Gears records "going down on September 25"

In an interview with CVG at the Develop conference in Brighton, Mark Rein admitted that his game was going to get pummelled beyond belief by the might of Halo 3:

"All those records we broke with Gears of War are going down on September 25," Rein told CVG, "We've had a nice nine, ten months of being the record holder, and now we're going to get our ass kicked. In a good way."

Rein is referring to the records that Halo 2 held prior to Gears' release. Being that Halo 2 was the most played game on Xbox Live for over 2 years. Gears' impressive gameplay quality crushed this great Xbox Live title, but Rein feels that it is fine to be outperformed by a 'third generation' Xbox 360 title.

CVG, however poses a good question to gamers abroad: Will Halo 3's inevitable record-breaking sales success be crushed by the multiplatform GTA IV a month later?

[Bill Gates]

URT3 > Hallo Kittie 3

URT3 is a much better game in every aspect of the word.

The ability for mods alone will trample Hello Kittie 3...HAHHAHA

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[devi8i]

Bill gates is still not banned?

[PS3n360]

Where are the URT3 books, graphic novels, collectable toys, 7 million pr-orders, and most importantly wheres the story line. Generic run n gun games cant compete with halo. Sorry man but the sales speak for themselves. the fact that you post in the comments section is proof enough that this game is going to eat your whole family for breakfast.

[gta_cb]

Bill Gates you are an idiot and i am now going to report you for every post you make, why? because i know you will continue to only post complete sh!t. the article is about Halo 3 and Gears not Unreal Tournament 3 aka UT3 which if i remember is coming to the Xbox 360 next year, yeh without the mods but so what i have ALWAYS thought that mods should stay with PCs IMO

[Umbrella Corp]

i hate this guy,bill gates please if you have respect for gaming stop being a sony fanboy or ....signup for ign,i love n4g its like a family your like the child who everyone hates

[DiLeCtioN]

who agreed with this guy

[Marceles]

Bill Gates has 2 bubbles?? lol

[BenzMoney]

It's not that GTA IV isn't going to sell well, because it will. But it won't be the most played game on the LIVE rankings. It just doesn't have the staying power that Halo has.

When Halo 2 came out, most of the gamers I know didn't play any other game for about 4-6 months, sometimes longer. Sure, it will be different this time, with GTAIV and Mass Effect and Ace Combat 6 and Call of Duty 4 all coming out around the same time. And while gamers will certainly be playing these games, they'll always end up popping that H3 disc back into the tray for another session of online pwnage.

...that's just the way its gonna be.

[Schmitty07]

With everything you just said. I will be playing all those games, but Halo 3 will take the most out of me. Bubbles for you!

[gta_cb]

i absolutely LOVE the GTA series, but even i will be buying Halo 3 so i agree with everything you have said, infact i am still in the dark about how GTA will be online, will it be just like Saints Row? if so then to be honest i wont be spending as much time on the online play then i thought. not saying Saints Row isnt fun, but it takes to long to even get enough players SOMETIMES. infact i kinda disagree with the article a little bit as i can see myself playing Gears of War for a very long time to come.

[kornbeaner]

Halo 3 will break records when launched thats pretty much a given. But this holiday HALO will have some pretty stiff competion in the form of GTA, MASS Effect, Bioshock, and C.O.D. 4.

Now I know in that grand scheme of all things XBOX, Halo reigns supreme, But never in the histroy of halo's launch history has HALO had such tough competition. HALO will break sales and all but it won't be the best game released on the 360 this Holiday season.

[devi8i]

My money is on Halo 3.

[rubarb23]

I totally agree with you that halo has never faced this kind of competition before, but it's like BenzMoney says games like GTA IV, mass effect, bioshock, COD 4, ect, ect, ect while they're all going to be amazing bad ass games, none of them have the staying power of the halo series. once your done playing those games, your just going to come back to halo again and again and angain like the little halo sluts we all are. plus, you know bungie will be adding a crap load of DLC so yeah, i think people will be playing halo 3 for a long ass time.

[P4KY B]

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[AllroundGamer]

i for example :) i will borrow it from someone just to see, if it is so repetitive as Halo2 or if they learned from the mistakes they made...

[i Shank u]

i didnt pre-order it butim planning on going to super-walmart at midnight to buy it. some kids gonna get a busted head if they grab the last copy lol

@ the abvoe - i think they have learned from the mistakes, because i remember reading a while back that they realize halo 2 had alot of flaws, and that they wont be making them again. One of the flaws mentioned was splitting campaign into half MC, half Arbiter. Halo3 is supposed to be MC only or mostly MC

[ajsmith]

I'm not buying halo 3 since it will be the same as 1 and its the most over rated game of all time.

[Xeoset]

The fact even Mark Rein recognises how much Halo 3 is going to smash records is word enough.

Time to finish the fight.

[killercam19]

could u guys plz get billgates down to one bubble

[i Shank u]

i dont care all that much, but it'd be nice if he got banned so when i go to read some news i dont see his turds on it

[MoonDust]

until GOW2

[Xeoset]

Agreed, then Too Human 2 will have to knock out Gears of War 2, till Gears of War 3 knocks down Too Human 2, then Too Human 3 will emerge victorious.

Silicon Knights have it all planned out.

[PS360PCROCKS]

and dont forget Mass effect 2 and 3 haha

edit:: I just saw your comment odion haha

[Odion]

you forgot Mass Effect

[Double-Edged]

Gears of War really is one of the best games of all time.

thinking about the effect of Halo 3 is scary.....

really.......

I'm glad to be a 360 owner.

[PS360PCROCKS]

I don't even know what to say here but I don't think GTA will outsell Halo. Halo 3 will own xbox live for awhile to come although it's going to be so hard to not play COD4 online alot...

[BenzMoney]

I think COD4 looks amazing, I plan on buying it and playing it online, but unless they've changed the multiplayer lobby system significantly from the way it was in COD2 then I doubt it'll steal much of my multiplayer time from Halo 3.

Devs really need to get the point that the half-assed lobby systems (ie: no party system, etc) they're putting into their games are unacceptable. When you look at how far ahead a game like Halo 2 is, an ORIGINAL XBOX game, compared to so many 360 games in the multiplayer setup then you know something's wrong.

I fully expect that Halo 3 will once again redefine the way we play multiplayer games online on our consoles. Bungie is adding so much additional functionality that I sincerely think it will cause backlash against devs who make games with lobby systems like COD2 or Gears of War. There already was backlash against Epic for screwing up the online so badly - I, for one, still haven't forgiven them for that. If they'd made the lobbies just half as good as the H2 lobbies I wouldn't have stopped playing that game online back in January.

As amazing as both those games are (COD2 and GOW) they really messed up in the online delivery. Hopefully they fix it for next time. As gamers we just shouldn't be accepting anything less than a fully functional party system anymore.

[PS360PCROCKS]

God could I not agree more!! H2 is amazing, you go to MP and bam your in a game. Gears is the worst I have ever seen, no I take that back Saints Row is the worst. I own the game and to this day I have never been able to start a MP match, not once!! Gears takes like ten hours to fill up a match. You can't host unless you plan on coming back in an hour, which if my console is on I plan on playing NOW! So I kept playing non-ranked just to keep the action going without the bull. But that sucks because I was in the top 1500 and than my 360 broke and than it got worse and worse to find a match now I don't even know what I am ranked. COD2 wasn't nearly as bad as these games, I always atleast found a game. But yes every game needs to copy Halo's online. Microsoft should make that a damn standard.

[bloop]

Wow, I honestly dont know how anyone could prefer the Halo series over the GTA series, let alone Gears. The Halo games are the most over hyped, mediocre FPS games ever made!!! The only thing going for it is the multiplayer, which I'll have to admit is fun, but in no way desrving of the credit it gets. The campaigns are boring, the characters childish and visually Halo 3 isn't turning out to be that impressive. Plus with GTA going online and what we've heard of game mechanics so far, Halo 3 isn't going to come close. It'll just be the same mediocre FPS again, with graphical polish and some minor additions.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Man that's your opinion...

[kevoncox]

I'm not even a good Halo players but...

1) Musical Score - Basically this is always EPIC in design and suits the game perfectly. In no other game has music set the tone for a game like halo. It is the rythum for the game. Only zelda: ALTTP sit up there with this.

2) Chracters - While cliched ( Angry Black captin/ major) the chracters of Halo have always been able to set them selves apart. When facing an elite it's a bit more intamite than a Chimerian( R:FOM). I love the voices that the grunts have, it really adds a sense of believeablity to them.

3) Graphical polish - While Halo 2 was the best looking xbox game in my eyes( owned NG and a host of top notch games) Halo 3 doesn't seem to be as far reaching. However, to say that te game looks bad is silly. It's an amazing looking game. Look at the new screens. Lighting, animation physics are all top notch.

4) Voice acting - Grade A

[PS360PCROCKS]

Thanks Kevon. I agree wholeheartedly...I love the characters of Halo they make me laugh because they talk to each other and stuff...I am not a huge Halo fan but I can't deny Halo 3 has caught my eye because it's going to go down in history as one of the best games ever along with 1 and 2

[Funky Town_TX]

I think H2 had better multiplayer. Heck even PDZ is better online.

[VirusE]

In my opinion gtaIV is the only game that has a chance of taking down halo 3. Anyone who knows about the industry knows that halo is a sales leviathan but gta has sold more in the past. Halo 3 has 4 million plus pre-orders but gta is multi-platform.

[THE HIVE MIND]

DUH MAKRD DIDNT EVEN HAVE TO SAY IT
THATS GIVEN ALREADY
AND BY THE WAY KID UT3 ISNT GOING TO KILL HALO
THE ONLY WAY ITS GOING TO SELL IS BY ITS UT FANS
ITS A GAME HIDDEN IN THE SHADOWS
AND HASNT BROKEN MAINSTREAM ENOUGH TO OUTSELL HALO
SO BEFORE YOU STEP UP YOUR FANBOY VOICE
YOU SHOULD SHUT THE HELL UP

[Umbrella Corp]

please dont make a comment entirely with caps

[kewlkat007]

Goldeneye007 did for the N64 and multi-player FPS games on CONSOLES.

I know Pc fanatics will be quick to judge halo against other PC FPS games and sometimes can't understand the Halo hype, but if I rememeber correctly, when I first got into College, 4-player split screen Goldeneye is all me and some buds were playing after classes, day after day.

Then the Xbox emerged in 2001, as I was still in school and guess what 4-player split screen Halo it was. Halo has been about the Music, Story and the multi-player, really not so much about the graphics.

This game is what it is, and it' just fun.

Xbox was built around FPS games, while Playstation more so, plat-formers and RPG games. The 360 is starting to get more RPG games and now gamers are praising Playstation FPS's, hey who would of thought.

Sorry Gears, maybe you will have a shot at cracking Halo 3 with Gears 2 or maybe 3. Hey, when you think of it, it's not that bad as it sounds.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Actually it's number 2, don't hate on me fans Republic Commando is my number 1 game of all time with Half Life 3rd, Ninja Gaiden 4th and Quake 5th. UT makes my top ten though.

Anyway on topic, he speeks truth stay away from sep 25th if you want to actually sell a game. It's undenialable (accept to Sony fans) the might of this game and it's fabulous smooooooth gameplay. I can imagine the pre orders being in the multi millions thats for sure.

I have read every book/graphic novel, every bit of fan made "anything" played it on every difficulty (legendary twice once on Xbox and once on the 360, I hate the f**kin snipers) own all of RVB and screem like a KC Chiefs fan everytime I see/hear/read good news. Look what happend to Project Snowblind when Halo 2 released and that was a good underated game but got outshined by the Halo light.

[Balance]

i agree with most of the comments. halo 3 will destroy all but gears 2 will give it a run for its money in a year or so. if bioshock is as cool as people are saying bioshock 2 will be huge in 2009.

[daghost1125]

halo will shatter records period gta might outsell halo in the long run cause it multi. But in the end halo is gonna be around for a long time