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This page is a full Gears of War 2 walkthrough, with step-by-step instructions and videos for each level. Our complete guide contains strategies for each of the levels and boss fights, and also the locations of all 41 war journals.
Additionally, we have included a collection of walkthroughs and FAQs for the game below our main text/video walkthrough. Use the table of contents to jump to a particular section.
- Below the main walkthrough, you'll also find links to other walkthrough resources and information for Gears of War 2.
Gears of War 2 Horde
Gears of War 2 features a brand new multiplayer mode called Horde. In Horde, up to five players work cooperatively in a survival-style game that pits them against waves of successively numerous and challenging groups of Locusts. The game ends when all players are eliminated. There are are up to fifty waves of enemies and ten available maps in Horde.Categories
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Welcome to Delta
- Start by following Dom and Carmine as they move through the area. You'll first get a tutorial in taking cover.
- Collectible! The Eagle Newspaper. Near where Carmine gets into cover, you'll see a rectangular newspaper on the ground. It's directly in the center of the road, just past the truck.
- Get down by pressing A. Continue to follow the other soldiers and take cover near the bottles.
- Shoot at the bottles with the Right Trigger. When you're done, you'll be trained in reloading with the Right Bumper.
- ACHIEVEMENT ALERT! When reloading, you'll be presented with a bar over which a slider moves. If you hit the Right Bumper again while the slider is on the slightly brighter area of the bar, you'll reload faster. Hit it at the brightest, smallest part of the bar and you'll reload faster and get a damage bonus to your bullets. Hit that spot 30 times and you'll unlock the Once More, With Feeling achievement.
- Head to the right and climb the small wall there with the A Button. Hit A to get into cover, then again while pushing forward on the Left Analog Stick to climb over.
- Continue to the gate. Kick it open with X.
- There are some grenades on the ground up ahead. Grab them with the X button. Stock up to four and access them by pressing Up on the D-Pad.
- YouTube Video: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough: Opening Cinematic - "Welcome to the Delta" (Time: 6:31)
- Throw a grenade up into the window by holding the Left Trigger to aim it and throwing it with the Right Trigger. Then heal your teammates with the X Button.
- Follow your teammates, then cut through the barrier by holding the B Button. Head inside, then take the ladder down on the other side of the structure.
- Collectible! Ambulance Driver's Log. Turn right instead of going left and head to the room just ahead. Go left and approach the desk against the wall. Hit X when prompted to pick up the Ambulance Driver's Log. Finding items like this adds them to your War Journal on the Start Menu, and also goes toward the Collector Achievement.
- Return to Carmine and Dom and go through the fence.
- ACHIEVEMENT ALERT! Completing the training nets you the Green as Grass Achievement.
Desperation
- Go through the door to the right. After a short cinematic, you'll head deeper into the hospital.
- Up the stairs you'll need to take positions against the walls looking down into a courtyard. Get set up and wait for the Locust attack.
- Wait for the Locust troops to all get inside the room, then pop up and blast the blue tanks in the center. They'll explode, clearing out all the enemy soldiers.
- Collectible! Doctor's Journal Head left from where you entered this area and take the hallway there. You should see a door open on the left side. Go inside to find a piece of paper on the ground that goes toward your Collector.
- Fight your way along the path to the left, then take the door you come to. Continue fighting through the hallway and into the room you enter at the end.
- TIP: When the room is clear, run quickly to the left and find a door there. Inside this side room are grenades, and a convenient cover position to take up as the next enemy rushes into the room.
- Head through the door and check the alcove to the left for grenades. Then descend the stairs.
- At the bottom, you'll see two Locust soldiers opening fire on Dom and Tai. Kill them from behind.
- Collectible! Jacinto Medical Center File. In the reception room you just entered, check behind the desk where the two Locust were to find another collectible for the Collector Achievement.
- TIP: Go through the double doors back along the path that Tai and Dom took to find more grenades before proceeding.
- Follow your comrades through the door with the green light. Grab cover as you enter the courtyard and take on the retreating Locust there.
- YouTube Video: Gears of War 2 Walkthrough - Chapter 1: Desperation
- After a second, a Reaver will drop into the middle of the fight. Blast it and it will fly off.
- Follow the retreating Locust. Head down the hall and check the side rooms for grenades.
- Take cover and clear the Recovery Room. Go through into the hallway.
- TIP: In the center of this area is the cafeteria, which will fill with enemies. You can flank them by following the hallway around to the sides and entering from there.
- Collectible! COG Letterhead. Take the hallway to the left of the cafeteria, or cross it heading left. It's the room just before the blue-tinted kitchen. You'll find a side office room with another collectible inside.
- TIP: If you go through the kitchen, you'll come to a gray door on the left. Kick it open to find a walk-in freezer that houses some ammo.
- Go through the cafeteria into the next room, which has a second story. You'll be attacked from above almost immediately.
- Break left (or right) and go to the stairs there. Head up and grab cover, then blast the Locust that attacked you.
- When you're clear, go to the middle of the room and take the door. Go down the hall and enter the next two-story room. There are grenades to the left as you enter.
- Collectible! COG Proclamation. Before going down the stairs, run to the right and take the path there. You'll find some ammo and your fifth collectible, netting you the Collector Achievement. Next you'll be looking for more collectibles to earn the Pack Rat Achievement.
- Go down the stairs and jump into the center reception area, behind the desk. The power will go out and you'll be attacked by three waves of Locust drones. Use your Y Button as they enter to zero-in on their locations.
- When you're clear, round up any ammo you might need from the Locust corpses. You can also check the rooms the Locust attacked you from for ammo boxes.
- Go through the door at the front of the room and meet up with Carmine. Then head out onto the hospital steps to engage more Locust.
- Collectible! COG Tag. Go to the right of the door where there's another cover barricade. Spin around and look in the corner to the right, where a piece of molding juts out from the wall. You'll see a set of Cog tags that will go into your collection for Pack Rat.
- Clear a path and head down to the street via the far left staircase. Shoot any Locust you can flank.
- Move up when you have clearance to do so. You'll soon see a broken window to the left. Head there and jump the wall to get inside.
- Run down to the other end of the building and flank the drones outside. Kill all of them, then move out.
- Head down the street to the left and clear out the last of the Locust. You'll end the mission when you're finished fighting and receive the It's a Trap! Achievement.
