Marcus and the gang are coming back from Emergence Day to kick some locust ass in Gears of War 3. The game is supposed to have the newest technical updates from the latest Unreal engine revision. Gears of War 3 will sacrifice the 60 frames per second mark to bring up new and needed improvements in the graphic department. It was shown earlier this year that the updated Unreal 3.5 engine would implement a new foliage system as you can see in the picture below.

The upgraded Unreal Development Kit can more efficiently render jungle vines and can efficiently lay down wooden railroad tracks among other things. Here’s a great comparison between the technology found in Gears of war 2 and the one that will appear in the upcoming Gears of War 3. Don’t let anyone tell you that Gears of War 3 looks exactly like the first games because the vastly superior lightning and color palette makes it a bigger leap forward than Gears of War 1 to Gears of War 2.

[Gears of War 2 Engine- Up, Gears of War 3 Engine-Down]

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http://www.gamesthirst.com/2010/05/25/gears-of-war-3-vs-gears-of-war-2-battle-of-the-engines/

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WoW I am not a graphic-pixel-counting-fanboy but that is quite an improvement... and Gears 2 looked awesome already.

This looks very impressive. Thanks for posting.

Is it just me or there was no lighting system in Gears2?

Its just you.

Wow...the first jungle picture is AWESOME...might make me buy an XBOX360!

very impressive looks on par with Uncharted 2(atleast the jungle pic)

Really? A screenshot or a games visuals would make you buy a console?

The last two shots are the Deck level from Unreal Tournament. Maybe they're planning an update for that game aswell(UT4 perhaps?). Would be cool.

Definitely more colourfull than the old engine aswell, witch is a big improvement over previous Gears of War games.

To bad we won't see much of the fiolage system in GoW 3 since it's set in a post-apocalypse world. :P

Are those screens taken from Unreal Tournament or Gears?

The top shots are a level from UT3 I'm sure (and the others look like UT maps also).

Are these tests showing the same maps on both builds of the engine? I'm sure Gears 3 will be a jump over Gears 2 but I'm not we can judge much from shots of UT MP levels designed for FPS play vs levels build for Gears TPS play.