In some ways I agree with you primarily because there wasn't a sawed-off or retro lancer. But there wasn't a hammerburst and there basically was no customization that was my problem with gears 1, but at that time customization wasnt common in shooters so that didn't matter. Also gears 1 was ridiculous to play online I would go like 2 and 8 in a typical game or about that same ratio. But in gears 3 I can easily get like 20 kills and maybe 5 deaths.