huaxiong90 said: Hisiru said: 2010 is too soon, March 2010 seems to be a good release date for me. Excuse me?

Ops! My mistake.

I meant March 2011.

When it's ready.

Halo Reach this year. Gears 3 probably scheduled for Mars 2011 and later delayed to November. Mass Effect 3 Mars 2012 and one of the last big games before the next Xbox launch.

How about RIGHT NAO!

Sometime in 2011, Epic have already proven themselves incompetent and lazy so 2 years is definitely not enough time for them. I love Gears 1&2 but they are by far some of the laggiest, glitchiest, cheater magnets I have ever played.

I would like to have it on a new system, but I fear that with new hardware and a new engine they will just ship another broken game that will again be unfixable.

The campaigns for the two games have been great (a little short but that's ok), but the online multiplayer has been an embarrassment. Horde and co-op are both awesome though. They need to figure out how to keep their games from degenerating into shotty fests, and they need to do something about quitters and Host Advantage. They also need to stop listening to the hardcore fanboys on their forums, if it were up to them the shotgun would be the only weapon in the game.

I don't think Gears should go up against the next Infinity Ward COD (most likely Holiday 2011), as I think they will get slaughtered. If Bungie (or is it MS?) is afraid of putting Halo in direct competition against IW COD, I don't see how these guys stand a chance.

Hopefully they have a division just focusing on the net code this time around. The engine is fine but the net code is crap, it needs to be completely rewritten and added dedicated servers. Both Gears 1 and 2 are really great games with really good online, but because of the netcode it becomes a lag fest. Also shotgun is ridiculous, akimbo model is balanced in comparison.

The Baltok pistol is also ridiculous. I've gotten my head blown off all the way across the map by someone who shoots me once in the head with it. Just a tad bit annoying.

I doubt people will be tired of Halo Reach by March. Halo 3 is still one of the most played titles on the 360.

I can see it being released around Nov of this year to continue with the 2 year release cycle.

IW isn't doing the main CoD anymore. At least, that's the rumours, industry insiders are saying Activision has reshuffled the lineup:

Treyarch doing 2010 CoD, in Vietnam

Sledgehammer Games doing 2011 MW3 (new company formed by the guys that founded Visceral Games and created Dead Space and a large part of Dante's Inferno)

IW doing a CoD MMO.

That's the rumours around the industry.

I like Gears so much I want it now, but I suppose at the launch of the new xbox in 2012-2013 would be cool, but just so dam far away. MS has already came out and said there new system will not be out till most likley nov-dec of 2012, which is basicly 2013, or fall of 2013, I hear both Sony and MS are going to launch there new consoles at the same time, curious to see how it turns out.