There are no plans for a Gears 2 demo
by Terrence Stasse 
{ Apr 19th 2008 at 3:15PM }
There goes another bit of the UT3 tease. ShackNews has confirmed that Epic has nothing in the pipeline regarding any Gears of War 2 demo. Like Halo 3 before it, the big holiday Xbox release has plenty of hype on its own to sell well. Plus, as Epic notes, creating a demo removes that much more from design, QA, production (and more) from the main game's development. They are, of course, correct, further noting that the game's two year production cycle would have made a demo even more difficult for Epic to pull off. *Sigh* All for the best we suppose.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
lysernix @ Apr 19th 2008 3:34PM
...and there needn't be.
Shogan @ Apr 19th 2008 3:51PM
After playing the first one, I don't need a demo. I know it's a bland, colorless, world populated with masculine stereotypes that only exist in video games and gay bars.
Pretty graphics, though.
Homer 918 @ Apr 19th 2008 7:29PM
You encapsulated how I feel about it so well!
ManicBomber @ Apr 20th 2008 7:19AM
Personally I don't frequent gay bars so I'm glad that you do so you can make these analogies for the rest of us.
I Love Bowser @ Apr 20th 2008 7:44AM
I frequent gay bars, and I can confirm that Fenix is an archetype of those institutions.
webster1990 @ Apr 19th 2008 4:00PM
there wasn't a demo for the first one was there?
i'm okay without a demo, i'll be buying anyway.
EMOruffino @ Apr 19th 2008 8:27PM
there are some games i like and GOW was one of them.
tho i dont play it anymore, it was fun online.
i waited for H3 at midnight, GTAIV i will be there at midnight and GOW2 i will be there at midnight.
:p
todd @ Apr 19th 2008 4:22PM
Im not buying this one on release.
JAKEJAX @ Apr 19th 2008 4:34PM
Agreed. I will buy it when it goes down to $29.
todd @ Apr 19th 2008 4:36PM
Ditto, $30-35.
hackman @ Apr 19th 2008 4:47PM
of course there will be no demo just like the other highly anticipated xbox 360 games....Assassins creed GTA IV Gears of War Call of duty 4
JakubK666 (Ninja Defence Force) @ Apr 19th 2008 5:09PM
Well...there isn't a point in making a demo for these games.Developers probably need to pay MS in order to upload stuff on XBLM.
But when it is certain that the game will sell millions of copies, why bother?
Teabag @ Apr 20th 2008 4:16AM
Actually, COD4 had a demo. Well, at least for the PC. I remember playing it and telling myself again and again how sweet the game was and how i was gonna buy it the moment it releases.
And meh, i didn't expect any demo for Gears 2. Demos only come out for avg. - crappy games. Big game developers don't really give a shit about demos anymore. Too scared i suppose. Sad. Very sad.
Boff @ Apr 21st 2008 5:34AM
There was a COD4 mulitplayer Beta.
PWND @ Apr 19th 2008 5:08PM
The demo will take too much time out of development? LOL
Who are these guys kidding? Are they afraid we might not like the game? GOW 1 was the ONLY Xbox 360 I've sold out of my collection... without a demo, this will be a rental for me.
Maestro @ Apr 19th 2008 5:08PM
No demo doesn't mean no beta bundled with some other game...
ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 19th 2008 5:36PM
No demo? No buy.
;) somebody had to say it.
UNSCleric @ Apr 19th 2008 5:55PM
Obviously. Gears of War 1 is a good enough demo anyway.
Sacredleader @ Apr 19th 2008 6:29PM
No kidding. If you didn't like that one chances are your not having a change of heart anytime soon.
Vcize @ Apr 19th 2008 6:59PM
How come every time there's a post about a popular game a dozen people feel the need to come out and say
"HAY GUYZ I'M NOT BUYING THIS ITS LAME OVERRATED HAHA YOU SHEEP CONFORMISTS I'M SUCH A REBEL AND SO COOOOOOL AS CUCUMBER FOR NOT LIKING THIS!!!!!111111"
It's like the hipsters of the videogame community.
You're all so cool, way too cool for the comments sections of these articles, so just do everyone a favor and stay out because trust me when I tell you that nobody here cares about your buying habits.
ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 19th 2008 7:07PM
I'm too cool for school! Conformist! ;)
SadisticHam @ Apr 19th 2008 7:45PM
You know how people in the music world feel the need to call other bands "lame no talent losers" while they go about listening to some old guy with a goatie screaming?
There the video games world version, E-Cool kids that think if they rebel against the popular and preach it everywhere possible they'll get some sort of social status. ;D
That's my guess at least!
EMOruffino @ Apr 19th 2008 8:30PM
i have a goatee and i scream..... :)>
LoneWolf051 @ Apr 19th 2008 7:26PM
Key to multilayer beta?
DSK UK @ Apr 19th 2008 7:20PM
There was only two real reasons I enjoyed the first one...
1) The cinematic parts like when you first meet a burserker
and 2) CO-OP (The main reason)
todd @ Apr 19th 2008 11:41PM
I actually played the first though 3 times but never alone ha... they are hinting at maybe 4 player co-op in the latest GI. If that happens I might, might, get it on release but doubtful. The first was great but think the second might not do as well.
CJJB @ Apr 19th 2008 7:21PM
Shit, now I'm definitely not buying it.....NAAAAT!!!!11one
(see what i did there with the borat joke)
x Cheevos x @ Apr 19th 2008 8:02PM
I do not care one bit that Gears 2 is not getting a demo, just like I don't care that there was no Halo 3 or GTA IV demo. I know what to expect already and I feel that the only games that I want a demo for are new franchises.
The Sound @ Apr 19th 2008 8:10PM
Can 'demo' be substituted for 'beta' now?
I wouldn't put it past them either to release a 'beta'.
aBs @ Apr 19th 2008 8:48PM
Agreed with the guy that talked sh|t to all these "cool hip dudes" that dont like such games.
Go fvck ur selfs. Game is a must buy.
nintendo fanboy hater @ Apr 20th 2008 11:21AM
I say suck a nut to the posers/ posters that try to pretend like they are cool enough to resist GOW2 or COD4... which we all know is not true so go suck a nut.
OTAM @ Apr 20th 2008 6:12PM
This game is going to melt my face off. I still play Gears of War at least for an hour everyday since it's been released (just played about 3 hours ago). It's full of B-movie cheese,ridiculous and over-the-top stuff like chainsaw bayonets and buckets of gore. This is the stuff badass horror movies like Evil Dead and Dead Alive are made of.
Gears of War 2 will be the first game I will ever stay out a midnight launch for.