Update: We just got our hands on the X360 Gears of War 2 article and have confirmed its contents. Read about what we found inside here.After getting our new Gears of War 2 announcement hopes up over the leaked EGM article only to have Cliff Bleszinski deny it all, we get word that next month's issue of UK magazine X360 will feature exclusive new GoW2 details as well. And, if the leaky news source can be trusted, we're in for one hell of a bloody good ride come November.
With no actual magazine scans to view or any way for us to confirm the news, the contents of X360 magazine's GoW2 article were recently posted over on GameTrailers' forums for all to analyze, pick apart and question. If the list can be trusted, we're in for a whole mess of exciting new Gears additions including a new flamethrower called the "Scorcher", a new "Wingman" gametype that pits five teams of two against eachother and the announcement of a new mobile bullet shield to take cover behind. You can check out the complete (and totally unconfirmed) contents of X360 magazine's Gears of War 2 article after the break. And we must admit, there isn't a darn feature we can complain about.
Also, remember kids that we're still treading in rumor territory until this X360 info can be confirmed. So, we advise keeping your excitement level to a minimum, because we wouldn't want to see your fanboy heart crushed if the news turns out to be made up crud.
[Via NeoGAF]
Rumored New GoW2 Details from X360 Magazine
(list posted by shanezx on the GameTrailers forums)
- New weapon Scorcher (Flamethrower) "most realistic fire in a game we've ever seen"
- 5 vs 5
- Assasination gametype altered. everyone respawns until their leader is dead. when the leader is killed they stop rewpawing and the game ends when everyone is dead on one team.
- Assasination renamed 'Guardian'.
- New gametype 'Wingman' 10 players split into teams of two.each team is played as different character (eg marcus and marcus vs Dom and Dom etc)
- Features Matchmaking
- Exectucions now vary on the weapon you holding (eg sniper rifle will be used like a golf club)
- Curb stomp returns
- 'Y' will cause your character to unleach several brutal punches to a downed enemy, killing him.
- 'A' will cause you to pick up the enemy and use him as a shield. The player your using as a shield will go to the respawn line.
- New gametype 'meatflag' sort of like CTF but epic have done this in their own way. The flag will instead be character wandering around the centre of the map. He has his own weapons and even a place on the leaderboard. To capture him you will need to down him and pick him up as a meatshield and take him back, slowly, to your base. If you shoot the meatflag enough times while he's being dragged back to base, his captor will loose him and he'll go crazy on everyone around him.
- Specific weapons will cycle round the maps.
- Stopping power - if your running towards an enemy but he is firing straight into your chest, you will slow down.
- The oppurtunity to spawn with either the lancer or hammerburst.
- Hammerburst gone through significant alterations. The faster you tap the the right trigger, the faster it fires. quicker shooting = more recoil however.
- New weapon Medusa. could be considered a power weapon. 6 shots per burst.
- Bullet shields. big metal shield that stops you from getting hit. can be planted into the ground to make a new cover. enemies can kick it down though if they get close enough.
- Grenades can be stuck anywhere. not just on enemies. they can be planted on the ground,walls,doors etc to produce a proximity mine.
- smoke grenades carry a stun effect that ragdolls anyone in range.
- new weapon poison gas grenade. produces a cloud of smoke that kills anything that lingers in it. they can be stuck onto enemies were the will slowly die. people stuck by the gas grenade can also injure team-mates if the get too close.
- On games with no respawn, when you are dead you can fly around the map as a "ghost cam". You can even take screenshots that will be uploaded to the community.
- Gridlock returns. However its more overgrown now, plants and grass growing. (everything is still the same though- cars are where they where etc)
- New map - 'river' - symetrical map, each team has a thin strip of land with a house and sniping tower, and inbetween them a river.
- New map - 'Security' - long thin map. to the left and right are stairs leading to veranda's that run the entire length of the map. you are barred access however by red lasers, which will kill you if attempting to pass through. A power weapon is barred on the other side of the map while at the other it is defended by sentry guns. There is a button in the middle of the map that turns the lasers and sentry's off for 20 seconds.
- New locust 'hammerhead' (helmet makes him look sorta like a hammerhead shark)
- New locust 'Grenadier' (this is the guy we saw in the video were marcus punches him to death)
- Two people can chainsaw one guy at the same time.
- New cog 'Tai' has aboriginal tattoo's.
- New cog 'Dizzy' "looks like chuck Norris"
- Cole returns for multiplayer at least."
