Gears of War 2: Why the hate?

01.17.2009

About 2 years ago everywhere I turned I would see someone raving about Gears of War. Even while I was finishing my last year of Grad school my 3D Professor made it a point to ask who had played it, and how he loved it. So why so much hate towards Gears of War 2?

Gears of War 2 logo

Gears of War 2 logo

I played and completed it in Coop mode; I completed its new Horde mode and loved it. For me a girl who hated shooters to begin with that’s a huge achievement. So why the hate?! Why do I hear so many complaints about such an awesome game? Why all the bitterness my friends? Where did all the love go?

The B Boys!

The B Boys!

Gears of War 2 is a game that is easy to pick up an play. The ability to use objects as cover without manually having the do it is a key part to its accessibility. Another thing that’s makes it great is its storyline which I was able to jump right into even though I never touched its predecessor. The campaign was fun especially in coop mode and equally challenging.

The worst part of Gears of War 2 is some of the multiplayer modes such as warzone or execution mode. They just aren’t on the level of enjoyment and satisfaction of other multiplayer modes in big name shooters, and more or less leave you feeling frustration rather than enjoyment. Horde is the best multiplayer mode in Gears, it offers challenge and variety to what is an already saturated genre.

When complaining about Gears have some concrete issues. Don’t just say it’s boring, that’s vague and it can’t be any more boring than other shooters, where you are doing the same thing….shooting. Don’t say there is nothing original about it, I turned on God of War: Chains of Olympus today and was struggling to determine who copied off each other first, Devil May Cry or them. No one is completely original anymore; I thought the saying was if its not broken don’t try to fix it, or no need to reinvent the wheel.

Devil May Cry anyone?

Devil May Cry anyone?

A few original things about Gears is the massively dark and detailed environments, the fact that you can chainsaw enemies with your lancer and enjoy doing it, and its reload system which gives you an advantage on the battlefield if used right. A lot of what makes Gears good is the overall satisfaction you as a player receive just playing the game and that’s what great games are suppose to be about.

So please stop hating just to be a hater and give the developers some credit where its deserved. It’s truly an Epic game.


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  • DaNerd

    My point stands that anyone who likes Gears of War, be it 1 or 2, never played it seriously.

  • Megumiaraki

    Uhhhh…Exactly, what is playing it seriously to you? I am still playing it, plan to finish the campaign on hardcore and already beat it on normal. Playing horde on hardcore now and almost done, and already beat it on normal….. will be moving on to insane. What is serious to you? Serious to me is if you can finish a game and still pick it up to play again.. your serious xD. I hardly…no NEVER play any console game more than once…..I just never saw the value in that or never was interested…Gears…found a way to make me want to play it again….and again….sooo I think I am pretty serious about it……

  • ABlackMan

    The whole thing is that gears of war 1 was a more competitive game than gears 2. People thought that gears 2 was just a big patch and new story for gears 1 and that is where they got disappointed at. The fact is people don’t want to get used to the new engine and the hardcore “MLG” players don’t like that casuals are catching up to them because they have to learn the properties of a new engine.

  • Judeskee

    Gears of War 2 IS fun. And horde mode is a blast. It’s nice to just play with your friends (and not against them) and kill a bunch of bad guys together. But I wouldn’t necessarily say PvP modes such as warzone or execution are bad. I’m usually the one with the least kills but I still enjoy playing them. There’s something about killing another player (especially if that player is a friend) that’s so satisfying. Sure if you’re not that good (yet) and die a lot in multiplayer mode, it can get very frustrating. But I think pwning even just one player and then hearing them cry about it is worth all that (especially if that player is Norbert).

  • Megumiaraki

    Boooo… lol Yea I saw you and a few other people on my friends list playing multiplayer yesterday _-_ I still hate it though lol …Everything is fun when it comes to killing Norbet lmao!

  • Megumiaraki

    Thanks Ablackman for giving the first concrete comment about why some people don’t like Gears 2 XD!

  • The Predator32

    You wan’t some concrete reasons why people hate on gears2 I’ll gladly give you some. Never have i heard of two different games in a series having the same glitches. Smash took out wave dashing and Halo took out BXR’s however in Gears2 people still weapon slide (pick up a weapon while in motion to make getting shot while picking it up more difficult), kung fu flip out of maps, crab walk (move around at roadie run speed while using any weapon and being as manueverable as u were if u was walking), and chainsaw glitch!(any glitch invlolving chainsawing someone but not staying still in the chainsaw animation leaving u an easy target) Ontop of those and more i cant remember many new glitches have been found. I’ve seen people climb through walls, Use a boom/meat sheild with any weapon of choice (ur supposed to only be able to use a pistol), Smoke grenades blow people through walls, floors, ceilings, deadly lazer beams, and off the map to their death, people melee through walls, Infinite ammo glitches and many many more. Mechanics wize The chainsaw now revs instantly giving almost no time to avoid it, has a larger gravity pull and can be done out of a roadie run! Torque bows have no travel time If u were running past and i managed to let go of the bolt while u was in my aim the bolt will turn in mid air and hit u meaning leading my shot is the wrong thing to do, Lancer bullets not only slow u down while ur running at me but when ur running to the sides and sometimes when running away. Those are all my gripes with the game. Though i got hit with a few glitches while playing through the campain on co op (the locusts glitch) i enjoyed it overall. Horde was also challenging and fun. So if ur playing gears for the campain or for horde u shouldn’t have many complaints if your playing it to be competitive in multiplayer prepare to be frustrated i havent mentioned even half of the problems the game has.

  • Megumiaraki

    LMAO! Well thanks for more concrete info predator xD! I am glad to hear it. I think someone at my job found the meat shield thing, and we were just viewing the issue with smoke bombs blasting u through lasers on the web xD! Overall I still like that even though you see all these problems you can still give it props were it is deserved. : ) Very Nice!

  • The Predator32

    Given a lil update to gears of war 2. There was an update that fixed over 30 glitches however something i never could have imagined has happend. Anyone who has played through the dark days Halo2 multiplayer when people gave up on playing matchmaking unless they were able to bridge and force host to themselves due to rampant cheating. It has now happened in Gears2. Many people force host so that they can standby, force maps, force you to spawn without weapons, lag the opposing team out, etc. Hopefully Epic will learn the lessons they apparently didn’t learn with the first game and things im sure they will learn with this second game and when Gears 3 finally comes out it will be well tested not have a noticeable host advantage and keep glitches to a minimum.

  • Frantastic

    To me the reason gears of war 2 failed imo. Is because of how bad the multiplayer was. I loved gears of war 1. I use to play it every day i went from starting out with just a shotgun to being really good with a sniper. Playing with some of the best snipers. I was really hyped for gears of war 2 i even went for the midnight release. Gears 2 had a really good campaign mode which was really fresh and exciting to play the unreal 3 engine really pushed the graphics and detail to a new level. At first i really didn’t mind the multiplayer games. but when i was playing (and others i questioned myself.) they said this game isn’t as fun. Besides all of the other glitches. like when you hop over cover and get a long jump, crab walking, boom shield glitch,even the shotgun shooting blanks or just shooting the ground,etc. They never really acknowledged the fact that the multiplayer was not as they said it was going to be. The netcodeing was great if the person was in the same country. but if you would play ppl overseas which is what i used to play sometimes when i played in the morning you would get really horrible lag sometimes. But i would say this that campaign and horde mode really make the game worthwhile. It’s extremely fun to play with your friends. One more thing that really bothered me with gears 2 is the remade maps. I love canals and gridlock. Mansion was ok. But Tyro Station………seriously……. they should have put fuel depot or something else. Oh well ummm i would say i’m more on the hate side.

  • Yurusanzo

    anyone see the invisability glich yet. get chainsawed like that is the balls suck. that was my deciding factor for gears 2. ill wait for 3 and have someone else buy it first.

  • Megumiaraki

    lmao sorry I have never had that happen to me thank goodness lol! *pats your head* I don’t play online though so that’s probably why. xD I usually play horde. I wonder if that issue was fixed in the patch.

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    yo whats a gears? i eat children, phire is god.

  • Marvlous 211

    gears is a great game whether you like it or not. what game of this calibur sold more than it.

  • a cookie jar

    to me gears 1 had over all better single player and better maps but the multiplayer was riddled with so many shotgun whores after 6 months after release that i either turned my game off or kept trudging along. Ive played gears 2 to a awsomme extent i have almost every thing done exept seriosly 2.0. it has way more multiplayer action than gears one can hope for. and im really good now. ive been somewhat content with the multi player its either love that match and hate the next one. with update 4 ive seen extreemly few glitches and exploits and can say that when i die it was from a resonable amount of bullets and a execution. the only remaining problem i see is not as much to myself all the times as to my freinds that want to get in to the multiplayer. The noob playing online gets assed because the either people out smart them with hardened experience with flying all over the damn place like a piece of paper or just sheer amounts of shot gun abuse. This is easily seen by anybody that played the single player at all the pop and shot and run to more cover from flanking enimies that the game was originaly based on was the concept of tactical and cooperative warefare. Gears has all the elements to accomplish that goal but the shot gun fucked it up back since the first gears. rolling around with a 200 pound soldier like he was a bouncy ball then doing some randome 3 minute shot gun dance of shoot roll shoot roll then golf to the brains is in no way what the game is sopposed to be like. and in my personal experiences it is actualy the most fucking retarded thing ever to pop up in a game even considered tactical in nature in a further note it looks even more fucking retarded that halo jumping every where shit. Though the shot gun is a gun and holds a niche in combat it is just abused and takes away from both gears 1 and 2 over all multiplayer capabilaties. And i think some up there said something about mlg right and how noobs are catching up well yeah a balanced game gives every player the same tools and weopons to kill each other and the only real balacing that differents pros from noobs is the experience with the game and strategies that are implied. The shot gun can stay in gears and be correct in a halo fashion where you spawn in with a gun that gets the job done in most situations and back up shit gun ( pistol) and puts all other guns on the level as pick ups and it should work fine. Cuz in the end the halo shot gun is more balanced in a way because even though it kills in a shoot smack that takes less than a second only one person has it and it doesnt respone instantly.

    all in all gears 2 plus its most current july update is fine minus the shot gun.

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  • a cookie jar

    ps 99% of my xbox live f bombs involve the shot gun or lag or worse both!

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