It must be hard for Epic. Gears was generally loved in the community, but boy did it have it's flaws. I'm sure you couldn't count the number of glitches the original had on both your hands, and every time a patch came out to fix it, a few more showed up in it's place. So I guess we shouldn't be surprised that the first footage of glitching in Gears 2 has surfaced on Youtube. How big of a deal it is, that's for you to decide.

From the looks of things, Baird is roadie-running in his normal running animation. It could just be a new version of crab-walking, a problem Gears fans had to put up with for a while. He also fires a shot from the shotgun at about 46 seconds in (By the way, whoever made this video: You don't need a 30 second intro for a fucking Youtube video) and then reloads a few seconds later. Interestingly, his ammo count never goes down.

Whether this is just a terrible connection or an exploit of the game is yet to be seen. Epic have announced that on release date the game will be patched for server issues and minor fixes though, so it's possible Epic have already nipped this one in the ass. One thing I'm almost definite about though is that this game will have glitches. It's like watching a Saw movie and expecting to see blood.