According to the latest issue of GamePro, Epic and Microsoft will be offering five maps as downloadable content day-and-date with the release of Gears of War 2. The five maps may look familiar -- they're all from the original Gears of War.
"Gridlock," "Subway," "Canals," "Mansion," and "Tyro Station" will be made available as download when the game launches next month. The catch: the maps will be free, and accessible by redeeming a voucher code that comes packed in with Gears of War 2.
So there's a bit of an uproar over this. The catch is that you must purchase a new copy of Gears of War 2 in order to get the code; once said code is redeemed, it becomes useless (think MS Points cards). How hard this will hit the used Gears 2 market remains to be seen, but it's likely (yet not confirmed) that the maps will be made available for purchase using Microsoft's MS Points moon money.
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9:48 AM on 09.30.2008
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I would even put the full MP to be code accessible. Great idea. Sign me in. Fuck Gamestop.
I'm sure there will be plenty of people playing that game online to find a match without going back to the GoW1 maps. It's a cool thing to have maps you already know, but I'm more interested in seeing the new maps than playing old ones. You'll find people to play iwth.
That said, having a code for multiplayer that expires on the first use would just be fucked up.
The big problem here is that if no one other then pre-orders can get it...you can almost guarantee that no one will be playing it. But the thing is this looks like it comes with EVERY new copy if I'm reading the story right in which case fine...all the *loyal* Gears of War fans will be buying the game new (or should be) so it wouldn't be an issue and all the second hand buyers won't care.
Who the hell cares?
Only if you decide to urinate on your hard drive. And this idea is awesome, as a Gamestop employee, I can tell you this is gonna severely impact the used sales a hell of a lot. Like someone already said, give people an excuse to buy new instead of used and they will.
This is how you get the remake.