Now that Gears of War 2 has released and all the build-up of patient waiting (hah!) has passed, giving everyone a chance to dive into the game and see what all the fuss is about, it’s time to cover everything that’s been going on in the Gears of War 2 stratosphere. The reviews are in, marking down a Metacritic score of 93, which is damn nice! It’s only a single percentage point lower than the original Gears of War (94), which isn’t enough to make a difference really. And considering that Gears of War 2 had to maintain the ridiculously high expectations started by the first Gears of War, it’s no doubt doing very nicely for itself.
Last time, we mentioned the Gears of War 2 Midnight Launch Events in various cities. This time we dug up one video of such a Gears of War 2 release day event, so take a peep:
Aside from that bit of fun stuff, we’ve also learned about Gears of War 2’s sales over its first week, which have racked up amazingly quickly. VGCharts.com put up a report that Gears of War 2 launched in the top spot (not like we didn’t figure that). Still, it seriously exceeded expectations, breaking a whopping 2 million sales in a few short days, putting Sony’s triple-A competition Resistance 2 in the dust heap, with the PS3 flagship title pulling a comparatively modest 304,958. Even still, Gears of War 2 hit shelves several days later, leaping way ahead despite Resistance 2 having a half-week head start!
We’ve also heard of a massively hardcore accomplishment: Gears Of War 2: Horde Wave 50 Completed On Insane. Gearheadsofwar.com, the self-proclaimed victors, said, “We started from Wave 1 on the ‘Day One’ map and whittled away at this for about three days. The dirty, dirty Horde didn’t stand a damn chance! Forget about throwing the kitchen sink at us, the Locusts threw the damn house! We have it all on film, baby!” Must have taken a lot of sweat, tears and soda…
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