I personally am glad to see that they are focusing more on the story and have hired a writer essentially. Gears 1 was great IMO, but was criticised for lack of story. I am confident Gears 2 will improve on this area.
It also certainly is indicated many new characters will join the game, excellent stuff.
I also read that they were taking the battle to the locust. I hope the majority of the game is not spent underground. personally I love the surface levels as I love looking at the ruins of Sera and the immense architecture of the buildings and environments. I find caves rather boring in comparison, so hopefully a decent balance is given to above and under ground missions.
Looks like 360 gamers can finally battle brumacks, and rather early on in the game as well (per above article, seems like Level 2). I am over the brumack, I played the PC version and he was in that.
My only prayer I say each day is to ensure GOW2 is released in November and does not get pushed into 2009. Its always a possibility, but Epic assure us it can deliver. Not too sure of their track record with other games, but GOW1 did come out when stated, so fingers crossed.
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