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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
US magazine GamePro has unveiled the cover for its latest issue, which includes references to "Gears of War 2" despite Rainbow Six Vegas 2 taking the headline spot.
Gears of War 2 appears twice - once above the magazine logo and once in a sidebar, beneath a picture of the original game's distinctive bloody skull with a "2" stuck to the side of it
The text accompanying the cover on GamePro's website doesn't mention or clarify any of this.
Inevitably this has led to yet more speculation that GOW2 will be unveiled at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in two weeks' time.
Along with the cover, details supporting this theory include recent news that Xbox Live man John Schappert will deliver a keynote and developer Epic reportedly snapping up a huge stand next to Microsoft's.
What's more, recent reports that Kudo Tsunoda has joined Microsoft claimed that the former EA executive is "project lead on an upcoming Gears of War title", citing "sources".
Microsoft and Epic have yet to comment publicly on whether Gears of War 2 will be unveiled at GDC.
However, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein has told Eurogamer that GDC is "the show where we sell our engine not our games".
He also pointed out that blogged images of Epic and Microsoft's stands unfairly compared the size of show floor booths to expo suites, which accounted for the fact that - for instance - Microsoft's stand could apparently eat Nintendo, Sony and Nokia and still have room to wash them down with the German Pavilion.
Rein also told Eurogamer that if either of Epic's publishers (Microsoft for Gears of War 1 and Midway for Unreal Tournament 3) wanted to make game-related announcements, it would have nothing to do with the developer's presence as an engine provider.
GDC runs from 18th to 22nd February.
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Isn't gears 2 a inevitable game. I would think that it's got to have been in developement since shortly after gears 1. I wouldn't be suprised at a late 2008/ early 2009 release. The look and feel of gears is now a known quantity so it's going to be down to story and settings now.
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muscleblade
04/02/08 @ 10:15
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No way GOW 2 will come out this year. Im guessing 16/11- 2009 for the US and 19/11 for Europe.
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squarejawhero
04/02/08 @ 10:23
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Would be nice if you could fight some of the other beasts they modelled this time.
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So overhyped that it's still position 5 last week (and 3 or 4 again this week) on the most played games list. Just because YOU didn't like it, doesn't make it a bad game. But of course one would actually have to play the game to form an opinion on it (if your profile is anything to go by).
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The Bodybuilder
04/02/08 @ 10:47
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I see the mag cover, yet my eyes are looking at too human and ninja giaden 2.
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muscleblade
04/02/08 @ 11:15
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yeah! And the average review score was very high as it should be for a great game.
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seasidebaz
04/02/08 @ 11:17
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can we have a shooting game this time instead of a gory version of lemmings?
"dom you idiot, get into the light.. THE DAMN LIGHT GODDAMMIT!!! crap he's dead again." |
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Having just completed Gears, I was surprised at the game play. I guess I was expecting a lot, after all the advertising last year (was it last year, or 2006? No matter). Although, despite the relatively simple game play, I did find it incredibly fun, even more so in coop. Graphics were awesome of course, I wonder if they can improve upon them for a sequel?
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MuppetThumper
04/02/08 @ 11:46
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More jumped up jingoistic pseudo homoeroticism on steroids? No thanks.
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CHAZBIGPOTATO
04/02/08 @ 13:40
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Why was this edited three times if it was copied and pasted from somewhere? Wheres the link?
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@Fruit_Salad
You edited your post 3 times and then you can't even name the source or a link? Edit: part of the scan - http://img259.imageshack.us/my.php?image...
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Tweakmonkey
04/02/08 @ 15:13
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What has this got to do with GDC though really? I think MS are out of line this time - if the announcement really will be made there.
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The Bodybuilder
04/02/08 @ 15:44
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"It's very exciting, the player can choose one of three routes to play through the game as a particular character from a particular race"
Arbiter, is that you? Please tell me it's not you. |
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Fruit_salad I think he meant to say "thanks" then instead of "omg M$ lies".
I dont think it would be a bad thing to reveal the game especially if the engine itself has overgone an overhaul like they said in the interview. Just as long as they dont overdo it... show off the engine and a quick glimpse at the game. Hopefully theres going to be a native 360 engine with a big budget in the works on display to... as nice as UE3.x may be it would be a shame if nobody took a risk on something like that, might be necessary in the long run if Sony keep pushing devs to do the same. |
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