Marcus Fenix, along with his crew consisting of Dom Santiago, and Benjamin Carmine, then later joined by Augustus Cole and Damon Baird, begin their perilous journey through the underground caverns of the Locust strongholds.Īfter a short intro that serves to setup Dom’s quest to find his wife Maria, introduces Tai, and also serving as a tutorial with a series favorite, Carmine, Epic starts making good on their “bigger, badder, more badass” claim. Seeing the signs, the COG are tasked with launching a full on attack on the Locust, taking the fight to their home turf to stop whatever it is that is sinking cities. Soon after, one of the last major safe havens for humans, Jacinto, starts to show signs that it will be swallowed up also after some recent attacks. The COG obviously suspects that this is the actions of the Locust. After a short period with no Locust attacks after the bombing, the cities of Tollen and Montevado suddenly go missing, seemingly being swallowed underground. Unfortunately, the Lightmass Bomb caused the underground Imulsion to vaporize and bring about a fatal disease to human’s called Rustlung. Gears of War 2 starts 6 months after the Lightmass Bomb detonation from the first game, when it was thought that the majority of the Locusts had been destroyed. So 10 years and 3 games later, does Gears of War 2 hold up? Let’s take a look. In fact, Gears of War 2 often felt like it was Dom’s game and I was okay with that since I often played as Dom being second player. Anyone who has played Gears of War 2 remembers that sad scene with Dom down in the locust home turf. Epic Games made the wise decision to hire a seasoned comic book writer, Joshua Ortega, to help add a new level of depth to the franchise and thoroughly flesh out some of the characters. Not only did they up the scale, the story scope, weapons, characters, and gore they also were able to throw in some deep personal story beats into a game that most people labeled as a “dude-bro” shooter. We fell in the love with the original due to its fantastic cover mechanics, gory themes, co-op, and the stellar multiplayer. The anticipation for this title had my brother and I hyped like never before. Gears of War 2 is indeed bigger, badder, and more badass than the first game.

To most this could have been standard marketing speak to get people hyped for a sequel, but Epic took those three words and really applied it. This was the phrase Cliff Bleszinski and the team from Epic Games used to describe their hotly anticipated sequel to one of Microsofts biggest IP’s since Halo.

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