Gears of War 2 or 1.5?

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I love gears of war 2 and i was woundering if you would say if it seems no different from the first or it would be considered to you as a full sequel.

I think its a great sequel with new additions and alot of things fixed but 2 of my friends (that dont even have the game) say that it sucks and its the same as the first one.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

The sequel is as good as the original.

(See.....see what I did there?)

Your a crafty little fella you

 

[Syphonz]

while i didn't buy into the hype, I bought it to hopefully prove me wrong that it wasn't just a big manly steriod grunt fest with the cover system essentially being 97% of the game...I'm not sure if i was proven wrong or no because it stubbernly refuses to work. checking with other games, it suprisingly isn't my 360 for once.

 

[chakan]

Gears 2, from what I've seen, is exactly what a sequal should be, improving upon the original without changing the formula too much. My biggest problem with the Halo series, for instance, is that there are some things I like from 1 that didn't make it to 2, and things they did right in 2 that they cut for 3, things that would've worked best in 1 that were implemented in 3, ETC. it only feels like an expansion because they didn't change a whole lot of the obvious things, if you liked gears 1, you're gonna like 2, it's as simple as that.

 

[Phoenix Arrow]

The sequel is as good as the original.

(See.....see what I did there?)

I wholeheartedly agree. With bucket loads of sarcastic undertone.

 

[skakashijutsu]

At least it got a better sequal than Halo i guess.

Yeah, it [Gears] was a bit too overhyped for me, but I guess its still aight. The campaign I like loads better, but the multiplayer still sucks koala dick.

 

[SirSchmoopy]

Gears 2, from what I've seen, is exactly what a sequal should be, improving upon the original without changing the formula too much. My biggest problem with the Halo series, for instance, is that there are some things I like from 1 that didn't make it to 2, and things they did right in 2 that they cut for 3, things that would've worked best in 1 that were implemented in 3, ETC. it only feels like an expansion because they didn't change a whole lot of the obvious things, if you liked gears 1, you're gonna like 2, it's as simple as that.

So what your saying is you wish that the stuff that was in 2 but not in 1 you wish was in 3 but also as well you wish that stuff that was in 1 and now 2 was also added to 3 but you kinda like the stuff they added to three 3 despite it missing that stuff in 2 and 1?

 

[Killerbunny001]

It`s the same game you bought the last time around only this time eyerything is improved and they brought in the extra gimmiks but nothing that wasn`t really made before...

It`s not actually brand new but it`s not actually GOW 1 ...

Many pull this stunt nowadays...

GRAW
NFSz
Price of Presia
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and it goes on and on

 

[skakashijutsu]

Gears 2, from what I've seen, is exactly what a sequal should be, improving upon the original without changing the formula too much. My biggest problem with the Halo series, for instance, is that there are some things I like from 1 that didn't make it to 2, and things they did right in 2 that they cut for 3, things that would've worked best in 1 that were implemented in 3, ETC. it only feels like an expansion because they didn't change a whole lot of the obvious things, if you liked gears 1, you're gonna like 2, it's as simple as that.

So what your saying is you wish that the stuff that was in 2 but not in 1 you wish was in 3 but also as well you wish that stuff that was in 1 and now 2 was also added to 3 but you kinda like the stuff they added to three 3 despite it missing that stuff in 2 and 1?

INFORMATION OVERLOAD MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Neosage]

Huh??

Anyway after spending till 2 am in the morning playing horde at my friends I decided this game was for me.

 

[Lyndraco]

While the storyline game play may not be a whole lot different (which is both good and bad), I enjoyed the addition of the Horde multiplayer match. I know not everyone will agree with me, but I found it to be something different, and the fact that the group of us that were playing ended up having to rely heavily on teamwork made it all the more enjoyable. I have to agree with chakan as well, that a good sequel shouldn't necessarily change every aspect of the game play. In my opinion, Gears 2 did pretty well for itself.

 

[kommando367]

i bought gears 2 and played the first gears of war and judging by my experiences the difference between gears 1 & 2 reminds me alot of the diffence between halo 2 & 3 in that the previous game had a more story driven path to the end of the game and its succesor had basicly the same formula but with extra stuff added (for example:in halo 3 portable powerups ,new weapons, and new vehicles were added and in gears 2 human shields,new weapons,new execution moves, and new vehicles were added)the previously epic bosses and the setting was changed to giant battlefields with nothing short of hordes of enimies with the except in certain cases and aformentiones bosses become pushovers and last but not least the previous game had a hard to kill final boss while the new game had an interactive cinematic-like easy bossfight

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

A sequel really shouldn't dive too far away from its predecessor, whilst still changing enough to make it feel fresh and new. I think that this has done that, there are great new multiplayer gametypes, countless numbers of tweaks, it runs so much smoother, and they have adjusted almost everything that needed to be adjusted.
What else could you want from a sequel? If it changed too much then they may as well make a new game running on the same engine.

 

[gigastrike]

Maybe more than one new feature and a couple new guns? I guess you could also count the chainsaw duels, but all that really did was change the winner from the first one to swing to the one with the closest ally.

 

[Avatar Roku]

I never got why people said "Oh, it's just Gears 1.5," then criticized it for doing what every good sequel since the dawn of time has done. I liked the original Gears a lot, and I love this game way more, with the only complaint I can think of being that it takes forever to get into a multiplayer match unless you have a full party (and even sometimes then). Seriously, at it's slowest and sans a party, I got two matches in one hour. They should patch that. But I love the additions, especially Horde, the first online game I've played where you will lose if you don't work as a team.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

I find that people who say it is Gears 1.5 haven't actually played the game.

Gears 2 is as much a sequel as Halo 2; while the gameplay mechanic is very similar, it is definately bigger, bolder and more bad-ass. However unlike Halo 2 (which I do like BTW) Gears 2 is verging on being better than the original in my opinion. I'm only half way through at the moment so I can't say with utmost certainty that it trumps GeoW.

Much like most other sequels, if you didn't like the first one, you probably won't like the second one.

 

[Serious_Stalin]

I don't think it was overhyped, I suppose my theory for this is. Gears 1 wasn't hyped, and gears 2 is just as awesome as gears 1 and therefore deserved all of the high expectations.

Yes it was totally awesome, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Personally I wanted and received more of the same.

 

[Xyzgon]

Honestly i can't see how anyone can accuse this of not being a full sequel. It does basically everything a good sequel should do.

New and improved weapons.
Greatly improved graphics.
Bigger scope.
New multiplayer maps and modes.
New enemies.
Bigger and better campaign.

Gears2 is really the definition of how to do a big budget sequel right.