The UE3 engine is great, and EPIC certainly did not include development costs for the engine in it. Why would you think gears would cost much more? It isn't anything special development wise or tech wise. It's just a slightly improved UE3 engine (and it's beautiful!) But it's still just the UE3 engine. In terms of content the single player campaign is very short and the multi player is basically an exact copy of gears 1 with some minor changes. Were there even any new weapons in gears 2?
Don't get me wrong, the game just isn't that much more than gears of war 1, which is fine, because gears of war 1 brought a truck load of awesome :)







