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Not that I care just need to steal Aladuf's thunder.
New impressions and videos.

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Recently, Microsoft showed the game off to a bunch of game journalists (including yours truly) in their Redmond office. Once there, Bleszinski gave us a quick rundown of some of the new weapons and features in the game, as well a little more about the story and some of the new characters and locations. It’s stuff you’ve mostly heard before (saving the world jazz, no biggie) but it sounds like the single player will be as compelling as it was in the first game.

But we were here for some competitive multiplayer, and we got to play multiple rounds of three different multiplayer modes on three different levels: Gridlock 2.0, Security and River. Actually we played some other maps I’m not allowed to talk about yet as well as some other modes I’m not allowed to talk about until E3 time either. But trust me: wowza.

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This makes for some interesting gameplay possibilities, especially when you consider a couple of the new features of the grenade. You can stick grenades all over a choke point on a map, hoping someone will trigger it as they fight through. But if you use poison gas grenades you create a much bigger and longer lasting obstacle for your opponents to get through. Grenades also cause a concussive blast now too which can knock a player down or even over something.

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Guardian

Bleszinski described this as sort of like “Assassination 2.0. Both teams have one “leader” who is armed just like a real player – he’s not some dude in an El Presidente uniform holding a crowbar. But even though the leader is just another player (and will cycle equally through your team) if he dies, it’s bad news for your team. As long as your leader is alive, his escorts will continue to respawn, keeping up the fight. So teams have to strike a balance tactically between guarding the leader and hunting down the enemy leader, making for some interesting team play concepts.

http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox-36...s-of-War-2/p1/

http://xboxmovies.teamxbox.com/xbox-...r-Gameplay-HD/
Older video in HD apparently.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/886/886441p1.html