On Friday we were all exposed to the first gameplay footage of Gears of War 2 and after watching it a number of times I noticed a number of new things that have been added to the game. If you haven’t seen the video yet please do yourself a favour and watch it, you’ll truly enjoy it, especially if you enjoy the first Gears of War!

If you’ve played the first Gears of War you know that Locusts are a pain in the ass and by the looks of it, they seem to be more of a pain! The Locust can now sink entire cities using giant emergence holes, which is going to make for and awesome battle! Since Gears of War 2 will be using the new Unreal Engine, it allowed them to render hundreds of characters quicker, which in-turn allowed them to add hundreds of Locusts!

Since the Locusts can take over an entire city there is no way any grenade will kill them all! So instead of using grenades to attack the onslaught of Locusts, we see a vehicle called Deeicks which brings along a tunnel machine, Grind Lifts to where the Locust are occupied.

Not only are Locusts bad guys but you can now use them as shields against other Locusts! I can see this working well especially when you can’t find cover and need something to hide behind, what’s better that a Locust to hide behind!

And finally the chainsaw battles. This looks amazing! Why waste ammo when you can just saw your enemy in half! They have added a new camera angle that allows you to see how the chainsaw is driven upward through the torso and blood gushes everywhere!

I recently played the first Gears of War and cannot wait until the second one comes out in November! This is definitely a game I’m going to pre-order!

Enjoy the trailer below!