If you die, you kind of start back just seconds before you died. The game doesnʼt have “extra lives”, and it doesnʼt ever ask you if you want to continue. It knows, at all times, that the fact that the consoleʼs power is engaged means that the player is willing to play. It leaves the decision to stop playing entirely outside the realm of its menus and on-screen prompts.
Released earlier this morning (3:40AM pacific to be exact), the Gears of War 2 patch or "title update" will be insta-downloaded the next time you pop in your Gears 2 disc while connected to Xbox Live. The biggest change the update will bring is a fix to the long matchmaking wait times that were overkill, especially for one and four player parties. Epic's Rod Fergusson is optimistic that today's patch will squash Gears 2's online multiplayer problems, saying that he hopes "the matchmaking issues we've seen up till now are a thing of the past." Amen to that.
We're also informed that the Gears 2 patch will improve how stats are collected for GearsofWar.com and fixes the problem where some players couldn't access campaign when Xbox Live is down.
The wonderfully twisted passages of the internet have unearthed an Asian product page advertising an April release for a Gears of War 2: Dark Corners add-on.
The image, posted on Joystiq, was discovered by a Gears of War forum user in a now defunct thread, fueled by former Kotaku guest editor Geoff Keighley's Twitter entry regarding Gears of War 2 level announcements. If the rumor holds true, this would see two Gears of War 2 add-ons released within a month of each other, with Snowblind due out on March 31st. It doesn't seem like a wise idea, releasing more maps while people are still getting used to the last batch, so this could very well be an extension of the single player campaign as well.
Hopefully we'll find out more as the Game Developers Conference continues. Until then, strictly in the realm of rumors.
Αφού δεν ανακοινώθηκε στην Ε3, δεν το βλέπω...Βέβαια υπάρχει και η Leipzig Games Convention στις 31 Ιουλίου. Δεδομένου και του ΠιΣιτραφούς Γερμανικού κοινού ίσως να υπάρξει ανακοίνωση εκεί. Αν δεν γίνει και 'κει...μάθε να παίζεις shooter με joypad.manos426f είπε:Άντε να δούμε,αργεί να βγει στο PC....