Gears of War 2
2 recomps
Gears of War 2 (santiquiroz)
santiquiroz/gears-of-war-2-pc-port
An unofficial native PC port of Gears of War 2: the Xbox 360 game statically recompiled to x64 with the ReXGlue SDK, with no emulation. According to its README, an earlier fan port (“Hollow”) came from a leaked 2008 development build, and this one runs the complete retail game. Act 1 is playable with keyboard and mouse or a controller; it brings 1440p or 4K internal resolution, FSR 1 and temporal FSR 3.1 and FSR 4, CAS, texture packs, mouse aim with no dead zone, ultrawide up to 1680 pixels wide, community game patches, campaign co-op for up to four players over System Link and split-screen, and Versus and Horde in testing. The full campaign hasn’t been checked yet. 0.3.3 (October 24, 2026) has a Windows zip and an experimental Android APK. Licensed BSD-3-Clause.
You needYour own retail copy of Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 (title ID 4D53082D), dumped to a folder with default.xex and the GearGame folder, for example by extracting the ISO with xdvdfs; nothing from the game is included. 64-bit Windows with a Direct3D 12 or Vulkan GPU.
Gears of War 2 / Gears of War 3 / Gears of War: Judgment (COGBox)
Shagg88/COGBox
Native Windows versions of Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, and Gears of War: Judgment for Xbox 360, made by static recompilation (with a preview of the first Gears of War since 0.3.0), with a launcher called COGBox that sets up your copy of each game and starts it. The Xbox 360 code is translated ahead of time to C++ and compiled into Windows programs; the hardware parts are supplied by its own renderer on Direct3D 12 (or Vulkan, experimental), which offers resolution from 1x to 4x, SMAA, FSR, DLSS, and XeSS, high frame rates, HDR10, ultrawide, split screen (in Gears 2), keyboard and mouse, and DLC and zip mods. The author says it is playable with a few hiccups: in Gears 2 every chapter plays in testing, and Gears 3 and Judgment are playable; on SteamOS (via Proton) there are texture glitches. Since 0.3.0 (October 31) releases are labelled pre-release. The Windows download is a zip of about 510 MB with the already compiled programs, which we haven’t checked inside; the README says it includes no game content. 88 of its 93 commits list Claude as a co-author.
You needYour own copy of each game: Gears of War 2 (US disc, version 0.0.0.5, plus Title Update 6), Gears of War 3 (disc plus Title Update 6), and Gears of War: Judgment (disc plus Title Update 4), as an .iso image, Games on Demand copy, or folder; for the Gears of War preview, the disc plus Title Update 5. 64-bit Windows 10 or 11 with Direct3D 12 and about 8 to 16 GB free per game if COGBox unpacks the image.
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Questions
Can you play Gears of War 2 natively on PC?
Yes, though unfinished. The catalog has 2 recomps, all already playable.
What do I need to play it?
Your own copy of Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360). Recompendium only links projects that don’t distribute the game, and each entry says which version or region you need.
Which one is the most popular?
Gears of War 2 (santiquiroz), with 130 stars on GitHub.