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Played Gears of War II last night. It’s region free so if you ever want a game cheap it’s always worth looking at www.play-asia.com. Occasionally cheaper than buying Region 2 from Amazon and whatnot and a lot of times it’s out in the US first.

What’s the Bender soundalike protagonist been up to while we’ve been away? Well he’s still fighting the good fight. Nice little opening intro sets the scene and we’re still fighting the grubs, but slowly pushing the human race to extinction (That would be a ‘pyrrhic victory’, when you’ve won but you’ve still lost, fact fans). So now we take the fight to them. And thus we set the scene for the sequel.

And it’s pretty much more of the same. It’s been slightly tweaked and refined, you can now slip between hiding points that aren’t necessarily on a level with each other, but so far that’s the only extra thing I’ve seen.

Nothing really needs setting so up we just dive straight into the middle of the action and it immediately feels like a more cohesive storyline. One section nicely blends into the other and in my opinion this certainly feels a lot more exciting. They seem to have also concentrated on splitting up the running along fighting parts with other massive vehicle sections, or shoot the falling bombs, or venture through the pitch black tunnel. But that’s always something this series excelled in doing in the first place. One thing about it, it was certainly never boring. We’ve got new nasties including annoying little skuttering bugs with bombs attached to them and big massive 100ft fuckers with rocket pack strapped to their back.

The graphics are the same high quality as the first and from what i’ve heard the game is considerably longer.

So i guess the bottom line is, if you liked the first one blah blah blah. There’s not much else i can say without spoiling anything and to be honest i only really played a couple of hours of it, then i watched Prison Break which had a very predictable ending, was a bit of a swizz really.

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