Talking with IGN, Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios confirmed the news and made it official: there will be no more Gears of War downloadable content. (Insert fake surprised face here.) A representative told IGN that "we don't have anything planned for [Gears of War] right now in terms of DLC", but also mentioned that the door is always open for new DLC to be made. Just none is planned now. And we'll be the first in line to kick that door of possibility shut.As much as we love our Gears, we feel that after six additional maps, a new gametype and additional 250 gamerscore, it's time for Epic to move on. Move onto something a little more important, say a sequel? We'll happily take no more Gears DLC for Epic to release Gears of War 2 as soon as possible. Hell, we'll even give up the Annex content if it would have moved Gears 2's development along. Just give us our sequel this year.
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
1-23-2008 @ 3:35PM
Ryan said...
Wow, what is with the bitch-fest in here? Gears got as much, if not more, downloadable content as any other game out there. It's been out for one and a quarter years already and with a sequel potentially on the near horizon, no game is going to add new DLC at that point.
We're all spoiled by the wealth of AAA titles out on the 360 right now, but let's not forget that Gears was a phenomenal game back before there were many great games on the system, and it did a ton to push the system forward.
Cliffy B said from the get-go that the extra PC stuff would not make it to the 360 because it was developed differently. And who cares if the game came out on the PC a full freakin' year later? It's a year late and supposedly the controls don't work well with a kb/mouse, it requires a very high end rig to play, and it uses Live for Windows which almost no one has. It's not like they released it on the PS3.
And smak, in regards to post #4, Gears of War would suck with more than 8 players. It's not that kind of run and gun, jump into the chaos type game.
1-23-2008 @ 7:16PM
Zeus.:God said...
Agreed... HOWEVER, Gears PC doesn't require an insane PC to run it. I run at absolute max settings at a resolution of 1680x1050, and I have a relatively "tame" system.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.66GHz, XFX 680i SLI motherboard, EVGA 8800GT SuperClocked 512MB, 2GB of OCZ Reaper HPC DDR 2 PC2-6400 800MHz RAM, and a Rosewill 850 Watt power supply. That set up, including drives and case cost around 1300 bucks. The monitor is 350, and with a cheaper system, you can still run the game at max settings.
1-24-2008 @ 7:30AM
JammerX19 said...
To be honest, I never understood that mentality. It's $60 out of my wallet every time a game comes out. The idea of upgrading and augmenting an existing purchase just makes more sense. That said, if the new version is a quantum leap over the original (as CoD4 or Halo 3 are over their predecessors), then I would consider it. But in some cases they aren't (thinking way back to MechAssault 2 and others like that).
1-24-2008 @ 10:36AM
Jayu said...
@Zeus.:God
If that's 'tame' then I'm Jesus.