GDC08: Microsoft and Epic announce Gears of War 2 for Nov. '08

by Ludwig Kietzmann on Feb 20th 2008 2:40PM

In what could only be considered as good news for the franchise's cult following, Microsoft and Epic Games have announced their intention to give Gears of War another go. Despite only scraping by with a couple of million units sold, Microsoft is determined to help the motley bunch of macho marines break into the niche shooter market with an Xbox 360 sequel, Gears of War 2.

The game was officially announced by Epic's CliffyB during Microsoft's GDC keynote entitled, "A Future Wide Open: Unleashing the Creative Commnunity ... and then give them Chainsaws." The game will be coming exclusively to the Xbox 360 in November, 2008. We'll bring you more information as soon as we can get it.

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Reader Comments (121)

Bah who ever heard of Gears of War?

You can quote me on this:

This game will do Turok numbers at best

"This game will do Turok numbers at best"

There.

your an idiot if you honestly think that

and you're equally one if you thought i was being serious =)

There is a video going up on the marketplace later today.

Your sarcasm seemed to shoot right past people. I chuckled.

Sarcasm doesn't translate well on the Tubes, FYI.

People voted you down? I'm pretty sure he was kidding, guys. Sheesh.
Unfortunately, this looks like one of the few games I'm looking forward to on my 360 this year. Let's hope Microsoft suprises me with others otherwise this will be a flip flop of 2007 where I got 10 games for my 360, 3 for my PS3

"Sarcasm doesn't translate well on the Tubes, FYI."

It translates fine. It just takes an intelligence level slightly higher than Forest Gump-iness to detect.

"Bah who has ever heard of Gears of War?"

Mighty clever, I too chuckled.

Surprise!!

Killzone2 VS Gears 2

Gears vs. Killzone2 AND Resistance2. I will take 2 for 1 Alex

At the risk of sounding like a TOTAL fanboy (though I try not to be), that's not much of a matchup.

The first Gears was a huge hit, a mega-seller, critically acclaimed, and was the first killer app for the 360.

Killzone one... well, speaks for itself.

Granted Killzone two looks like it has potential, but it has a lot to prove. Gears 2 is almost a guaranteed slam-dunk for Epic and Microsoft.

"Killzone one... well, speaks for itself."

As a guy currently playing through Killzone 1, basically to see if it was as bad as everyone says, I can officially say "don't believe the hype." The graphics are phenominal, performance dramatically improved via PS3, and it's a very cinematic game. My main complaint is a few weapons are not as accurate as I want and checkpoints are way too far between each other. But Killzone is turning out to be better than I thought.

@FidliousWong

Hey, if you could enjoy Killzone one, kudos. After your description of the game, however, I have a hard time shaking the idea that you and I played totally different games.

First vs. third person is not a very good match up.

Besides Half Life 2, Resistance is my favorite fps.

Gears is my favorite 3ps.

If I had to pick between the two though, I'd probably pick Resistance because Gears was so short. Hopefully 2 will be much longer. If it is, it may just be the greatest shooter ever. I take that back, I still don't know if it could come close to HL2.

When I first tried Killzone, on PS2, it ran like a hog. I have no doubts the game was running well beyond PS2's capabilities so I shelfed it. Mainly because I had, on for instances, died between frames.

So a friend of mine borrowed it from me when he saw it on my shelf and told me he didn't know what the hell I was talking about (I had previously made it to the point where the Jet Bike makes it's first appearance... yes, that early in the game...). He was playing it through his PS3 and since we had already proven via Twisted Metal Black, PS2 games can run better on PS3, I decided to unshelf it and give it a real go instead of the half-hearted "This was $5" chance I gave it last time.

FidiousWong,

I don't think Killzone is quite as bad as people make it out to be, but it wasn't all that great by any stretch of the imagination. The story had some potential, but the execution was pretty poor IMHO. The environments were repetitive (the shipping yards were worse than the library in Halo...and I hated the library) and having three audio clips for the Helghast would've been fine if one wasn't a scream and the other wasn't, "He's just a boy!". I mean, the second one is perfectly fine as long as you don't hear it every thirty second like I did (it damn near drove me to the brink of madness).

I hope the second rectifies the mistakes of its predecessor (I'm sure it will), but it has to be phenomenal in order to win back all the gamers who bought and subsequently hated the first game. I mean, it has to since both of its competitors (Resistance and Gears) are critically acclaimed multi-million unit sellers that are guaranteed successes.

So you're saying that for a certain game for PS2 to be any good it had to be on PS3?

I'm really not quite sure what to say to that.

i liked killzone better than halo2. but, i liked gears better than halo3. maybe i just don't like halo, maybe i just coincidentally liked the other two better. but i will say this, damn, lost it........

Yeah Killzone 1 was a disater especially since it was supposed to be the Halo killer...That didn't work out to well....Resistance 2 is a hell of a game though so thats gonna be a great matchup....Here's hoping GOW 2 has 4 player co-op!!

Right. Killzone isn't a bad game, much like Red Steel wasn't a bad game, they just promised the moon and gave us some kind of rock

"Gears vs. Killzone2 AND Resistance2. I will take 2 for 1 Alex"

It's not really a twofer if you're paying twice the price, chief...

KillGear 2?

GEARS OF WAR 2!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!
curbstomp!

But.....But.... its supposed to be ps3's time to shine =(

maybe 2009?

Killzone2, Resistance2, MGS4 and soforth.

If Gears2 is the best the 360 can muster, it's in even more trouble, that we has previously imagined.

Tranando,

Alan Wake, Fable 2, Ninja Gaiden 2, Halo Wars, Splinter Cell Conviction, etc. would happily disagree with you.

Tranando,

Even more trouble than your terrible ?Syntax Error in 0?

When I saw that Linebeck head and your comments getting voted down, for a moment there I thought you were Fernando. =)

Surprise surprise.

Hurrah!

@Delgado

I agree! I don't know why all of the PS3 fanboys are so quick to hate on it just like don't understand why the 360 x-bots are so quick to trash it. I admit I own all 3 consoles and Gears was a great Multi-Player game until all of the glitching and cheating made the game unplayable. I hope this game has a much better multi-player and is actually fun outside of multi-player. The first Gears turned into a glorified chatroom. Lets hope my 360 doesn't RROD AGAIN (6 times!!!!!!)and they eliminate the glitches. Maybe they will also give us a campaign worth a flip to.

As much crap as the PS3 shooters get Resistance 1 had a 1000000000 X better campaign mode than gears as will MGS:4. But then again MGS:4 is a single player game.

It also cracks me up the same X-Bots hating on UT:3 (because its on PS3 and better due to user created Mods over PSN) are the very same retards chanting for this game. You people make me sick sometimes.

(not you delgado just throwing it out there).

While this is really really exciting (I love Gears), I can't help but long for a few more new titles to be announced for this year...

Great news! The first Gears of War was epic... =D

Epic indeed, it still is an Epic game. Epic... Epic...

Gears was average.. too much stop and go... the cover system wasn't smooth at all... 6 weapons only? Lets hope they up the ante and make it 8 v 8, ZOMG!

Trailer to be up on XBLM later today.
http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/02/20/gears-of-war-2-coming-in-november-2008.aspx

It's up now.

But the accompanying theme BURNS MY EYES.

I'll wait for the PC version. :)

I concur

seconded...especially if they add more to it

I've got to be the only person on that planet that actually wishes Gears 2 would NOT come out this year.

I'm still having too much fun with Gears 1 for 10+ hours every week, and have too many other games to catch up on (I literally have 4 unopened games sitting on my shelf and at least another 6 or so that I want to pick up, and that's not even counting the games that haven't come out yet like GTA4, NG2, Fable 2, Fallout 3, and Force Unleashed), and I know when Gears 2 comes out I won't touch anything else for months.

Oh well, I guess it's about time I win the lotto and quit my job so I can catch up on all these games.

I'll wait for a PC version with a NORMAL SAVE OPTION and none of this forced Windows Live shit.

Gameplay is there, hopefully the storyline gets more fleshed out in this game.

The original was fun, but let's have the single player last more than five hours this time, k guys?

The game is a year and a half old and I STILL play it 10+ hours every week. With that kind of staying power, the single player could be 1 hour long and the game would still be amazing.

It's longer if you play it without the training wheels on.

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