Gears of War 2 - An Amazing Sequel

My biggest gripe is that Carmine gets little mention after his death, of course during the trip to the Niles research place, Dom mentions how Carmine would’ve loved the flame throwers and Marcus joked about it saying he would’ve probably burned their asses with them too. Dom, for once being nice towards Carmine, actually says “rest in peace Carmine.” Other than that…he doesn’t really have any other mentions. I would’ve loved if Marcus mentioned him another time during Gears 2 or 3, since apparently in the lore Marcus was affected by his death more deeply than the game shows, hell, during his dream in Gears 3 Benjamin makes an appearance with Marcus and the others. It’s subtle since they don’t really mention it and you would only know if you pressed LB and saw the names and the objective point. That’s just me tho.

I think the reason Tai's death hits so hard even though you don't see him much in the game, is that he's supposed to be some super macho guy whos unkillable, so the fact that the next time you see him, he's all beaten and broken, and on top of that he just offs himself is what sells it. Like, I think if he was just already dead or died like, kinda normally by something else then it wouldn't be as tough. Something about him committing suicide just makes it worse.

This review is extremely what i've felt towards this game growing up, it was my first game I played on the Xbox 360. This game will be my personal favorite gears of ware game and franchise of all time.

Tai was the baddest Gear and he snapped after a couple hours under the Locust torture Maria was with them for twelve years That scene was DARK dark but with all the context there it's just horrific to the core

dude said he's old now and I'm 7 years older,caught a stray one like I was a carmine

Running under the reaver is genius I alway just mag dumbed behind cover until they dropped lol

Gears 2 will always have my favorite story. Gears 3 was a beautiful conclusion to a perfect trilogy. An end to an era. But it doesn't give the same amount of gravity of what war is like the first two, or the general horror of the Locust, and the planet of Sera being terrifying enough as it is(the Riftworm being natural to the planet, and not a mutation like the Locusts).

This guy still deserves more subs from the effort he puts in to these

hollow creatures like reavers and brumaks are condition by the locust to obey them and are native to the hallow and have been down there before the locust, so they pretty obey who ever rides them cog or locust

Gears has such a special place in my heart. Easily one of my favorite series ever. Gears 2 was the first game I've ever beat and I beat it with my dad. My brother's and I played the hell out of the series and I still play it to this day.

I have been replaying Gears series for the past months and I've been loving the gears content I've been getting on YouTube

It still blows my mind how much effort was put into this game back in 2008; the characterization, the story, the gameplay, on-rail sections. I definitely agree that this is the best Gears game of the 360 era (don't know anything about the post-Judgment games).

Gears has always been video game comfort food to me. The big beefy enemies to shoot and the charging forward slamming into cover, hitting those pumpkin headshots. It just feels so good to play.

My first memory of gears was my brother made me help him get the co op achievements for the hardest difficulty and then Iv played every one since

Gears of War was the first game I played on the Xbox 360 my dad bought it for the game. When 2 came out I was so hype for the story to continue. Gears 2 is still by far my favorite of the franchise, still holds up really well even today

Coolest thing about the reaver flying section i learned while playing through the game again recently is that you pass over previous levels on your way back to Jacinto, you fly over New Hope, the Rift Worm Corpse, Land down, the place where Skorge and his Hydra come up is the Rig Section in act 2 where you fight climbing locust for the first time and where you kill your first Brumack

I remember playing this game when I was kid. I’d always bring my DVD case to cousins house and we’d play the campaign together.

Thanks for the video, I love seeing how other people experience my favorite franchise. You asked about how we fight Reavers, so... Standing under the Reavers is the best way to fight them, well done. But you can also throw frags into their saddles (easier if at least one pilot is dead). Reavers take more damage while flying, maybe because they fly with gas-bags, so I've seen one frag instakill the flying ones. It's also possible to frag-tag their tentacle when it's planted in the ground, which does extra damage. And flying Reavers tend to die in one shot during the tank level, so it's worth trying to shoot them before they land. I don't blame you for hating the tank level, but I always loved it because it worked just like the tank battles of history. The key rules of tank warfare are: 1: move by stages in defilade, don't just drive forward. 2: scan the horizon at all times, tank fights are long range. 3: escape quickly when ambushed. 4: tanks are really fast and can catch serious air time to clear rivers/canyons/houses, especially small tanks. BTW, Ben did just walk through the Riftworm. Falling in would be exactly as painful as crashing in. Ask a survivor of a chopper crash, it feels back-breaking even when your spine survives. Everyone was lucky that parts of the worm's insides were squishy. Anyway, the implication is that Ben decided to try and kill the worm from the inside, but failed because he was alone and inexperienced. We know he's as athletic and acrobatic as any other Gear, so it's no surprise that he navigated the digestive teeth, and just cut through a different wall that was later blocked off. Love it when you point out the other weirdness and plot holes. Nexus really is close to Ephyra and Jacinto, so that's not a plot hole, but that shit with the Queen's survival was. We used to talk about shit like that for hours on XBL and the forums. Crispy, just like I like it.

I'm glad you mentioned the first sighting of the worm cause I didn't notice til my recent playthrough two days ago

glad im not the only one who played gears 2 before the first. when i first played 2 i thought that there would be no game to top it and to this day i still stand by that. gears will always be my favourite series