Epic denies Gears 2 report

By Tom Bramwell Published 12 March, 2007

Says it wasn't confirmed at GDC.

Epic Games has poured cold water on reports that Gears of War 2 was quietly confirmed at the Game Developers Conference last week.

Designer Cliff Bleszinski gave a presentation at GDC, during which he reportedly confirmed that Epic does "intend to do a sequel".

But it sounds like our old friend Internet Reports was getting a bit ahead of himself, because Epic veepee Mark Rein soon popped up on the game's official forum to deny it. "Cliff didn't confirm anything of the sort," he wrote.

In other words, you'll have to wait a bit longer for official confirmation of the inevitable sequel. Epic has previously said that it hopes the game will develop into a lucrative series.

Indeed, Rein himself has helped the speculation along, responding cryptically to claims that the game will develop into a trilogy. "Gears is a trilogy? If we can keep making quality games that fans obviously want then why would we have to stop at three?" he asked his own forum last November.

One thing we did learn about Gears last week was that it's still an industry darling, having bagged three Game Developers Choice Awards including Best Game.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Scimarad #1 5 years ago

    If they could make the next one a little longer whilst preserving the quality it would be very much appreciated.

    /states obvious

  • captainrentboy #2 5 years ago

    ....Maybe a lil more variation within the multiplayer side of it too.

  • Overlush #3 5 years ago

    "Epic denies Gears 2 report"

    What's the point? It's like me denying I'm going to fart after 15 pints of Guiness....

    Edited by Overlush at 12/03/07 @ 09:11

  • polar #4 5 years ago

    The "Internet Reports" joke was funny the first few hundred times, but I think it's wearing just a little thin at this stage.

  • Talha #5 5 years ago

    The best thing they did about Gears was NOT to make it a strict FPS.

  • Skooch #6 5 years ago

    Must have clan support in multi-player please.

    Scimarad - did you play through on casual or hardcore? After a few checkpoints on casual I went back and started again on hardcore and found the campaign a reasonable length. Casual was just a little too easy...

  • bdc #7 5 years ago

    Difficulty doesn't magically make a game longer

  • Mr_Brown #8 5 years ago

    Would be nice to have a straight death match option. Viechles and big maps for next time also as well as new weapons. All the weapons in GOW are great and well balanced, but would like to see more next time around!

  • BadBoyBonner #9 5 years ago

    Think the only reason they are being cagey about it - is in confirming if it will be released on anything other than 360 @ the launch.

  • BadBoyBonner #10 5 years ago

    IMO opinion Gears shone due to being a graphical showcase for the UE3 in action - seeing if the 360 could cope with, compared to the (then) suspected performance difference/superiority of the PS3 that had been shown running UT 2007 (as then was) with relative ease.

    12 - 18 months on, Gears will have lost almost all it's technical edge as a product due to so many others licensing and using the engine - the success of which will probably negatively impact Gears sales (which you will obviously be able to put a positive spin on due to the increase in userbase, so units sold will probably be far in excess of original but not I suspect if analysed as a percentage against ownership).

    And for me personally the 'nade tagging, health replenishing (rather than sequential damage) multiplayer, highlighted the cumbersome nature of the control mechanism and left me a little cold - but hats off to Epic for making such a compelling one player game with the control mechanism and 3rd person view.
    Edited by BadBoyBonner at 12/03/07 @ 10:44

  • DanMW #11 5 years ago

    Why do they deny this? Maybe it wasn't officially announced at GDC, but it'll happen eventually, anyone who doubt this must be delirious.

  • FireMonkey #12 5 years ago

    They are non denying that the game may / is gonna be made, just denying that it was announced.
    Thats actually quite a big difference, especially where Non-Disclosure Agreements are concerned.
    Edited by FireMonkey at 12/03/07 @ 12:45

  • sanctimoniousqf #13 5 years ago

    Nope, definitely wasn't confirmed... what was actually said, whilst talking about the iterative processes they used in the design and implementation, was "what we did in Gears of War 1" before catching himself and saying "not that that is to say that there will be a Gears of War 2", with everybody chuckling in the audience.

    Just goes to show - the media will hear what they want to hear, and to hell with how it was originally stated.

  • Negotiator #14 5 years ago

    Cliffy B? for christ's sake.

  • ArcMonkey #15 5 years ago

    "Gears is a trilogy? If we can keep making quality games that fans obviously want then why would we have to stop at three?"

    Thats a big if in there mark...remember what Epic did to Unreal? Maybe u'll start making Gears Tournament 2010?

  • The-Bodybuilder #16 5 years ago

    I'm sure EG have thier "8" stamp at the ready.

  • NegativeZero #17 5 years ago

    Mark Rein isn't fooling anyone. When a game is as successful as Gears has been, it will get a sequel.

  • Speedwolf #18 5 years ago

    Is Gears the new Halo?