Rumor: Gears 2 scheduled for Nov 16th release

by Dustin Burg { Jun 1st 2008 at 9:15PM }

Since Gears of War 2's GDC announcement we've known that the second Emergence Day would come sometime this November, but for obsessive fanboys a general thirty day release window isn't good enough. We need a specific date. That's why when we heard that Mighty Rasta, the voice actor for GoW2's Augustus Cole, hinted about the game's release date recently, our inner fanboy got a tad bit excited.

As part of the TriForce panel at Wizard World, Rasta and crew chatted about Gears 2 and some really special Gears replicas. Then someone asked about Gears of War 2's release date, the TriForce crew refused to comment but Mr. Rasta suggested asking the release date question on November 16th. A not so subtle hint that (mathematically) has a 25% chance at being correct even if Rasta knows nothing about the game's official release. Though, the release would be a odd seeing that November 16th falls on a Sunday which isn't traditionally a weekday that sees video game releases. Ahhh heck, we're optimists here and are sticking by Rasta's release date hint. November 16th here we come!

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war-2, gow2

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Michael_of_Sweden @ Jun 1st 2008 9:23PM

That's exactly 1 year after Super Mario Galaxy :o It's a nice sign of upcoming awesome.

john paul @ Jun 1st 2008 10:46PM

He probably wrong. It would be pretty dumb to put it on a Sunday.

Anticrawl @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:14AM

You're an idiot, Gears of War 1 released on a sunday.

Gemini Ace @ Jun 2nd 2008 10:31AM

Gears 1 released on a Tuesday. I remember going after work to my local Gamestop and getting it. I don't work on Sundays.

Think before you type, sir.

Michael @ Jun 1st 2008 10:12PM

i think that they're going to announce the release date on the 16th, very close to the release. Just like Gears 1.

Peff @ Jun 1st 2008 11:08PM

Maybe hes saying ask on the 16th cause itll be the 18th, the next tuesday. mmm. interesting.

Matthew Moore @ Jun 1st 2008 11:43PM

Well Dustin, Gears 1 was released on the 7th of November, a normal Tuesday release, however Emergency Day was on the 12th of November, a Sunday. Also Sunday releases aren't that unusual Pokemon Diamond and Pearl were released on a Sunday and I believe that Super Smash Brawl was also. The release date sounds very plausible when the release for the first game was so similar.

Ray @ Jun 2nd 2008 12:24AM

Who cares? I'm sure 5 other dates will be thrown around.

November is 5 whole months away.

bigboss81 @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:05AM

Who gives a rat's ass? If you want to play pc games the n use a COMPUTER! =D

David W. @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:10AM

That makes no sense...

Gears started on the console, so you can't call it a PC game...It's a console game that was in turn ported to the PC

Alex C. @ Jun 2nd 2008 2:10AM

SPOILER ALERT:

cole dies in gow2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59QQ2u2e-9U

SytheMaster @ Jun 2nd 2008 3:30AM

You utter bastard, I clicked on that without thinking. Lets justs say it isn't GOW related....

Vcize @ Jun 2nd 2008 9:32AM

What is it? I'm curious now, but no way I'm clicking it at work.

Marcel hatam @ Jun 2nd 2008 3:57AM

Common people, wheres your memory? Emergence Day was on sunday november 12th - so this might very well be true :)

Boff @ Jun 2nd 2008 7:04AM

I was going to mention Emergence Day & Gears1.

Ryan Hartman @ Jun 2nd 2008 10:07AM

I was there, and he did in fact say that. When prodded for facts about the game, he said to ask him about it again on the 16th. Upon further detective work, I've seen that Amazon was listing the release date as the 15th.

Maybe he was saying the 16th as an indication that he could talk about it the day after it was released? Eh? Eh? I'm like goddam Colombo over here.

Also as an aside, those weapons and armor from Triforce look tit-tacular.