I'd take another look then, because I think Gears 3 also looks quite a bit better than Gears 2.

Much better facial animations and more detailed faces too. Improved colour palette, probably best use of motion blur and other new effects of the improved UE3 engine.

looks excellent, you can clearly tell when a game is a massive budget title compared to a lesser one

My last post on the subject of graphics: Memory is a funny thing.  Just like I thought that  Super Mario 64 looked better than it really did, people remember games like Gears of War, Metal Gear Solid 4, Uncharted 1, and other games as being better than they really are.  I guess it's because our standards were different at the time (sorta like only remembering the good about a girl you broke up with but forgetting all of the bad things that made you hate her).  GeoW3 looks great.  The problem it has, like Cliffy B once said, is that it has to compete with the memory of GeoW1 and 2.  Nostalgia is a strange beast.

When I first played Gears 2, I was underwhelmed.  I wasn't instantly blown away like I was with Gears 1.  For a moment, I thought the graphics were actually worse than Gears of War 1!  Before Gears 1, my standard wasn't that high.  When Gears 1 came out, it blew everything else in the market out of the water to the point where there was really no comparison.  I had the same thing happen when I played Banjo Kazooie after playing Super Mario 64.  Yeah, BK was better graphically than SM64 but they couldn't replicate that sense of "WOW" that SM64 had.  Games that break new ground are always remembered a little differently.  Now that the standard is set, we've become harder and harder to impress.  Maybe we've become a little desensitized or even jaded.

When the inevitable Gears 1-3 comparison videos come out, we'll see how much the game has progressed.  Until then, I'll just look forward to the awesome game we'll be getting later this year.  Besides, there's more to Gears than a pretty face, right?

Hey man, just saying that are brains are programmed to remember more positive things than good things. So your comparison of remebering the best about ex partners and remembering original games better than sequals has little surprise. Imagine if you remembered very well every shitty thing that ever happened. I think as a species it would not lead to much happiness. Proven fact we remember every thing somewhat better than it was. Its cool you notice what has been proven to be natural. I bet years from now people who like gears will remember them all more fondly than we already do. I be like back in my day people played shooters all the time and damn they were the best. These kids these days are playing boring virtual reality. Yeah what graphics whores, I mean who needs a game to mimic real life.

Now thats a pretty good trailer...much better then the first stupid teaser trailer.

Well there is a generation or 3 that have no idea of how awesome Sabbath is. Kinda like how Black Ops put all these young kids on to the Stones. I mean I know what you are saying but at the same time people are still going to be put on to new music here.

@ 40 sec. it looks like Cole is holding his arms up in victory rockin' his Thrashball uni when an explosion occurs. Could this be the bad thing happening to him? Also I damn near pissed my pants at your blade of grass comment in another post, good shit.

resistance 3 (PS3) and gears of war (360) killzone 3 (PS3) are the best shooter 2011.

Best music you could have in a trailer like this... Maybe Gears 3 won't be as much about Marcus and Dom talking about their feelings for each other and will actually kick ass.

It would be pretty ironic if they don't show up at all, considering their characters are still playable in the multiplayer.