Gears of War 2

 Want blood? Lots of blood? Epic gore? Cutting out gigantic worm's hearts? Cutting people in half? CUTTING? You need Gears of War 2, or medical help. But get Gears, for it has all the killing you can ever get in a video game. Oh, yeah, and I forgot, you can blow shit up.

 As mentioned above, this game is totally filled with gore, and it's awesome! Though the graphics aren't the best, they somehow help portray the action, and make the game look very fast paced. Blood splatters are realistic, but the blood doesn't catch on armor, unless the scene calls for it to (Like when you cut open a bunch of hearts inside a huge worm, and practically dissect the thing, from inside!!). The graphics on character animations are smooth, but I always feel that the characters are like big moving blocks, and way too bulky. Sure, the guys are covered in armor and equipment, but they still seem like huge blocks. The third person prospective is quite nice, and let's you see much more of the map at once. If it were a game like Halo, I wouldn't like it, but Gears makes third person look awesome.

Extreme GORE!

 The AI is not great, and not bad. It's just ok, enemies will react to what you do, move around the battlefield, accurately fire upon you, dodge grenades. They don't know when to retreat, though many games don't know how to do that either. Your team mates are also pretty good, they'll follow you around and do the objectives, I've yet to see anytime when my partner got stuck on a lamp post and I had to restart my console. Another great thing about the AI is that it doesn't glitch.

 Multiplayer is provided, but didn't work for me, I tried connecting for about 30min, but it didn't let me through. May be a problem with my internet, or the multiplayer may not even be active anymore.

 There are weapons, but I would hope for a few more than are provided, yet the weapons function nicely, and I find them very fun to shoot stuff with.

 Also, a firefight style, hoard mode gameplay type is playable. This lets you fight multiple waves of enemies, that are increasingly harder. Very fun to play with friends, or alone, after you have beaten the singleplayer.

 Overall, the story is actually really great, graphics suppliment the game's focus (GORE!!) and help the player feel a sence of action and drama. Game dynamics are pretty cool. Hoard mode add to the value of the game greatly. Multiplayer not working, or is it? And not many weapons, lower this games rating, but not by too much. It's still something I would buy.

 Overall Score: 7.5