Gears Of Wars 2, Meets 3rd Strike? BRING IT!

oxm speculated on it in their recent podcast

As a daily Gears of War player I have no idea how they plan on getting this to work. It was hard enough to chainsaw someone and survive it. The minute your blade lowers after cutting through someone you would get shotgunned,chainsawed,or have your head sniped off. I honestly can't imagine surviving after adding a little chainsaw dual game in as well.

I don't want to be the Negative Ned,but this idea sounds like one that looks good on paper,but in the actual game will be disregarded and never used (much like the Kryll on Bullet Marsh).

This post has succeeded in making me want to dust off my copy of Bushido Blade.

orgasmatastic to the max

Ugh, chainsaws were so easy to avoid anyway. If this ends up being some crappy real-time event I'm gonna swallow a locust. Yeah, a whole goddamn locust.

If they are going to put in chainsaw battles it is fine with me. I am more worried about getting some dependent servers from you guys at epic. I would die for 'em. Come on Epic. We all know you have the money to do it.

Why will they not announce the upgrade? the exciting 6 on 6 multiplayer! DVD9 yeah!

Didn't we all assume this after seeing the trailer?

Oh sweet, it really doesn't get better than this. Okay maybe laser chainsaw nun chuck duels but other than that it really doesn't get better than this.

I hope they make it work; the chainsaw and the sniper rifle were my favorite weapons.

They should also fix the shotgun, killing someone online with the shotgun was more about luck than skill.

It would be neat if the chainsaw offered temporary shield from bullets. Maybe two to three body shots before dying. Combined with Gears of War's dynamic sprint, it could make for some fun in the multiplayer, and in the game itself.

I'm in a flaming mood right now: THIS NEEDS TO GET ONTO THE WII.

I know it's just a game, and a science fiction game at that, but does anyone realize what would happen if you slammed two operating chainsaws into each other? Two rapidly rotating blades (designed to *grab and tear*) hitting each other would be less like a duel and more like an endurance contest for shrapnel to the face and throat. I know I'm looking at this too hard, but the best thing that could happen is that the blades would catch each other and whip straight out of the duelist's hands.

The best way to accomplish this would be to have the player immediately start tapping X as fast as possible (like the A button to rivive) and whoever tapped X... let's say... 10 times the fastest would push the other player back a couple feet. At this point the other player could still roll quickly away, but if they hesitate for half a second, you'd press X again to lunge forward (like the energy sword in Halo) to stab them with the chainsaw. Also, I think there should be a little support for teammates who are getting chainsawed. If, for instance, it's only about 20% through the chainsaw animation and the chainsawer gets headshot, then the guy who was about to be ripped in half should survive, albeit with 90% health drained. Also, they need to either reduce the bullet damage done by the chainsaw gun... OR increase the bullet damage done by the Hammerburst, to make the game more balanced and especially to give the player a reason to use that gun (cuz it's pretty much useless in GoW). Also there should be a way to unstick granades. You'd have to stand still and tap B really fast to get that grenade off you, but I also think thrown grenades should have wider splash damage. I'd also prefer the torque bow took longer to charge up, but you should be able to charge it up while crouching behind low cover WITHOUT having to go into blindfire mode (leaves you vulnerable to sniping). Finally, the sniper rifle should remember the zoom level you had it at when you're holding and releasing the L trigger.

It would be nice if you could saw through doors as well, kicking them down is soooo 2006.

That's pretty cool! Well, hopefully.

I know they've wanted to do this since the first one. If you watch some of the bonus video that comes with the Limited Edition, there's a quick shot of an early build where a Locust is fighting back as Marcus chainsaws him.

Bad netcode + chainsaw = really annoying situations.

Anyone that played online knew that the chainsaw, grenade slapping, and just about everything else in Gears was ruined by poorly implemented netcode. It was rare that you actually saw someone chainsaw someone that was right next to them. It was usually someone dying from ten feet away, unaware how they were cut right down the middle at range.

Anything that might require precise timing is going to require something better than what Epic managed to crank out in Gears 1.

Console gaming in general has garbage netcode, mainly because it almost exclusively relies on playing on Little Billy's DSL instead of a server that, you know, can actually handle network data for more than three people.

As someone who loves HALO 3 Sword clashes..... :)

This is totally something that is needed for GOW Series.

Now i hope they increase the # of players.

How about we get some grenade duels net? :p two people try to tag each other but keep smashing nades together eventually it blows up and they both die YAY!
the end....

I don't think few of the big name games including GoW2 are going to coming out this year. I think we are going to see the string a long strategy, that PS3/Konami played on us last year with MGS4, by announcing games that they know won't be ready. So expect delays.

you could have a well timed tap on B and then that would make you quickly smack your lanser off theirs then they would be stuned like with a grenade or melee.

GOW2 IS GONNA BE TOP NO1 WAS SO WILL THIS EVEN BETTER LONG LIVE MARCUS FENIX

Finally, a way to get back at those chainsawing mofo's

There is only one way to do this. It isn't going to be a long drawn out thing.. you guys are crazy. If I were to do it I would make it like active reloading. Just a really quick mini-game type thing. Maybe a paper rock scissors type of thing. If you are too slow picking... you lose.