Like the Assault Derrick, it is first encountered early in the game. The Centaur is a light tank valued by the COG for its heavy firepower and mobility. Also, Assault Derricks are driven by conscripts, not by professional soldiers (i.e. Explosives can easily destroy an Assault Derrick. It only protects against small arms fire. While Assault Derricks are armored, the armor is light.
Assault Derricks play a major role early in the game when a large force of them is dispatched in an assault which the player, as Marcus, takes part in. Now the Derricks have been re-purposed has Assault Derricks, armored vehicles used for the purpose of penetrating into Locust layers so that the COG can launch counter-attacks. In the days before the Locust attack the Derrick was used to drill holes for the mining of Imulsion. The Assault Derrick a converted mining vehicle.
This is mostly still the case in Gears of War 2, but vehicles do play a bigger part in the game overall and several new vehicles are introduced, although the player doesn’t get to take command of most of them. Besides that, Gears of War 2 was mostly about infantry combat, not vehicle combat. There was one driving section, and players often saw the King Raven, a COG helicopter. The original Gears of War didn’t place much emphasis on vehicles overall.
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