the campaign was great, but for me it seemed a little scattererd

maybe it was because I expectation were set a little too high but the campaign was a just a little bit of a let down

the first act started off pretty good, presscott comes back out of nowhere, defending the ship against the lambent and eventually the Leviathan the ship explodes...then it hit a wall, out of nowhere you're thrown back an hour later as cole/baird/carmine/and sam looking for food...and it took some time for the momentum to comeback(about until you reached the cougar dome) it was cool seeing the Leviathan die from another perspective, but apart of me kinda felt like it was a waste.

act II was solid(pretty damn good actually) loved fighting the mother crawlr and its yougins.

Act III started off with a bang defending the fort from both the lambent and locust(then eventually fighting the lambent beserker) then it slowed again by looking for fuel...yes it was sad that Dom dies(he's my favorite character in the franchise) but it seemed a little pointless...wouldn't it made more sense if he got the truck and then told them to hop on instead of driving into the gas tanks not only taking his life but losing the fuel they came to get...

act IV was pretty slow altogether...the "ash city" part was slow as you had to chase the "ash man" then had to go go on another fuel hunt for fuel by the "Ice T" character. and then once you got the fuel you had to go on another hunt for items to make the submarine to usable which was boring(imo) but it was helped buy some cool action pieces but it felt more sporadic, it seemed it was there just to make the hunt for the items more exciting. And this was my biggest gripe...I mean I saw all the trailers saying "finish the fight", "brothers to the end" and for the majority of act III an IV were just hunting for items.

Act V was great my only complaint was that the story seemed rush...before and after rescuing Marcus's father you hear all this information about how he knew(Marcus's father) about the locust before "E-day" and even talked to the queen before E-day(which you really never knew her backstory) and it never went into detail, and Baird was asking about this he was basically shut-up with "there is a more important matter." the ending boss fight was immense! though the queen's death was a little anti-climatic(I would've used the hammer of dawn on her alone :p)

Gears of War 3 was great(one of the best games I've played on my 360 and this gen) and did the ending signal Marcus and Anya getting together?

@arcane_chaos, for me, act 1 felt like the beginning of Star Wars Episode 3. It looked pretty and it was enjoyable but it was too intense, too soon. I really liked when they slowed things down and did things from Cole and Baird's point of view. One of my favorite parts of the entire game was when Cole said, "You ever get the feeling you died and nobody told you?" The look on his face when he remembered how life used to be--that made the game for me.

The game had a four player co-op campaign (which I haven't tried, yet.). Just knowing that was the case made me a bit nervous. Four player c0-op meant that Epic had to find a way to keep four players occupied throughout the whole game. That meant lots and lots of things to shoot instead of the quiet moments that I like most about the campaign. I'm glad it worked out as well as it did. It was much better than I could have hoped.

Hey! Why the heck is the Locust queen a human!?

Gears 4: The Prequel?

Story wise it was a big let down. Dom's death was for me rather welcome consider I never really liked him and expected it.

- Michaelson's death, now that pissed me off, he is one of most important characters in the Gears Universe and all you see of him is Marcus going to a dead body...And say 'Oh shit it is Michaelson' and walks away...

It would be the same if in Halo 4 a soldier sees a dead body and says 'oh shit it is Masterchief' and walks away.... I was really upset about it.

- The story felt very rushed, characters die easy, others get introduced and don't feel like they fit in (griffin!!!).

Well I applaud them for trying, considering Gears 1 was nothing more than an 'we are big and we shoot big stuff oh yeah buy our game' this is a big step up.

I was just thinking about the whole trilogy. What do you think about this?
-In Gears of War 1, the Asian teammate (Kim) dies.
-In Gears of War 2, the Indian/Native American Teammate (Tai) dies.
-In Gears of War 3, the Hispanic Teammate (Dom) dies.
-A Carmine dies in Gears 1 and 2 and he's probably from the Middle East.

The only reason Cole survives is because you can't stop The Train, baby (I've tried. It's physically impossible.)! And don't forget that the entire Locust race was wiped out when all they ever wanted was to play tennis. So what is up with Gears of War and their hatred of minority races?

When Madworld starts playing during Dom's death scene I thought it was the best use of music in a videogame since crossing the bridge into Mexico in Red Dead.

That it doesn't make sense cause their is no such thing as india or America in Gears =p,  It would make him an alien!

And don't ask me why but somehow when I thought about Tai I always compared him with a Thai.  His tribal tatoo's that I linked to tribes around Borneo also made me think he came from south east region. 

I always assumed he was based on a Maori.