You might want to fire up that copy of Gears of War one more time before Friday. There are a couple of achievements you need to unlock some cool multiplayer skins for the sequel. Specifically, you’ll want to complete Act 1 on any difficulty, collect 1/3 or more of the COG tags, and beat the game on Insane (yeah, that’ll happen quickly). Check out all the collectibles you can snag:
- Insane Difficulty – Complete the game in any difficulty
- Character: Dizzy Wallin – Complete Act 1 on any difficulty. This is a Multiplayer Character
- Character: Kantus – A Locust monk. Complete Act 2 on any difficulty. This is a Multiplayer Character
- Character: Tai Kaliso – Complete Act 3 in any difficulty. This is a Multiplayer Character.
- Character: Flame Grenadier – Complete Act 4 in any difficulty. This is a Multiplayer Character.
- Character: Skorge – Leader of Kantus Monks. Complete Act 5 in any difficulty. This is a Multiplayer Character.
- Character: Anthony Carmine – Complete any of the Act 1 Achievements from Gears of War 1.
- Character: RAAM – Locust Army Leader in GoW1. Unlock “A Dish Best Served Cold” achievement from Gears of War 1.
- Character: Lt. Minh Young Kim – Former Delta Squad Leader. Unlock “Time to Remember” achievement from Gears of War 1.
Good stuff here. It’s nice to see Epic offering some multiplayer unlocks for getting through the game, similar to the Halo 3 armor unlocks. I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot of these Friday night when we team up for Gears 2 like whoa. Yes, I said like whoa.
I like the linked achievements. Luckily I think I have them all except for the insane one.
you are wrong the INSANE unlockable is available after you beat GOW 2 on insane not GOW1
to get insane just beat GOW 2 one time
I’ve beaten Gears 1 on Insane… But I don’t have Kim, RAAM, or even Carmine. Is this a problem I can solve?
@ Kristy – that is odd, I got Raam from beating it on regular. Sounds a bit odd
Awesome, I have all those achievements already.
i got carmine, and thats all i need.. hes the only one i ever pick.
Dude how did u get Carmine
i have all three of the linked achivements too and it doesnt give me RAAM, Kim, or A. Carmine. can anyone help?
@Justin – I have a silly question. Have you logged in to live or are you playing it offline with a silver account? I am not sure if that matters at all but as far as I know achievements are linked to your gamertag and not save game data so I doubt that a game save has anything to do with it. Not saying anyone has implied that. Maybe something to do with your account is wonky. Just an idea.
I have the same problem as Justin. I figured maybe I needed Live in order to unlock them…
hey, i have the achievements to get Anthony, Kim, and RAAM, but it won’t let me have them. is there something i need? like xbox live? please respond. thank you
i have same problem
so you need xbox live to get linked unlockable characters or what?
@Radish – Yes, it seems to be the case. Once you connect to Xbox Live and hit the title screen your characters should unlock. Kind of silly.
Hmm it is probably linked through gamertag but that sucks cos I hav 360 with no HDD so lol doomed
I have the achievements to unlock Kim and A. Carmine but I still can’t play as them.
your are all so gay i play gears just like you but you dont have to get everything, deal with it. who gives a crap an plus some of you up here are full of it get a life.
ya ummm…
I have the achievments but i still cant get the RAAM or KIM or A.CARMINE
do i have to do some thing to get them i dont get it.
All i know is that in order to unlock general RAAM you have to beat him in GOW1 on hardcore difficulty
yeah, um…i
have the achievements ¨beat act 1 on hardoce¨, ¨beat act 1 on normal¨, and ¨beat act one on insance¨, i pretty much have all the non online achievements for gears 1, and some xbox live ones, but im on vacation, and i dont have live here, but i cant get A. Carmine, Minh Young Kim, Or General RAAM, Is it cus im not on live? And also, Brad B, im thirteen, what life am i going to have?
but
what life you must have brad when you are posting on forums for games you dont even like. my guess is your some little kid who applies if you have everything your spoiled logic. this is a game, theres a reason we have achievements. go try and ejaculate for the first time you little ass muncher
Yeah I am having the same problems….I have all the achievements from GOW1 and it still has not unlocked Carmine RAAM or Kim….Help!?
hey, same damn problem here if you need XBOX live to unlock them then thats just stupid, and seriously who the F@CK is this brab b anyway, let me tell you something brad fag, all the damn locust look stupid, but RAAM is a badass and i would love it if i can play as him already so F@CK BRAD B.
Ive unlocked all the achievements i need for the characters for multiplayer but for some reason it hasnt transferred and i cant play as them. Does anyonw no why this is do i need live or somet??
Once again, being that no one apparently reads through the comment section completely [so, why am I doing this...?], the only way to unlock Anthony Carmine, General RAAM, and/or Lt. Minh Young Kim is to link your gamertag to Xbox Live; simply unlocking those Gears of War (1) achievements on your Xbox 360’s hard drive is not enough. Yes, I agree that it is a bit retarded for those without an internet connection [some of us have to pay rent for an apartment and don't have the extra $100 a month for cable, dammit], but it’s just another way that Epic is pushing all of us gamers to try the online multiplayer [i.e. Party Like It's 1999, Around the World, etc. achievements].
Actually I got the around the world achievement and I’m working towards party like it’s 1999 through splitscreen multiplayer. The only ones you need live for are the public achievements, and there’s only like 4 or 5 of ‘em.
Ok….so you need xbox live to unlock them?Because i have A.Carmine and B.Carmine.But not RAAM or Kim Young Mink?So what do i need to do please respawn.
Thanks everybody!! Big help to me…..Except Brad of course!
Bull. I have Live, have beaten Gears 1 on Insane, collected 25 COG Tags in Gears 1, Beaten Gears 2 on Hardcore and I still don’t have RAAM, A. Carmine or Kim.
thanks i got raam bad ass
I did Gears of War Act 1 and I didnt get A.Carmine….
Is their another way to get A.carmine? i dont have live but i cant get it! please, some one reply!
i feel in the years surrounding the gears games being developed and released a young man has forgotton what it was like to play with a toy gun or even a bag of plastic soldiers. Young men have lost their connection with reality and instead found connection within an online world, which i may add breeds greed and racism. I find alot of the young men who go to this online place have no sensee of identity and basic moral values and use words like ‘retard’ loosely. It is upsetting as its a real show of the mentaltly of todays youth, in heinsight i think that the parents are just giving the brats the tools to keep them quite rather than procreate in life. I remember the days when i’d sit in my room which i shared with my 2 brothers and listen to the record player we shared and i’d whale the lyrics like a young elk who had just been flesh wounded with a hunters riffle! the point is as economics rise in societies bid to be bigger and better where are the young boys men to be to carry the tools into the next generation….May my words echo with you in eternity friends who have cared to fill their empty cup with my knowledge…
dude’s listion i have all d achievments dat i need but gess wat I dont have d caracters how come sorry but im pissed cause i dont have em now how do I get em plzz tell me
Shane
McSweeney
Hey yah, i have a gold membership on xbox live and A Dish Best Served Cold, Time To Remember, And The other one and i still dont have RAAM, Anthony Carmine, Minh Young Kim, PLZ Help im dying to Play as RAAM, he is my Favourite Locust Character. PLZ HELP ME!!! And All The OThers That Are Having This Problem.
So do you or you don’t need xbox live to unlonck a. Carmine and raam and kim let me know please peace out
hi there!! So, I know that ITS NECESSARY to login on Xbox live with my Gamertag profile TO GET THE SPECIAL CHARACTERS…….so…………..as i dont have an account and either internet conection…………..and also i dont have a Hard Drive disc (i got a memory card)……….Can i just simply go to a public gameroom, pay some money to play online ,plug my memory card and login in xbox live to play GOW 2, and finally i will unlock tha characters??? does it makes sense??
and the most important thing: When i plug again my memory card on MY xbox 360 console, Will i haVe the characters available on MY profile??
please answer this, ok? Thanks after all. Adios!!
dude if you just have all the gears of war characters besides them you guys should have them all i did was beat the first act and i got a.carmine i dont know what the problem is with you guys and im not wrong because im obsessed with gears of war
this is ass how do iget those charachers
man that sucks! i dont have live? and I already got the achievments too. Why do we need LIVE?…
whatsup man same damn problem how do i unlock them. heres a difference i got gears 2 first on chritmas last year than bought gears 1 in january beat on all modes for gears casual hardcore and insane and got a dish best served cold got any act 1 acheivements and i got time to remember but when i put in gears 2 guess what………no characters.
So what i do now and i know it has nothin to do with online cause i aint got it yet. Help me out please! It said just get the acheivements.
wtf i hav gears 1 and 2 i hav those 3 achievements to unlock carmine raam and kim but nothing happened i evn hav xbox live gold and it still doesnt wurk for shit! plz help!!!
i have the achievements to unlock A. Carmine and Lt. Kim but gears 2 wont give the ability to play as them what do i need to? This sucks i went through the trouble to get those achievements in like 8 hours so i dont have the one for RAAM. if nothing else tell me how to get A. Carmine hes the better of the Carmines in my books.
oh yea the xbox live idea dosent work i tried it at my freinds house earlier and it diddent give me them.
i know my gears 2 has unlocked them because it puts all three of them as cpus in local multiplayer but it wont let me use them what the hell is up with all the glitches in gears of war 2 anyway?
has anyone tried unlocking those achevments after playing gears 2 maby its weird like that
just putting that out there
omg im so mad right now i have EVERYTHING, gold membership, achievments, beaten both on insane, hardcore, normal, and casual wth why cant i get the characters? i no pretty much everyone has the same problem im so confused also just throwing it out there why would we need live anyways? thats bullshit in my books. if someone might know how to exactly do it for any of us who have the rquirements please answer. thanks a bunch and this Brad kid, im sure you want the characters too idiot of course im gunna get them cuz carmine happens to be my fav to play as i always choose him so u can stfu.
oh an tanner i beat gears of war 2 before the 1 one and i still didnt get them i unlocked those achievemnts after gears of war 2 was complete i have done everything ppl have said that we need. i just want carmine plain and simple hopefully i get an answer
Anthony Carmine rocks and i just pisses me off that i cant use him. any idea whats wrong with gears 2. my freind beat the game on casual and got everone.
to get A. Carmine u need to Get 1 of the acheviments from act 1 of gears of war 1 any mode and put on gears of war 2 and connect to xbox live and after u press start on gears of war 2 it should say on the bottom left corner someting about unlocked and for ramm u need to beat him on hardcore or insane on gears of war 1 and do the same thing and connect to xbox live and play gears of war 2. hopefully it helps
EDIT: u have to pass gears of war 2 to unlock them
I think that gears of war is gret killing all the bad guys