Gears of War 3 almost confiremd to be announced tomorrow!!!

[fastyxx]

MontanaHatchet said:

fastyxx said:
Meh.

Not a fan. Gears is an over-rated franchise. Note the constant downward slide on most-played games list. They need to do some serious rethinking of netcode and multiplayer ideas in order to regain their momentum. Cliff and company really shot themselves in the foot with Gears 2 by under-delivering in almost every way. Lots of people are doing gears-style combat in comparable fashions, and in some cases better. Those mechanics are getting stale fast as everyone and their uncle borrows the 3PS cover and shoot formula.

The netcode needs some work (and so does the multiplayer), but frankly, it's not that bad. At least Epic tries. That's more than I can say for Infinity Ward. And I seriously doubt you've played the series in a while, because you couldn't be any more wrong. But if you're so sure in what you say, please name me a third person shooter on the 360 that's comparable to Gears 2 in graphics, gameplay, whatever. I'll wait.

I'm not talking about graphics.  It's pretty enough.  I'm not a big graphics guy, though.  *shrug*

Gears 1 elevated the genre a bit, though it got some bonus credit for being the first real next-gen big hype franchise at a time when gamers needed one.

Everything from 50 Cent Blood on the Sand to Mass Effect 2 have taken the mechanics and replicated them to a pretty fair comparison.  Everyone does cover now.  Everyone does co-op.  Everyone does vehicle/turret stuff to break up the on-foot shooting.  There's nothing that special about Gears combat.  It really is fairly standard shooter stuff.  The story's nothing special - there's 200k fans wanting to know what happens next, but no one's really too hung up on the plot.  The character's are punchlines and caricatures.  

Gears 2 just didn't really innovate in any measurable way - especially, as we agreed, in the multiplayer mode. 

I'll admit I am biased toward FPS over 3PS, but even so - - it's fun enough to play through, but so are lots of games.  

Don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way arguing that  Gears 2 is a bad game.  I liked it well enough.  It's just my opinion that it's not a strong enough series overall to be mentioned with the elite franchises in any way except graphic quality.