Gears Month continues with Gears of War 2, the ambitious sequel released in 2008 for the Xbox 360. We rejoin Marcus and the fellas one year after the events of the first game, and we find that all that Lightmass Bomb stuff? Didn’t do all that much. So, the Locust are back and nasty as ever, and humanity is really backed against a wall. With a massive last-ditch offensive on the Locust Hollow as our backdrop, Gears 2 attempts to tell a more personal story between our two heroes, focusing on loss and hope. Does it work?

Well, this is a game about chainsaw guns, so you decide.