Gears of War 2 to be released November 7, 2008

by Mike Schramm { Jul 14th 2008 at 2:00PM }

Gears of War 2 has a release date: November 7, 2008 -- that's right, Election Day is the new Emergence Day. Microsoft is showing the game off right now at E3, and there's more news to come. Apparently in addition to chainsaw duels, we'll all be riding Brumaks around, and "Horde" will be a five player co-op mode which will pit five lucky Gears against an onslaught of Locusts.

Tags: breakingnews, e3-2008, epic, gears-of-war-2, microsoft, xbox-360

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

neel @ Jul 14th 2008 2:08PM

Did anybody notice the red controller that was used to play the demo? Ive never seen one like that before.

Stevie P @ Jul 14th 2008 7:13PM

If you go to the Xbox Press site http://www.xbox.com/en-US/press/ , the red controller will be coming out Sept 30.

Jeff @ Jul 14th 2008 2:07PM

What a glorious day.

We can pick up Gears of War 2 on our way home from voting for Barack Obama.

Marty @ Jul 14th 2008 2:10PM

That's what I'll be doing.

ThePerfectCompanion @ Jul 14th 2008 2:11PM

+1

Never even crossed my mind! I get to defeat the Republicans AND Locust on the SAME DAY!

SWEET!

FOXHOUND @ Jul 14th 2008 2:17PM

Still no announcement of a GEARS OF WAR2 bundle, eh? :(
If not, I guess I'll go pick up that Elite instead of holding off. At least then, I could get a little practice in on GOW1 before xFenix(and whoever else on this site rides that game as rampant as I do with MGS)mudhole-stomps my ass in it.

LoL

FOXHOUND @ Jul 14th 2008 2:18PM

* correction...

mudhole stomp = SCSA
curbstomp = GOW

Luis Gutierrez @ Jul 14th 2008 2:46PM

Proof that videogames and other forms of media keep us dumbed down. If we all invested as much time on politics as we do on videogames we would have either voted for Ron Paul or Dennis Kucinich. Flip flopping = lying.

lochack @ Jul 14th 2008 2:48PM

Re: It's the WHITE house not the BLACK house
Reply #2 - 04/11/07 at 09:53:00 Quote I'm sure obama will not win very many votes. I think he's going to be in for a bit of an embarrassment when the number of votes comes in. It's pretty obvious that he set himself up for failure a long time ago when he decided to become a civil rights lawyer. This is America, the land of the free, the melting pot. You can't have a racist black man in the white house, dwelling on imaginary "persecution" of black people that exists only in his imagination. Also, he pretty much screwed his last chances of ever getting elected for a second term as senator when his wife got up and called obama her "baby's daddy". Not to mention the silly nonsense obama's been spouting at all of his campaign parties. For instance, he said that the "lives of all the soldiers who died in Iraq were wasted". O come on obama, put up your dukes, I am ready to fight you for saying that about our war heroes.

FOXHOUND @ Jul 14th 2008 3:59PM

First...
"lochak" obviously doesn't speak for all Americans.

Second...
Any hint of a 'point' or 'opinion' he was trying to make obviously fell pretty hard on its face just with the opening and quite ignorant comments made initially... almost to the point where I thought about ignoring the remainder of the comment. But hey, I had a free moment, and read the rest... and sure enough, I wasted that free moment. If you're going to make a point like that, I'd love to see a source cited. Frankly, it looks like narrow-minded & petty bigotry otherwise.

ChooChooCharlie @ Jul 14th 2008 4:21PM

@ Luis Gutierrez

LOL, Ron Paul.

@ lochack

You just keep believing what good old FOX news tells you.

Jeff @ Jul 14th 2008 5:46PM

Who says Obama was our first choice? I sure as hell would have taken Kucinich, although Ron Paul is a bit too much of a nutjob.

He's still a vastly better choice than McCain in every way.

fred @ Jul 15th 2008 12:34AM

@jeff re: ron paul

THIS MAN SPEAKS THE TRUTH

LeadBoxx @ Jul 14th 2008 2:08PM

Oh.... so they aren't releasing on a Sunday. Thank god!

Anticrawl @ Jul 14th 2008 4:24PM

As I've said several times before. November 9th is a special promotional event much like Emergence Day that has some significance to the GOW canon. Emergence day was 2 days after the release of Gears of War, or maybe 3, either way it was on a sunday.

LeadBoxx @ Jul 14th 2008 4:48PM

As I have said before...blah blah blah blah blah. Man up and shut up punk.

fred @ Jul 15th 2008 12:35AM

um....wut

dsr7997 @ Jul 14th 2008 2:10PM

Election day is actually November 4th.

Korova of the highlands @ Jul 14th 2008 6:08PM

Calendar Guru Achievement: Unlocked

Thank you, good Sir, for being diligent!

Vegnagun bwf @ Jul 14th 2008 2:30PM

I spent so much time with Gear, and Gears 2 looks poised to be better than the original. Here's to hoping.

SugarDaddy @ Jul 14th 2008 3:12PM

Election day is the first tuesday in nov, which makes it nov 4. It's a good thing too. Imagine how many people would forget to vote because they were stomping locusts.

SugarDaddy @ Jul 14th 2008 3:17PM

Slight correction: It's the tuesday after the first monday. Still Nov 4th though.

CouchPotato99 @ Jul 14th 2008 4:01PM

Does anyone know where you can find that whole picture? That would make for some epic wallpaper...

slr99k @ Jul 14th 2008 5:21PM

you idiots election day is november 4 wtf

evan @ Jul 27th 2008 10:47PM

you guys are morons!!!
its a fucking gears 2 pic and your fuckin talking about the president
get on another site and blog about the presidents
cuz either way we choose, we're voting for the vice president cuz mcains gonna die and oboma's gonna get assassinated
so talk about gears!!!
and im with you fox hound
just get an elite and buy the gow2 controlers when they're out