haven't played 3 yet but loved 2 and you'd be a fool to skip it. It'd be like watching Star Wars and skipping Empire or watching Lord of the Rings and skipping The Two Towers or playing Gears of War and skipping Gears of War 2.... wait, ok I guess it'd be exactly like that second one...
Moose: HA! yeah, I got onto a Hoarde mode group, and just added them to XBLA for the sake of following them around. Seems to work a world better. Never went through more than 2 cycles.
The premise of Gears 3 is that in the aftermath of Gears 2 and the Lambent plaguing the world, "everyone is stranded now." Everyone picks up arms to fight, so humanity can survive. Doesn't matter if they're sterile or not, everyone's fighting. super stoked to get this stuff out into the world! There is plenty of bigger and…
The whole trailer was a flashback to gears of war 1 & 2, Raam isn't in gears 3 because you kill him in gears of war 1 :P the DLC takes place before gears 1, shortly after emergence day.