Gears of War is probably the least evolving franchise of the generation, with the possible exception of Call of Duty.

If I never see a cover based shooter again, it will still be too soon.

Curious it like saying, Wahammer 40000 copied Starcraft or Warcraft copied Warhammer ....

Already making excuses? lol

Yeah, actually, I agree with them there.

One of the main things putting me off when I was playing Gears of War for the first time in 2011 was that it seemed like all the stereotypical crap that came after it. It felt like I wasn't playing an original game, even though it was original back in its day.

That is absolutely true, Gears of War was a really awesome and unique as the first one came out but than it was such a huge success that everyone whant to have a pice of this 3rd person cover Shooter Genre. Than Sony, EA, Activision and every one else copied Gears of War with Games like Unacharted, Dead Space(especially Deard Space 2 and 3), Quantum Theory,The new Tomb Raider Reboot, Resident Evil 6, Vanquish, Mass Effect 2 and 3 usw. . And because of Geras of Wars huge success now almost every Game has to be 3rd person cover Shooter.
At the time Gears came out it was almost the first and only 3rd person cover Shooter.

The and it is the same story with Halo.

I know, right? Clearly all these co-op 3rd person shooters with heavy use of cover and vulgarity were inspired by the massively popular kill.switch. And who could blame the developers? When you see the interminable praise on Metacritic and billions that Namco reeled in via sales, it's hard not to understand why it was so inspirational.