Gears of War 2 to be playable during PAX

Thanks to the Gamerscore Blog's handy schedule, we've been informed that Gears of War 2 is going to be demoed during this weekend's Penny Arcade Expo, though never did we expect Gears 2 to actually be playable on the show floor ... but it is!

According to the official Gears website, from this Friday through Sunday during PAX, the Microsoft booth will be hosting 5v5 Gears of War 2 multiplayer matches. And you can play too! But that isn't all. On top of the Gears 2 multiplayer gaming and the on-stage "Sinkhole" campaign demonstrations, both Gears writer to the stars Joshua Ortega and Gears artist to the stars Pete Hayes will be making a PAX appearance for a quick Q&A session and autograph signing. That said, we still think the meaty bits of the Gears 2 PAX presence is the multiplayer ... we so damn excited!

[Mr PS3]

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[Mr Bot]

we the bots care about it, its our only hope to fight the droids in this holiday season!! we have no games other than that!! 360 have no games!! only last gen games that we all love!

Mr Bot

[Dyingduck]

Why "F"lop so soon?

Gears1.5 FTF! http://i37.tinypic.com/1zvp...

[Surfman]

rather play with my NES

[Stryfeno1]

Attack of the ps3 fanboys. LMAO, now everyone knows how Gears 2 is going to own this holiday season.

[WhittO]

Acutally no, i think Resistance 2 will own, i mean the only thing gears had going for it was the gore and chainsaw etc, but now resistance 2 has huge single player and seperate 8 player co-op campaign, 60 player huge online mode with great story.

But now, with the details of the new weapons, such as attaching exploding bullets to people/chimera or the spinning razor blades that slice up the enemy, what will gears have to combat anything resistance has ?

[Irishrocket69]

Like I'm in WoW, there are TROLLS everywhere!

[NegativeCreepWA]

2.2 Resistance lacks the one thing that matters good game-play.

[chitown]

man oh man. u sony kids really dont have any lives do you? cant wait to jump on a 360 threaD and start hating. pathetic. you guys are a bunch sad pathetic losers. do something productive with your lives. Why even bring resistance in to the topic???? its a fps whereas gears is TPS shooter. resistance isnt even an AAA, just a solid game. gears is proven, resistance is not. u guys act like its the holy grail, when the first game was very good but not close to great.

[Stryfeno1]

Can't wait...If they have a midnight launch, this will be the first game I will go and get in the middle of the night.

[Heldrasil]

Why not just get some sleep and pick it up in the morning? No game or other form of entertainment is worth standing outside in the middle of the night with the Nerd-herd to get the "first hands on" experience with something.

[Filet of Children]

I've done the midnight launch... and man, it's just not worth it. Get some sleep, grab the game in the morning, and actually enjoy playing it instead of feeling so tired all day that you want to puke.

[deeznuts]

I don't sleep until about 3 am everyday anyways, so midnight launches are like 9pm launches to me ... however I will never stand in line for something lol. I can wait.

Empty my gamefly queue of all games except the launch one, and bam, game delivered a day or two after launch.

[cito35th]

a playable version? haha hopefully they dont lie to you just like in E3...." here are we playing gears 2 LIVE..." then the video stopped and the video started playing again hahahaha that was epic

[pp]

I am so looking forward to gears of war 2 its a must buy

[ToastyMcNibbles]

wheres queefy b?

[InMyOpinion]

You mean Bombibomb?

[Drealmcc0y]

Cant wait for the MP GOTY this november

[Atomic]

enjoy your 10 players matches. in the mean time , PS3 owners will be playing in 60 players matches.

[Drealmcc0y]

Yeah because more players = quality.
Gears 1 v Resistance 1 already proved that.

[Atomic]

proved what? that gears MP is an unbalanced mess?

[chitown]

wat the fuk are you talking about you idiot? do you have a brain. no my bad sony fan droids are stupid as hell. gears is a tight knit game that thrives on a small number of people. its strategic. ever play graw? think that but more strategic.

meanwhile resistance has a very good story but online its a lag fest and a frag fest. you throw a grenade randomly and chances are you can get a kill. dont fukin talk if you are gonna end up looking like an idiot

GEARS isnt cRAP THAT TITLE IS RESERVED FOR YOUR MAMA ATOMIC

[Atomic]

Who cares , the game looks like crap.

[Drealmcc0y]

Gotta love fanboys in denial

[ToastyMcNibbles]

why do you guys compare a game that came out 1 year after the xbox 360 was released to a game that was a LAUNCH title on ps3? ahhh stupidity... anyways gears 2 will be dope and so will resistance 2 but i think you guys already know which multiplayer im craving more for

[cemelc]

Resistance its going to own this game on so many level:
Better Plot.
Better weapons.
60 players multiplayer.
8 player coop (different form the single player).
Insomniac Seal of Quality.
Against:
Weak history(Epic has never made a good history in a game)
5 vs 5 multiplayer.
2 player coop(same as the single player).
Horde mode that is 5 player also.

Man i hope M$ pull out a lot of cash in order to overhype Gears of Crap 1.2 cos in terms of quality or quantity theres just no way that game is better than Resistance 2.

[TheColbertinator]

Cool.I gotta tell one of my friends who is going to PAX so he can tell me how it is.

[caffman]

face it, you are not getting Gears of war 2!

[ThatCanadianGuy]

Oh please,360 fanboys like you troll PS3 threads all the time.
Yet you b!tch and complain whenever we come in here and DO THE SAME EXACT THING YOU DO TO US.

Whats the matter? you sure can dish it out but you cant take it..

[juuken]

Why are *you* morons on PS3 threads when you're not getting Heavy Rain, Resistance 2, Killzone 2, or even FFXIII Versus?

It goes both ways so settle down.

[GUNSOFTHEPATRIOTS]

i have seen peoples on the ps3 threads too ;)

one of them basically said that he couldn't wait to play resistance 2 and got like 3 disagres lol!

so i know what you mean jenzo ;)

[pshizle]

look at gears1 vs. resistence1

it already proved that!!! resistence1 was just average shooter

more people in gears would be a mess anyway...the game is not like that...sony fanboys wouldn't know!

by the way i have a 360 and ps3 and they both are great

[cemelc]

I have both consoles and Gears collectors edition, you're telling me gears is better???.... a game that came out a year earlier than gears got more than 6 soldiers on screen the single player was way longer that the one in gears, got coop, the weapons were so good that halo3 copy them (bubbleshield anyone????), the plot was great heck they even have subplots in the game, multiplayer from a game that came one year earlier was in many ways better than the one in gears not just because you could have more ppl playing(in a game that came a year earlier), got achievements, the vehicles were way better(The level of the tank in gears was crap in all its glory), the enemies got a better AI, the enemies didn't get stuck in a wall.

How come a game that came a year earlier is worse than gears?....Cover system????(i remember operation wingback that game got cover system aswell and a secret between us.... that game got a history), gears got better reviews or better sales? (microsoft pay reviews to get halo 3 good review and that game deserves 8 tops.... 9.5 in your dreams Jonh) don't see why they couldn't pay for gears as well, that game that came a year earlier tear apart gears and i even dare to say halo 3 that came 2 years after that one

[Irishrocket69]

....and pointless. R2 will not even sell 1/3 of the copies that GoW2 will, Japan doesn't like FPS, and Europeans are just clueless, they will take anything given to them (as long as it's on the WII, sells for PS3 games there are mediocre x360 as well). But anyway everyone has gotten so far off the topic that I have lost all confidence in the moderators on this site! PS-Tools ruin everything!

[juuken]

I don't know about you 360 fanatics but Resistance 2 looks incredible so far.

[Rice]

This game will rock my socks

[Droid]

f*ck yeah! new footage, confirmed.

ps3 droids commit mass suicide, confirmed.

[MasterChief2829]

It's going to be the E3 Multiplayer Build, just to let you guys know. That's what they had at X08 too.

[Killjoy3000]

We're gonna see a lot of hands-on previews stating that it's the same thing as one. Well, that is my prediction anyways. But hey, who says that's a bad thing? It's not like you can change all that much of the formula.

[zethos56]

Then those previewers are retarded. The MP is will be played COMPLETELY different.

[GUNSOFTHEPATRIOTS]

resistance 1= launch title while gears 1 = 1 year after (launch) title ;)

see BIG DIFFERENCE ;)

[WengYong]

I remember playing Gears 1 and thinking to myself "Is this really a game ???" The experience was unreal. I hope I get to relive those same feelings again. (need XBox 360 soon)

[SpartanZero]

Stop with the resistance crap its not good. It's okay but its not great like gears. I don't care about 60 players. its crazy you have no effect what so ever. If you get 100 points yur team will still loose. Gears requires more teamwork like reviving yur frend and flanking. I don't care about resistance so stop it with resistance owning gears alright.

[juuken]

And you've played it so you know it's not better than Gears 2.

[Fatmanp]

It was playable at MLG toronto last weekend.

[Dark SeRaNADE]

it looks like crap?!!

Oh man! i think your CRT TV thick glasses are on the wrong way! Your assuming that This image is crap?!

*howls in mirth*

Fu(king Retard