Gears of War 2 Release Date
At E3 2008 on July 14, 2008, during the Microsoft Keynote, Cliff "CliffyB" Bleszinski took the stage to showcase more footage of the highly anticipated sequel. Bleszinski went on to announce the official release date of Gears of War 2 would be November 7, 2008.1
Fast Facts
- Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
- Developer: Epic Games
- Genre: Third-Person Shooter
- Modes: 1-4 players
- Platform: Xbox 360 Exclusive
- Release date: November 7, 2008
Previously
According to an image on the Gears of War 2 main Web site, the official release date of the video game could be November 9, 2008. 2 One of the dog tags in the image has several numbers on it. Those numbers have been translated in ASCII octal values to ESC-N-O-V-9. 3
GDC 2008 Release Date Announcement
It was at first believed that the game would be released in November 2008, following the 2008 Game Developers Conference. 4 The date was then hinted to be November 16, 2008 by Rasta, the voice actor for Gears of War 2's Augustus Cole, at a TriForce panel discussion during Wizard World 2008. 5
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