http://gamer.blorge.com/2008/07/21/gears-of-war-2-crash-xbox-360-and-resistance-2-lack-polish/

According to 1UP’s podcast N’Gai Croal and 1UP team talks about how during the Microsoft press conference Cliffy B. was demonstrating a level from his upcoming Gears of War 2 when near the beginning, all of a sudden his Xbox 360 froze then crashed. You can catch the crash here on Gamespot’s full E3 Microsoft press conference coverage.

As the 1Up team puts it they heard the Insominac crew almost “Sh** Bricks” during the demonstration because Ted Price almost died. Intihar did indeed verify this during the conversation that the demonstration did not go according to plan and took Ted Price off path.

Apparently the plan was not for Price to go into the building later and down the stairs which N’Gai Croal referred to as being “sterile.” Personally everything looked so bland in that building with no textures on the furniture and walls or stairs.

According to Intihar that building was no where near completion and was suppose to be burning down in flames in the final game. So, it seems somewhere probably after the first throw by the huge boss the Leviathan, Price missed a  chance to get picked up and thrown, before almost being killed while inside the building.

I hope they both fix the problems before the launch.  I don't think I'll buy Gears of War 2 on launch - maybe 2 weeks later.

Kind of funny, but I'm sure Gears will be running much better at launch. Microsoft wouldn't let its best game before Christmas be anything less.

Sounds like a hardware problem not Gears itself. And R2 wasnt finished yet. Its not a huge deal to me but now were in for a night of "lawl RROD" and R2 blows :(

I thought they played a video for Gears of War 2? They probably started it a bit too fast.

It sucks we couldn't see that other part in Resistance 2 though. I thought it was cool that the hero could be thrown for over 5 kilometers, and still be alive! I'm sure everything will be explained in the game... I hope! o_o

You know how many times a day I crash my game?   It happens pretty often in games in development.  It of course happens less in demos, but it's still not uncommon in any way at all for games in development to crash.

A day without crashing code is a weird day, it could mean that some piece of code is not doing anything, that piece of code if not touched, simply doesn´t work, and the weirdest one, you haven´t a single made a mistake...

It's called a Sunday. 

Lol, ok a working day without any crash is weird, a day without crashes is the last day of the week... (Unless you are a student and the proyect is for Monday morning)

thanks god that the building in resistance 2 was in fact incomplete cause it was lacking surface texture and lightning engine(inside the building),,,so he wasn't supposed to go in the building,,,,,,

as for Gears it might have been the 360 not the game itself,,,and if it was the game,,,they have 4 more months to polish the game.