Epic delivers another gritty hard as nails shooter that will rock your world.
The story is set six months after the smashing finale of Gears of War 1. The underground passages where blown to smithereens, but unfortunately not every locust scum bag died. The locust queen is still alive, and you have to find her and take her out. Delta Squad must once again travel down into the very heart of the locust stronghold and blow the whole thing to hell. As with the previous game, the story is straight forward and told from a soldiers view where you only get orders, and don't really know everything that's going on. This time though there are more personal story elements at hand. Ladies and gentlemen, our dearly beloved Don has a family! And throughout the campaign you get a more personal connection with him when he cries out about missing his wife and stuff. This works okay, it makes the game even darker and more gruesome, but I wouldn't have missed it if it wasn't there. So yeah, the game is even darker than the first game. The action is mainly the same, but there are some scenes in specific that are surprisingly morbid and they fit nicely into this carnage of blood and misery.
Gears of War 1 blew my mind with its breathtaking artistic design. Like the "Houses of Sovereign" which was a masterpiece in design, and just standing in the middle of it studying the ceiling was worth the games price alone. This experience beats last years studying of the "Sistine Chapel" in Rome, which may tell more of my fascination of games than the actual game. Gears of War 2 has, believe it or not, even better environments than the 2006 mammoth. Strolling the underground caves is an incredibly atmospheric experience, and gazing at the horizon of this huge underground lake is amazing. I started wondering who puts so much time and effort into something than most people who play it wont even notice, the answer is the bunch of imaginary and adventurous minds at Epic. Gears of War 2 delivers on every single field. There are some fun new weapons for you to yield, and there's not a single dull moments in sight. Everything has been taken to the next level. The environments change all the time, from the town of Jacinto, to the insides of a gigantic underground worm, you never get tired of Delta Squads journey to hells kitchen, where boiling lava and the queen of the damned is waiting. The first Gears only gave us a taste of what was to come in its sequel. The monsters you met once in Gears 1 will be coming at you in hordes in this mind blowing, limb crushing superior sequel. Play Gears of War 2, please, please do.