So I posted before about Gears but I'll talk more about it now.

Gears of War 2

Campaign

So I haven't played too much of the campaign but so far its fun. Storyline so far is nothing special but I'm sure it'll pick up soon. Tonight I really want to marathon the campaign even though I'm only still on the 2nd chapter. I'll have more impressions about the campaign after I beat it. Also, coop is fun as ever and the game is challenging on hardcore which is good because insane will be worth the achievement and time spent.

Multiplayer

I won't spend too much time on the positives of the game because in a nutshell its Gears. Everything that was done in the first one I still love in the second one.

Horde is fun and adds a new dimension. The waves are increasingly difficult. I just wish that one of the achievements was beating 50 waves of Horde on insane which would be fun as hell. Wingman is amazing. Playing 2 on 2 on 2 on 2 on 2 is intense even though there are still a few problems with some spawn positions. Canals is still so awesome. Finally, Guardian is probably the funnest mode when you have a 5 on 5. There is so much strategy involved.

If you like the multiplayer in this game and didn't in the original then you are either a NEW fan of the series or you sucked at the original. Most of my Gears buddies are on the same page as me about the issues. Here are my problems:

1. Getting into matches is just way too hard with 1-4 people. The only times when its a breeze is when you have a team of 5 OR a team of 2 when playing Wingman.

2. Matchmaking is broken. The original Gears was about being able to play what you want whenever you wanted it. Now you may have to play submissive when you want to play annex or you might have to play Avalanche when you want to play Hail. Also, you can't even choose how many rounds you want to play. Theres so many other faults with matchmaking that I hope are addressed in patches in the future.

3. Chainsaw too powerful / Shotgun does nothing. The chainsaw is overpowered. You usually can't stun it even when you shoot a shotgun right in the belly. Chainsaw's are too easy to pull of and the shotgun is unreliable. I rather risk chainsawing a guy right infront of my who doesn't see me and is shooting somewhere else rather than using the shotgun.

So even though the multiplayer is slowly growing on me there are some moments that just make me want to toss my controller across the room. Hopefully Epic can fix the problems I have addressed because they seem to be universal problems.

Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts

So this comes out today and I am going to get it as soon as possible. Hopefully the code comes in as well for the original game because I'll probably want to play that first because I never beat the original Banjo....as a kid I got stuck on Grunty at the end. So yeah I'll be adding this game to...........

Dead Space, Fable II, Saints Row 2, and Gears of War 2.

I'll be updating my 360/DS wishlist for the year in my next blog probably later today or tomorrow with overall summarys of my likes and dislikes of all the games.