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Xbox 360′s Gears of War 2 and Complaints by Gamers

Xbox 360′s Gears of War 2 and Complaints by Gamers

By: Alan Ng | December 1, 2008 | 8 Comments

Do you think Gears of War 2 is a worthy successor of the first title? The game has many positive points, but sadly it also suffers from a range of faults that have left many gamers unhappy.

While the single-player mode is fantastic and offers a lot of fun with friends, it is the multi-player portion of the game that ultimately gets judged by gamers. There are two key issues with the multiplayer mode of the game; two key issues that gamers hope are going to get patched up in the near future.

The first is the weapons available in the game and how unbalanced they are. Gamers have been complaining that the Lancer is now too powerful, while the Shotgun is pretty much useless and completely different compared to the weapon in the first game.

The other issue and the most frustrating one for gamers is the problem with lag in online matches.
This is due to the troublesome ‘Match-making’ part of the game where it often puts you in random matches from people all over the world, for example American gamers getting thrown into a European server, resulting in a not so enjoyable experience for gamers.

What do you think about the current problems? Surely Epic are aware of fixes they need to implement by now, hopefully it isn’t too long before we hear of an upcoming patch.

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  • King Luff

    It’s not the actual lancer that is too powerfull, it’s the chainsaw on the end of it. Put this with the fact that the shotgun can’t always stop someone charging at you with it (50-60% of the time) then you have a problem.

    This game has been shipped unfinished, which is a shame. Just the little things that get to me like when the match is finished the audio you hear sometimes fades out and then comes back at 2x volume missing out most of what was said or when i start the actual game up, there is a 2-3 second pause where i can’t actually start the game. It just doesn’t feel polished or complete. I can’t see myself playing it too much longer unless there is a good patch which is a shame because i had really really looked forward to this game.

    p.s I still love it !

  • Jake Haywood

    I totally agree. This game needs two things to be addressed then i will never leave it. BRING BACK THE OLD SHOTGUN. The old shotgun would stun someone if they tried to sneak in for the chainsaw if you hit them ful on enough with it. The old shotgun took SKILL and PRACTICE. If you learned how to blind fire duck, dive and roll. Avoid the left shoulder. All these things took so much skill. The new shotgun shoots every 3 or 4 seconds. You have to click aim like some noob and it just looks like an unfinished game full of noobs.

    The second issue is OF COURSE the multi playing system. This post says it all right here. Both those things. I am playing this game and taking 20 – 25mins to find a game then i join it to find it so laggy it’s unplayable. Then!! YEEHAW my rank goes down because it’s based on trueskill yet i can’t play all because of the TERRIBLE Lag. Good work epic! your ultimate screw up has arrived!!

  • Sir Blakeman

    the new mulitplayer aside from the unbearable lag problems is amazing. this game allows you to use the lancer rather than everyone looking to their D pad to switch to their shotty and then spamming A so they can roll at you while ur lancer does absolutely jack to stop the assult.. the new shot gun is very useful if u just learn how to use it.. the shotgun can always stop the chain saw.. a melee hit stops the rev and then one shot blws em away into teeny pieces.. if u thing the shotgun is weak then ur no true gamer… a true gamer would see that they are trying to open up the game and make use of the lancer.. no one used the lancer in the first game multiplayer and thats a shame seeing the gun is essential to the game.. the game is based aournd the lancer and should be a key component of th multiplayer not just what you use when ur shottys out of amo.. the shot gun is as it should be… a cholse range weapon that must be used wisely.. the fact that it was allowed to have such a huge range due to the use of the roll is sad… every gun in the game needs to have its limits… in the first game the shotty was hardly limited whatsoever…

  • UK R1pp3r

    Gears 1 in my mind the best game of all time, it took skill to play skill that they we enjoyed to perfect, headshots were wonderful once mastered. We all loved the shotgun and could use it against those chainsaw noobs, but now…now the so much anticpated gears 2 is useless.

    the shotgun always needs you to aim and never does what you expect it to do, there is no more having shotgun battles, there is no fun in it, just a game for noobs.boring in all aspects apart from the campaign.I HATE THE CHAINSAW!!!

    and also the ranking sysytem is poor, if the host leaves (you dont know if your host) the connection is lost and it ranks you down…??

    PATCH it up epic!!!

  • Alex B

    wow, Jake Haywood is so right! The multiplayer and Shotgun sucks sooo bad, i hate GoW 2 soooo much,

    Epic have epically failed. Well done, losers. What a crappy game.

    Apart from campaign, thats alright.

    SORT IT OUT EPIC!!

  • STR8beastN

    QUIT YOUR CRYING PEOPLE!!!!!!! I don’t understand why you can’t adjust to the game. I kill everyone with my shotgun without being host. I want all of you to practice. Practice on horde if you have too.lol I love the game and it took me a lil time to adjust. Quit hating people. Get some game, play with 4 other friends, and get some tissue.

  • xXSplatterBatXx

    GoW 2 has been a serious let down, have been massive fan of the game since day 1 and feel cheated with the new game play, way too laggy ruins the game, ranking system sucks if host quits out the game stops and points go down….sooo disappointed…

    Campaign good though..

    Sort it epic..you have stroked us all!!

  • Bigdude

    Matchmaking completely detroys this game. If I live in the USA, I only want to matched up with other players from the USA; and the closer to my state, the better.

    I have quit probably well over 2,000 games since release solely due to lag.

    Fix your ******* game,EPIC, you worthless idiots.