Halo 3 is just a great competitive online shooting game that everybody can enjoy and have fun pwning it up. I personally enjoy pwning n00bs on Halo 3, but I found it way to easy to get levels. The leveling system on Xbox Live for Halo 3 is relatively easy now so anybody can get to level 40 without much effort, or at least I did. Gears of War is kind of the opposite it is more fun solo mode, It has a great storyline and offers c-op which was a lot of fun then I was going online to pwn it up, saying to myself hey this should be even more fun! It's not. If you get GoW then your going to end up just having the most fun out of first player, and co-op.