Gears of War 2 News Roundup
Submitted by TheRedOwl on Sat, 11/29/2008 - 9:56pm.
In case you missed it, the official site for Epic Games' recent release, Gears of War 2, has some exciting news. For one, the soundtrack is now for sale via the guys at Sumthing Else, or in normal CD format on shelves everywhere. I'm not quite sure whether or not to get it, but knowing my weakness for game music I'll probably cave pretty soon. The music of Gears of War 2 was composed by Steve Jablonsky, an excellent composer with mostly a career in film music.
The merchandise section is brimming with plenty of, well, merchandise for any of you who wish to fully express your love of GoW, though I think a Gears shoe is taking it a bit far.
If you've neglected to browse the photos section of the Gears 2 official website, you may have been missing out. It certainly has some nice features to be sure. You can browse everyones pictures, or just your own. There is also a nice handy dandy tab for just viewing the cool pictures you and your friends have uploaded- quite nice.
The MLG Gears of War 2 Film Festival is still on- record and upload your frag videos!
Epic also recently released a matchmaking fix update, something many Gears players like myself are definitely ecstatic about. Rod Fergusson's post I just linked to is a definite must-read if you experience any more problems.
Some interesting stats for your pleasure(not least of which GoW2 is #1 on XBL right now):
* Almost 3 million multiplayer matches (excluding Private) have been played.
* Almost 1 million screenshot photos have been uploaded to gearsofwar.com
* The most popular multiplayer mode is Horde.
* The most popular multiplayer map across all modes is River.
* The most lethal weapon is the Gnasher shotgun with almost 29% of all kills.
$650 for a Locust Drone bust! Yikes. Looks awesome, but I can swing that just yet.
It is good to see that Epic is using their forums to monitor chatter about the game and that they are making updates. But they are still offering no technical solution to matchmaking issues. I hope that gets better.
Interesting stats. GoW2 is the #1 game on live. However, CoD5 is the #1 played game right now considering that it is played on platforms other than the Xbox 360.
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rapture, that's a pretty cool stat-tracker you have there. :)
Why is River the most played map? Is it by a huge margin? Is it because Horde is popular on that map?
@MK: You missed out: http://hushedcasket.com/node/3032 ...
I don't post on my friends profiles much, but Raptr is quite nice. Check it out for yourself MK!
I checked it out myself:
http://raptr.com/n00bie51
Nice, Master Kim. I added you- if you want to embed your gamercard style "Raptr card" like rapture and I have, just go to your profile page, then click on the top right spot of your "Raptr card" and a host of embedding options are available.
Cool.
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