Uncharted 3 vs Gears 3
Character Models - Uncharted offers realistic and detailed characters that are almost life like. Gears has clumsy looking characters that overdosed on Barry Bonds HGH supplments and Locust that look like confused Dinosuars.
Winner- Uncharted 3 easily
Environments - Uncharted has way, way more variety. Expect to see desert, jungles, realistic urban cities, ocean, vehicles, ice caves, epic skylines, etc. Meanwhile Gears is pretty much limited to only broken down buildings. Uncharted also has much more detail since everything is hand drawn, while Gears re-uses assets from previous games.
Winner - Uncharted 3 easily
Lighting - Gears has nice lighting, but Uncharted has better lighting. Period. Watching Nathan Drake walk through the dimly lit cruise ship in the E3 demo was nice, and once he walked under a bright light it was eerily realistic abd became evident that Gears lighting is no match for Uncharted's.
Winner - Uncharted 3, but Gears also has nice lighting
Colors - Do you even need an explanation? This is the one area where Uncharted has always killed Gears. While Gears sticks to monotone grey/beige coloring, Uncharted has always flaunted greens, red, and blues. Uncharted uses colors better than any other game. Period.
Winner - Uncharted 3 easily.
Realism - Uncharted has perfectly proportioned characters and environments. Gears does not. It's also harder for artists to have a realistic look in there games, and Naughty Dog achieves that. Unreal Engine also gives everything a weird slimy/greasy look to it.
Winner - Uncharted 3 easily
Frame Rate - Out of all the Graphical powerhouses, Uncharted has always had the most solid frame rate. Even Killzone and Crysis dont compete with Uncharted when it comes to Frame Rate. You know when U3 comes out, it will be locked in at a silky smooth 30fps. On the other hand, Gears 3 demo at E3 looked choppy and previous games have had frame rate hiccups.
Winner - Uncharted 3
Animation - Another area where Uncharted is King. Uncharted 2 still has the best animations of any game on console. While Gears has canned and repetitive animations, Uncharted dynamically blends different animations for different body parts. Every time you take cover in Uncharted, there is always a different combination of animations going on between upper body and lower body. There are different running/walking animations depending on the situation in Uncharted. Meanwhile everything in Gears only has one animation.
Winner - Uncharted 3, easily
Special Effects - Uncharted 3 has better HDR effects. Better blurring. Better water. Better sand. However, when people think about special effects, they think about fire and explosions.... and that is one area where Gears is better than Uncharted. Infact, it's probably the ONLY area that gears excels in when compared to Uncharted.
Winner - Gears 3
Destruction - Uncharted 3 has shown impressive destructability. While it probably isnt as good as Battlefield's, it still looks great and will add new ways to kill enemies in Uncharted. Gears on the other hand does not feature any destructability.
Winner - Uncharted 3 by default
Conclusion - Uncharted 3 has better graphics and performs better in every way imaginable except for fire/smoke effects. From a pure eye candy perspective, to a technical perspective, Uncharted 3 reigns supreme over Gears of War 3.
