Gears 2's Horde mode will be 50 waves of death
Posted Jul 16th 2008 11:45AM by Dustin Burg
Filed under: News
During a sit down session with Epic's Cliff Bleszinski, MTV Multiplayer confirmed that the game's new five player cooperative
Horde mode will include exactly 50 different waves of Locust enemies, each getting progressively more difficult. Seeing that the difficulty curve in later waves gets noticeably more challenging, you'll be able to "bookmark" your Horde mode progress every five waves. But just exactly how difficult does it get? When the lead designer of the game admits that he can only reach wave 27 then you know things get really impossible and really intense.
Tags: e3-08, e3-2008, e308, epic, epic-games, gears-of-war-2, gow2
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7-16-2008 @ 11:49AM
mikazi said...
I bet you we'll be getting an achievement for completing Level 50 :D (Is this the new "Seriously..." achievement? :) )
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7-16-2008 @ 11:54AM
Rell said...
I would happily go for it. Sounds like this will be enjoyed by many.
7-16-2008 @ 12:07PM
xFenixKnightx said...
Noooooooo, please no more Seriouslyyyyy!! I lost so much sleep getting the frist one. :P
It was fun no doubt but damn I hated those videogame hangovers...
7-16-2008 @ 11:56AM
danny. said...
in the 1up podcast they said they currently have fifty levels, but the actual number of waves will be determined by the farthest the testers reach times two. They said that the testers had only gotten to wave 26 so far.
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7-16-2008 @ 12:35PM
Triforceowner said...
I confirm.
7-16-2008 @ 12:50PM
Sev said...
I hope they keep the 50 waves anyways, it'd still give me a goal to do xD
7-16-2008 @ 11:57AM
John said...
This mode sounds just like Invasion in UT.
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7-16-2008 @ 12:58PM
Bmurph said...
Is that a bad thing?
7-16-2008 @ 11:58AM
Vcize said...
This mode sounds like it's going to be awesome.
I'm not worried about Clifford (that's what we're calling him now, right?) only being able to make it to level 27. Based on his feelings on what to tweat for weapon balancing, I'm guessing he's not actually all that great at playing the game so much as building it.
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7-16-2008 @ 11:59AM
T-BoNe254 said...
i expect to get to the high 30's before i start having trouble. I mean Cliff had to use god mode to demo the brumak fight for the PC version og GoW1 last E3...
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7-16-2008 @ 11:59AM
T-BoNe254 said...
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7-16-2008 @ 2:04PM
webster1990 said...
Yeah, but that is just so that in case he does die he doesn't have to start again and he can easily demo the game in the time given
7-16-2008 @ 2:35PM
T-BoNe254 said...
That's not my point. My point is that he is not that good, if he had god mode off there were at least 2 or 3 spots where he would of died.
7-16-2008 @ 12:00PM
xFenixKnightx said...
Dustin
I know you've played Gears 2 MP at E3 already, but did they allow for some single player as well? Another question is if you have at least seen the single player up close, how does it compare graphics wise to the first game? From the looks of Cliffs demo it looked ridiculous. Probably even better than Killzone 2.
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7-16-2008 @ 12:09PM
Dustin Burg said...
sorry man, our preview was limited to multiplayer only.
7-16-2008 @ 12:39PM
xFenixKnightx said...
Oh, i see. Thx. I'm still jelous...
7-16-2008 @ 12:02PM
LongshotX said...
Seriously 100,000 Kills.
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7-16-2008 @ 12:04PM
Ryan Hartman said...
This game is going to be so jaw. I think I'm most excited for this mode. My freinds don't seem to hyped, they want to take on human opponents, but everything I'm hearing about horde has my pants extra tight
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7-16-2008 @ 12:31PM
Intentless said...
Reminds me of AVP survival mode on the PC.. That was awesome.
7-16-2008 @ 12:09PM
ccc said...
Sounds, great.
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