Get Teased By Gears of War 2

First Gears 2 trailer inside

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"Sometimes, death is all you can see..."

You read that with a gritty Hollywood voice-over lilt, right? No? Go back and read it again. Got it? Good. Nothing like a bit of gravelly death in the morning to get the juices flowing and bait anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson.

Yup, the sound of a voice like mountains rubbing together, a dash of Sin City-style animation, a spot of ultra-violence and you've got the perfect way to kick off the marketing campaign for what's sure to be one of the biggest games of the year, Gears of War 2.

You can see it for yourself below. You might want to check out the first snippets of artwork and place-holder packshots while you're down there, too.

The video follows the game's developer, Epic Games, announcing at Microsoft's Game Developers Conference keynote that Gears 2 will be released in November.


Comments

SuperSaiyan4 21 Feb 2008 12:10
1/11
Even though the trailer has no ingame stuff whatsoever I have to say I thought it was probably one of the best trailers I have ever seen...Because its different.

I hope this time it has more on the story about the Locusts and what going on.

This game will no doubt look even better than UT3 then once its out, would be good to compare Gears 1 to number 2 visually.

I noticed that the blood that comes down from the Gears logo has now 2 lines of blood...Very clever just like Marcus having fire behind him like the wings of a Phoenix ;-)

There will be a gears of war 3 and that will have 3 lines of blood coming down from the logo I reckon.
Bentley 21 Feb 2008 12:29
2/11
The best trailer you've ever seen? A mighty claim, and a foolish one. It's nice enoughn but "one of the best trailers ever"? Hardly on the scale of a Metal Gear trailer, or a GTA trailer, or the Resi 4 trailer, or just about any other sodding trailer.

"I fink it will look better dan Unreal 3 cos dat is on ps3 and i 8 ps3"
I am paraphrasing you there,but you are an idiot. What you are saying is "I am a rabid fanboy and I am going to wildly speculate based on sod all that this game is going to look better than a previous game from the same developer partly because I hate the other console that it is on". Maybe, given that it comes out later, it will be the case, but your wild speculation is ridiculous.

And your guess that Gears 3 might have 3 lines of blood coming from the logo... SO WHAT? WHO CARES? WHY EVEN BOTHER TO SPECULATE? All it shows it that you can count to three. WELL, DURRRR, WELL DONE.

Nice of them to put a rose-tinted effect on it though so everyone can see it the way XBoy fantwats like yourself see it.

Yet another pointless. biased post from SPOnGs resident retard SuperSaiyan. Followed up by a pointless retort from me just because sometimes those fish in that barrel need a bit of a slap.
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SuperSaiyan4 21 Feb 2008 12:52
3/11
Listen up BENT-lee your a c**t so f**k off or whatever it is you do.

UT3 is also coming to the Xbox 360 or have you been wanking soo much you lost the senses in your tiny brain?

I said it was ONE of the best trailers I HAVE seen so who is the retard now c**t face?
Spinface 21 Feb 2008 13:04
4/11
Guys!

We're all just trying to have a nice time here, chewing the fat about computer games. So much hostility! Love each other!

XBOT FANBOI 2 DA MAX, MGS IS TEH PWN! 21 Feb 2008 13:50
5/11
Unreal Tournament 3 is firstly a PC game, secondly a PS3 game and it's being released for the XBOX 360 this year too. Gears of War 2 will look better than UT3, not because UT3 is on the PS3 but because it will be running on a newer version of EPIC's Unreal engine. I will be buying and enjoying both games

I thought the teaser was great and at this rate I'll have played Gears of War 1, 2 & Unreal Tournament 3 before you've even sniffed your precious MGS 3, although why you are so hyped for a game that has ten hours of cut scenes and only about two of gameplay is beyond me?

Good times for the 360 owners & I can fully understand why Sony fanboys would be sent into fits of uncontrollable rage by this, it's quite funny really.
alexh2o 21 Feb 2008 14:04
6/11
Anyone else notice the trailers pretty much gives away a new feature dropped from the first one.... CHAINSAW DUELS!!!
deleted 21 Feb 2008 14:31
7/11
Forget fanboyism for a minute, This is why the 360 is leading the way over the PS3, New IP`s for this generation that are actually good, yes the old IP`s are there but kick ass IP`s giving new gameplay and great graphics as soon as the PS3 gets its act to gether with some GREAT New IPS maybe more will take an interest, many state that FF13 and MGS4 are System sellers Well Gears of War is a 360 System seller its what strongly pushed me into mine.
hey 21 Feb 2008 16:42
8/11
f**k you
realvictory 21 Feb 2008 18:00
9/11
Bentley wrote:
Yet another pointless. biased post from SPOnGs resident retard SuperSaiyan. Followed up by a pointless retort from me just because sometimes those fish in that barrel need a bit of a slap.


Surely personal insults are just as pointless here? But I do agree with your post other than that.

I thought the teaser was great and at this rate I'll have played Gears of War 1, 2 & Unreal Tournament 3 before you've even sniffed your precious MGS 3, although why you are so hyped for a game that has ten hours of cut scenes and only about two of gameplay is beyond me?


Well, at the end of the day, the way I see it is, neither of them have that much gameplay, since it's probably about 1/2 an hour of gameplay, that's repeated over however long you spend playing the game.

Forget fanboyism for a minute, This is why the 360 is leading the way over the PS3, New IP`s for this generation that are actually good, yes the old IP`s are there but kick ass IP`s giving new gameplay and great graphics as soon as the PS3 gets its act to gether with some GREAT New IPS maybe more will take an interest, many state that FF13 and MGS4 are System sellers Well Gears of War is a 360 System seller its what strongly pushed me into mine.


True, but not quite. I would say the PS3 has just as good (just as) unique games - where it fails is the sequels that people do want, they're still waiting for. Let's be logical - if the exclusive original games on the XB360 were ones I desperately wanted, I would have bought an XB360, wouldn't I? It's not as if GOW2 is going to change my mind, if I already knew about GOW1... Not to say it's a bad game, obviously, just not a system-seller for me personally.
Billy the willy 22 Feb 2008 01:30
10/11
realvictory wrote:


Well, at the end of the day, the way I see it is, neither of them have that much gameplay, since it's probably about 1/2 an hour of gameplay, that's repeated over however long you spend playing the game.


Spin it whichever way you want, I turn my console on to play games not to watch 10 hours of cut scenes. I don't have the time or patience anymore to trudge through long winded Japanese games like Metal Gear Solid or Final Fantasy.

Many modern games have shown that you don't have to sacrifice playtime to have a decent story, Japanese developers haven't quite grasped this concept yet and that's why they keep churning out games with ridiculously long winded cut scenes. It's also the very reason why I haven't bought a Japanese developed game in close to two years.

Gaming is no longer about nerds locking themselves in a dark room alone for hours on end trudging through single player games with hours of cut scenes. I get my friends around and play through my games co-operatively and then we have multiplayer to keep us entertained.
rezaa 23 Feb 2008 19:26
11/11
SuperSaiyan4 wrote:
Even though the trailer has no ingame stuff whatsoever I have to say I thought it was probably one of the best trailers I have ever seen...Because its different.

I hope this time it has more on the story about the Locusts and what going on.

This game will no doubt look even better than UT3 then once its out, would be good to compare Gears 1 to number 2 visually.

I noticed that the blood that comes down from the Gears logo has now 2 lines of blood...Very clever just like Marcus having fire behind him like the wings of a Phoenix ;-)

There will be a gears of war 3 and that will have 3 lines of blood coming down from the logo I reckon.
thanks
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