Xbox 360 'Gears of War' bundle announced

OXCGN writes.

"With the recent trend of blockbuster games being packaged together (Game of the Year Bundle), it seemed that EPIC's blockbuster 'Gears of War' series was missing out on its very own package. Well fear not Gears of War fans (11 million of you, and counting), as Microsoft Australia have just announced a special 'Gears of War' bundle to be released on the 4th of June to participating retailers."

[XboxOZ360]

You just have to love the Australian Xbox team, they love Bundles just as much as we gamers do here, funny that. Now all I have to do is find a money tree, and I'll be home-n-hosed.

[Jaces]

I'd prefer the Halo/Fable2 package, but this is a good one too.

[Anon1974]

Good choice for a console bundle.

[IdleLeeSiuLung]

I wish the console was a limited Gears of War version. Now that would be nice!

I'm not so keen on just pack in games, but hey more for less is always good.

[JokesOnYou]

"The More Bad Ass Bundle"

-lol, that name alone would sell the first mil

JOY

[GameGambits]

LOL this bundle kinda makes me laugh. :P

It's like putting your two most "oopsies" together. Gears 2 still to this point is a mess and was a flop to anyone who likes non glitchy games. I mean by all means if you have a high tolerance to BS occuring while you are trying to have fun then more power to you. I played Gears 1 for 6 months straight and Gears 2 for about a month total.

My 360(thank god) still hasn't RROD, but packaging it with Gears 2(fails constantly) is just sort of silly to me in THAT sense. As a marketing idea it's genius, because as crappy as the MP is for Gears 2 it's still a game everyone should get around to playing this console generation.

:( Hopefully Gears 3 will be beta tested and put on dedicated servers if/when it comes out on the next Xbox.

[DRUDOG]

Interesting that this is announced now. You'd think this news would've made a nice addition to whatever they do at E3 (considering it comes out 4 June makes me wonder if someone didn't jump the gun).

BTW, this is a very enticing offer for someone like me who still doesn't have a 360 and only ogled Gears 1 at a buddy's house years ago.

EDIT: Just read below that this has been out since last year in the EU so disregard the first part of my comment. Didn't realize they have the GOTY pack too. Damn and my birthday is coming up soon, might have to jump in after all.

[y0haN]

This bundle is not new, I got it at Christmas. Wut.

[Godem]

wtf no red console?! Blasphemy!

[Immortal Kaim]

Yeah, strange they didn't use the Red console packaged with Resi 5? Either way, the package is pretty awesome.

[REALgamer]

It would be awesome to have a black console with red trickles of blood down the side for a Gears bundle.

Or at least black with the Gears 'omen' logo (the red gear with the skull) on the side?

[Superfragilistic]

Agreed, I saw the box and just expected the console to be red! lol

White looks better imo anyway.

[qface64]

man i swear to god theses bundles annoy me!
they decide to come out with all these new bundles right after i bought my 360 a while back
if this comes to the US just another reason why i should feel bad bout buying my 360 earlier D;

[XboxOZ360]

The one thing console manafactures need to do is begin bring in some colour for special bundles. It would not be that more expensive obverall to do a run on a colour that would suit a new game, special edition etc, as they would make it back ten-fold in sales alone.

They did this when the 1st-gen xbox was in it's later years, and they sold MORE of the LE's than they did of the BBB. Which showed them that they were also selling to EXISTING owners, as well as new purchasers . . .

Come on guys, learn a lesson from earlier on, bring back the colours.

[Sayai jin]

Agreed. I think this bundle should have came with some sort of Gears logo. It would be nice if they would do different color schemes. I guess that's what the skins are for.

[REALgamer]

Looks like the days of packaging unwanted bargain bin games with consoles is over - now they're finally giving gamers what they want!

For 360:
Game of the Year bundle - Halo 3 & Fable 2
Gears of War bundle - Gears 1 & 2
Resident Evil 5 bundle - RE5 and red elite console

For PS3:
Killzone 2 bundle - Killzone 2
inFamous bundle - inFamous

Good reason for people to take the plunge in either console.

So does this mean the Gears and the Goame of the Year 360 bundles will be released around the same time? O_O

[Immortal Kaim]

Yeah, awesome bundles.

The GotY bundle is supposedly out now, though the main difference between that and the Gears one is that the GotY bundle features an Elite.

I reckon Sony should do an Uncharted 1 & 2 bundle.

[TheBand1t]

^^^^^

This man speaks truth.

[PotNoodle]

and the MGS4 backwards compatability bundle keeps popping up in retailers.

I agree though, i wish i was just coming into console gaming now.. i'd pick up a gears 2 bundle and a killzone 2 or inFamous bundle! (Couldn't get MGS4 one, not available in the UK).

[kb8mvp81]

@5.3 i noticed that MGS4 bundle with backwards compatibility is still alive. i also noticed if i post here i might get a bunch of disagrees lol

[Counter_ACT]

This has been out in the UK for months.

[Mindboggle]

Why the disagrees ?? He isnt lying.....What a bunch of morons..

http://www.game.co.uk/Xbox3...

This was realesed in 2008, look at the reviews....

[caffman]

my son had one for christmas

[Spike47]

I blame Bush! LOL jp

[Shadow Man]

Microsoft bundles their games after they sold million by themselves, Not like Sony that bundles inFamous because they don't have faith in them.

Damn it inFamous is gonna reach a million because is bundle from the start which isn't Fair!!!!

[RonDeMuerte]

either that or Microsoft are just trying to sell you their old crap again because they have nothing else to show you for the rest of the year....anybody who wanted to play these....already has......this is just another one of their attempts to make money without any real effort....This company sucks...

[xabmol]

You can always spot the fanboys on N4G just by going to a 360/PS3 only article and seeing who is the first to bring up the other system.

P.S.

Fair!? Who's the fu*king nihilist here!? What are you, a bunch of fu*king CRYBABIES!?

/Walter Sobchak

[Nelson M]

I'm gonna scream and scream and scream and kick and punch and cry

Oh Shut up Shadow Mong you Nappy wearin Freak

[DwightOwen]

You claim that Sony bundles their games with consoles because they DON'T have faith in them?

Seems to me like Sony has ALL the faith in the world in inFamous if they think it's so good it'll help move consoles.

[TheBand1t]

Nifty bundle.

[Green Lantern2]

Bring this to USA come on MS this can sell some 360.

[Green Lantern2]

lol ps3fans don't agee with me lol i guess they forgot what gear of war 2 did last holiday.

[Green Lantern2]

Aahahahahahh that so true MS have faith in their exclusive unlike sony.

[xabmol]

So much "faith" that they spend the same amount on advertising as developing the game it self. lol

[Sez]

Maybe if sony spent money to advertise their games. They would sell better. Spending $30 mil in advertisement for halo is a bad thing???? I guess not when the game sells 10 mil units.

[chasegamez2]

this is just 2 show 360 has no games
old ass games
what a joke

[Amplitude]

...A Gears bundle? What the hell!? Gears wasn't very good. Now Ninja Blade, THAT kicked ass. What the **** are they doing still advertising that over-rated piece...

Ugh. I'll never understand anything Microsoft does with anything. Thank god i got my 360 for free, cause lord knows i would NEVER buy one.

[Stryfeno2]

I would love to pick one up for my bro....He would dig this and finally get rid of his PS2. Bring it to the states MS.

[Obama]

Your bro will probably hate you for the rest of his life for not buying him a ps triple.

[Covenant]

Sweet deal.

Now give some love to North America and bring it here to join the awesome Halo 3/Fable 2 Elite bundle. Definitely will move some consoles.

[Green Lantern2]

LOL yeah at least when MS spend 40 million dollar on game it sell unlike sony killzone 2 cost 60million dollars and it sold let sh!t.

[cryymoar]

Killzone 2 has sold over a million since launch which ISN'T like sh!t.
The PS3 didn't sell 21 million units because of a single game, unlike the xbox360 which people only had one game to look forward to and it ultimately sucked, Halo 3.
Wana know what selling like sh!t is like? Just look at the xb360 in Japan.
And yes Japan makes a difference.
The other day I saw an article about the PS2 beating the PS3 in sales, looked at the article, it was NPD only. Once I added the Japan numbers from Media Create, the PS3 outsold the PS2 by a a ton.

[BX81]

Sweet bundle, let the haters hate!

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Nice bundle. Could use that in the states for sure.

Good to see they are using M titles as well as the E title bundles.

[REALgamer]

I mainly play offline, multiplayer for me is simply the bonus on top of the singleplayer. =)

I haven't played Gears 2 online yet, but it's still fun with offline bots.

[dan_chan89]

gah , just recently bought a 360 from EB only came with the lame quantom of solace >.<

[REALgamer]

I feel your pain. XD

I got my 360 about a week before they dropped to $399 (in Australia)...

[Etseix]

dude... i would absolutely buy this bundle..... still..... already played 1... n 2 .... geez.... i wanted this bundle.. but.. i think 1 year ago ... lol

[REALgamer]

Package the top 10 or 20 Xbox 360 games on metacritic with it!

That way you'd be guaranteed to already have an awesome game collection from day 1.

I guess the only danger would be the gaming overdose caused be an oversaturation of gaming awesomeness.

Same could be done for the PS3.

It would definitely help new owners catch up with all the best games from the beginning.

[PotNoodle]

I'm not sure that would do well in sales numbers. I know the consumers know they would be getting all these games with it too, but not many people would want to jump that deep at first.

What got me thinking though, is that sony and microsoft could put a greatest hits disc in one of the bundles that include all the best XBL and PSN games, or put one in with every console sold, but the disc only has the demo versions of them - could be a great way to tempt people to get connected.

Its fun this, you know - dreaming up console bundles.. at 6am.. while watching doc from sarcastic gamer streaming himself talking to us on the shoutbox..

Ugh..

[REALgamer]

But not a disc - new 360s come with the hard drive already loaded with arcade and full game demos, and some complete arcade games.

Same with any 360 hard drive you buy now - my new 120gb had about 20 arcade game demos, 3 full game demos and 3 complete arcade games.

[PotNoodle]

Yeah, when i got my last 360 i got a few demos on there. But there were not many at all and they were not showing off what was good about XBL at all.

[AKNAA]

OOOH man, if this bundle releases here in canada/ u.s, I'm definitely buying it!

[silverchode]

the box is sick

[Saaking]

If I didn't already have a 360 I'd definitely buy it!

[PS360PCROCKS]

This would be sweet if it was all black with a red gears logo on top

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

I want an Uncharted 2/inFamous/Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time bundle.

That's Sony's Big 3 right there...

[LeonSKennedy4Life]

If I was going to get a 360...this would be the bundle to get. Gears 2 was a freakin' AMAZING game! The multi-player could use some work...but the campaign was good enough to make it a classic in my mind.

[SaberEdge]

I bought my 360 at launch and I already own both Gears games, but if I was buying a 360 right now this bundle would be awesome.

[stonecold3]

not pay $399 for xbox 360 and just be honest with all rrod problems with the machine and yes im from australia but i would rather spend the next $400 and buy another ps3 i already got the ps3 60 gb at launch as for the wii i will not buy that either but my brother as xbox and i will play the xbox 1 for a while but 360 leave it on the shelve to collect dust m$ with there faulty hardware is reason i will not buy plus ps3 over here you can get killzone2 thrown in with ps3 if xbox720 is any good i will buy it same with ps4

[stonecold3]

and i think it s still on the charts over here

[bjornbear]

Damn thats a good deal =D Quite tempting, ever for a future PS3 purchaser, bt with the (hopefully) future price cut and exclusives.......nnnnah! Still stickin t my guns =D

But damn sweet deal i'd say =) GO 360!!
Now lets see if Sony gets the hint n releases Uncharted 1 & 2 PS3 bundle! =O i'd get tht in a hear-attack-beat!!

[Says you]

Bundles like for Halo 3 and Gears of War and Gears of War 2 you guys think that they all sold by themselves wrong PS3 sold a lot of exclusives, selling 10 million from 1 exclusive game mean you guys don't have no games you like to play except that crappy a$$ game Halo 3 the fact is PS3 exclusives share there sales individually

they don't just sale one copy of the game to reach it 10 million cause if they do that means the public is only going to get that game the fact is Halo 3 is only looks interesting the rest of the games don't look interesting and Halo 3 is the game they would buy compared to the rest of the crappy games you XBox 360 fans have you guys are not interested in them so that's why you guys buy Halo 3 that noob game that auto aim.

[timestoby]

this been out in the uk for ages now. anyway,its just a box,nothing interesting about the console like it being red etc lol.

[Sangria]

They could at least offer the sweet Gears of War 2 faceplate with the bundle, to hide that miserable white.

[-x.Red.x-]

you would almost feel sorry for them... almost..

[stonecold3]

i own a ps3 and the original ps3 60gb

[36T]

..this bundle came with an elite 360 and not a pro. I haven't played either games yet. Eventually i will get around to it and play them one after the other. So yeah, Microsoft, bundle the same games with an elite at a nice price. Release it in July, everywhere in NA and you got me sold. Oh yeah, one last request. Make me a navy blue Elite version with controllers and a headset to match!

[DevastationEve]

i remember those faceplates that you could buy and i still have the blue one. a navy blue console would look nice with that faceplate, but gears's theme is red. i think halo3's theme was blue, but the halo3 edition console is green and orange/gold.

anyway, at least halo3 got a special 360!

[caffman]

next!