Gears is unreadable and we want answers!

by Dustin Burg on Dec 13th 2006 8:30PM

Alan over at 1UP brought up a very interesting topic a while back when Gears of War launched, stating he had issues with disc read errors when playing Gears of War. The funny thing is a select few of us in Fanboy Towers are also suffering from this evil Gears disc epidemic still today! Though, we too passed it off as a fluke, or a rare case, but even this week our Xbox 360 had to be reset due to this disc read error when playing Gears. Anyone else having issues with Gears acting up and causing you troubles? If so, complain below and release all of your anger ... on second thought, hold it in for months on end and use it to your advantage when playing Gears on Xbox Live. Genius!

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Tags: disc errors, DiscErrors, epic, epic games, EpicGames, gears of war, GearsOfWar, gow

Reader Comments (104)

i bought gears of war, call of duty 3 and tom clancy's double agent. i put the discs in the xbox and begin to play it and when i want to go on single player or live it says the disc is unreadable please clean it with a soft cloth blaa blaa blaa. the discs are perfectly fine before put in the xbox but when i take it out the disc have deep scrathces all over them so it looks like the xbox is putting deep scraches on the disc when trying to play and i neeed to no what the problem is

I have the same freeking problem the with game was to the store that i buy it they dont exchange for a new one have a ticket in M$.
for that

I've had the same problem numerous times. I just keep trying to play the game, restarting the console, and other strategies. I usually get it to work, though.

Same issue. Just bought the Xbox 360 and gears of War three days ago, after hearing about how awesome Gears is. Not even 5 minutes in, got the Disc is Unreadable error. Brand new game, but after a few times happening i returned it for a new one. Same error, but it happens at random places. The game has no scratches anywhere on it... Now it gives the error on the opening video scene. Very frustrating for a 60 dollar game. The other two games I have work flawlessly. On an interesting note, i took out the hard drive twice, and both times the error never happened. So I formatted the hard drive but right afterwards started getting the errors again.

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