Honestly, I think Gears 1 looks better. It is certainly more colorful. Gears 2 is very gray and brown. And there seems to be a lack of detail in the environments in Gears 2, which is very evident in the 2nd set of Mansion shots, and the entire collection of Canals shots.

Nice work, Gamespot. Keep feeding the trolls. Because there's nothing better than a bunch of morons arguing about who's console is better. Obviously people are going to back up the console they bought, to justify their spending of so much money. If you literally took 2 Xbox 360's, painted one blue, and put a Sony Label on it, people would argue over which one is better, depending on which one they bought.