Mine's currently on it's way back to me from the Texas repair centers.

I, sadly, fell victim to the RROD around a month ago. :(

I never experienced any framerate drops, but I noticed very frequent freeze-ups on the days before my RROD occurred.

Just let it sit for a few days, don't touch it at all. That might help.

I honestly don't see how Gears is getting so many votes

...Allow me to elaborate.

GoW's storyline is fairly simple, but fun to understand. An alien-like invasion from a species dubbed as the 'Locust' are invading Sera (Their Earth), and they have to fight them off. You follow a character named Marcus Fenix and his rag-tag squad of soldiers as they attempt to bring a plan together that'll stop the Locust, in what seems to be for good. Now, that sounds like a good plot on paper, right?

Well, as the game develops, the story hardly does the same. Occasionally, there is an attempt to do a little character developing, but it fails drastically. You never learn much of anything about anyone in the games past, which makes the current events that unfold with certain characters seem unexplained, and irrelevant. Hell, the only way you can find out how Fenix ended up in Prison is to read some small print in the manual, and even that doesn't tell you exactly what happened. And I don't care if they plan on making a second game that explains alot of this just for the sake of it being a trilogy, they left out way too much.

As for the gameplay, it's amazing. The one-button cover system is innovative, and works fairly well. Except when you accidentally run into walls. But it's not something that happens a whole lot, and it doesn't seem annoying when it does occur. The campaign can get a little dragged out on single player, but co-op tends to be pretty fun. I don't see why Epic couldn't allowed a 4 player co-op, since you have a 4-man squad, but egh, co-op did pretty good nonetheless. The achievements for the game were simple, but fun to go for. Hell, it's the main reason I continued to play the multiplayer on Gears for as long as I did.

Speaking of the multiplayer, it was alright. Worked the same way as it does in Campaign, only you fight other people. It's fun for the first few times you play it, and from there, it's nearly ALWAYS the same. Everyone uses a shotgun and blind-fires it, or Active Reload's the Sniper Rifle to down you in one shot and snatch an easy kill. It's also severely glitchy, with such glitches as the Crabwalk, where you can roadie-run in any direction you want as if you're walking, but at roadie-run speed, and the Chainsaw glitch, where you can walk around with your chainsaw revved and shooting people, so that the chainsaw doesn't lower and you can possibly stun them as you get close. Not to mention they fall to pieces the moment you touch them.

With all of that in mind, Gears is a good game, but the lack of story and amount of glitches/flaws involved in it's multiplayer really hurt it, especially since Epic hasn't done anything about said glitches.

So, if I haven't made it abundantly clear yet, I choose Halo 3.:)