I don't understand how this happened in the first place. It's like Epic doesn't know what makes GoW enjoyable. I find the GoW games to have incredibly cliche story lines and a slightly repetitive single player experience. The draw of the series as I see it is the co-op campaign and more notably the multiplayer. GoW 1 and 2 have both had an opportunity to create a very robust multiplayer scene both for competitive and casual people alike. Honestly between the two I think the GoW games offer more for MP than Halo does. It's a unique style that works on a console (compared to Halo being a watered down FPS to make it work) and has great spectator potential.

Yet both games now (1 and 2) have completely screwed this up. It's like they don't realize what their own game is good at or could be good at. GoW 1 had a horrendous online play system. If I remember correctly it was a ranked system where you picked who you played with and against. You might have had a team of 4 playing against 4 Pugs for their points. GoW 2 now has all of these matchmaking bugs holding it back. In addition I hear many of the changes (I haven't really played GoW2 MP) are detrimental to the gameplay and flow (flame thrower and smoke grenades) as well as the inclusion of a button mashing event (chainsaw battle) rather than something more skilled, though at least it's not random.

Really if Epic would just focus on the 4v4 multiplayer and provide good matchmaking + ladder along with gameplay decisions favoring skilled combat they could have a real competitive hit game on their hands to fuel the series for a long time.

GoW2 is a huge bugfest online... no fun to play MP at all :-( either everybody is abusing the "bugs" or just one or 2, either way, they fuck the game up BADLY...

Will it sort out the problems involving extremely slow matchmaking?

The matchmaking issues are the things that are fucking me off with this game. I will have a completely open NAT, super-fast internet connection and I will wait in my lobby for 10 minutes before I even get 'player found' on my screen.

Epic FAIL Games better fix this fuck fest, playing Gears 2 online is like being raped over the internet.

I wish I could experience these matchmaking problems, if only to feel such hatred course through my body like Crumpet Lips.

As it is, I get into matches in under 30 seconds usually.

But the glitches really ruined it this time around.

Good news, and just in time for me to actually start playing Gears 2 online.

Not soon enough for me, already traded it in