Again a weak ending and probably story in general just like the first game.. I expected better, much better than this considering this game's importance for the 360. Gears 1's endboss was very dissapointing to me, this one doesn't look fun to me neither.

I wonder what Gears 2 will get for reviews, now it will have much better competition (COD4, MGS4, Dead Space, etc, etc), especially with Resistance 2 and game reviewers having had a taste of Killzone 2. Maybe the other parts will be the best graphics the 360 has ever seen (on a HD screen), but judging from this it looks underwhelming (compared to expectations).

You need to play the game before saying the story sucks

I personally finished Gears 2 and the story is pretty weak. It is marginally better than the first, but still mediocre and very underdeveloped compared to many recent games. The writing and voice acting is also among the worst in recent memory. I guess they didn't hire a professional novelist and director like they were saying after all.

Oh, and one more thing, the ending - just like most of the action cutscenes in Gears 2 - is prerendered, not realtime, so talking about graphics regarding it is useless.

How did you play GeoW2?  And I am guessing when you mean the story is underdeveloped, I guess you are saying the characters are still stereotypical.  Bad writing?  They probably didn't give the novelist enough creative freedom.  I hope future game designers take writing courses because they really need it so that they can write the stories themselves and be decent without hiring a novelist.

its been on torrents for a while.

LOL at the prerendered comments. It's all inengine there is no cgi so whats your point? According to your comment would mean 80% of MGS4 is prerendered.

Also is this thread still going????

You cannot claim that you know the story from a 4 mins video. And as said before there is probably 20 mins of boss fight that wasnt shown. *sighs*.

Average review score = 93 metacritic. you will see.

 Again, the ending cutscene and most of the other cutscenes in Gears 2 is a prerendered movie file, while in MGS4 all cutscenes (except 2) are polygonal demos rendered on the fly by the PS3 and you can interact with them in realtime (pan and zoom) and customise your character and other stuff, not possible in Gears 2 cutscene as it is a mere MPEG file. It's not a CGI coming straight from Maya (like a movie from a FF game), it is using slightly higher resolution in-engine assets instead, but with a dozen more characters and effects than Xbox360 could possibly handle in realtime at a viewable framerate. You can easily recognise which cutscene is realtime in Gears 2 and which is prerendered. Realtime ones involve a max of 3 - 4 characters and are plagued with severe framerate issues, pop ups, tearing and stuttering.

And i don't know if your next comment was pointed at me but, as i said before, i already finished the game, and without really spoiling anything i'd advise you not to expect a memorable (or long) last boss battle.

It is no ending boss, you only have to fire, before that there was an epic part, not going to spoil it though.

You are so sucked up by the whole cell thing arent you. I'll save you something. There has been plenty of Gears 2 ingame gameplay footage that beats MGS4 so your wasting your breath on me. I'm not sucked in by the whole Cell this cell that, As I wasnt with the Emotion Engine. Go lie down.

 Also mister Ive played Gears 2. I know someone in real life who has finished it. He said the boss was EPIC. So you fail again troll

I don't know what your problem is but i'm telling you facts. If you want to believe them or not is your choice. I said nothing about cell or anything like that so don't jump to conclusions.