More Gears of War 2 beta footage: disrupted chainsaw duel

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 26th 2008 at 5:00PM }

Yes, there is more Gears of War 2 beta footage to feast your eyes upon (again pulled from ThisIsGame.com and uploaded to YouTube by AnalogHype). It's amazing, almost as amazing as the fact that the other two Gears of War 2 beta videos are still online. There are a few tasty bits in this one. We get to see the Locust version of the UFC-style punching execution for one. Perhaps most interesting is the instance of an interrupted chainsaw duel. As a Locust and COG duel it out (at around 2:45 in the video), a second Locust interrupts with his own chainsaw, thus disrupting the duel, scoring a kill and ensuring that his buddy lives to tell the tale. A beta tester then shouts "duelus interruptus." We think that's going to catch on.

[Thanks, robbie grassl]

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-2, gow2, mgs, microsoft-game-studios

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Rick @ Jun 26th 2008 5:08PM

This is my favorite of the 3 footage vids. I've watched it about 10 times since last night...I just can't seem to help myself. The game looks damn fun. Security looks like a good map. Just wish someone would have walked through the lasers just to see how it slices.

That sniper clubbing move is going to become one of my faves, I think.

Dadidito @ Jun 26th 2008 5:10PM

Must buy. Day one. PERIOD.

Rastah Pasta @ Jun 26th 2008 5:11PM

a rolling dizzy gathers no moss

Grant @ Jun 26th 2008 5:17PM

there's actually 2 duals that are interrupted almost one right after another. First one, guy gets shot, second one the guy gets chainsawed as he was chainsaw dueling.

Magic Whiskey @ Jun 26th 2008 5:41PM

Looks better and better with each video. I'm not a Gears superfan; I sold my copy months before Halo 3 but GOW2 looks like fun.

I like how the multiplayer map ('roadblock?') looks aged from the first incarnation, in that the rusted-out cars are gathering moss and flora around them, and that some of the buildings are giving way to 'destroyed beauty' :)

T-BoNe254 @ Jun 26th 2008 6:01PM

Gridlock?

Trogdor @ Jun 26th 2008 5:47PM

Looks awesome. I love the sniper assassination.

Dwag @ Jun 26th 2008 5:53PM

The are suppose to rip off arms aren't they so i'm gonna assume that the UFC thingy was just a place holder until they can get the rip off arm and beat you to death Locust thing in the game.

edward camp @ Jun 26th 2008 6:46PM

no, the ufc beatdown is one execution and the ripping off of them arms and beating them is another. FYI its an internal beta.

Dwag @ Jun 26th 2008 7:07PM

In the interview he said COG will get the UFC beat down while the Locust will get the rip off arm beat down.

Dwag @ Jun 26th 2008 7:28PM

In the interview Cliff said that the COG get the UFC beat down while the Locust get so Beastly Rip off arms and beat to death execution and that it just wasn't online yet.

Vcize @ Jun 26th 2008 7:36PM

Man proximity nades look soooooooooo lame.

Anticrawl @ Jun 26th 2008 9:13PM

I don't think those are proximity, but regardless they could be fun as hell so long as teamkill is required to be on when using them. I think anytime one has power weapons or explosives on a map teamkill should be enabled to keep people from using them so liberally. Hell friendly fire should always be on in every game. Even tennis.

Vcize @ Jun 26th 2008 9:30PM

They have definitely explained that you can stick nades to walls/cover/objects and they will turn into basically proximity mines. While the blast will hurt teammates when friendly fire is on I'm sure, I highly doubt a teammate can cause them to explode. I HATE proximity crap in shooters. Claymores nearly ruined CoD4 for me. Just look at one of those leaked beta videos where a guy walks out a door then sticks a frag on the side of the wall as he comes out. It's completely invisible to anyone coming out of the door. I don't want to have to walk through every doorway and around every corner at a snail's pace and checking every inch of the terrain for that nonsense.

Also, as broken as tagging was in the last game the smoke stun grenades that you spawn with are looking particularly nasty. I can't imagine how many chumps are going to be running around with the smoke-tag + roll back + lancer for an instant down combo now.

Dick @ Jun 27th 2008 10:46AM

Its not a proximity mine. Its a Grenade stuck to a wall.

You have to shoot the grenade (or have a secondary grenade explode near enough to the first) in order for it to explode.

Just like if I was sitting at my house with one of my many boxes of grenades, and I put one grenade on the kitchen counter and hid in the bathroom. When you came into my kitchen, Id pop out with a pistol and shoot the grenade. That'd mess us both up I'd imagine, but at least I didn't shoot your dumb ass.

Vcize @ Jun 28th 2008 9:12PM

Where are you getting your freakishly incorrect info? They've said a million times that they're proximity mines, and in their latest interview (the one that comes on the UT3 footage) they specifically and explicitly say that if you stick a frag or smoke grenade to the wall they "become like proximity mines and if someone enters a certain radius around them they explode".

j3ff @ Jun 26th 2008 9:07PM

i want

Vcize @ Jun 27th 2008 2:04AM

Me and my wife played for 4 hours tonight...

Best. Wife. Ever.

ToRo @ Jun 27th 2008 12:01AM

Who's the girl talking in the background? lol I was more interested seeing her than watching the video. I've never seen a female play gears of war. I'm still going to buy this. ONLY because they are going to fix host advantage and have a party system. This would of been a rent for me if they weren't.

Is it me or does it look a lot like gears 1? Like, besides the new weapons and finishing moves and the lack of host advantage it's pretty much the same. lol never mind. Lack of Host advantage makes it a completely new game.

Anticrawl @ Jun 27th 2008 1:11AM

My friend Sara plays Gears haha, then a maried couple I know play Gears of War as well, and infact the woman is the better player.

Dick @ Jun 27th 2008 10:52AM

And its weirdos like you that make GoW annoying. All the pubescent fanboys and their squeaky voiced love for "teh chix" really pisses me off. Particularly when a host gets mad at you for making the girl on their team angry. And pouty. And hurt feelings ish. Cuz I said they were a bitch. Which I say to many persons, regardless of Sex, or actual bitchiness level, for that matter.

Its a catch all anger phrase, particularly when you're chainsawed for the 9th time by a noob who couldn't hold your jock. But hes on the hosts squad in a particularly glitchy room, so as he zig zag walks up on you with a chainsaw revving and you unload half of all your shotty shells into his skipping and glitching barely-blinking face, and he still chainsaws me anyway, if I yell Bitch - don't automatically assume I give a shit about you.

ToRo @ Jun 29th 2008 1:04AM

lol take it easy dick.

sudds @ Jun 27th 2008 2:17AM

If only people talked like that on xbox live

Premo @ Jun 27th 2008 7:29AM

Precisely the reason why I played player matches with friends ONLY for an entire summer last year.
The game really shines when you don't have a drunken southerner, or "TRUE GANGSTERZ", or a little kid yelling in your ear.

Anyway, this looks pretty much exactly like the first Gears, but with all the improvements I could have asked for from the first one.
5v5 obviously is a tremendous upgrade, as well as new executions to ensure variety, new guns, maps...

Not to mention that RIDICULOUS looking single player.
Graphics don't seem to be too different. Not much anyway where I could tell without a screen comparison, but I suppose Gears of War is still on the cutting edge of console graphics.

Good stuff. Makes me proud to be a 360fanboy.