Rather than punishing players for that, Epic has taken this piece of in-game creativity to heart and allowed it to inform many of the numerous tweaks it's made to Horde 2.0. In some maps in the original Horde Mode, for example, players were fond of sticking shields into the ground to create barriers against the oncoming Locust soldiers.

Some of the major changes seem to have been made after watching how players behave in Horde matches with reference to how they defend choke points and how they work as a team. Still, the developer obviously took fan feedback to heart when they set about creating the Horde Mode for Gears of War 3 – or Horde 2.0 as it's known. Really, Epic hardly needed to look to their fans to see they'd hit pay-dirt. You know you've had a good idea when competitors start pinching it.

The popularity of Horde is also shown by the fact that in the years since Gears of War 2's release, versions of the mode have popped up in numerous other shooters. It's not just that tons of fans spent hours of time battling through 50 waves of Locust soldiers while the AI got progressively more difficult. Epic knows it was on to a good thing with Horde Mode in Gears Of War 2.

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