When I first clapped eyes on theseGears of War 1/2comparison images, it struck me that this game rarely seems to release all that many galleries, relying primarily on trailers for promotion. While video always does a much better job than a still image, I think I know the real reason why Epic keeps the pictures away from the public — they all look identical.

Outside of the single Horde image, these shots of the famous Gridlock level could hardly be told apart, as the mixture of grey colors — now brown in the case ofGoW2— and the exact same perspective conspire to create a perpetual feeling of deja vu. It doesn’t help that they chose to release assets of a multiplayer map already available in the originalGears.

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You know what, though? It doesn’t matter, because I still expect this game to kick as much ass as the first one.

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