GoW 1, much more intense
Shotgun has faster fire rate, and characters run faster, making it overall harder to hit people, boomshot actually requires you to aim at the target, instead of aiming within 50ft of the target. Grenade bouncing noise, melee stun, grenade tag stun.
GoW 2 had extreme potential, but as each patch came it got more annoying to kill people making the shotgun more useless without the 2 piece. I recently played a few matches and 90% of my deaths were by chainsaw. I was rank 3 and had rank 30+ teammates and I nearly tripled their kills
/e: Both Gears of War games failed due to the hosting system, gives the host an advantage if they have a crappy connection then they can't be sniped nearly as easily and the shotgun is overpowered at that point, head shot kills from 50ft away....
This post was edited by hellwar on May 21 2009 10:08pm