GoW2: Linked achievements unlock in-game content

wouldn't be a bad way to get people that have missed out on Gears 1 to get up to speed.

These are only multiplayer skins. Multiplayer skins that someone won't know and care about if they never played Gears 1 anyway.

yeah skins are useless. I dont think I even once checked which character skin I had selected in a GOW1 match, and I played that game for months (got seriously)

Unless they have some sort of maps or weapons which can only be earned with GOW1 achievements, I dont think any of the new GOW2 gamers have anything to care/worry about.

It'd be nice to look different then other people, i like the idea. I never played the first one on my system so I'm gonna borrow it from my cousin and play it though before the new one comes out

I'm not sure what they're smoking, but Anthony is Carmine's first name. His brother, I'm not sure, but Carmine's first name is Anthony. (Tony for short ;)

In the game Carmine will probably just say he is his own brother to stop people wondering how he keeps coming back to life.

Read this, I saw it from DaMan09: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/24/aol-makes-big-budget-cuts-across-blogs/

Wow, that sucks. Basically anytime anything posted under X3F Staff that means whoever really put up the post isn't getting paid due to budget cuts.

not really, it's just a way of rewarding people who have stuck with the series, plus i wouldn't say anyone who hasn't played the first will be missing out or even care about a few extra MP characters.

Just keep playing. My friend recently got his at 16000. I was lucky and got mine at 9500.

Same here baby 1250/1250 club! w00t!!!

*Gives Nick High Five!!

I know what you mean, just do what i do, stick some music on and turn down the volume on your TV, as obnoxious as some players are they can't do anything about the mute button.

Good luck getting 10 thousand kills in a week or two. Lol.

Gears has one of the biggest douche bag community's, not casual they've all moved on. Unless you've decided to create your own version of casual in which case you'll have to excuse me my mind reading powers are broken. :O

The game is casual, the community is not and the theme is not. But there is not a more casual shooter on the market for the 360, in terms of gameplay, pacing, skill requirement and overall fell of the game.

I played Halo for less than 2 months. I finished at level 34. That said, I had tons of matches where I ended up with crazy ratios like +19, etc.

CoD4 I played even less, and was not very good at. Yet, I often when on 15 kills streaks, or again finished matches around +15 or higher.

In Gears, you almost never see a weaker player (like I was in CoD4) finish a map with ~15 kills in a first to 4 set like the really good players do consistently. Any joker can find a good spot to camp in that game and finish +10.

The big difference in Gears is that there are much fewer really good players that use the intracacies of the game and how it's not about aiming, but rather body control.

With the exception of the seriously achievement all the others woulld take less than 2 weeks to get. Would probably take me about 10 weeks to get the seriously achievement if I were to only play at an average pace the days I'm off from work.

In Gears (especially with as long as it takes to set up a ranked match, and some not counting if the wrong person drops) it takes quite a while to get 100 kills in a day. Hours.

At 100 kills a day, you'd have to play for 100 days to reach 10,000.

10 weeks is 70 days if you played EVERY day including weekdays, workdays, etc.

When I use to play the game nightly after classes online I'd average around 8-16 kills a match, with a buddy of mine hosting. We'd usually have about 15-20 matches a night easy, plenty of time to rack up enough kills 5 days a week for 10 weeks to get 10,000 kills. And don't start with me about games that are about placement, movement and awareness. Gears of War is a very casually paced and played shooter, you want to test your awareness, strategic movement, etc in the most challenging setting possible play shadowrun.

I easily average 15-25 kills a game, and that's only if I'm going easy on the other team. I play for the challenge, the thrill of the fight and the interaction with other human players that can't be read based on any sort of rational logic. I don't play for rank, and I hate people who take the game too seriously. There may be 5 other players in the entire Shadowrun community that can hold their own or best Shrumhouse, Surma Mayne and myself.

Unfortunately because Gears of War is so casual it hardly tests my awareness, mind or ability to read players. Until Shadowrun though it was the closest thing I had to such a game because of the somewhat unique movement aspect in the game.

That aside I'm looking forward to Gears of War 2 and a casual night of gaming with my friends against young children who think they're professional gamers (an oxymoron in and of itself).

I will resist arguing you because you like Shadowrun, which is one of the most underrated games ever.

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Or it will boost sales of Gears 1, then more people will also buy Gears 2!!! Brilliant!

"This is a stupid idea and will lower sales for gow2" You have no idea what you are talking about, do you?

You're retarded. They're giving a few more multiplayer skins to people to played the first game, as a thank you. Nothing that'll alter gameplay at all.

If you don't like it, don't buy it and don't play it. I certainly won't mind if a douche like you doesn't end up in any of my games.

hahaha this is stupid "oh here buy gow2 and unlock characters from gow1" that should already be in gow2 (unlocked) due to the fact that all the content is 2 years "OLD" yeah we nkow gow2 has new characters new guns maps modes yeah yeah how about NEW UNLOCKABLE CONTENT LIKE NEW ARMOR NEW HAIRSTYLES DIFFRENT CARMINE COSTUMES NEW STUFF NOT OLD STUFF . so there saying that gow2 is only gonna have dizzy,prescott,maria,tai kaliso as playable GOG characters for multiplayer only and the new 4 locust? unless u have achievments from gow1 so u can play 2 year old characters no one wants that WERES THE NEW STUFF U SHOULD ALREADY HAD SOME SECRET CHARACTERS THAT NO ONE HAS SEEN HOW ABOUT THOSE STARNDED yeah their in gow2 multiplayer but only as FLAGS(AI CONT.) YEAH I NKOW SO MAY PEOPLE ARE GONNA DISAGREE BUT YOU NKOW YOU WANT SOMETHING TOTALLY NEW!!!!

Bugs man, you're off your rocker. Do you have any idea of what you just said. Cuz all i saw was one great big run on sentence. This achievement linking is a nod to the hardcore Gear fans.