Gears of War 1 on steroid
The story : The story has some good point, it has an action movie type of scenario but it is good and there is always something that put you in more action in a bigger scale.
In the first gears, each chapter are very defined, in this one, every chapter connect perfectly with the other, so it doesn't feel like 5 scenarios put together to make a game.
There is a lot of varieties in the environnement and a lot of open space and some place are very epic with a lot of enemies and lot of gears.
The music is also epic like in the first one.
In the first gears, they didn't explore that much each caracter past or story, in this one we see some stuff and some side effects of war.
I didn't play on XBL but many people said that it is not the best. Well 4 on the same Xbox is very fun too.
So ... nice job Microsoft !