smak from irvine

This is news how???? Must be a slow day...

wtf, logitech harmony 880, done.

You guys making the above comments are pretty much all gay. Gears is one of the best mulitplayer experiences you can have in the shooter genre, and its gameplay has been been praised as being innovative, by multiple sources. I've never played a game that has played exactly like gears, and it is invigorating to see and feel the difference it brings to the shooter genre. It is the perfect combination of action and cover gameplay - a mix that is rarely seen, and Gears does it the best.

As far as the gripes from the article, i agree the boomer needs splash damage, or at least "shock" damage to nearby opponents. The grenade stickies have never bothered me, i think thats a fun part of gameplay - don't let the opponent get too close to you! Causes for some frantic situations that are exciting and chaotic. I've never had so much fun laughing and screeming at my TV when two guys are running around trying to shotgun each other while others are trying to stick them - nothing beats that!

What needs to be fixed is this:

12 people multiplayer
fix the stupid bug where the last guy to join can't talk to the rest of the group.
Edit the game and map cycles from the lobby
add 4 new maps and 4 new gameplay modes, including capture the flag, and some form of time-based gamplay that allows re-spawns.

Do this, and a timeless classic is born.