Gears 2's multiplayer preview, 12 maps on disc

Sweet, cant wait to hear more.

Keep it coming this is going to be good.

I wish it was more than 12. Sigh.

12 maps is pretty good if all game modes can be played on each map

12 is plenty
but who cares,it could come with 2 maps and it would still sell like hot cakes....

How many did the original ship with..i don't remember.


12 is plenty though.

Yeah, I'm not complaining about 12. Just wish it was more. It would be nice if they'd release a couple maps every other month after the initial release.

Yeah, Meat Flag would've been banned from Xbox Live.

What a horrible, horrible "hands-on preview".

All it did was repeat the million things we've heard twenty times over already. Hey guys, guess what, now you can stick grenades to walls and there's a new flamethrower gun! You don't say...

About the *only* thing useful that he mentions is that the responsiveness in hitting a button and seeing your character react is faster, but that could have easily been because he was playing on a LAN rather than online. He mentions the scorcher is cool, how about letting us know how balanced the damage is? In the leaked videos I've seen it looks like it takes longer to down someone with direct fire than the lancer/hammerburst does, in which case wtf is the point? He mentions that an active sniper shot isn't an insta-down, so what DOES an active reload with a sniper get you? Tell us.

How did the core gameplay change? Did the bullet stopping power and proximity frags change the pace to the point where it's just midrange machine-gun battles a la every other shooter out there (which is what Gears previously differentiated itself from)?

I realize this was written for the casual player and not the hardcore Gears guy, but I could have written the exact same article without having ever played the game. Give us SOMETHING, or let someone that actually played Gears for more than 5 minutes and understands its nuances do the preview rather than some schmuck that's going to tell us "hay guyz they have meatshields now!!!".

Actually, 12 is not the confirmed number I dont think. In a recent interview, Cliffy said 12 would be the minimum on the disc, not confirmed.

Yeah 12 is definately a minimum, also they plan on releasing reworked maps from the first game through dlc. Im saving up all my work holiday this year for when this game drops!

I'm not sure, but I think they also mentioned (in another video) that Subway was also being remade. So if that's true that's 4 confirmed maps.

Also, I agree that it was a pretty lame preview, but what we've seen so far is still looking awesome.