Despite jumping the gun (and probably upsetting Mark Rein) this month's GameInformer does indeed have a 12 page cover article on Gears 2. A NeoGAF poster is kindly putting up some excerpts (not the whole thing) from the feature including details of 4 new characters, Tai Kaliso, Chairman Prescott, Dizzy & Maria Santiago (Dom's wife). Other excerpts include a desire to make Gears 2 about a much larger conflict but also heighten the personal involvement via a storyline involving Dom.
Epic founder Tim Sweeney has been talking to Next-Gen about the much-anticipated Gears of War 2.
In an interview, due to be published tomorrow here, he said, “The next Gears of War game will have improved physics features and new lighting and rendering features. Work on the engine will continue through the whole engine cycle. There will be major new features we'll be adding two years from now that games just haven't done yet."
This month's New York Comic Con will also give attendees a glimpse of upcoming testosterone-fueled chainsaw epic, Gears of War 2. The convention will host a special "preview" of the Xbox 360 shooter on Sunday, April 20th, delivered courtesy of Michael Capps, president of Epic Games and Joshua Ortega, a writer.
The New York Comic Con will take place from April 18th to April 20th at the Jacob Javits Center in New York.
@vGInfidel, Yeah, I am also going slow and easy on it. 1 Million price point is my aim, since selling at 1 Million and cashing out at 600K mean you get 40% profit, my requirement of margin when shorting GLS.
it won't be till actual sales numbers come out (yep, that means not until way into november-ish) or until related games sales numbers come out (where you can see if the genre, the platform, etc are selling well or not)
Since I have spare money for shorting, I am going to start shorting this stock. Not too deeply (don't want to go into margin call), but at least making it not easy for people to keep on pushing the price into 1 million range.
As is apparent by today's rapid drop of about -150DKP to its recovery to about +3DKP, there are many people who think this stock should be valued at 9 million. This game is going to face much more competition when it is released than when Gears of War did when it was released back in November 2006, then there were few good games, and FPSs in particular, for Gears of War to compete with.
Now Gears of War 2 has to compete with franchises such as Rainbow Six Vegas, Ghost Recon, Call of Duty (which has been revived), Halo (this game could impact sales, remember people will continue to play this game and Call of Duty 4 for a long time), and various other FPS games announced and yet to be announced.
But as happens with most stocks of popular games, it will continue to remain overvalued until the actual numbers come in, which is far off. It remains to be seen whether this stock will fall to a more realistic sub-700DKP before launch or whether it will remain propped up until then.
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