Gears of War 2 celebrates first anniversary with triple XP

by David Hinkle { Nov 5th 2009 at 8:45PM }

Now that Epic's rolled out TU5 for Gears of War 2, it's geared up to celebrate the game's first anniversary of existence with a triple XP event spanning the next nine days. Starting tomorrow at 9 AM EST through Monday, November 16 at 9 AM EST, all players will not only get triple the delicious experience points, but also access to a new tactical mode across all game modes -- which adds increased weapon damage and decreased ammo counts. On top of that, there's going to be "a few subtle tweaks," including a longer down-but-not-out phase for revivals and individual playlists that will allow you to play the exact gametype you want.

For you masochists out there, Epic will crank up Public Horde's difficulty to hardcore -- and if you've been playing Gears of War 2 through all of its changes, odds are you kinda are.

[Thanks, Nick!]

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

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

cows84ever @ Nov 5th 2009 8:52PM

HOO RAH!

Muckrak3r @ Nov 5th 2009 9:59PM

Exactly. This is a great way to rank up, and the new mode might actually be awesomeness.

10 days of triple EXP up in this.

incubeezer @ Nov 5th 2009 8:54PM

Pass.

James @ Nov 6th 2009 9:12AM

In Russia, the people pass you! you ugly whore...

incubeezer @ Nov 6th 2009 10:35AM

Wow what the fuck is wrong with you.

Tom @ Nov 5th 2009 8:57PM

This game has to be considered a disappointment in terms of online experience. The campaign was pretty good, but the online was bad from the start. Eventually it did improve, but not after numerous updates. This game isn't even in the top 5 most played online and I am not sure if Gear 2 has stayed in the top 5 recently.

Gears 1 was a whole different story. The game was much more popular.

Joey @ Nov 5th 2009 11:04PM

In no particular order: COD4, Halo 3, ODST, COD5... then Gears, right? What would top it??

I do agree though that Gears 1 was better. Just more "grungy" yet still "intimate" feel through out the campaign, IMO.

James @ Nov 6th 2009 9:14AM

@ Tom:

I don't know what you're playing that's making you feel sour, but it ain't GOW2. No, my friend, MP has been quite all right for some time, and I don't mean after "updates".

Tom @ Nov 6th 2009 11:47AM

If you think Gears 2 online was successful, then you're crazy. Look at Gears 1, then look at Gears 2. Why was Gears 1 that much more successful?

cows84ever @ Nov 5th 2009 8:58PM

hay it's still gudz!

Farseye21 @ Nov 5th 2009 9:05PM

Wow, perfect time for my Live to expire

Adrian @ Nov 5th 2009 9:06PM

You mean not everyone is going to be playing a certain game after the 10th?

TheIcemanCometh @ Nov 6th 2009 6:27AM

That's what Epic is hoping to curtail, at least a little bit. And it will work for me to a certain extent. Trying to get to Level 50 is a goal, but 100 is *SO* far away that it will take forever even with the 3XP.

Mazrael @ Nov 5th 2009 9:22PM

If I can pull myself away from Dragon Age..
This reminded me I still don't have my 50 round of Horde... far too many quitters about..

The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] @ Nov 5th 2009 9:32PM

wait, what's TU5?

Muckrak3r @ Nov 5th 2009 10:00PM

Title Update 5.

pibs @ Nov 5th 2009 10:04PM

The fifth title update, which is suppose to fix some glitches and problems etc

The Dark Wayne [Planeteer: Power of the Batusi] @ Nov 6th 2009 12:38AM

thanks

andylee92 @ Nov 5th 2009 10:35PM

It's my b-day on november 7th and this game was released on my b-day last year!!! Im gonna be playing for sure, cause i love gear of war games!!

prence @ Nov 6th 2009 12:38AM

Son of a bitch. Why didn't they start this so that it finished the day before MW2 came out? Now I'm going to be conflicted :\

FdUmCh @ Nov 6th 2009 3:42AM

no not me. lets see play a laggy game where host team win 99% of the time or play a game where theirs no host advantage and no lag.can't see the trouble in that decision

prence @ Nov 6th 2009 10:20AM

What? Do you even pay attention to the internetz at all? There's going to be no dedicated servers for anyone in MW2 so there's going to be host advantage whether you want to believe it or not.

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the_pop @ Nov 6th 2009 8:56AM

If multiplayer was triple XP the whole time then I might play it on and off to go for rank 100, but at the moment multiplayer is way to laggy to justify me playing it at the moment.

Jesus (PSN: Luttdawg) @ Nov 6th 2009 10:12AM

Wish I wasn't missing this. I'm picking up a 360 next week. Pretty excited for all the sweet xboxness i'm about to encounter.

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g @ Nov 6th 2009 1:10PM

Thats great ... now how about taking that ridiculous pause feature away ... it is ruining Horde ... tools (people who use this feature to piss others off) keep pausing the games ... arggghhh

mycbrad @ Nov 6th 2009 4:25PM

This is great - now how about triple credit towards Seriously 2.0?

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