Want to refresh your memory or simply kill time until you get your hands on Gears 2? This is the feature for you ... but if you've never finished the original Gears this will ruin the entire campaign. You've been warned!
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Spoiler Warning: Gears of War
Want to refresh your memory or simply kill time until you get your hands on Gears 2? This is the feature for you ... but if you've never finished the original Gears this will ruin the entire campaign. You've been warned!
Fanswag: Win Gears of War 2 and a pile of swag!
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This is it kids, the mother of all Gears of War 2 giveaways. In the image above, you can see the following:
- Gears of War 2
- Gears of War novel Aspho Fields
- Gears of War art book
- Gears of War comic book
- Gears of War hoodie
- Gears of War messenger bag
- One limited edition red wireless Xbox 360 controller
- Gears of War is famous for having a gun with a chainsaw bayonet. Leave a comment on this post describing another object you'd like to see attached to a (virtual) gun.
- You may leave one comment. Posters of multiple comments will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until 5:00PM eastern today, Friday, November 7th. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec).
- On Friday, we'll pick two winners via a random drawing.
- One grand prize winner will receive one Gears of War 2 Limited Edition, one Gears of War novel, one Gears of War art book, one Gears of War comic book, one Gears of War hoodie, one Gears of War messenger bag, one red wireless Xbox 360 controller worth approximately $200 total. One second prize winner will receive one Gears of War 2 Standard Edition, one Gears of War novel, one Gears of War art book, one Gears of War comic book, one Gears of War hoodie, one Gears of War messenger bag, one red wireless Xbox 360 controller worth approximately $190 total.
- Complete giveaway rules can be found here.
X3F TV -- Gears of War 2: Multiplayer Map Preview Part Two
Check out our Flashback Map Preview video to check out how those bonus maps stack up against the original versions found in Gears of War and the first part of our Gears of War 2 Multiplayer Map Preview. We're so close to release, we can almost hear the chainsaws.
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X3F TV -- Gears of War 2: Multiplayer Map Preview Part One
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Reminder: Win GoW2 COG, huge giveaway Friday
You have less than two hours to enter for a chance to win a copy of Gears of War 2 Limited Edition and the cool neat nifty epic Last Day metal COG tag. It's a promotional item, dont'cha know.
To enter our Gears of War 2 fanswag giveaway, simply make your way over to the official blog and post comment by 5:00PM eastern. Note too that even if you entered yesterday you can enter a second time today. So, get to it!
Also, we wanted to tease everyone in regards to what we have planned for tomorrow's Gears of War 2 launch day giveaway. Let's just say there will be a HUGE Gears 2 fanswag surprise this Friday. Feeling teased yet?
X3F TV -- Gears of War 2: Flashback Map Pack
The waters of Canals have been frozen, Gridlock has been taken over by lush vegetation, Tyro Station seems to have had an upgrade in tech, Mansion appears more abandoned than ever before and Subway had dried up and now rains pieces of ash from the ongoing war.
Want to see the changes for yourself, in action? Check out our video that includes footage from the in-game Battle Camera.
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X3F Live: One final farewell to Gears of War
Gearheads unite! Tonight, team Xbox 360 Fanboy will be signing onto Xbox Live at 9:30PM eastern to play X3F Live Gears of War multiplayer. It'll be our final farewell to the Gears we've all come to love over the past two years seeing that, this Friday, Gears of War 2 will be making its way to retailers. Think of it as one final Gears gaming "hoo-rah!"To join the fun, look out for team X3F's gamertags (listed below) and send a friend request to Gamertag X3FLive to connect with other fanboys. It's Gears of War tonight at 9:30PM eastern, send requests and get online.
- X3FLive (your fellow fanboys)
- SuperDunners (Dustin)
- SenseiRAM (Richard)
- Snypz (Xav)
Gears of War 2: Heroes of Sera
Who are these heroes? Who will humanity look to in its darkest hour? X3F examines the Heroes of Sera in this special feature in preparation of the release of Gears of War 2 on November 7, 2008.
Fanswag: Win Gears of War 2 and a COG tag [update]
So begins our Gears of War 2 launch week fanswag giveaways (nope, we didn't forget) and today we're giving away two copies of Gears of War 2 Limited Edition and will be parting with our super rare, super collectible and super metallic Gears COG tag. Yes, the same metal COG tag that was part of the Last Day campaign. Yes, it's hard for us to part with it.
We'll be selecting two winners on Thursday (one will win the game, the other will win the game and COG tag) and all you have to do is enter by commenting on this post. You'll have two chances to enter (once today, once tomorrow), so get entering and win. A metal COG tag awaits ...
- To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on this post telling us what your favorite Gears execution is. Do you prefer the curb-stomp? More of a chainsawdomizer? Or maybe you like Torque Bowing your foes?
- You may leave one comment per calendar day eastern time. Posters of multiple comments per day will be disqualified. We'll accept entries until Thursday, November 6th at 5:00PM eastern. You must be at least 18 years old to enter. This giveaway is open only to residents of the U.S. and Canada (excluding Quebec).
- On Thursday, we'll pick two winners via a random drawing.
- One grand prize winner will receive (1) metal Gears of War 2 COG tag and (1) Gears of War 2 Limited Edition worth $70. One second prize winner will receive (1) Gears of War 2 Limited Edition worth $70.
- Complete giveaway rules can be found here
Gallery: Gears of War 2 - COG Tag
Review: Gears of War 2
Ultimately, Gears 2 has a few promises to live up to. When it was announced the first marketing spiel thrown out with it was, "Bigger, better and more badass." Does it answer those claims or does Gears of War 2 fall faster than a burning Locust Reaver? Jump in for the full review.
Ed. Note: This review does not include any story spoilers.
X3F Hands-on: Gears of War 2 - Act One
Disclaimer: While major story elements have been made purposely vague in this article we should qualify that some of the following feature contains spoilers of the characters and scenarios in Act One of Gears of War 2.
