?It’s official: Gears of War 2 is gonna rock. There has been an “epic” (lolpun!) amount of rumors flying around regarding Marcus Fenix and gang. Well, compiled below is what Epic has confirmed and denied — officially, mind you. Some include matchmaking, larger battlefields, better AI, and basically anything else that you’d imagine would make a game bigger, better and you guessed it: more badass!
Chainsaw headfirst into the jump to find out more.
?OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED
-Battlefields will be much larger than in the previous installment.
-There will, in fact, be chainsaw dueling in single player as well as multiplayer.
-There is a new poison grenade, which will kill anybody it hits and slowly drain the health of anybody around it.
-The “meat shield” is usable in both single player as well as multiplayer.
-The cover system is no longer as clunky, and has been edited to further prevent people “sticking” to walls and such
-The story begins six months after the original ends.
-A new pistol called the “Gorgon Pistol” is available, firing a six-round burst much like the hammerburst from the original.
-The hammerburst is now a semi-automatic gun.
-There is now a larger difference in active-reloading from gun to gun.
-Drop-in/drop-out co-op.
-Blood trails will allow you to track your prey much more effectively in case they decide it’s time to run away.
-A new war journal to keep track of your endeavors.
-A much more emotionally evocative story that will be much deeper and more interesting than in Gears.
-Difficulty settings modified. Casual is now much easier, while Insane is harder.
-Weapon-specific melees. New kinds of executions.
-At least two new species of Locust. At least one more chainsaw method. 5 vs. 5 online battles.
-New online mode called “Wingman,” where it’s essentially a 2v2v2v2v2 game.
-Gridlock is a multiplayer map.
-The ability to have each player use their own difficulty setting in co-op mode.
-Completely destructible environments.
-Enhanced physics.
-You can be damaged and killed whilst chainsawing.
-Longer campaign.
-More usage of vehicles in campaign.
-A new “dynamic-conversation camera” used during cutscenes to give them a cinematic feel.
-The addition of a flamethrower, dubbed “Scorcher.”
-Assassination game-type renamed to “Guardian.”
-Unlimited respawns until each team’s respective leader dies, at which points player cease respawning.
-Matchmaking! New game-type dubbed “Meat Flag.”
-Sort of like Capture-the-flag but the flag is a human player who stays in the center of the map.
-Each team must down this player to be able to drag him back to their base.
-Getting damaged slows you down. You can now choose which weapon to spawn with in multiplayer:
-Lancer or Hammerburst. Portable cover.
-These are big metal things that you can carry around and shove into the ground to act as make-shift cover.
-You can only use your pistol while carrying one, and they can be destroyed by enemies that get too close.
-Grenades can be manually stuck to anything, meaning you have to “tag” the object like you would a person in the original Gears.
- Smoke grenades now stun enemies as well.
- While waiting to respawn, you may fly around the map and take screenshots of the action which you can then share with your friends.
- One confirmed new map: River
- A symetrical map, each team gets a sniping building and some flat land, which is divided by a river.
- One confirmed new map: Security
- A long narrow map.
- Power weapons guarded by laser-turrets th cannot be destroyed and will kill you if you attempt to get to the weapons.
- These turrets can be turned off. New controls for downed enemies: X Button [Curb stomp] B Button [Melee] Y Button [Punch in a downed opponent's face] A Button [Use enemy as meat-shield
OFFICIALLY DENIED
- Campaign will be 10-15 hours long.
- Co-op specific cut-scenes.
- Various endings. The “Acheron” locust.
- Multiplayer mode called “Ordeal” in which teams compete to see who can get to a certain amount of kills first, a la Call of Duty 4′s Deathmath.
- Chainsaws-only multiplayer mode.
- Stamina bars that affect movement.
UNCONFIRMED
- Host powers.
- Carmine’s return.
- Whether or not Dom’s wife Maria Santiago will be an actual character or simply referred to.
There you have it. All aboard the hype train!
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