Gears of War 3 is going to be dumb, and Epic needs to stop whoring out the Gears of War franchise so much. Is it really too much to ask that they let well enough alone? If they keep this up, their spinoff games will get progressively shittier, and people will eventually think of the entire series as bad overall.
Okay, now that we've gotten that out of the way, has anyone bought the game? I have, and although I haven't gone through the whole game yet, so far it seems pretty good. No big surprises. There are new weapons, new characters, new races, new maps, the usual things you expect from the next installment in a franchise. Horde mode is back with a few extra features, and there's this new addition, "Beast mode," which is basically Horde mode in reverse (i.e. you're the Locust attacking human defenders).
And the campaign mode remains as strong as it was in the previous games, which is a nice break from certain other franchises that just slapped together half-assed shit for campaigns in their later games. The storyline is genuinely intriguing, the characters are sympathetic, and there's actually pretty decent voice acting. And that's saying a lot for a game in this kind of genre.
So, yeah. Discuss.