To be fair, I suck tit at Gears compared to da 'alo. Gears 1 and 2 multiplayer I was worse than you were at Halo (). At least on the Gears 3 Beta I was way better than I ever was on the first two games, mostly because the new weapons suit my style of play way more than the old ones. But yeah there is a distinct difference between the two games. Besides we all sucked when we started on da 'alo, if you had started playing it the same time me and pauw did and put as many hours into grinding in ranked playlists to get better like we did it wouldn't have been a thang. That's the only reason we play well on 'alo, the amount of vile torture we suffered and overcoming it.

anyway I highly recommend getting Gears 1 and 2 anyway, especially seeing as you and Danielle love co-op gaming, there is no better co-op game series out there at the moment than Gears. Well, Saints the Third will change that, but IDK if you can co-op that on a single console, and you can't on saint's 2 anyway. But yeah, Gears hands down the best co-op game this generation, and Gears 3 is gonna destroy the other two in awesomeness.

edit@dd: Epic always do random things with Horde mode, just on random weekends. They decided to do tickers this week apparently. We got one when it was Sires once, that was a good time.