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Comic-Con 08: Old Achievements earning bonuses in Gears of War 2 photo

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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Face's Avatar
Face at 07/27/2008 10:35
While I appreciate anything that makes achievements less pointless, as someone who didn't own the original it is annoying that they couldn't make these normal unlockables. Still, I suppose the characters won't have any significance to me anyway. I'm just nit-picking due to my completist nature.
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killatia at 07/27/2008 10:39
i've played the pc version of gears of wars, will these achievements work like that too?
covah's Avatar
covah at 07/27/2008 10:42
thats a little lame. just let people play as whoever online.
Gamechamp's Avatar
Gamechamp at 07/27/2008 10:43
Face, why would you be getting the sequel without the original, anyways? It's only 25 bucks on Amazon. Just use a free games site or something.

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.
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Soulwax at 07/27/2008 10:44
People with the Gears 1 achievements will probably be awarded the characters as soon as they play the game but I'd imagine the people playing for the first time will have to unlock the characters through the Gears 2 achievements. It would make sense.
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Blackhat at 07/27/2008 10:59
Gray-scale Achievement: You've discovered a new shade of gray!
red tide's Avatar
red tide at 07/27/2008 11:01
@ Blackhat

Hahahahahaahaaa, oh yeah.
Necros's Avatar
Necros at 07/27/2008 11:08
It's a nice bonus, I suppose, and I'd like to see more sequels do stuff like this. I know some DS games gave bonuses if you put their prior GBA game into the slot when you booted it up.
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TheNomadicTroll at 07/27/2008 11:30
Finally, some use for the achievements. Don't me wrong, I like the achievement system, gives me something to do the with game other than stashing it or play it online for a week or two.
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adjks6 at 07/27/2008 11:33
lolololol

@blackhat
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Sharpless at 07/27/2008 11:40
@Brad Nicholson
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.
MechaMonkey's Avatar
MechaMonkey at 07/27/2008 11:41
Carmine's my boy. I am happy for his inclusion.
13thDragon's Avatar
13thDragon at 07/27/2008 12:04
Seriously?
Orionsaint's Avatar
Orionsaint at 07/27/2008 12:22
Complete insane and unlock playable Maria in Bikini
notdryad's Avatar
notdryad at 07/27/2008 12:30
So what am I gonna get for beating Insane? Do I even get a bonus for carrying whiny 13 year olds with no skill through Insane, too?
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Chippers at 07/27/2008 12:44
Why... whay link it to the last game??? its kind of stupid either they are just trying to fuck you or they want you to get the old game if you don't already have it.
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CaptainApocalypse at 07/27/2008 12:56
That's pretty rad. Retro-AchievementsGO!
Gamechamp's Avatar
Gamechamp at 07/27/2008 13:12
Insane is easy enough on single-player. Coop just make it fifty times easier.
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Holyetheline at 07/27/2008 14:13
thats a great idea
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Kyousuke Nanbu at 07/27/2008 14:42
I wonder what other examples they might have, this implies that more Gears 1 achievements are connected to GoW2.

I have 52 in GoW, everything but the annex stuff, hope I'm covered.
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mistic at 07/27/2008 15:25
sweet this is awesome :D luckily they all seem to be SP-achievements since I have none of the MP-achievements :)
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B-Radicate at 07/27/2008 16:28
That's kinda cool. I hope there's nothing for the super hard achievements like 10,000 kills or whatever the one was.

Nice to see devs using them more creatively.
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xdaytime at 07/27/2008 16:40
YAY FOR GEARS LEGENDARY EDITION
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akathatoneguy at 07/27/2008 19:21
I don't have a problem with it; it's actually really cool. Of course a few people are complaining, but developers and game companies should reward those who play their games by offering things like this to loyal gamers.
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RAB at 07/28/2008 02:37
anyone who's honestly bitching about something like this needs to stfuajpg.

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.
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RICHARD BLOCKER at 07/28/2008 09:30
I think it's a great idea. One complaint; for the first 3 weeks after this game comes out, squeekers are going to be inceasently whining/asking, " how do you get that guy?!? how did you get that guy? , what did you have to do to get that guy?!?"
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TrailerParkJesus at 07/28/2008 19:48
Sounds like a good idea to me.
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