I'm trying to imagine Gears of War 3 with more enemies, better lighting, higher resolution, and better framerate. Gears of War 3 is still very pretty by todays standards (hell so is Gears 1). The next Gears of War on Xbox One is going to be UNREAL homies. Any news on Gears 4? Last I heard the game was being development since the beginning of 2014. hopefully we can see some gameplay this coming E3!

Edit: Gears 4 graphics will be rendered with unreal engine 4, the same as Fable Legends. We all saw how pretty the new fable looks. Imagine a much prettier game than fable legends due to a better team and more dev time and better dev kits.

Gotta disagree with you there.  Borrowed my friends 360 to try gears of war 1 and I found it to be utterly ugly and lacking any form of interesting gameplay.  I think the Gears series is one of those games like Goldeneye 007 that was amazing when it came out for its graphics and revolutionary gameplay, but doesn't age well due to it being entirly outclassed at everything it does by games that came after it.

That's just not true. Even if you want to disagree about everything else you can't deny that the co-op campaign was brilliant. Hardly any games even have co-op campaigns, let alone local co-op ones, so they can't have outclassed that part of it.

So plenty of games of great cover systems and co-op now.  Borderlands, Resistance 2, and probably Sunset Overdrive absolutely destroy gears co-op.  I mean I am sure I could go on but I never found gears co-op to be that special.  Horde mode was a lot of fun, but now every game has it and many do it better.

I must say I loved the decayed beauty look, but graphics are always going to age

But I think the gameplay still holds up fairly well. I maintain that no other game has done a cover system as well as Gears 1 (let alone 3!) and I love active reloading. The sink hole dynamic is also quite interesting, encouraging positive play to blow it up before too many can come through

It's also got a pretty good variety of weapons. Obviously the lancer was fantastic, but I love the feeling of the longshot more than any other gun I can think of. The Torque Bow also adds a bit of extra variety in there.

Then of course the enemies. This is an area where I felt they improved each game, with greater variety coming in

Personally, I feel 2 was the best, but I still maintain 1 is a classic

Borderlands is a fair point, although pretty different gameplay wise. Resistance 2 isn't much newer than the original Gears, and whether it's co-op outclasses Gears is certainly not guaranteed, I don't think that it does. Sunset Overdrive isn't out yet... but, there was also the local co-op part of Gears that was awesome, Sunset won't have that so can't compete for local multi.

I'm trying to imagine Gears of War 3 with more enemies, better lighting, higher resolution, and better framerate. Gears of War 3 is still very pretty by todays standards (hell so is Gears 1). The next Gears of War on Xbox One is going to be UNREAL homies. Any news on Gears 4? Last I heard the game was being development since the beginning of 2014. hopefully we can see some gameplay this coming E3!

Edit: Gears 4 graphics will be rendered with unreal engine 4, the same as Fable Legends. We all saw how pretty the new fable looks. Imagine a much prettier game than fable legends due to a better team and more dev time and better dev kits.

care to elaborate?