During the Gears of War 2 presentation at Comic-Con, Cliff Bleszinski unveiled an interesting and new twist for Achievements. Apparently, Gears of War 2 will feature “linked Achievements,” which depending on what you accomplished in the original Gears of War, will unlock playable characters in the upcoming sequel. Kotaku was present when Cliff announced the new system and jotted down a list of his examples.
- Complete ‘Act One’ in Gears Of War, unlock a playable Anthony Carmine in Gears of War 2
- Find 10 COG tags in Gears Of War, unlock Minh Young Kim in Gears of War 2
- Kill Raam in Gears Of War, unlock a playable Raam in Gears of War 2
In addition to the Achievements announcement, journalists were also told that Steve Jablonsky was at the helm for the soundtrack of
Gears of War 2, and is nearly finished with his work. Jablonsky is the man responsible for the
Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath soundtrack, as well as films like
The Island and
Transformers. While I don’t mind Jablonsky’s work, I’m more excited about the retroactive Achievement bonuses. It gives me a reason rekindle my chainsaw lust. Anyone up for some co-op?
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10:26 AM on 07.27.2008
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Also: this is awesome. Though I hope they make use of harder achievements than these. Beating the game once shouldn't unlock you everything.
I hope they make use of Seriously. That's the only one of the original 1000 gamerscore achievements I've yet to obtain. It'll motivate me to go back to it.
Hahahahahaahaaa, oh yeah.
@blackhat
Dude, if you're serious about playing online, I've actually been wanting to play some Gears co-op for a while. My GT is Adversarius. Let me know if you want to play.
This is pretty cool. I like the idea.
I have 52 in GoW, everything but the annex stuff, hope I'm covered.
Nice to see devs using them more creatively.
boohoo, you didnt play gears of war so you wont get to play as a certain guy online. a guy who's face you're never going to see untill you're getting curbstomped by me
i think its a great idea
and i didnt even like gears of war online.