Gears of War 2 panel discusses living cover, story and chicks man

Team Joystiq posted the full Gears of War 2 Comic Con panel discussion featuring Epic's Michael Capps and GoW2 writer Joshua Ortega where we get better insight into what will make Gears 2 bigger, bloodier and badder then the first. Though, know going in that Capps and company don't drop any bombshell announcements or feature reveals, but he does talk about some juicy Gears stuff. And any Gears talk is good talk, right?

There's a bunch of things discussed (Joystiq has a beautiful recap of every last word that came from Capps' mouth), but we came across a few things that caught our eye. First off, Gears 2 will have "living cover" in the form of giant, wiggly Locust worms. Capps and his team brainstormed the idea of traditional cover and wanted to take it into a more living realm. We guess giant worms fit the bill. The other topic that stood out to us was talk about Dom and the game's emotional storyline. We've been told time and time again that Gears 2 will have a richer, deeper story this time around and now we know Dom and his long lost "hot chick" love Maria will be a big part of it. So, you can bet love will be in the air.

Watch the video, make the jump and hear what team Epic has to say about graphics, downloadable content, the Cole stereotype and what's going on with the Gears of War movie. November can't get here soon enough!