Epic Games have today confirmed that they are developing Gears of War 2 for Xbox 360 and that it should be ready for release this November.

They revealed the inevitable sequel at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, where they displayed a short video outlining some of the game’s new features, such as advanced physics, superb lighting effects and some destructible environments. The game will once again be built using Epic’s own Unreal Engine 3, and from the footage it is clear that their aim is refinement rather than reinvention, but then when you’re talking about the sequel to a multi-million selling, hugely well-received and influential title like Gears, you can understand why they don’t want to mess with the formula too much.

Why not take a look at our review of Gears of War, which we were rather fond of.