Gears of War 2 looks even better than the original

So you don’t have a 360. That’s too bad because Gears of War is going to have a sequel. We’ve shown you a teaser recently announcing this, but what you haven’t seen is how sweet part two is going to look. Good news: there’s a tech demo available, and you can watch it here:

Among my favorite new features included in the tech demo are the advanced character lighting, high-density crowds, better-looking water, and soft-body physics. Part one was quite dark no matter how high I turned up the gamma, so better lighting means I can see Fenix and company better.

This time, we get a “horde” treatment when it comes to the Locust because Gears 2 is said to be capable of showing a hundred aliens onscreen at the same time. Pathfinding seems a bit shoddy however. Notice how the Locust bottlenecked when trying to get past an upturned car that was in the way?

At last, we get meat chunks and T-1000 blobs for enemies, thanks to the soft-body physics. I wonder how this would affect gameplay. Perhaps a blob soccer mod with some sort of gravity gun in the future?

Any of you looking forward to Gears of War 2? That’s a stupid question. Of course you are. I wonder what kind of rig it would take to run this game on the PC. Who knows? Perhaps the world would be rid of RRoD by then.