[Requiem]

Jesus Christ darkpower, did you not see in my post that you QUOTED, that I said "I understand that they have different names"? And Gears doesn't have any 'different' control schemes, with exception of the fact that 'A' does actions such as wall grabbing, running, hopping over walls, etc. R6 is a FPS, but it has very similar controls to GoW, the main difference being that R6 doesn't have rolling, or have melee/punch, and to change weapons you hold Y and -then- use the D-pad) - It also has wall grabbing and when grabbed to a wall, it switches to a third person view.

The only reason the games may feel different is because in one, you are looking right down the barrel of your gun. In the other, the camera is -swinging- behind you so it feels different, maybe even a bit more sluggish. If Gears was in first person, it would still play mostly the same, but it would seem different because of the viewpoint.

Does -he- think Gears is an FPS? Well if he was actually meaning it when he said it then he's an idiot. But to me it seems rather obvious that he was simply referring to shooters in general, since there are hardly enough popular third person shooters to warrant discerning between the two.

Edit: Just for some more clarification. TPS games are usually along the lines of Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Splinter Cell (spy side only, Mercs were FP), GTA can even be considered a TPS, though it has driving and RPGish parts to put it in a different genre.
Gears, although classified as a TPS, would control exactly the same were it in first-person view, where as most TPS games allow camera control, hence the point of it being third person. Gears simply did it for visual effect, and it's more annoying than cool as it blocks your view half the time.

All that aside, Gears is a shitty, glitch-filled game with pretty graphics. It is not the best shooter out, and will never be the best shooter out, because it will never become fully fixed due to Microsoft most likely dumping it as soon as Halo 3 is released. Support for the game will probably be cut in half instantly.

All that aside, and you're just being twats for the sake of it. No, Gears isn't an FPS. Yes it is a shooter and is in the same genre with very LITTLE difference from FPS games. Therefore when talking about shooters in general, he said FPS when he obviously knows the difference as he stated something about a third person shooter later in his post.