Characters. Avatars. People. All designed by developers to have their own distinct body, face, style and personality. But what happens when two characters look rather too similar? Go Online tracks them down and makes a list. That’s what! So sit back and enjoy, as we scroll through the families the gaming industry don’t want you to know about. There’s also a lot of hats.
A mere day to go before the Gears of War 2 DLC packs, Dark Corners and All Fronts DLC go live on Xbox Live Marketplace.
And we’re gonna tease you with 10 brand new exclusive screenshots from two of the maps from the Dark Corners map-pack: Nowhere and Allfathers Garden.
Check them after the jump. We’ve reviewed the content tonight, catch it here.
Developer: Epic Games
Publisher: Microsoft Games Studios
Also on: N/A (Xbox 360 exclusive)
Console played on: Xbox 360
Release Date: Tuesday July 28th 2009
Age rating: BBFC 18, PEGI 18
Looking forward to the Dark Corners Gears of War 2 map pack? This is one of the maps you’ll get when it’s released on July 27th on Xbox Live Marketplace or through the All Fronts Collection, also released on July 27th.
The map is called Memorial, and you can take your first look at it after the break.
Gears of War 2 ended on an anti-climatic ending until the end of the credits when… well, we wont say as it’s really big but it did still leave a lot of gamers pissed as to what would happen next for Gears 3. But hold the phone folks, maybe we dont have to wait for Gears 3 to get our answer, we may get it in the form of our lovely friend known as Downloadable Content.
According to a forum thread on the Epic Games website, now taken down, a listing has come up on the Japanese Xbox Live Marketplace website on Xbox.com where it shows a listing for DLC for Gears 2, known only as Dark Corners.
Okay, this could still be downloadable content for the multiplayer of the game but Episodic Content has been rumored for Gears 2 for a while now, and some pretty big announcements are due this week at GDC concerning Gears 2, most probably from GTTV and Geoff Keighley where he hinted at some pretty big announcements at GDC for GameTrailers TV this week.
We would post such proof of this but like we said above, the said thread has been deleted from Epic Games forums, and it seems that other sites arent carrying the story. We’d try and grab a screen ourselves but we cant read Japanese so oh well.
Still, we should know what Dark Corners is by the end of the week.
Gears of War 2 was, timingly enough, announced this time last year at the end of John Schappert’s keynote addrees at GDC 2008 in February 2008. It also had Cliff Bletzinski of Epic Games come out and scare everyone with a big chainsaw Lancer.
Gears of War 2hasn’t been out the door long, it’s already sold 3 million copies worldwide and even yet, it seems pre dev for the sequal is underway.
According to EGM’s Quaterman, Gears of War 3 is in development already by Epic Games for the Xbox 360 (and not for the PLAYSTATION 3 like a couple hoped for). Already, it’s been said there will be a couple of tweaks for the gameplay engine and there will be infact a massive 5 player co-op experience, be it a improved verison of either Horde or an entire new campaign altogether remains to be seen.
The new issue of the Official Xbox Magazine came out today in the UK and it has the World’s first review of Gears of War 2 giving the game a 9/10 like they did with Gears of War before it 2 years ago.
Thats all there is to it.
Good news folks, Gears of War 2 has gone gold! It means that the game is ready to be packaged and shipped to retailers
Microsoft and Epic Games have released a joint press release which is after the jump.
The game is out on November 7th only on the Xbox 360.
Now, for anybody who has a 360, anybody’s 360 collection can not be complete alongside Halo 3, Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4 without a copy of Gears of War. Its story was great and it’s 4vs4 multiplayer was absoutely brillant, one of the best multiplayer games I enjoyed last year along with Team Fortress 2.
And now, on November 7th, Gears of War 2 will ship exclusively to the Xbox 360 with the continuing saga of Marcus Fenix against the Locust with 2 player online co-op also returning for the story mode, 5 man co-op mode where you take on an unlimited amount of locust which get harder and harder with each horde and finally, 5vs5 multiplayer.
But at the exact same time (Maybe even in the exact same week), there is another big hitter coming out on the PLAYSTATION 3 which is Insomniac’s Resistance 2. Both games came out shortly after each other and while the Xbox 360 had an established userbase by nearly a year, the PLAYSTATION 3 only came on the market in America a week after the release of the game.
Now, 2 years later, both these sequels will go head to head once again with both consoles now able to stand on their own two feet. But even then, Lead Designer at Epic Games, Cliff Bleszinski says that Gears of War 2 will be better then Resistance 2.
How?
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