Gears of War 2 (santiquiroz)

Game: Gears of War 2 → (Xbox 360, 2008)

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.

How it gets to PC

Static recompilation

Console

Xbox 360

Architecture

PowerPC

Author

santiquiroz

Original studio

Epic Games

Year

2008

Stars

130

Last activity

2026-10-30 · 1 day ago

Latest version

v0.3.12 · 2026-10-30

License

BSD-3-Clause

Language

C++

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