One of the biggest reasons to come to PAX 2008 is the first public hands-on showing of the highly-anticipated Gears of War 2 multiplayer modes. We put some time in with the game and are ready to give you our hands-on impressions of Epic’s great follow-up to the highly addiction multiplayer of the original Gears of War.

First things first… the game is 5 versus 5 and it definitely adds a lot more action to the matches. Thankfully, adding two more players doesn’t seem to have slowed down the game and it runs smooth, even is the most hectic firefights. We cannot comment on how these two extra gamers will affect lag over Xbox Live as we were playing over a local System Link.

So is the game “bigger, better, and more badass?”

Yes. Yes it is. If you were a fan of the original Gears, we’re pretty sure you’re also going to love Gears of War 2. It takes everything that was great about the first game, amps it up, and adds a lot of new things to freshen up the gameplay. Let’s take a look at the new weapons first. Sadly, we didn’t get to try them all.

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