1 vs 2 Is it possible in Gears 2

[Saint_Kroniq]

i remmber in gears 1 i had enough skill with a shotgun that i could take out 4 whole players, on gears 2 i can rarely take out 2 guys if im by my self...

i think its total BS gears 1 took skill gears 2 takes none

and if epic thinks teen age kids are gonna work in teams rather than be greedy and get points by there self they WERE sadly wrong

[jspsc123]

i chainsawed 2 people in a row once. while i was sawing the 1st guy, the second guy was shooting me with the shotgun. i turned around and sawed him. it was bs

[miikee]

i agreeee. we need our run and gun Gears back.
random people online are NOT going to play as a team.

[boardman]

uhmm it is sure... 2-piece... or 1 shots

[Goblin51O]

thats the whole point though is to try to comunicate with your team and get them to work together trust me i have pulled it off many times ... its all about communication

[sac9]

2 vs 1 are kind of easy. All u have to do is down 1 person and take them as a meatshield and melee and shoot the other one...... that only works if both of them are close range

[Pimpic]

gears 2 is n00b friendy game. well gears 2 is a noob game lol

[ImmortalTeKneKe]

listen, i take out all 5 some times. stop playing like its gears 1 its not!

[VaeVictus XIII]

it's easy. I do it all the time.

go hide, wait for them to come by, gib the guy in the back. now it's 1v1

Even more fun is downing a guy and meat shielding him while you beat his friend to death with your pistol.

[x Ic3 ColD x]

listen, i take out all 5 some times. stop playing like its gears 1 its not!

Talk about a fanboy! Anytime someone criticizes this game he gets all offended! Get over it kid this game isnt half of what gow1 was!

[F34R AXON]

listen, i take out all 5 some times. stop playing like its gears 1 its not!

I bet u were garb at gears 1 thats why you dont want the shotty battles back

[redninja4725]

ya its super hard to kill people in the game now.

[Shadow_Dog]

I clutched my way out of many 1v5's off host and on host. It's not hard, you just have to make a good set up.

[VaeVictus XIII]

It's really not that hard. Especially with the "smoke" nades. A well placed stun can throw 2 to the ground for easy meat.

[sillyowl11]

shotgun battles are no way as good as they were in gow 1-melee just ruins it

[IKHAN1192]

Talk about a fanboy! Anytime someone criticizes this game he gets all offended! Get over it kid this game isnt half of what gow1 was!

Ah, the pot calling the kettle black I see.

On topic, Meatshields or picking up the boomshield are the two best ways to try to 1v2. Or you could tag walls and camp, it works wonders but it'll get you flamed. It IS possible but it is much harder. Either learn to try to work with your random team, find four friends and form a party with them, or imitate Rambo and die.

[Balazorz]

all you gotta do to kill someone chainsawing someone else is run up in thier face with the shotty one shot boom dead. The shotgun isnt as effective from a distance as it was in gears 1. Thats why when you are running toward another player with the shotgun and you fire, it hits him then he fires a second later and it blows your head off or gibs you. Its all in the range. Takes 2 shots to kill from a few feet away. If that ever happens and you shoot too soon and dont kill him follow up with a melee as quick as possible, alot of times that will either down them or give you enough time to get an additional shot and gib them.

as far as taking on 2 guys all you need to do alot of times is lob a grenade on the floor in front of them, it iwll usually get one of them alot of times but if nothing else it gets them seperated long enough for you to get around a corner and plant a nade or to lay some rounds in one of ems back before they can get a shot on you. Also dont forget about nade tagging, even if its a smoke thats one guy down and possibly both of them if he rolls toward the other player, then you jsut mop the floor with them shotty style.

[Chunkywaffle]

Of course it is. As long as you are constantly wall hopping and jumping around it is pretty easy actually. Since people have to aim with the shotgun now it makes it much harder to hit someone who is skilled at avoiding shots. So just keeping avoiding them and get behind them and 2 piece.

[whatforfree]

ya what u do is when the 2 are walking towards u press back and check there ranks if there sorry ,,,, wait for them to get close and wall slide towards them and 2 piece him. when the other guy gets near u im pretty sure hes gonna 2 piece u 2.... what u do is blind fire with the right trigger dont even aim.... then press the guide button go to the guy that tried to 2piece u and send him a msg saying ( u 2piecing *** get some skill)

[Dont B Hayton]

Talk about a fanboy! Anytime someone criticizes this game he gets all offended! Get over it kid this game isnt half of what gow1 was!

But he's right!
If you're going to try and be good at this game right now you cant have the gears1 run n gun gameplan.
You need to play slower and smarter.
If you can't accept that and adapt then your thickheaded

[HaydenH]

I remember the days when I was confident even in a 4v1. This game it's near impossible to do that, unless you get lucky/grenade tags everything.

The only other way I've beaten a whole team is, like how you guys said, with meatshields. Down one with ahmmerburst pick him up and beat down everyone who runs at you.

[bignick2003]

EXACTLY! only people who sucked at gears 1 think gears 2 is great.

[Napomania1015]

yesterday in TWo straight games, i got stuck in a 1v2 and a 1v3. THe 1v3 i actually killed them more then the three of them combined(even though all three of them had to chainsaw me to kill me) but since it was KOTH, kills dont matter. In the 1v2, which started as a 4v5, the other kids connection was so bad that everyone lagged out or just quit. Once it was just me, the connection was fine and the two kids left on their team would either two piece me or chainsaw me. WHen that happens to you, its almost impossible to win.

[Chewykillerx10]

i have the same problem, gears 1 if you were good enough you actually ahd a fighting cchance against...well hell 1v 3 but gow 2 people run up and its a double meele fest,i went back to gow 1 and im loving it

[BROMOTION]

You guys are right, a 2v1 is not statistically your favor especially if you are relying on the shotgun or chainsaw. Gears 2 forces you to leverage the power weapons. I love it this way. I do think changes need to be made but this is a good start.

[Azog 150]

I can do it. Although it does seem to be unpredictable.

You just have to find somewhere to camp (Campings acceptable if you are outnumbered) , and by that time they have usually gotten rid of their smokes. Just hope they don't have frags.

[Balazorz]

jsut dont chainsaw one when the other is aorund and expect to live lol. youll get a face full of shotty while your splittin wig.

[Chainsaw Guardian]

It's possible, but rare. They did the same thing as Bungie did moving from Halo 1 to Halo 2. They took out the individual skill, to make it more dumbed down and easy for noobs to get kills. That's why:

Halo 1>Halo 2
Gears 1>Gears 2

[Balazorz]

gears 2 will be really awesome when they fix it. If they can fix it. I HOPE they fix it.

[ALASKA]

Yes, Gears 2 is all about communication, but unfortunately, u can't force people to communicate. Some poeple own mics but don't use them, had one but it broke, can't afford another one w/e it may bee. But building a game around total communication was not smart in my opinion. Gears 1 depended on communicatiuon but not as much, if you were good, you could do work no problem. When I play with 5 people I know, we do well in gears 2, but when I play by myself with random people, I rarely win. It was never like that in Gears 1.

[Us3d ta b3]

It's possible, but rare. They did the same thing as Bungie did moving from Halo 1 to Halo 2. They took out the individual skill, to make it more dumbed down and easy for noobs to get kills. That's why:

Halo 1>Halo 2
Gears 1>Gears 2

So true. So very true.

[33% God]

i agreeee. we need our run and gun Gears back.
random people online are NOT going to play as a team.

It's quoted a million times from Cliffy B and other designers on the game that the style of game play is STOP AND POP. You wanted to play it different from the way the creators wanted you to in the first game,so now this time around they made sure to design the game the way they want it to be played. Don't like it? Then you're in the wrong game. Exchange your copy for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or Halo 3.

I like the 2nd game more than the first. It's not 99% dancing with shotguns out in the middle of the map. In Gears of War 1 I would actually be kicked from games for being a "lancer wh*re",aka playing the game the way it's intended to. The best part is that they don't even see the irony of them being "shotgun wh*res". In the 2nd game,the shotgun is tweaked to be a CLOSE RANGE weapon. Not mid range,not long range,UP CLOSE. You're not gonna stand 10 feet back firing your shotgun from the hip and they cry when you get lancered to the ground. You want to use the shotgun? Move from cover to cover and try to get up closer to me. Think it's too slow or not fun? Again,wrong game,take it back and get trade in value. Try out Counter Strike Source,it's more of your pacing. You get one life and the kills you're supposed to work for the few kills you get during a full 5 round game. Not run out shooting everyone and spawning over and over.

Stop making up rules and "the way it's supposed to be played" crap in your head. Read developer interviews and they tell you exactly the way it's supposed to be played. You know why? BECAUSE THEY MADE THE F*CKING GAME. You're not going to tell them otherwise.

[dudewtf7896]

i took down 5 ppl on warzone by my self .....all my teamates where dead...yea is posible

[flashrobin]

is this game any good

[Hoodboi]

gears 2 will be really awesome when they fix it. If they can fix it. I HOPE they fix it.

me too man. me too. i want the modes, i want the maps with gears of war 1. if they can add the modes and maps to gears1 i would pay for it. 1200 ms points to add the modes and maps. right now epic. do it right now and i will pay for it this instant.

[Pufflelumps]

I remember gow 1 i could play for hours on end and not get bored, but gears 2....theres its still fun but theres only so many two pieces and chainsaws a man can take.

[Pufflelumps]

It's quoted a million times from Cliffy B and other designers on the game that the style of game play is STOP AND POP. You wanted to play it different from the way the creators wanted you to in the first game,so now this time around they made sure to design the game the way they want it to be played. Don't like it? Then you're in the wrong game. Exchange your copy for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or Halo 3.

I like the 2nd game more than the first. It's not 99% dancing with shotguns out in the middle of the map. In Gears of War 1 I would actually be kicked from games for being a "lancer wh*re",aka playing the game the way it's intended to. The best part is that they don't even see the irony of them being "shotgun wh*res". In the 2nd game,the shotgun is tweaked to be a CLOSE RANGE weapon. Not mid range,not long range,UP CLOSE. You're not gonna stand 10 feet back firing your shotgun from the hip and they cry when you get lancered to the ground. You want to use the shotgun? Move from cover to cover and try to get up closer to me. Think it's too slow or not fun? Again,wrong game,take it back and get trade in value. Try out Counter Strike Source,it's more of your pacing. You get one life and the kills you're supposed to work for the few kills you get during a full 5 round game. Not run out shooting everyone and spawning over and over.

Stop making up rules and "the way it's supposed to be played" crap in your head. Read developer interviews and they tell you exactly the way it's supposed to be played. You know why? BECAUSE THEY MADE THE F*CKING GAME. You're not going to tell them otherwise.

Amen brother Amen.

[Trepidity]

Just a heads up, i'd say 95% of people don't want to have to bother with all that team work garbage that game developers try to get players to do. I'm sick of game developers building their game around having to work together and commnicate with your team. All that does is make it so a group of friends on one team have a huge advantage over a team of random people that got matched up together. Also when games become too team work dependent then it doesn't matter if you're really good because if you get stuck with crappy teammates then you're screwed. In Gears 1 you didn't really have to worry about how good or bad your teammates were because if you were good enough you could definetly take out all, if not most, of the other team by yourself.

[Trepidity]

It's quoted a million times from Cliffy B and other designers on the game that the style of game play is STOP AND POP. You wanted to play it different from the way the creators wanted you to in the first game,so now this time around they made sure to design the game the way they want it to be played. Don't like it? Then you're in the wrong game. Exchange your copy for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or Halo 3.

Well seeing as how popular and fun the gameplay of Gears 1 was, why the hell would we want to change that? I don't give a flying **** how the game developers wanted the game to be played, we're the paying customers right? Shouldn't what the customers want, be more important than what exactly the game developers want? A video game is supposed to be how the players want it, not the game developers. They're not trying to sell it to themselves, they're not guna buy however million copies Gears sold, the customers are. And inorder to get the customers to buy it, you should design it the way that they seemed to like it most, which is the Gears 1 gameplay style.

[ih0tfirei]

i took down 5 ppl on warzone by my self .....all my teamates where dead...yea is posible

same here HB with a active is beast

[warrengotstick]

At first it seemed difficult but you can pick apart a team. I was playing guardian last night with a group of people they all died and their whole team was left. I shottied 2 guys meatshield and killed the leader, then kill 2 more and lost the last 1 v 1 :(

But it's definitly possible, I've been able to pull off some crazy stuff especially since most players are so predictable.

I also killed I think all 5 on day one 1 v 5. You just have to be smart and patient which many players lack in this game

[TheEnd4]

It's quoted a million times from Cliffy B and other designers on the game that the style of game play is STOP AND POP. You wanted to play it different from the way the creators wanted you to in the first game,so now this time around they made sure to design the game the way they want it to be played. Don't like it? Then you're in the wrong game. Exchange your copy for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or Halo 3.

I like the 2nd game more than the first. It's not 99% dancing with shotguns out in the middle of the map. In Gears of War 1 I would actually be kicked from games for being a "lancer wh*re",aka playing the game the way it's intended to. The best part is that they don't even see the irony of them being "shotgun wh*res". In the 2nd game,the shotgun is tweaked to be a CLOSE RANGE weapon. Not mid range,not long range,UP CLOSE. You're not gonna stand 10 feet back firing your shotgun from the hip and they cry when you get lancered to the ground. You want to use the shotgun? Move from cover to cover and try to get up closer to me. Think it's too slow or not fun? Again,wrong game,take it back and get trade in value. Try out Counter Strike Source,it's more of your pacing. You get one life and the kills you're supposed to work for the few kills you get during a full 5 round game. Not run out shooting everyone and spawning over and over.

Stop making up rules and "the way it's supposed to be played" crap in your head. Read developer interviews and they tell you exactly the way it's supposed to be played. You know why? BECAUSE THEY MADE THE F*CKING GAME. You're not going to tell them otherwise.

I just had to quote this post because every part of it is either an idiotic take on a fact, or an idiotic opinion.

[FullMetalCake]

yeah 33% god is 66% retard

1 v 2 is possible if you play cheap with smoke gernades in combination with staires..

[Hamoodi123]

i remmber in gears 1 i had enough skill with a shotgun that i could take out 4 whole players, on gears 2 i can rarely take out 2 guys if im by my self...

i think its total BS gears 1 took skill gears 2 takes none

and if epic thinks teen age kids are gonna work in teams rather than be greedy and get points by there self they WERE sadly wrong
same with me in gears1 i could easily take out multiple people with a shotgun or sniper. but in gears 2 i always find myself saying " WHAT THE F@$*!!!" then i get pissed and play gears 1 or COD4

[klazius]

It's quoted a million times from Cliffy B and other designers on the game that the style of game play is STOP AND POP. You wanted to play it different from the way the creators wanted you to in the first game,so now this time around they made sure to design the game the way they want it to be played. Don't like it? Then you're in the wrong game. Exchange your copy for Rainbow Six Vegas 2 or Halo 3.

I like the 2nd game more than the first. It's not 99% dancing with shotguns out in the middle of the map. In Gears of War 1 I would actually be kicked from games for being a "lancer wh*re",aka playing the game the way it's intended to. The best part is that they don't even see the irony of them being "shotgun wh*res". In the 2nd game,the shotgun is tweaked to be a CLOSE RANGE weapon. Not mid range,not long range,UP CLOSE. You're not gonna stand 10 feet back firing your shotgun from the hip and they cry when you get lancered to the ground. You want to use the shotgun? Move from cover to cover and try to get up closer to me. Think it's too slow or not fun? Again,wrong game,take it back and get trade in value. Try out Counter Strike Source,it's more of your pacing. You get one life and the kills you're supposed to work for the few kills you get during a full 5 round game. Not run out shooting everyone and spawning over and over.

Stop making up rules and "the way it's supposed to be played" crap in your head. Read developer interviews and they tell you exactly the way it's supposed to be played. You know why? BECAUSE THEY MADE THE F*CKING GAME. You're not going to tell them otherwise.

hey idiot. there are 2 phrases that are known throughout the business world.

1. the customer is always right.

and

2. give the customer what he wants.

if epic wishes to remain a successful business themselves, they should learn to adhere to these simple guidelines.

stop acting like you're on their payroll.