May 6th 2009 2:08 pm PT

What are the chances they’ll increase the experience earned per in-game point in MP at this time? I don’t see many people ever making it to rank 100 (legitimately).

Cool, only if the multiplayer actually fucken worked!!!!

Maps? At a decent price?

I might actually consider this, if only to support the idea.

Another Epic rip off.

Does the 1,600 MS Points separate purchase of the DLC also include the campaign?

^^,

Just a waste of money, I’ll pass. Fix your laggy, buggy game Epic. Epic needs to be bought out and management needs to be restructured. All they care about is money and making an unreliable engine.

Awesome! Epic knows how to keep players coming back for more. I’ll be downloading it day 1.For this and future DL content, I would love to see Epic up the max-multiplayer player count and add vehicles, but that’s probably out of the question…till Gears 3 probably.

Epic really is full of arrogant douchebags. I love this game (hate the glitches and bugs), but this is a little too much. I already have all the other map packs and now they want me to pay $20 for 7 new maps and a bunch of a content I could give a crap about? Wow, just wow.

If you don’t like it, don’t buy it. They don’t want you to pay $20 for 7 new maps and a bunch of content you could give a crap about. They want you to pay for content you DO want.

I tried playing some multiplayer for the first time in a couple months last night. It’s still frustrating.I’ll wait to see what this new campaign stuff is about, but multiplayer is dead to me.

YES – i dont have any of the Premium DLC (Combustable or Snowblind), so this is a good deal for me.

Works out at around £12 when using MS points

So will this be a redemption code when bought at retail? like the GTA L&D DLC?

so is Epic scre*ing over everyone that already bought the 2 map packs? – it doesnt look like they will be offering the 7 maps & campain for a reduced fee…

why would i pay £15 for the dlc
when i can get gow2 for £14

@NavComm81
Whoooooooooooooooooooooosh!

yeah I love how currency exchange rates work at MS : 1$=1€… when in reality it’s been 1.25/1.30$=1€ for several years now.
Cause you know… us Europeans have so much money that we can just give it away like candies on Halloween. Seriously, this has gone for way too long and while I understand that VAT maybe higher in some countries (France) than in others (Spain? Italy), a 30 or so % bump in pricing is complete BS.
Europeans are not cash cows!!! And don’t blame game pricing on retail cause in this MS IS the retailer. Nice marging outthere…

I’ll pass!

PS : now I’ll wait for the usual localisation cost BS. Bad dubbing and silly subtitles is everuthing I love to spend my extra cash on.

Those who already wanted the released map packs, already bought themm ..so this is a rip-off.
I didnt buy map packs myself as i dont play standard multiplayer. I wont fork out 1600 points for “Road to Ruin” only.
This is probably the most expensive map pack ever.
They released the huge Titan Pack and everything else for free for Unreal Tournament 3, but on Gears of war 2 they want money for anything.

do I get a refund on the maps I already bought? Add this outrage to the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack and I’m quickly becoming and alienated. I can’t remember the last time I was as offended as I am by this…

“In order to make the pack worthwhile to those who’ve already downloaded the majority of the Gears 2 DLC, the package also contains an introduction from Cliff Bleszinski for “Road to Ruin”, a collectible poster, a strategy guide, and a custom Xbox Live theme.”

well woopity-doo

just read the official report…

so it works out £14.99 for all the DLC at retail, or approx £13.30 (£12 cheapest) for just the new content.

a good deal for us who have not bought any of the DLC, but a bit of a cheat to those loyal Gears fans.

Man, now I feel even worse about my purchase of the Combustible map pack lol. I still to this date have only played those maps 3-4 times online since they were so awful (Flood, really Epic?)

i was thinking of purchasing both pieces of DLC a couple of days ago – so glad i didn’t

Great deal for people like me who never downloaded the maps. Can’t wait to pick this up and starting murdering fools. Bravo!

This should be 1,200 for those of us who already bought all the other DLC. Epic = FAIL.

Awesome, haven’t bought any of the new maps and really want the single player DLC, instant buy!

New campaign? I should’ve guessed. Looks like yet another Epic ripoff just like with Gears 1 where you had to get the game again for an extra act that wasn’t even worth it to begin with. I won’t be buying any of this garbage. I’ve had it with this extra campaign garbage like with Tomb Raider, Prince of Persia, & now Gears 2. I sure as hell won’t be buying Gears 3 after this because I will have to pay $20 more to get the ending to that game probably.

I’ve already spent $90, now another $20!?! WTF? so $110 in the end. F- that, I think I’ll be passing on this one. Money hungry SOB’s.

I wonder how this works for people, like myself, with multiple 360′s. Will I be able to install this content on both my systems or is this a one-use code?

Has anyone in Europe caught on to today’s press release from Sony? Someone does hate you more than MS…no Ghostbusters for you.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/05/sony-will-publish-ghostbusters-game-in-europe/

Oh, and I am curious…who is NOT offended by the upcoming sports title “Black College Football the Xperience”? Is there really a fan base out there who want to control cheerleaders and the drumline in addition to playing football? I am pretty sure that conference WAS represented in NCAA 08, 09, and will be in 2010…and I think I will stick to the game that let’s me use all the teams, not just this one. Is “Ivy League Lacrosse” next?

I love the addition of new campaign material. I am really looking forward to Halo 3: ODST and now Dark Corners is on my radar too. I really think this is how it’s going to work in the future. If you have a successful product on your hands like Halo or Gears of War, you don’t necessarily have to push out the sequel to expand upon your universe. I think Half-life has the right idea with different episodes.

Well seeing as the only multiplayer mode I play is horde I never bothered to pick up any of the maps. If they seriously want me to consider spending any money on this they need to update the game with map pack playlists for horde mode, even the flashback map pack which most people should have hardly ever shows up in public horde.

Hmm, not sure what to make of this.
I don’t have both of the non-limited edition map packs as I felt 800ms for just 3 maps (1 of which i believe was a remake from a PC only map) was over the top, the combustable map pack was better weighted but I couldn’t justify getting them as I don’t play gears 2 enough.
This looks a GREAT price point for 4 map packs (inc the LE Freebie) but having it a dlc card as opposed to a disc based system like the halo 2 maps pack cd is wrong. I can understand them wanting to get as many people buying as possible but I think this is the wrong way to go about selling it, especially as people are still getting irate over dlc not working on new consoles (transfers all my licences to my main 360, then it dies bigtime, go figure)

Wow, I can’t believe so many people are whning.

What game hasn’t had reduced price in map pack, or map packs made free eventually?

Halo 3 has done it, Gears 1 did it….why is this any different?

And the most expensive map pack?? Its 7 maps and a new single player chapter.

Do the math, thats $2.50 per content piece. Thats over priced?!?

The best part is this will catch a LOT of people up to the DLC maps. So now these should appear much more often in certain playlists.

Tired of whining brats always finding something to complain about.

Wait, I still don’t understand how people who HAVEN’T bought the Flashback and Combustible Map Packs, can spend the same $20 and get them AND the new add-on… While those of us who shelled out $10 a pop for each of those map packs ALSO have to pay $20 for ONLY the new add-on. Completely UNFAIR to shoe of us who supported EPIC during their development of the game!!

yeah,can you just tell Microsoft to fix the achievements for the fallout 3 DLC,i am waiting to play it..what with that and PAL regions not getting 360 version of Ghostbusters,owning a 360 in Europe is starting to lose its shine i am totally losing faith
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whats the point of having an international friends list just to see them playing the games that i want to play but can’t…we are still waiting for Star Ocean 4 and Tales of Vesperia

CountryMud…

Re-read my post.

Is it fair when things go on sale after you buy it?

Get over it. Seriously.

EPIC FAIL ! I already own the three previous map packs which cost me $5 each. Having to re-buy content in these economic times is an epic fail. Sure just the 7 new maps and the 1 single player campaign are going to be available for download but for 1600 points AKA $20 ! Epic, you need to fix your network code before I’d consider giving you any more of my money. Two words for you… DEDICATED SERVERS. You have them for Unreal Tournament, it’s time you use them for Gears. No money for you until your networking issues are fixed.

How can people be complaining about this – it’s awesome news!! christmas has come early and Cliffy B is santa!! hee hee!

I can’t wait for this. Any chance to play more co-op campaigns as well as new maps, new achievements and more hording is perfect in my book.

Brain Mantis… A SALE?… yes… FREE???… No…

Especially considering the last Gears pack just came out a few weeks ago.

What a sweet ripoff for those of us that already bought the map packs. I’ve bought a TON of DLC, and I hate constantly being crapped over by Microsoft and Epic.

You know…it would actually cost me more to buy the download version, than to go and buy the disk which has the packs I already paid for with the theme, poster and strategy guide etc. Now, for the people who were dedicated/loyal/kind enough to buy the packs on release, isn’t that a lovely kick in the teeth? -UK

@ Killer Scuzzy J. I’m not offended. The current issue of Official Xbox Manage in the US has a good write up on the upcoming “Black College Football the Xperience” game. it looks pretty interesting in my opinion. If you want to dsicuss it further, PM me so we don’t take things off topic here.

Regarding this deal. It is definitely a great value to those of us who have not yet purchased those extra map maps. I’ll be getting the disk version soon after its release. Halo 2 had a similar offer for additional map packs for $20 at retail.

To all you people that are talking about “tough economic times” maybe you should just cancel your XBOX Live subscriptions all together, that would be the most economical thing to do. Don’t you think?

I’m in for this, but only because I passed on the other map packs so far and haven’t gotten into gears 2 multiplayer at all (too buggy at launch, couldn’t find a game)

Country Mud…you do realize you can buy the new content separate if you already have the old map packs. It’s only $20 if you get the one that has all of the previous DLC

“Marcus…. what was that? 1 vs 5 Mode: Berserker vs 5 Cogs? I’m in!” Okay with that said, I’m a huge fan for scifi and GOW2 ending needs to be re-written and given more bang like GOW1′s was. Extra Campaign Chapter? Is it the one where we learn WHO’s INVADING WHO? And will there be female locust that look like the final boss in Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe (Dark Kahn)?

I’ll wait and see….

Awesome – bang for your buck.

I would thank MS, but I feel this is more Epic’s doing than Microsoft, if the latest deals of the week are any indicator. I wouldn’t be surprise if this was from sort of compromise made between them, knowing Microsoft’s desire to wean gamers off free stuff.

Big “meh” here. The chapter will probably be no longer than 30mins, so basically, we’ll be paying $19.99 for a map pack. No way.

No better way of saying “Thanks for your support” to all the fans that love the game in spite of it’s problems and bought the map packs at full price than to pull something like this. Epic & Microsoft have both disappointed me with this. How bout they spend some time to fix the lag issues and glitches and just make the game friggen work RIGHT. I’d pay 1600 points for THAT.

So they are going to extend the single player to?

i loved gears 1, played it to death, gears 2 multiplayer broke my heart man

in fact it put me off playing multiplayer games altogether for a long time

Nice way to support the core customers / fans who’ve already purchased the existing DLC, and continued to support a game (and brand) that’s got significant multiplayer issues! Personally I’d recommend whoever came up with the final pricing structure should stand in a Dark Corner until they come to their senses!

Let’s hope either the purchase price of the standalone “Dark Corners” DLC is reviewed and revised prior to July 28th (Although I doubt it); or alternatively the retail package is actually a set of separate codes for each DLC pack which could therefore be given away to friends or resold.

single player + MP content at a higher price = smart, IMO.

I preferred old school PC expansions to these itty bitty 5 DLC packs that can barely bring you back into a game.

I’ll buy this DLC when Epic fixes their games bugs, glitches, and lag. Oh, wait. Looks like I’m not buying this.

Really good for all us cheapskates that didn’t buy the map packs =P

@Shonk XD

I’ll give this one a big BBBBBBOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I’ve been wavering about buy the map packs so far so this clinches it – good value for those with neither map pack – Flashback, snowblind and combustible for £15 along with a bit more single player. Thats worth it. How will it work – a disc or a redeemable code?

Yes! This is perfect, 7 more maps AND more single player content! I’ll be buying this for sure, day one. Great Deal. Especially because one of the new maps is War Machine from gears 1(either that or just has the same name for no reason). Also I love how I accurately predicted 90% of the comments on this almost word for word.. Jesus.

I’d pass if it wasn’t for the campaign content. Online is still busted.

This would be nice if they didnt piss on the customer who had bought the Snowblind/Combustible Map pack earlier

Awesome. I bought the combustible maps, but oh well.

ok, obvious question? is this retail Download going to be able to downloaded in all regions? RockBand: AC/DC content transfer (more of a DLC transfer because it was just a code) worked in all regions, is this going to be the same? I hope so, otherwise I just won’t bother to import it

Major Nelson, can you answer this BEFORE it’s released and some people get disappointed? if it’s a go go I would not hesitate in pre-ordering at amazon

Thanks

Unless some miracle happens and somehow the multilagger gets sorted, count me out.

Dedicated servers for the next Gears or no money from me.

Epic FAIL /o\

I just want to start with a big thank you to Epic Staff for this great game and all the stuff you keep giving us Dlc,Campaign content,Themes,Comic books,Action figures,etc.
And i would like to thank Major Nelson for his great work on everything he does.
Gears of war 2 LE x2 $140 Kids
Gears of war 2 Combustible MP $10
Gears of war 2 Snow MP x2 $20 Kids
Gears of war 2 Dark Corners $20
Xbox live 12 months $50
Hardcover last stand edition $30
Gears 2 faceplate $60
Cogtags $40
Gears themes x2 $10
=$380 Dollars Crazy i know.True gears fan yes.

Looks like a nice package for a change – reminds me more of a PC expansion pack than (ripoff) console DLC. I’ll definitely pick this up; now I feel like an imbecile for buying the Snowblind pack – the first and now LAST time I’ll ever make the mistake of paying for a map pack.

I wont pass on this but i’m more than a little annoyed about ghostbusters delay in europe. Lokks like my PS3 is getting an airing and where is europes guitar hero-metallica!

@Racer XMG
>Add this outrage to the Halo 3 Mythic Map Pack and I’m quickly becoming and alienated

….I’m sorry what?

For a mere $10 you’re complaining? I’m sorry but I thought people LOVED the 800 points price. Go kill yourself please.

Epic can go to hell for all i care

Ok they have one of the best game in the industry, one of the best engine but is this mean that they have to overpriced their content for gamers that had already downloaded !?

Wowsers, i was not expecting this

i never bought the previous map packs as i hated the multiplayer, although with the recent titleupdate 3 i found it loads better, i recently changed my internet connection from BT (in the uk) who were offering a “up to 8mb” service, to another company (Be*) who offer a “up to 24mb service” and noticed a massive difference in game play.

so much so i have been racking up kills much faster, infact i would say i have been dammm enjoying the multiplayer now, i assume my new 1.3mb upload speed is making me host a lot more ?

regardless i was actually thinking of buying the new map packs yesterday!

i will hold off until june

Let me see if i got this straight…

- If you don’t have the maps, you can get all of them plus the new maps plus the new single player plus the poster and additional intro videos for 19,99 euros (which, by the way, is more like 27 dollars)

- If you already have the maps, you can get the new maps and the single player content for 1600 points, pretty much 20 euros? Less than half the content for 1 cent more?

So this is pretty much a f*** you to all the people that supported them and bought the map packs already… for a still somewhat broken game… now that’s pure marketing genius

I hope I live to see the day where every Epic game will have as a special bonus a bottle of lubricant, since they like to b***f*** us with every game.

HAHAHAHA! This is exactly what you idiots deserve for supporting this broken game. Should have quit playing a long time ago so it would fall off the charts and give EPIC a REAL incentive to actually fix this horrible trash. But no, you retards keep it at the number 4 spot and expect them do anything BUT make map packs? Well, you reap what you sow. Maybe they will get it right by title update 7, but I doubt it. They’ll just keep stringing you along with promises of “better fixes” while really just making map packs and fixing things that aren’t broken to begin with. Enjoy your 1 second delay out of roadie run, retards.

Gears 1 FTW.

ok i guess. just don’t think it should be a whole code of MSP

Just to clarify…neither version of this is a disc…the retail package has code(s) packaged with the poster, them code card, and whatever they are doing for the “intro video” (are they actually wasting a code on a downloadable video, or wasting a DVD on one?). Gamestop has a disclaimer saying there is no physical copy in the retail version (like with Lost and the Damned and Tomb Raider).

Larry/Major,

Whoever came with the pricing structure should most definitely revisit this crazy price breakdown (hint, this is a MS published game soooo…) . I went home yesterday trying to figure out how in the name of DLC obscenity the standalone Dark Corners (only the maps) could be priced equally as the retail version, when the retail version does in fact include much more than the DLC. If this is a ploy to get folks to go retail then sure, it works. But I already have all of the maps, and the two extras (video and theme) are not interesting to me. I was expecting the maps to be fairly priced definitely but as it stands today, what else is there to do but but the retail package? I would be buying the same content twice; but then I’d also get nailed if I buy the content off of XBL since I am paying a lot more for relatively less content. Either way I see it is obscene. And we thought that Horse armors were a thing of the past…

I mean, this has to either clearly be a joke or a big, terrible marketing idea.

No Epic, no more money for you.

I truly do not care about the price, it’s the fact that this game (online) is absolutely ridiculous. I understand it uses some pretty heavy graphics, but I’M SICK TO DEATH OF WAITING 20 MINUTES FOR A GAME just to have a host that’s downloading 5 movies and everyones (except his) gameplay suffers for it. It’s ridiculous and TU3 is, simply put, NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Make the host the best connection available and enforce a stronger penalty for lag switchers/zone alarm abusers. Your mommy probably bought you your disc and you don’t care but I’ve spent $85 on this game between media and DLC and I’m sick of the fact that it collects dust because Epic’s programmers suck. Maybe I’m an idiot for buying it, I just figured since it’s 2009, companies would actually have their shit together enough to produce a FAIR GAME (See Call of Duty).

I think they should put the price down for people who bought the map packs, they would get more sales definately, the new maps cheaper or something I don’t know.

I am actually excited I am an avid Gears gamer, and having an american xbox overseas means I cant download any new content so having a retail disc that I can buy off of amazon is great for me, I can even buy one for the hubby in Afghan!