We've managed to pull ourselves away from the plethora of awesome games here at E3 to give you some hands-on insights into how the much anticipated and show-stopping Gears of War 2 plays.

Thankfully Microsoft were nice enough to invite AusGamers to a fairly exclusive multiplayer hands-on Gears event that even hosted Cliffy B himself (he's pretty small in real-life).

So make sure you check out our hands-on report and be sure to stay tuned for even more previews coming to you direct from the show floor throughout the day and beyond.

sounds samey, but thats not nescassarily a bad thing. gears was designed as a trilogy from the get go, so you can kind of expect the same game with a few improvements rather than a re-invention of the wheel.

they already did a lot of wheel re-inventing with the first one anyway.

Have seen the awesome in-game vid/new screenshots and must say it is very, very impressive, can't wait.