiences so these comparisons are kind of fruitless if you ask me.

This game just took a giant dump on the original.

HOLY SHIT! The level looks all sorts of f-ing amazing. Even just watching the video I get that "omg America is in trouble and my badass self is the only hope" type of feel.

I gotta say that after watching this though, this game is more like Halo than any other game that has been released.

have u seen that gameplay its fucking amazing

there will not be any 5 on 5 on my tv, i can promise u that