They arrive at Anvil Gate and help Hoffman defend against a Locust onslaught. Marcus and his team eventually hijack a Locust gas barge to travel by air, stopping to help and rescue Dizzy, a skilled mechanic and driver. The Gears are forced to travel across Locust-controlled bases, and the Locust Queen, Myrrah, alerts all her troops in their path to the Gears' approach.
Leaving some of his Gears to help the survivors, Marcus, Cole, Dom, and Baird take off towards Anvil Gate, where they have the equipment to decode the key, while Anya and the rest care for the wounded. Prescott is among the mortally wounded, but before dying, Prescott provides Marcus with an encrypted key with the location of a secret base known as Azura where Adam is being held. Though the Leviathan is destroyed, the ship is also lost. The ship is soon attacked by a Lambent Leviathan Marcus and his team try to defend the ship, luring the creature into a trap set by Baird at a nearby bridge. While Augustus Cole and his squad look for supplies from the ruins of his hometown, former Chairman Prescott arrives on the Sovereign, providing Marcus with a data disc that shows his father, the scientist Adam Fenix, is still alive. Victor Hoffman takes some survivors to Anvil Gate while Delta squad sets off on a Raven's Nest Class carrier, the CNV Sovereign, with the remaining humans to avoid further Lambent incursion. Now leaderless and being forced off the island, the COG disbands and separates to the safest places left. Hiding something, the COG head of state, Chairman Prescott, abandoned the COG. After a generally quiet period, the Lambent began to emerge from underground. In the eighteen months after the flooding of Jacinto, the human survivors have moved to the island of Vectes and have started to rebuild. In Gears of War 2, Marcus Fenix and the COG forces were forced to destroy the Jacinto plateau, the last major city on the planet Sera since the appearance of the Locust on Emergence Day 15 years prior, to flood the Locust tunnels and slow the spread of Lambent - Locust creatures mutated by their exposure to the volatile liquid known as Imulsion. The mech gameplay, as well as the new enemies, changes how the game flows as well.Įxpanded cover artwork Plot " Let's finish this." -Marcus Fenix Some other gameplay elements have been added, including the ability to kill enemies whilst jumping over cover.