Gears of War 3 raising standards for third person shooters?

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thranx said:

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d21lewis said:
^^The hooked a chainsaw up to a machine gun. That's sorta original, right?

that was exaggeration, every game to some extent has unique qualities whether it be as you mentioned strapping chainsaws to guns in gears, or its beast mode or whatever but creditting major features like cover and survival modes to gears is imo nonsense as other games had those features long before it and implemented them well

other game smay have had them before, but now you need these modes to compete because of gears. i think it shows how all of these games have this now and only one or two before. Gears may not have created them, but they sure as heck made them mainstream and made them well.

your opinion, imo games had them before gears and would have continued to incorporate them regardless of if gears existed or not