Gears of War 2 Officially Hits 11/2008

[supafreak]

The trailer is up. I just watched it. I hope that chainsaw thrust through the back is part of the game. That was sweet!!

[The Milk Man 09]

I'm downloading the trailer right now hopefully it finishes before I have to leave.

[Peench]

From the official press release:

SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 20, 2008 — Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2008, Microsoft Corp. provided an exciting glimpse at what promises to be another landmark year for games and online entertainment on the Xbox 360 platform and officially announced the launch of “Gears of War 2,” exclusively for Xbox 360 this November.

Providing a dramatic close to Microsoft’s GDC keynote address, Epic Games Inc.’s lead designer Cliff Bleszinski announced that the epic saga of Marcus Fenix and Delta Squad continues exclusively on the Xbox 360 this fall with “Gears of War 2.” This highly anticipated sequel to the 4.5 million-selling blockbuster “Gears of War” delves deeper into humanity’s struggle for survival against the nightmarish Locust Horde, and promises to take high-definition visuals to a whole new level.

[D_Litch]

Woo! I hope there are some more uses for the chainsaw this time, flipping upside-down was as badass as Harvey Keitel in a tuxedo.

[pickleL7]

Dude..I cant fricken wait

[supafreak]

Here is the video

+ YouTube Video

[lovekeiiy]

they might as well called it Gears of Gay 2, LOL. I want to see game play footage, not a CGI trailer.

I wonder if they're going to improve any of the graphics or gameplay. It would be cool to have some four player co-op.

[Epyon MX]

I was late to the 360 party and thus late to the Gears party. So I played most of the campaign solo. I had to suffer through Dom's mental dwarfism. I really hope that they improve the AI.

The game was fun to play, and a visual stunner. The story was pretty hohum, but still fun. And co-op makes anything better.

So I'm looking forward to the sequel. Maybe this time I might actually play multiplayer.

[Stewii Griffin]

Here is a link to a different vid Stream - Gamersyde

shows torque bow blowing up environment or cool physics in the game that they added.

O and everyone on my friends list on xbl this is the link I sent you.

[The Milk Man 09]

Cool I am downloading the trailer now. I really hope that they actually have a matchmaking and party system this time and that they dont make it so you cant play ranked with friends. That along with the nerfing of the weapons that were well balanced to begin with is what turned me off to the origional. But the story should be sick so this is of coarse a buy for me.

[Wondermonkey]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing some actual footage from the game. The Unreal Engine Tech Demo is nice and all, but they just whipped that up to show off physics for the GDC. Unless we're going to be battling huge cubes of meat, it's irrelevant to the game. Pretty though. I'm guessing around May or June we'll see an official trailer.

[The Milk Man 09]

It would be crazy if you ever have to battle a fraction of those locusts that were running through gridlock.

[lovekeiiy]

that would be cool, yet horrible to fight that many. But would make one heck of a real-time cut scene, LOL.