Gears gets past Halo 2
It finally happened this week, Gears of War has bypassed Halo 2 on the Xbox Live most played games list. This is the first time since the release of Halo 2 that another game is on top. Also keep in mind that Halo is an original Xbox game, which has now been overrun by a 360 game, which was also just released 1 day ago in Europe.
Gears vs Halo - Gears on top, at least for the moment…
Xbox 360 Games
| This week | Last week | Move | Game title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |  |
Gears of War |
| 2 | 9 |  |
Call of Duty 3 |
| 3 | New |  |
Contra |
| 4 | 2 |  |
Call of Duty 2 |
| 5 | 5 | |
Madden NFL 07 |
| 6 | New | |
RAINBOW SIX VEGAS Demo |
| 7 | New | |
Tony Hawk’s Project 8 Demo |
| 8 | 3 | |
Splinter Cell Double Agent |
| 9 | 6 | |
Ghost Recon 3 |
| 10 | 4 | |
Need for Speed™ Carbon |
Original Xbox Games
| This week | Last week | Move | Game title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | |
Halo 2 |
| 2 | 2 | |
Battlefield 2 Modern Combat |
| 3 | 3 | |
Madden NFL 07 |
| 4 | 4 | |
Counter-Strike |
| 5 | 5 | |
Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow |
| 6 | 6 | |
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 |
| 7 | New | |
Call of Duty 3 |
| 8 | 7 | |
Forza Motorsport |
| 9 | New | |
Call of Duty 2 |
| 10 | 10 | |
Rainbow Six 3 |
I’m curious what we’ll see in the near future. Will the Gears community stick with the game, as the current Halo 2 community did? I can imagine that Halo 2 players with a 360 were busy with Gears the past week, but they will return to Halo once they’re done with it. Besides that, we also have a new Halo 2 Multiplayer mappack on the way early 2007, to kick Gears away from the #1 spot. On the other hand, downloadable content, maps and improvements are also on it’s way to Gears. Who will win? Tell us what you think.
Thnx to RECK1N for submitting.
The Halo 2 link, has nothing to do with a Halo 2 Multiplayer Map-pack. It’s linked to the story about Halo 3 Beta that is being released Spring ‘07.
Maybe you should read a bit closer.
Well there is a map-pack, but its Exclusive to 360 owners… I have a few friends that still have the original Xbox and play Halo 2, and they are left out.
wow I wondered when it would happen, it wasn’t a question of “if”
I hope they’ll be able to keep it that way by bringing new maps, gameplay types etc…maybe I’ll be able to get into a match easily in GoW. I give up in DoA4, I don’t get in a match for ages
Yeah I know. I can’t wait until they release the patch to fix the matchmaking, I have a hard time finding a match that I can complete. I either can’t get a connection to the host, or get dropped after a round or two
:(
Yeah I tried getting in a match several times and I always (apart from once) got a connection error.
I did manage to host a game and invite ppl though.
The same happens as in the SC:DA multiplayer demo
http://forums.xbox.com/8229914/ShowPost.aspx
some people are questioning these stats….
The guy who questioned the stats already said he made an calculation error.
Awesome!
It’s just a matter of time before Epic is bought by Microsoft now
Don’t you mean EA?
If only I had my 360..
its in TX getting “repaired” so I havent even gotten to enjoy GoW yet. I have been playin lots of Halo 2 however. I did notice the drop in players, especially today matchmaking is taking a little longer to get players in.
Halo 2’s time has run its course, Gears is ushering in a new era. Alot of my friends are starting to take notice of Gears, they all want to come over and check it out after I’ve been babbling about it for a year.
I know what you mean. What’s especially cool is how they can jump right into a Campaign game almost seemlessly.
please buy Epic… i cant stand seeing Unreal Tourny on PS3!
I really doubt UT would be PS3 Exclusive. If anything they would probably release it for both 360 and PS3. I would be very very displeased if they made it a PS Exclusive. I might cry if they did.
I can’t play Halo after playing so much GoW. Halo seems like a kid’s game now…and it’s last gen. It has run its course. It held the top for two years…and in Video Game years, that’s a long time. The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen!
I can’t say that I won’t play Halo after playing GoW. A lot of my friends still have just an original Xbox, and play Halo, so I play with them. But I play Gears a LOT more than I play Halo.
NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HALO RULES FOR EVER!! UR ALL SOLDOUT BY HYPE AND NEW GFX!!!
Soldout hahahahahaha that is by far the worst crap i have heard in a long time hahahahaha
btw halo is for kids and GoW is for 18+ gamers
so you might consider buying a 360 with GoW when you turn 18 kiddo
I agree with you totally. Halo was geared more towards the younger crowd, while GoW is geared more towards the older crowd. There is no chainsaw, or curb stomping in Halo now is there?
Until HALO 3 comes out !
I agree with that too.
I think the H3 public beta would be on top of all games if they tracked demos too
Halo 3 will probably stay the most played game on Live when it comes out, unless there’s a big surprise success game for 360 (Counter-Strike 360 :P)
I’ve never liked CS.
Even when Counter-strike came out for original Xbox, it wasn’t that great of a game, and I don’t think it did anywhere close to good enough to warrant a sequel.
There is still people playing CS on live as we speak
I’m not denying people aren’t going to play it. That’s like any game, someone, somewhere will play it. I’m saying its just not as widely played as a lot of other games that were released for the original xbox.
Everone should just take a look at the great job Bungie did for matchmaking with H2. Thats a huge part of the reason why lots of peeps still play H2 over some other titles. It is quick, easy and convinient to get into a game with A PARTY and stay together from game to game. All these games out right now have serious MP issues. There is no reason why we shouldn’t be able to play in parties with our friends for games like GoW and COD3
/end rant
Dude, Rainbow Six Vegas Multiplayer Demo will be on that list next week.
If it’s not, then I honestly don’t know what the fuck the rest of Xbox Live is doing, because it is amazing. It really brings back the feel of the Rainbow Six:3 and Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow.
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Yay Gears!
Wow. About time halo 2 got knocked off, it has been on top for two years! Rainbow six 3 only had one year of live glory…
Anyway, Gears is an awesome game any way you slice it, and I hope we all get into it and enjoy it for what it is - A very well made game.
if epic is doin’what they always do with their multiplayers, they’ll surtanly win. new games modes maps and more
mutators ^^ And bug fixes. (and some small hope for deticaded X360 server mode(just like in Unrealchampionship 2(come on! makes this game backwards compatiable!!!)))
just lemme join GoW servers quicker (without 10x host disconnect before) and i’ll play all day!
the only reason you people can’t get into a gow match os because your connections suck. I have top broadband, and I get a cannot connect to host message like once a night at most. Just get better broadband connection, and you will stop getting dropped from games.
Shut up dumbass, Ive got one of the best connections there is and when trying to connect to a ‘RANKED’ multiplayer game I get a can not connect message 95% of the time. I can go to a ‘PLAYER’ match and get into a game 100% of the time, but yeah like you say our connections suck! dumb shit.
I can play ANY other game, and never get dropped. This [i]only[/i] happens in GoW Ranked games.
annnnnnd Halo 3 will take out Gow
HALO 3 will own gow so bad it will make it look like harry potter GEARS is a very good game thou halo is just better
hehe
I think halo 3 when it comes out will rock hell yeah but at the moment the best game out there is gow but halo 3 will rock so much bete when it gos out.
you no what i say is right halo is so much bete
and anyguy complains your fucking idiots
if i could read that… i think i might feel pawnd….. never mind.
Halo is the most overrated game of all time. In all honesty, probably the only reason it became popular at all is because it was a good game for the original XBox, which had nothing that was any good at all for the longest time…GoW is so much better, seriously, anyone not in kindergarten can see that
halo is ownage halo 3 will end the video game world i feel limited in how i can play in gears its good but not that good