360 sales are great indeed.

PS3 barely got a boost with 3 big games out this past weeks? yeh I highly doubt it but whatever.....  it will get adjusted anyways once more report comes in.

OHHH my bad, I meant DS beat PS2 in lifetime sales in Americas. Don't care about USA specifically, psssh...

I can see you are a man of great character >_>

It's funny, even with a 91% jump, 360 is only what, 4-6% up YoY? PS3 as well is only up by the same margin, but their jump was only 20 something%.

Yeah, but sawed offs always come from behind when you least expect it, and since you run about 50% faster in Gears 3, a lot of times your team mates can't chase them down or shoot them down right away.

When I finished playing Gears 2, my K/d was about a 2.4 in multiplayer, and in Gears 3, its more like a 1.4... just because of the changes... not complaining, still like it better, but others don't like it.

That's capture the leader... which is quite different in how it's played.  Holding for 30 seconds and killing are far different in how you play it, mostly because you have a 50% chance to die if you're the guy trying to capture as opposed to before when you were just out to kill the leader.  In my opinion, its not as fun as Gears 2 Guardian, but hey, they added in Alpha (Gears 1 multiplayer) so who knows, maybe they will bring guardian back!

To be fair, COD overseas first week numbers are bigger then everything else as well, its not only America.

Well without change, the franchise stagnates. I like the sawed off, but I can see you others don't.

I wish Epic made a proper lancer substitute. For long distance shooting, the hammerburst doesn't offer that much more range, and is much weaker, and the retro lancer offers no range at all.

Oh yes, now I remember Guardian. I rarely played that game type on Gears 2, but I do agree, it's better then Capture the leader. I'm a KOTH and Annex fan, so naturally I also enjoy Team Deathmatch.

srry i don't remember much about 2010, but americas is what it is. thanks

Lol, those 360 sales are ridiculous!

Oh I agree... then again MW3 came out with the same stuff the past 2 games did and broke records upon records... so it's not always bad to change things that people like.

The hammerburst with active reload will put someone down REALLY fast... and the recoil is more like a CoD weapon than what it was in Gears 2, where the recoil was crazy.  But yeah, the Lancer is much more accurate than it was in Gears 2, making is even better long range... and since you run so fast in Gears 3, theres always someone kind of close, so you don't really need the hammerburst.  The retro is great if a guy with a shotgun is on you, you'll be able to put him down faster than he can you.  But yeah, it's useless on distance.  Might as well whip out your pistol.

Team deathmatch is fun of course, and I do like anything with rings, but I do miss Guardian.  Twas my favorite.  Another thing that is lost are shotgun battles where two guys would go 1 on 1.  It's so easy to kill people now.  It's also too easy to get headshots with shotguns.  It used to be a big deal when you popped someones head with a shotgun, but now it happens ALL the time.  That's nitpicking though.  Great game and tons of fun.