Seeing people say Gears 2 is the best makes me want to throw up my insides. Like it almost gives me physical pains reading that. That game was still barely playable, even after TU6. At best, at that point, the game was where it should have been when it launched. It was truly awful. Smoke ragdolling, nade planting, stopping power, movement that was 15% slower, mortars, map hazards, game play and map design that encouraged long distance combat and camping, shooting your Gnasher from the hip resulted in shots going STRAIGHT DOWN towards your goddamn ankles, god awful net code, unbalanced matchmaking and the death of Player Match.
Fuck Gears 2 until the heat death of the universe and the end of time itself. Ugh. Gears 3 is half way decent compromise between the community and Epic. It has some shining moments and great ideas, but too much bullshit, poor balancing and features that make it something it isn't, that prevents a lot of people from loving it instead of just tolerating it's existence.
Gears 1 is the golden standard. August needs to get here PRONTO