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 @ 12:24PM
Rick said...
This is a great variation on Gears gameplay that I know my friends and I will be addicted to/frustrated by. Can't wait!
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7-16-2008 @ 12:39PM
Phawx said...
I thought Halo 3 was going to get a 'Flood' very similar to this. At least someone finally started thinking like this
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7-16-2008 @ 12:48PM
veridis said...
Cant wait looks really good, i hopes people's ideas of completing this replacing a giant kill count achievement are true, takes skill more than time.
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7-16-2008 @ 1:26PM
Tony said...
Awesome. I love modes like this. Kind of classic arcade, high score stuff.
I'll be playing that a lot.
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7-16-2008 @ 1:28PM
Joe said...
my bigeest question is is it easier with less people or is the difficulty the same
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7-16-2008 @ 1:30PM
Chris said...
I LOVE THIS< finally a mode thats treuly hard to summount im so sick of games getting dumbed down so anyone can do 100% without effort... hearing that the devs can get to lvl 27 of 50 makes me happy means when i hit 28 ill be estatic :)
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7-16-2008 @ 1:31PM
Chris said...
i hope its not easier, that way when me and 1 buddy beat level 50 it'll be that more astonishing :)
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7-16-2008 @ 2:08PM
webster1990 said...
Sounds awesome, seems like i am going to get more playtime out of this than the first one. And i got a LOT of playtime out of the first (and i didn't even have xbox live back then, just a one month free)
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7-16-2008 @ 3:46PM
LeadBoxx said...
How awesome would it be to have a wave of Berzerkers coming at ya? Nay awesome but insane!
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7-16-2008 @ 4:32PM
zackd15 said...
actually, up in the higher levels they start to send EVERYTHING at you. I heard in a podcast where they talked to developers and they said around round level 30, they release about 5 beserkers that run around the map just running into everyone. Now combine that with blood mounts, reapers, drones, boomers, and everyother locust, this is gonna be INSANE.
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