Hey, I just want to clear something up as I'm reading your post.
I don't mean to stop you from the suckfest you have going on with titles from Epic Games, but I worked there during Gears of War's development, and I can tell you one defining thing about the game is an underwhelmingly bland color palette of gray and lowly saturated brown.
Go back and play it if you get a chance. However, I do agree that UT3 provided amazingly articulated and consistent models and textures for it's maps while Gears of War 2 provided a much more colorful and vibrant color palette. It takes some studios time to learn about their own colors, but Valve has never changed theirs mainly due to a very post-apocalyptic world.
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Hey, I just want to clear something up as I'm reading your post. I don't mean to stop you from the suckfest you have going on with titles from Epic Games, but I worked there during Gears of War's development, and I can tell you one defining thing about the game is an underwhelmingly bland color palette of gray and lowly saturated brown. Go back and play it if you get a chance. However, I do agree that UT3 provided amazingly articulated and consistent models and textures for it's maps while Gears of War 2 provided a much more colorful and vibrant color palette. It takes some studios time to learn about their own colors, but Valve has never changed theirs mainly due to a very post-apocalyptic world.