i don't like the series, so no imo its not the best all time (or won't be)

no....

Not even close.... Maybe it will be the Median of all games in history.

It's WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY too soon to be making predictions like that. Come on now.

let this thread die plz

This. There are very few games that can live up to the hype, Half Life and GTA are the only 2 that come to mind. All the rest, no matter how good the game is, will never earn the title "best game of all time" despite being awesome games, because of the hype (Halo 1/2/3, MGS 1/2/3/4 etc).

More often then not, it's the games that lack hype (or huge amounts of hype) that succeed. Look at Super Mario Galaxy, after Sunshine, not a huge amount of hype for that game and it blew everyone away. Hype makes better sales, but not a better game.

On Topic: I'm going to say it won't be the best game of all time. If gears 2 was gears 1 back in 2006, then it'd certainly be right up there, but because it is a sequel, and 3rdPS are not as fresh as they were back then, I'm going to say it'll be a great game, but not even top 5.

If gears of war 2 will have a long lasting appeal and huge replay value like cliffy b says, then it might indeed be the best game ever

The storyline is not important, just look mario galaxy and is one of the best rated.

I dont belive than can be in the top 10 in gamerankings, but, it will be over the first one.

not even game of the year.

that title goes to msg4

In short, no.

In long, Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (shamelessly copied from Zero Punctuation)

I can say right now that I thought Mario was pretty good, I HATE racing games and yes, Gears of War will be very good but it has as much chance of being the 'greatest game ev4r!!!!!!111123' as Fallout 3 with its annoying grenades (don't ask)

Seriously, when was the last time outside Metal Gear Solid that an amazing first game got a better sequel?

Shall we have a look?

Halo- no

Devil may Cry- no

Ratchet and Clank- no

I could go on for a long time, but I won't.

Number two is rarely better than an excellent number one like Gears of War or Halo. Resistance has left room to be improved. A lot. Killzone even more. Gears of War, if they improved upon the few faults and called it Gears of War 2, it would be called a copy.

They'll probably try to change it quite a bit and end up not being as good as the original.

That's what I think.

EDIT: I was trying to be subtle, but everybody has said it. MGS4 will be game of the year. no Fables, Gears of Wars, littlebigplanets or resistances are going to stop that particularly the first two. I could go into detail on why but that would be off topic and very loooooooooooooooooooooooong.