Have you seen it? You should have. The new ACTUAL GAMEPLAY trailer of GoW2 arrived on Xbox Live and pretty much the entire internet over the weekend. There's no excuse to not know what we're talking about here.

The trailer shows a surprising amount of MEATY gameplay, with development boss Cliff Bleszinski introducing and generally helming the trailer. It's a good watch. It's a riveting watch. It's Gears of War 2 unmasked for the first time.

So here's a review of it.

00.09 CLIFF! It's Cliffy B. He's looking relaxed and casual in an ironic t-shirt. He's unshaven, but impressively tanned for a video game developer. And is that a pumped bicep and 'alternative lifestyle' tattoo we can see on his left arm?

00.19 STILL CLIFF Cliffy says the Locust now have a weapon SO POWERFUL it can take out entire cities. All males under the age of 14 have just wet themselves a little.

00.30 STILL CLIFF Something about taking big gun trucks into Locust territory. Everyone likes big guns. This game is clearly going to be a success if the guns in it are even bigger than the guns of Gears 1.

00.38 THE GAME It's the game! Our eyes are actually seeing Gears of War 2. There's a helicopter. And the sky. And a convoy of tanks. It's too much to take in!

01.00 PLAY! Here he goes. Off the tank and into action. A man shouts "Incoming!" because that's what games have to do these days to create a feeling of excitement. It's like Gears of War all over again. And Halo all over again.

01.23 MINE CART LEVEL This level is a rolling chase and shootout. Sort of an action set-piece if you will. It's the sort of thing people will describe as being "cool" we suspect.

02.08 ENEMY SHIELD Marcus picks up a dead Locust and uses its broken body as a shield. This is officially the most awesome thing to have ever happened. Nothing more awesome than this will happen until man walks on Mars. It's THAT revolutionary!

02.36 CHAIN SAW Phew. The chain saw is back. That's great news seeing as it's the only weapon I ever bothered using.

02.44 GORE Marcus lops one of the Lucust troops in half with the chain saw. It has not been toned down. Gears 2 is not being dumbed down for the masses. Hooray.

02.49 MOUNTED GUN Everyone loves the feeling of POWER and CONTROL that comes from manning one of the mounted turrets. Marcus is using it here to shoot something about the size of a bus.

03.01 SPLAT Bus monster dies and gets run over by a truck. Several million teenagers have just whooped and punched the air with excitement.

03.06 FADE OUT It fades out to a beautiful shot of a misty forest and pretty hilltop castle. Perhaps that's where they all go for a nice holiday once the war is finished?

03.14 EXCLUSIVE Cliffy B pops up again to confirm that it's EXCLUSIVE to Xbox 360. Phew again. That's not including the PC version that'll be out a year later, obviously.

CONCLUSION More of the same. For the sort of people who liked the first one. If you want to watch it yourself, the best way is to get the HD version on your Xbox 360. Or there's the usual shitty YouTube rip if you're bothered but not that bothered you want to let it intrude into your evening.

(Via Microsoft)

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