Learning Something: Gears of War Series

Gears of War was released in North America on November 9th 2006, Europe on November 12th 2006 and Australia on November 24th 2006.

Upon its release, Gears of War received positive reviews from critics. Why? Because it is generally acknowledged to be an amazing game.
It was also the second most played game on Xbox Live in 2007.
Gears of War 1 was supposed to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, but it was decided that it would also be released on PC. This happened in North America on November 6th 2007 and in Europe on November 9t, 2007.

At the game's release, Epic Games released a Limited Collectors Edition. Some of the notable differences are a steel case instead of the regular plastic case and an extra disc which contains artworks of environments and stages including Locust that never made it to the game. The disc also contains a time-lapse on the creation of the "Emergence" mural. The game's disc and case has a different cover and instead features the Omen background. Another of the Collector's Edition extras is a book titled Destroyed Beauty which illustrates the games back-story and includes concepts, sketches, and descriptions of the game's characters. The Collector's Edition also includes the same instruction manual and 48-hour Xbox Live Gold trial as the regular game does.
According to Microsoft Game Studios Vice President Shane Kim, Gears of War preorder sales were second only to Halo 2 in the studio's history.Gears of War was also the first Xbox or Xbox 360 game to sell out and reach the top ten charts in Japan. Which is pretty impressive since the xbox 360 is not popular at all in Japan.

The sequel, Gears of war 2 was released on November 7, 2008 worldwide.
It contained similar elements to Gears of War 1, but also featured a variety of vast improvements, including crawling when you're nearly dead, instead of in Gears of War 1 when you got shot and died. In Gears of War 2 if you get shot down you have a chance to crawl and survive if any of your team members pick you up :)

On its release weekend, Gears of War 2 sold over two million copies, and within two months of release, had sold four million copies. It was the seventh best selling video game of 2008 and received several accolades. The game received similar praise as its predecessor, with the new gameplay and multiplayer modes seen as outstanding additions.
For people that bought the special edition of Gears of War 2 it came with a code for a downloadable golden lancer from Xbox Live to play online and a code for flashback map packs, which contained 4 maps from Gears of War 1 tweaked and made better visuals, the maps were also fan favourites.
People who attended the GameStop Midnight Madness event received a code to unlock a gold-plated Hammerburst rifle for use in multiplayer and they also got a code for a new theme optimized for the new xbox Experience.
Since it's release it has been 3 map packs released (including the flashback map pack)
the other two are, Combustible map pack which consists of three new maps, Flood, Gold Rush, and Fuel Station, The map pack was released on December 15th 2008.
the other one is the snowblind map pack, this one consisted of four new maps released on March 31st.

On July 28th 2009 there will be another release of Gears of war 2. this one will consist of seven new multiplayer maps. As well as a new stealth mode called "road to ruin" this package will be called "Gears Of War 2: Dark Corners"
theres also another release that is similar to "Gears Of War 2: Dark Corners" but this one is called "Gears Of War 2: All Fronts" the only difference about this one is that is will contain all the previous map packs.

"Gears Of War 2: Dark Corners" will cost 1200 microsoft points
while
"Gears Of War 2: all Fronts" will cost 1600 microsoft points.

Gears Of War 2: all fronts was gonna be released as retail but in response to complaints that both add-ons had the same price despite differing amounts of content, as well as the All Fronts retail pack not being made available in certain regions, Epic Games adjusted the release plan. They decided to release them on xbox live with the current prices.

Overall Gears of war 2 received wide critical acclaim.
with (as I mentioned before) vast improvements. over its predeccessor.
And Unlike Gears of war 1 epic games (the people that made the game) say they arent gonna release it on p.c so its gonna stay a xbox 360 exclusive.

Gears of war sold two million copies. It has solid over 5 million units to current date. Bringing the total francise to 11 million copies.

There have been rumours of Gears of war 3 but nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

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