How to Make Gears 3 Better Than Gears 2

Split-Screen writes: "The hype has died down. The critics have answered. Copies sold have numbered in the millions. Has Gears of War 2 lived up to the expectations of its fans? Not an easy question to answer. After all, for every moment of the original Gears faithfully carried over, the needling feeling of some thing more creeps in. For every successful Horde match completed, there are Matchmaking sessions so painful they could give reality TV producers new ideas.

"Yes, we liked it. However, if Epic wants Gears of War 3 to be remembered for the blockbuster finale of finales, which justifies its publicity as well; it would do well to heed the following."

[P]

Don't you mean better than Gears 1,since Gears 2 is an absolute joke compared to Gears 1

[Eiffel]

You sir are dumb as hell.

[Fishy Fingers]

Few point's I agree with. The story could certainly use some work, I wont go into detail for fear of spoilers.
Multiplayer needs fixing, revert back to Gears 1 style, not matchmaking, I realise this was done to combat host advantages but there are surely other ways around that. Or offer both, some like matchmaking, some (like me) detest it. Accomodate us all.

The rest, I either don't really agree with or I just dont see as viable. I'm sure Epic will make a stellar part 3, but right now I'm more concerned with them getting Gears 2 multiplayer sorted out.

[dachiefsman]

if its on par with the second I will be happy. I thoroughly enjoyed both gears so far. I hope they can patch Gears 2 cause the matchmaking and online kind of sucks at the moment.

[Fishy Fingers]

Epic have already acknowledged the problem and are addressing it now. They have a thread on their forums concerning this and other problems, here > http://gearsforums.epicgame...

[Panthers]

Host advantage is ridiculous and ruins clan wars and stuff.

[dachiefsman]

yea I know about the thread, but it doesn't mention "fixing or patch" just "this is busted".

[vhero]

its coming to ps3 thats a start at least huh?? as MS only contracted 2 gears games and epic would be stupid to keep it on one console.. MS didnt think it would be as popular as it was can you believe it?

[Damphear]

DITCHING the crappy UNE and using something better than that crap engine.

i'll never buy a game that runs the UNE its horse sh!t

[P4KY B]

It would be nice it there was an option to play region locked multiplayer.

[P]

A disagree won't change the fact that Gears of war 1>Gears of war 2

[sniper4534]

umm not really lol i like gears 2 better that gears 1 lol the onli thing i dont like about gow2 is that ur movements are too slow

[Nikkelz]

this is the reason developers come to these websites,to get great ideas like these.i bet they hook it up for the third,the dirt in the eyes idea is genius
btw.
peace and game on

[Sharpshell]

Can people calm down with the constant focus on hte next whatever. Gears 2 just came out... play it and be happy. Remember when people actually enjoyed games more then going on and on about games which havent come out or arnt even in production (ff7 remake)?

[beans]

I just hope they wait until next gen and make it on a new engine. I personally love the story but hate the matchmaking. A party system would of been nice though, and if they wait raytrace if capable on the next box will be an amazing step forward.

[pswi60]

just don't make it, period.

[Stryfeno2]

Gears 3 will be better if it stays a Xbox exclusive...I don't want a dumb down PS3 version hindering the capabilities of the Xbox 720 .

[Mr PS3]

Slow,Chunky,Boring,Dull,Mindle ss Gears DLC

[Killjoy3000]

Well, at least you said Xbox 720. By the time that system comes out though, devs will have already gotten a grip on the hardware. Probably every game that comes out for the third Xbox in the first 2 years of its life will be able to be done on Playstation 3. But, that's how it is for every system when it first launches.

Think about it. Every game on the PS3's launch line-up except Resistance and Resistance, to me, was technically outperformed by God of War 2 when it launched in 2007.

Same with the 360 launch titles. All of them were complete jokes except CoD2.

[ezlife]

So no one was pissed about no final boss. I hope cliffy puts it in gow3. in my opinion it lost a lot of replay value not having a big boss battle,but thats me . i like a challenge not achievement points.

[sukru]

Big "boss" battle was at the end of act 4. (Minimum amount of spoilers here) It started in the "palace", continued on as the air fight. Well you only see a second of footage for the death of the "bad guy", however it was satisfying.

[AbdullaMTR]

by using the blueray space 50Gb and the massive power by the cell bcz 7.5 gb on the dvd and low hardware spec held the game way down.

[LostChild]

-Add four Player Co-op for the single player campaign mode. I mean Fenix, Cole, Dom and Baird are the main stays, since you keep killing off the Carmines. Lame by the way. The new co-op will be across live only since split screen will be restricted to two players.

-If they don't go the four Player Route for single player Campaign mode, create a separate Four to Five Player Campaign mode that intertwines with original Single player Campaign mode. In this mode, you get to customize your own COG Soldier, since you will not be playing as Fenix and Crew.

-Come up with a story for both single player and co-op campaign, that will knock everyone's socks off. Something to make us more interested in this war between COG and Locus. Oh yeah, tell us how the hell it all begin as well.

-Stop with the lame endings already. Really. And don't dare put to be continued anywhere in the game.

-Add a every man for himself in the Multiplayer mode. It could be a last man standing type game or a Respawing frag fest with highest points winning the game when the time runs out.

-Make it so the Host can choose how many players can play one each map. 1v1, 2v2 4v4, 5v5 etc. But make the max 8v8 this time around. This should help with the match making since everyone will be looking for a set game.

-Have the Horde Mode maps change ever 10th waves to keep it more interesting and keep everyone on their toes.

-Keep the Bots. They are a big welcome.

-The holding your ear to communicate, has to go. It's time to upgrade to hands free communication guys.

-The COG's are going underground with no flash light...lame. Shoulder mounted light would be nice.

-Special mission after the ending. This could either be a COG special mission or a (For the first time Ever) Locust special mission.

I think I will save the rest for another rainy day.

[GamingGeekPS3360]

on the PS3...than port it over to 360...and everyone wins..