No, this has nothing to do with sales.

I think that Gears of War and Halo, for better or for worse, have become synonymous with the image of the Xbox 360, and were for a time treated as rival franchises by many people. Now, from a sales perspective we know that's sort of silly, but in terms of game quality it might not be.

Both games appeal in different ways to different people for different reasons.

So, which do you like better: Gears or Halo?

Edit:

Uh... I guess I'll count all the opinions, too. I'll even keep track if you end up changing your mind.

Gears. Halo use to be amazing until they used basically the same story arc over and over.

I'll take Gears for my campaign (Halo 2 and 3 just never felt as good as Halo 1 for me), but I'll take Halo for my multiplayer. I'll come back when I determine which of these is greater.

Gears 1 is meh, Gears 2 was amazing.

All the Halo's feel pretty much the same in my opinion. I enjoyed them all as well.

I give the edge to Halo.

Have to agree with themanwithnoname.

Gears SP is better than Halo SP (including - the coop experience) but once you want human on human MP Halo is the king.

Overall I think Gears2 is better than Halo3 but thats because I like SP and Coop.

Interesting to see how L4D2 does as well review and sales wise as I think that has the best MP on the 360 (survival mode).

both are great games, i cant differentiate them cos one is fps the other tps. most of my time goes into the newest installment though...

i must admit though the matchmaking in gears 2 is broken, while halo 3 is epic....

I'll go with Gears as I never really understood big thing about Halo. I've played all 3 SP campaigns and none of them were anything above average for me. Multiplayer its a lot of fun but I don't play MP all that much. Gears of war on the other hand had a great SP campaign (not without its flaws but fun nonetheless) so I say Gears of War.

What scoobes says. So I'll go with gears too

Gears of War. I think FPSs on consoles tend to be unbelievably bad (controlwise), but somehow Gears of War makes dual-analog bearable. I think it might have something to do with a TPS giving you a smaller area to aim around, and thus less room for error so to speak.

Also, the co-op in Gears of War is great fun. So Gears for me.

Gears, as Majin said it's more suited for pads.