Gears of War 2 PC Rumors


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The PC rumor mill started to catch on fire earlier this afternoon with info that Gears of War 2, the critically and commercially acclaimed title from Epic Games and Microsoft Game Studios. According to one website, there were plenty of details that appeared to be pulled from an upcoming press release and even a preliminary box shot with the Games for Windows logo stamped on the front and limited edition details.

If this were true, this would be a large boost to the seemingly dead Games for Windows platform, particularly after a non-existent showing at this year's E3, where none of the titles shown displayed the banner or Live logo on the box. Landing a large title like Gears of War 2 would be an excellent game for PC owners, and it would also seem to be in keeping with the release of the original game on the PC as well: the first game came out on computers a year after its release on the 360 with a few extras. The supposed release date of the PC version, according the website, is December 4 of this year.

We contacted a Microsoft representative for comment, and received this reply: "Gears of War 2 is a great franchise for the 360, and so we are putting all of our attention into making sure that it stands out on that console. There are no plans to bring the game to the PC." Will this position change in the future? Currently, it doesn't seem likely. But if anything changes, we'll be sure to bring that information to you as soon as it becomes available.

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Hm. It wouldn't be too bad if this ended up being true, as i'd prefer to play it on my pc for more than one reason. Though if it does come to pc, i hope the port isn't as sloppy and bug ridden of gears 1 was.

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didn't CliffyB said that this wont come out on windows? he even said that an user with a decent amount of skill would pirate it if it were on pc

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Ugh! I hate it when speculation gets my hopes up. Anyway, here's what he said about the PC platform:

The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips. Here's the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.

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It's been confirmed with Microsoft and CliffyB himself: Gears of War 2 will not be released on the PC. That could change in the future, but it's highly unlikely.

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THEY FAIL. I deal with many people at work that dont know ANYTHING about torrenting, but built a custom pc / got a custom pc built and they just have common knowledge. They know there specs a bit and done. finish. Ive actually tried quesitoning all of them about torrenting and they all were like "huh theres another way to download stuff instead of limewire, p2p, etc."

So they fail at that. and I happily will buy a PC game if I paid to BUILD A PC to play games.

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Anyway, here's what he said about the PC platform:

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It's been confirmed with Microsoft and CliffyB himself: Gears of War 2 will not be released on the PC. That could change in the future, but it's highly unlikely.

QFT

Same can be said for Fable 2.

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