No demo for Gears of War 2

By Robert Purchese Published 21 April, 2008

But what about that comic?

Epic Games has confirmed there will be no demo ahead of the Gears of War 2 launch this November.

There is simply no time to prepare it in a swift two-year turnaround like this, producer Tanya Jessen told Shacknews, and getting the game out on time to the right standard is top priority.

After that, well, she couldn't say.

The first Gears of War was released without a demo, and was never retroactively awarded one.

Still, Epic recently revealed that there would be a Gears of War comic to help pass the time leading up to the sequel's release.

Let's hope Cole gets to do his rap in it.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (30) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • awb83 #1 4 years ago

    that's nee great loss anyway, the first game wasn't even that good.

  • Hunam #2 4 years ago

    I thought we all hate demo's now.

  • space_ace #3 4 years ago

    (i love demos because i've no time for full games, except a few special titles a year)

  • Xerx3s #4 4 years ago

    "that's nee great loss anyway, the first game wasn't even that good."

    Don't worry, neither where you last night.

  • menage #5 4 years ago

    Didn't really get into the firts one so without a demo to prove me wrong I'll pass.

    Not really surprised that there won't be one. This will sell itself.

  • Skooch #6 4 years ago

    Everyone who is going to buy this knows what Gears is all about anyway; gun-toting chainsaw-wielding muscle men in glorious high-def fighting in a destroyed beauty environment against lots of baddie alien locusts. My kinda game... :-D

  • asphaltcowboy #7 4 years ago

    If you've played Gears 1 (as most 360 owners have) what would you need a demo for?

  • Greebo #8 4 years ago


    Am I the only one who gave up after being slaughtered too many times by that Kraal character?

    I used to be good at games, but then they stopped making the Amstrad CPC...

  • DB2k #9 4 years ago

    i found I could only complete it on normal with co-op from someone else as the PC controlled character was cak.

  • dr_faulk #10 4 years ago

    Methinks they know that if people play a demo, they'll realise it's a rehash of the first game, and not bother.

    Unless the machine gun with a locomotive attached makes it into the game.

  • Genome #11 4 years ago

    Can Cole still do his rap? Isn't that racist stereotyping? :p Epic never does demos for their console games, so I can't say I'm surprised.
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 13:19

  • Xerx3s #12 4 years ago

    That raam guy is easy. Pick up the torque bow and snipe with ammo before you go. Torque his shield away, switch to sniper, shoot him in the head. Repeat untill dead.

  • Skooch #13 4 years ago

    @ Dunkeldog and DB2k

    There is actually a video guide to defeating Raam on LIVE Marketplace. Although they make it look easier than it actually is it is a useful guide if you haven't beaten the game yet.

  • muscleblade #14 4 years ago

    Who the hell is KRAAL?? Do you mean general RAAM? Hes pretty easy even on insane. The bosses in Dark Sector is more of a challenge.
    Edited by 2 at 21/04/08 @ 13:26

  • muscleblade #15 4 years ago

    I hope they make Gears 2 harder btw.

  • asphaltcowboy #16 4 years ago

    "I hope they make Gears 2 harder btw."

    Post of the Day! ;)

  • Setaro #17 4 years ago

    How hard is it to make a demo? Can't they just stick the first/second level on a disk/DLC and use that?

  • penhalion #18 4 years ago

    @Diamondice

    Did you play hardcore co-op on someone elses machine by any chance. You only get credited for levels you have played through, so if you played co-op and started on chapter 4 you don't automatically get credited with chapters 2 and 3 even though the person you played with has already completed them.

    EDIT: A lot of suckers thought they could do this i.e. join a friends game when the friend was on general Raam and somehow get credited with finishing the game on that difficulty level. You get the general raam achievement but, that's all. You don't get the chapter achievements and so don't open up the next difficulty level. I had a guy online complement me for having done most of the game on the highest difficulty even though he destroyed me in multiplayer. Apparently most people simply didn't bother once they realised you couldn't cheat your way through the achievements by joining co-op games on the latter levels.
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 13:42

  • Moz #19 4 years ago

    meh, was going to Rent anyway, never got on with the online multipler in the first game, so can't see it being worth owning.

  • Nithron #20 4 years ago

    Personally... I thought the first onewas great cooperatively, and a little naff singleplayer. They'd gone for the whole "bleeding out on the floor until someone helps you out" method of dealing with death that Republic Commando used all those years ago, except the AI squaddies, for some reason, couldn't save you if you got hurt. It was a one way street.

    To me, this felt like it actually broke the game. It seemed like the devs had thought "Hey, it's okay to throw some one-hit kills that come out of absolutely nowhere here, because you don't really die, someone will save you", except... Then they didn't bother programming the AI to do it.
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 13:52

  • Gaol #21 4 years ago

    @Diamondice

    Is that the PC version? Sounds like the bug where you're save self deletes. Same happened to me - I had to go back through it to get 'completed on hardcore' achievement, even though I had them for all the individual chapters. For some reason chapter 5 is always selectable - even if you haven't started playing yet.

    There is a way to back up your save to work around this issue.

  • asphaltcowboy #22 4 years ago

    @Setaro: not that easy.

  • CreepinJesus #23 4 years ago

    Oh no, I'm heatbroken.

  • miiiguel #24 4 years ago

    I find it a bit silly the over-braging atitude that most of my fellow video-games enthusiasts have nowdays (or..., well, since ever), saying that everything is sooooo easy and shit.
    Take the example of Halo 3, so many ppl saying is tooo easy, oh so lame 'cos oh so easy, when it is so deeply customizable in terms of difficulty, raging from realy easy to almost-impossible. Can someone in his right mind say that Halo 3 in Legenderay with all the skulls on is easy ?

  • anephric #25 4 years ago

    Raam was easy enough in co-op in Insane - he was harder when playing 1P and Dom would just run out like a headless chicken, die, and then Ramm would charge straight towards you and take you to brown town.

  • asphaltcowboy #26 4 years ago

    "brown town" :D

  • DutchDemons #27 4 years ago

    @miguel

    skulls in halo don't really count do they? playing a game with your eyes closed makes it even harder, kinda silly argument really. the complaint of these gamers is aimed at the general difficulty levels (i.e. legendary)

    i agree with ppl saying halo 3 was easy, even on legendary. the difficulty in that game lied solely in the fact you had little health and the enemies had way more. sure, 'A.I.' was improved, but that really meant they stopped eating grenades like cookies.

    gears was pretty decent on insane, not really hard for the veteran gamer, but there were enough points in the game to maken it feel like a tough game. I for one hated the part in the car with the Krylls in it. it took me countless times to finally make it through. Guess it varies among gamers, others found that bit easy and quit the game at the last battle, cause they found RAAM so annoying. I dropped him real fast and at first couldn't understand people complaining about him.

    And on topic: demo...for GoW2? ha, who needs that. if you dont know gears by now...
    Edited by 1 at 21/04/08 @ 18:16

  • Mashum #28 4 years ago

    @DutchDeamons "...skulls in halo don't really count do they?"

    ...so what exactly do you think difficulty settings are?

    Halo 3 skulls allowed a finer granularity of control over how the factors that affect 'difficulty' were set up including a switch to make enemy characters 'tougher' and another to make your character less well protected. Is it because they don't have 'For Girls', 'For Casual Gamers' and 'For Veteran Men Grrrr!" written on them that they don't count?

  • DUFFMAN5 #29 4 years ago

    I find it a bit silly the over-braging atitude that most of my fellow video-games enthusiasts have nowdays (or..., well, since ever), saying that everything is sooooo easy and shit.
    Take the example of Halo 3, so many ppl saying is tooo easy, oh so lame 'cos oh so easy, when it is so deeply customizable in terms of difficulty, raging from realy easy to almost-impossible. Can someone in his right mind say that Halo 3 in Legenderay with all the skulls on is easy ?


    Well put. I only completed Gears by the wife joining on the final fight, getting killed/stuned and blocking Raam. So I beat it by the virture of a "bug"
    I will be getting number 2. I still have the original and keep meaning to play through coop on line, but other games I want to play keep coming out.

  • muscleblade #30 4 years ago

    I completed Halo 3 with all skulls on. Pretty hard. To bad i didnt get an achievement for it though.

    Anyway retail games these days are generally pretty easy on the harder difficultys. Most xbla games are more challenging.
    Edited by 1 at 22/04/08 @ 11:15