Been playing the Gears 3 beta since Friday,
game is insanely good. Based on what I've seen, Gears 3 will completely take over the shooter market, and I have no desire to ever play Halo Reach again.
Not sure what I'll play when they take the beta down. It's awesome having a completely balanced, lagless, skill-based game and nothing else that's out right now can even come close. I still get raped a lot of the time by people who can wall-bounce all around me and shit on me with shotgun, but I consider that comparable to a good strafe in other shooters that's just part of the skill-base. When I die it's not from connection or lucky spamming of shots.