VikingDave

I loved Gears 2, and have had little to no problems with it. Flawless single player, but a few issues connecting to multiplayer matches and a little lag with maybe 1 out of 20 matches. Nothing to upset me at all, though.
Man, 3 million copies in 4 weeks, the top selling comic of 2008, a tie-in novel that premiered on the New York Times bestseller list, a very successful toy line, a movie deal... Gears is inches away from being a full-on pop culture phenomenon.

She's notoriously anti-gun and vehemently protested Ripley's use of firearms in Aliens, and refused to do Alien 3 and Resurrection if they made her use a gun. I'd say the games have some hefty gunplay in them and she wasn't down with that.
She thinks there are better ways to show Ripley is tough besides putting a gun in her hands. Like... giving her retarded superpowers like in Resurrection, or having her run around looking like a man in Alien 3.

Just pre-ordered mine. Been waiting for this since I saw the display pics at SDCC, and a bundle with a FREE copy of Gears 2 is just orgasmic. Way, way too cool to pass up.
On the Amazon site, there are pics of Cliff holding the Lancer at SDCC, so you get a great idea of the size of this thing. Unless he is, in fact, some sort of tiny elven-like creature and the proportions are skewed.
(As a side note, pics from SDCC made me search the net for this thing, which brought me to this site, which has caused me to check it multiple times daily just for this particular update)
(As another side note, I also took out the trial membership of Amazon Prime to get free 2nd day shipping when this is released. And I've already canceled the trial and kept the shipping discount. The awesome just got awesome...er. Give it a try if you pre-order this)