Well i have been a gears fan for many many years now, its been my main game and the one i come back to time and time again, but i feel out of all the gears games, gears 3 is the most disappointing. i will tell you why.

Rifles- Gears 1 was so much fun and so great because it wasnt all about the rifles... in gears one it would be CQC with the shotgun, with people just going all out trying to kill each other and when u got a 1 shot on someone it was some nasty shot where the body would just fly everywhere into pieces.. it was so much fun and there was just nothing like it before.. gears 2 was sort of the same, shotty battles and most of the time lots of CQC, i think it worked really well with the rifles quite low powered even if thats not what they intended for.

in gears 3 the rifles are just to much, they down you with minimum effort really fast.. if u leave cover or expose yourself for even a second to long you are just down, and due to this gears3 has become very campy. people no longer need to get close to kill u because its far more easier to put someone down from a distance.

Ink/Flame grenades- well obviously gears 1 didnt have inks, and that was fine i thought it had grenades which you couldnt go around tagging everywhere, you where limited to only tagging people, and i think they should of kept it that way... in gears 2 the ink was fine it had a purpose, you could throw it to get someone out of somewhere or to force them into another area, they came in very handy and where fine.

in gears 3 the ink it seems only main purpose is to stun u, and i think thats stupid considering the smoke already stuns the ink is like a unneeded upgrade, it stuns u from such a far distance, you dont even need to be in the radius of the ink for it to stun u and once u are stunned it keeps u unable to move your character for far to long.. u may as well be AFK at spawn and be a free kill because most of the time u are not going to get away from a ink. flame grenades also, ever since they upgraded them they have just killed u from to far away, and when u try to roll away from them, because ur hitbox doesnt change until u have completed the roll animation, even if u have dived out the way the game wont register that u have... they insta-kill need to either be removed or reduced on them. and as far as it goes for grenades, they are just like mini nukes, if u go past a tagged one its almost certain death.. and when somebody has thrown one they blow up far to quick and have a really big explosion radius

Gnasher bullet spread- Ever since TU6 of gears2 i have had a problem with the gnasher bullet spread, in gears 1 they had the shotty perfect pretty much, the damage on it was fine and the range on it was fine, yes there where some inconsistencies with it, but that is inevitable for how old the game was and the fact lag will of played a huge part, put that aside and the shotty was pretty much perfect.

gears 2 they changed it so often so it was hard to get used to and through all of gears 2 the shotty was not all that great, but then they got to TU6 and they made it so the shotty was just to powerful, the new bullet spread meant the bullets came out in a tighter spread, meaning if it hit u it would do a lot more damage due to the fact more bullets where hitting in a direct area. It made it so the shotty could do to much damage from a much further distance, and they brought that same shotty into gears 3, getting downed in 2-3 shots form distance all the time is not fun and it gets repetitive very fast. the bullet spread also changes depending on if u hip fire or hard aim, this i have always believed should be removed because it means that because the bullet spread tightens when u aim u are more likely to inflict more damage to the person u are facing than if u hipfired, i believe both shots should have the same spread meaning they do the same damage.

Maps- gears 1 and 2 and some amazing maps and they fitted with the way gears was played, lots of cover and walls and things to get behind, no advantages points of the map really, they just flowed so well.. but in gears 3 the maps are horrible, most of the maps have some sort of advantage point, e.g, overpass, if u get to the top of the hill u can see over both spawns able to lancer down easily due to lack of cover below, only 1 way up to the top, very easy to hold of.. many maps are like this and have 1 area that is very simple and easy to camp at. The gears 3 maps also i feel have not enough cover, if someone is at a higher angle than u or a little to the side then sometimes ur body is exposed a little in the cover meaning u can be shot, it think this is stupid and u should not be able to get shot like this from being in cover and happen no way near as much as in the other gears.. the fact that all the weapons now do so much more damage it would make sense to put more cover in and more places where u are hidden from sight, but it seems to be the other way round.

Tradeshot- this happens FAR to often, it only started to happen after TU6 of gears 2 and its the most stupid thing... i dont understand how 2 people can kill each other at the same time... in no situation should it happen, ok in gears 2 maybe i can understand, due to lag maybe the other persons bullets where slightly delayed, but in gears 3 there should be no excuse really, we are running on dedicated servers, tell me if my shot registers on dedicated servers first then surly it has registered that the person i was fighting is now dead, so now why does his shot continue to come out ? this is something i feel should be sorted.

These are just a few issues with the game i have atm, i feel that gears 3 could of been a pretty much perfect game, but epic somehow messed up.. nice ideas but something that would just not work. Gears 1 will always be the dominant gears, and in my eyes always be the best... was so unique and different and u had to take the time to learn it and pick it up and get good at it, gears 3 anyone can pick up really, and it has catered for new played so much more than the hardcore players / the more experience player. Dont get me wrong its not a bad thing to focus on new players and a different community, i just they spend to much time trying to appeal to a new market when in fact they should of spent most of that time and effort in making the game equally as good for the more experience players...



Thats my views anyway