Tonight was Act 2 of Gears of War, and fortunately there were a few surprises to it rather than endless leaps from cover to cover.

At one point I had to continually turn a crank in order to cross a canal, while taking fire from groups of nearby enemies. I used up nearly all my ammo in that crossing, praying that there’d be a resupply on the other side. There was, but there were also hordes of bat-like creatures that instantly killed me a few times before I figured out the trick to it (they don’t attack as long as you’re in light)

I was wondering if there was going to be any vehicles, and I finally found the first one in this act, though it wasn’t a very long or difficult part. Hopefully there will be more later on.

And now I’m stuck at one part near the start of Act 3, when you encounter lambent wretches for the first time. The problem is that you can’t let them get near you, since they explode when they die and kill you if you’re too close, but there’s a lot of them and they run right up to you and I just can’t kill them all fast enough. I guess I’ll just have to keep reloading and retrying until I get lucky…