Gears of War 2 goes old school this weekend

by David Hinkle { May 22nd 2009 at 11:15AM }

Well, as old school as 2006, anyway, as Epic has announced another Gears of War 2 weekend event. This weekend, the sequel will get a touch of the original Gears of War experience, as Epic will be turning off the concussion from smoke grenades (thank you!), and limiting team size to four in public matches in the Execution - Warzone, Annex - KOTH, and Guardian - Submission playlists. The madness has started as of 9 AM EST this morning and will continue through Tuesday, May 26, at 9 AM EST. You can thank Memorial Day for that extra day of fun, folks!

[Thanks, Joe!]

Tags: epic, epic-games, gears-of-war, gears-of-war-2, memorial-day, weekend, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

oracle @ May 22nd 2009 11:39AM

In other news: Use of the phrase "i wasn't even close!!!" is down 78% on XBL this weekend... hmm...

Jarvis Slacks @ May 22nd 2009 11:39AM

Thank God! I might actually spin the disk this weekend.

fet @ May 22nd 2009 11:43AM

in that case, they gotta bring back 1-hit downs from active reload snipes too

Nick @ May 22nd 2009 2:16PM

why in the HELL would they do that?

It was cheap, stupid and it showed a lack of skill.

Doing it once if you missed the headshot is one thing, but EVERYONE would use and abuse it.

There were a lot of things they messed up in Gears 2, but taking that bullshit excuse for a down is the best thing they could have done.

Darryl Smigelski @ May 22nd 2009 12:33PM

I wish they would get rid of the concussive effect on all grenades for good. I do however like the 5v5 component, but I do like the idea of having an old school weekend. Maybe they should offer "old-school" as a match type to choose. Rerelease all of the maps from the originals and get rid of ink grenades and concussion effect and everything else. It would be an option I would try every once in a while just to mix things up. As long as Epic keeps doing new things every once in a while I will continue to play this game.

MetalBLACKFOX @ May 22nd 2009 12:41PM

that's a pretty good idea..i did not play the 1rst one that much..so i gotta see what everyone be complaining about because i like the GOW2 when it does not have lag or lag-switch users

Muckrak3r @ May 22nd 2009 12:45PM

This is cool. Getting killed while being on my back from a 'smoke' stun grenade by some noob kid is infuriating to say the least. It takes no skill to tag a stun grenade, hide like a girl behind something, and one shot the downed opponent.

Gears1 was so much better in so many ways, but Gears2 does have a lot of great stuff to it. This weekend will be tons of fun.

mattclarkie @ May 22nd 2009 1:40PM

Epics idea of turning off concussion is not the same as mine. Instead of falling to the floor for 5 seconds you are now stuck on the spot unable to move for 5 seconds and a bigger target for shooting. Atleast when on the floor only enemies near you can kill you, when bolt upright you can be shot from clean across the map.