I got my EGM yesterday.
I was definitely very down on Gears 1's multiplayer, but GoW2 multiplayer sounds very promising.
I need to read it more carefully before making more comments, but I thought I'd mention that the burst assault rifle (forget what it's full name is) sounds like it's becoming much more powerful, as though it'll almost be like Halo's Battle Rifle. This is definitely good news. It'll be good to have an accurate medium/long-range weapon that isn't the Sniper, and the burst rifle was very satisfying to fire in GoW1, it was just useless.