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How are you going to buy Gears of War?
Brand-new on the day of release - I'm rich. 29%  29%  [ 8 ]
New, but I'm going to wait until it's £25 or less. 14%  14%  [ 4 ]
Pre-owned - I don't need no stinking GoW1 maps. 14%  14%  [ 4 ]
I'm not - I hate grey and brown. 40%  40%  [ 11 ]
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 Post subject: Gears of War 2
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:24 
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Following on from the thread that's now degenerated into pictures of robots, I'm curious to see how you're going to buy this game (if you intend to do so).

Remember, if you buy it new you'll get the multiplayer maps from the first game as free DLC, if you buy it pre-owned, you don't.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Having only played 1/2 of the first game in co-op, none of it in single player, and no more than 10 minutes of it online I'm utterly indifferent to it in general. I enjoyed the co-op but everything is better in co-op.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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richardgaywood wrote:
everything is better in co-op.


Asda would disagree!

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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I don't know yet there's no reviews or anything are there?


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Asda would disagree!
Heh. I took the pre-owned option. I feel no compulsion to buy it in a hurry but, as with Burney Pee and CoD4 critically acclaimed blah deepest etc, I suspect the lure of Bezzieness will get me in the end.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:32 
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My return visit to GoW left me underwhelmed, put me down as a wait until it's reviewed then if it's good wait until its £20 for a new copy. Maybe.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Im going to buy Gears of War 1 at tescos and hopefully they'll give me GOW2 by mistake.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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I really like GoW. I shall buy the sequel with haste, unless the reviews tell me something terrible has happened (glares at MGS:4).

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Well, yes, I'm making the massive assumption that it'll be a half-decent game that people will want to buy.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Well if it's OMFG awesomes then I might get it on release day as it's a couple of weeks after my birthday and I'll probably have vouchers. If it's just ok then I'll probably get it cheap sometime later.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Runcle wrote:
Im going to buy Gears of War 1 at tescos and hopefully they'll give me GOW2 by mistake.


:DD

I have never played the original, and doubt I will get this, it is 3rd person isn't it?

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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I'm a bit disappointed that co-op is still only going to be 2-player - I was hoping for 4.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:57 
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I was late to the GoW party, but think the co-op and multiplayer are great. The single-player was broken by the Bezerker (which I absolutely could not get past on my own) and Raam. Or more specifically, the full retard AI. Everyone knows you never go full retard.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Yeah, you do really need 2 people for the crazy big charging around dude.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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I really enjoyed CO-OP!
Single player is pretty boring in my eye's but did get better ( I spent 3 months trying to finish of RAAM!)
Multiplayer is boring if not too hard.

I did notice that the game got better as I got better with controls. I've only just got the hang of the active reloads.

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I managed the Beserker and Raam on my own, but I got slapped silly for a while.

Going back to GoW feels 'clunky' after Halo3 and CoD4.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Craster wrote:
Yeah, you do really need 2 people for the crazy big charging around dude.

You just toss grenades and walk slowly, I found.

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Craster wrote:
Yeah, you do really need 2 people for the crazy big charging around dude.

You just toss grenades and walk slowly, I found.


For the one you can't kill without the Hammer of God? The one you have to lure into smashing the door open for you?

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Yeah. You can just stand in front of the door revving your chainsaw and dive out of the way (indeed, I believe this is how you do it with two people as well). You can even grenade the door down if you want.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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If you're me, you do it by flailing around helplessly and screaming, as if someone had just shoved a hornets' nest down your pants.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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There was one in the greenhouse area I couldn't sneak past, so gave up after that


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Greenhouse lady (yes, they are the female things that you are fighting) you have to lure into smashilating the roof support pillars to allow the use of Big Frickin Laser.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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I stuck to my guns by flailing around helplessly and screaming, resulting in mission-breaking stuckiness. Co-op came to the rescue for that bit too (and at the underground outpost thing).


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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i thought those guys were dead easy, but i played it on the pc.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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RuySan wrote:
i thought those guys were dead easy, but i played it on the pc.


I played the 360 version, once I'd beaten the first Beserker on Casual the rest of them on whichever difficult level posed only one problem, which was smashing Dom into little pieces on account of the useless A.I.

On Casual and Hardcore, I rather crudely just kept shooting Raam until he died. On Insane he's slightly more of a pain, and to be honest it's not fun enough to make me persevere.

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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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The first was a bit rubbish in single player, though fun in co-op (htoug as has been pointed out, everything is fun in co-op. Or should be). The Berserker bits in particular were hilariously panicky in two player, with both of us diving in and out of the way and taunting the beasties into killing the other player.


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the rest of them on whichever difficult level posed only one problem, which was smashing Dom into little pieces on account of the useless A.I.


Yeah, that was infuriating.

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I rather crudely just kept shooting Raam until he died. On Insane he's slightly more of a pain, and to be honest it's not fun enough to make me persevere.


I thought that was the only way to kill him? I tried getting to that gun looking thing at the end, but those bothersome bats did me in, and I ended up just shooting the big eejit (while Dom repeatedly killed himself whenever it looked like it was working, natch). Sitting there pumping every two-bit grunt with dozens of rubber bullets was annoying enough on medium - I'd hack off my thumbs before trying hard mode.

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Am I the only person who didn't find the berserkers at all tricky?

Raam was a bit more tricky, But Me and Dimrill benefitted from him getting himself stuck while on our insane playthrough.


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 Post subject: Re: Gears of War 2
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Mr Dave wrote:
Am I the only person who didn't find the berserkers at all tricky?

Nope, although it took me a few goes to work out that it had to smash the pillars the second time.

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