March 2011.

probably will be anounced this year or early 2011, November 2011 release date is most likely, cant see it this year (unless they anounce soon and have already been working on it alot), and I dont see them releasing early in the year either, theyll want to release close to the holidays for maximum sales impact.

That has more to do with lag and Host advantage, on your screen you got shot once but on the hosts screen you got shot twice and by the time that data gets sent back to your connection you are already dead. Even if you are hurt just a little, the boltok will pop your head if they land the headshot. Just using a Boltok it takes 2 headshots to make it pop, headshots are way too easy for the host since other players always have the delay.

This is also one of the reasons why everybody uses the shotty. It is far easier to just gib someone with a single or couple of shots, then it is to down someone with an AR and then Execute them or shoot them again (depends if the gametype uses Warzone or Execution rules). It's the easiest way to get kills yet everybody calls you a noob if you use anything other than the shotty, it makes no sense to me. You can unload an entire clip on someone rushing you with a shotty and nothing happens to them, they run right up to you and just gib you or they 2-piece you (melee followed by the shotty).

I'm good with the shotty and all the ridiculous wall-bouncing, rolling and blindfire spamming but it gets a little stale after a while. Epic tried to slow the shotty down for Gears 2, but the fanboys cried for AN ENTIRE YEAR and now it's back to the way it was in Gears 1. And everybody melees, it's pretty sad when a melee is more effective than bullets.

I hadn't heard that, interesting.

i say this year. ya theres reach,cod 7, and MoH but those are fps games.if they release next year they might be in compitition with uncharted 3. plus if they release this year gears 4 should be ready by the time xbox 720 comes out.

i agree with this reach/cod audience isnt gears audience so it would work

Actually yes it is. I had about 20 Gears 2 players in my FL that were ALWAYS playing Gears 2. Since MW2 came out they are now ALWAYS on MW2. I check some of my friends' FL and I see the same thing, tons of former Gears 2 players now playing MW2. It's also why Gears 2 dropped from the top 10 most played games on XBL as soon as MW2 came out. It's been creeping back up but it's still near the bottom.

I've actually noticed that a lot of the people that played Gears 1 didn't move onto Gears 2, many still play Gears1 and some just don't play anymore.

Edit: I just checked Major Nelson and Gears 2 is gone again, I guess people can only take so much BS. Either that or they got bored with the shotty/melee antics.

i believe that they should wait till the next xbox launch...that way we would have a reason to buy it

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November 2011 since I would like this game be the defining one for hard core Xbox 360 games and push the system further than all the others.