No Gears of War 2 at E3

[hbk81]

Epic Games has said that a sequel to Gears of War will not be unveiled at E3.


Rumours have been floating around in the last couple of days that a trailer for a second Gears game will be among Microsoft's big reveals during its press conference - taking place close to Santa Monica's E3 Media & Business Summit next month.

Epic's Mark Rein disagrees. "We are not announcing a sequel to Gears of War at E3 this year," he told Beyond Unreal. "Did you see the update we just did for Gears of War last week? We're still working on the first one."

Did you see it? No? Then perhaps you should head this way. There are new Achievements and everything. Actually that's mostly it

[Gnome]

Thats disappointing news, but not all that unexpected to me. I bet Gears of War II is a good 2 years off at least, so maybe next year.

Anyone offchance know exactly when E3 M&B is?

I know EforAll is in October.

[???]

hope they announce it in time for xmas

[Gnome]

Its not coming out in time for Christmas, no way could they pump out a game in less than a year. IIRC it takes 2-3 years now to make a game.

[xlildragon]

Yeah, and aren't they working on the new Unreal game? Forget the name of it...

[Gnome]

Unreal Tournament 3 IIRC, and yes they are, for the PC, 360 and PS3.

[xlildragon]

Unreal Tournament 3 IIRC, and yes they are, for the PC, 360 and PS3.

Yeah, that was it! I remember them saying something about fully concentrating on this game first, so I wouldn't expect Gears of War 2 to be annouced any time soon. Although I don't remember where I saw that.

[Gnome]

That would make sense, Unreal Tournament was a much larger game than Gears of War, and the money made from Licensing the Unreal Engine has made quite a large sum of cash over the years.

[Brickz187]

well gears of war is still one of the most played online games right now so they can still work with that keep putting out updates maybe the next one can add new weapons and stuff like that...plus im waiting at the moment for unreal that games is goin to rock

[juventuz]

Yeah, and aren't they working on the new Unreal game? Forget the name of it...

I don't think that would have any impact on an announcement considering UT3 is being released on 11/01/07 for the 360.

[Gnome]

After taking a look at the games many companies are bringing to E3 I get the feeling most of them are games that have already been announced, they are just showing off new content for them.

They might make a few announcements at E3, but also keep in mind this is the first year for this so I think they'll be testing the waters a bit to see how things work out.

[juventuz]

I want to see more Assassin's Creed stuff.

[xlildragon]

I don't think that would have any impact on an announcement considering UT3 is being released on 11/01/07 for the 360.

Er.. I didn't get where you were going with this.

[juventuz]

I'm saying, just because they work on one particular game doesn't mean they can't make an announcement for another.