Swedish LEVEL #43 magazine - Tekken 6, Brütal Legend, Forza, Borderlands

Tenkai Star · 11:28 AM

Tekken 6 - 9, 9
Brütal Legend - 8, 10
Aion - 7
Forza Motorsport 3 - 8
Machinarium - 9
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time - 7
Football Manager 2010 - 9
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - 7
Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days - 7
Borderlands - 6, 7
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - 9
Super KO Boxing 2 - 6
You, Me & The Cubes - 6
Champions Online - 6
Gridrunner Revolution - 8
NHL 2K10 - 5
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Smash Up - 5
Lucidity - 6
Dungeon Hunter - 6
Drift Mania - 8

Seiken · (10-29-2009, 11:22 AM)

I thought they gave Brutal Legend 11/10?

Keyser Soze · (10-29-2009, 11:25 AM)

Originally Posted by Seiken:

I thought they gave Brutal Legend 11/10?

I though that was Unkarted 2

Tenkai Star · (10-29-2009, 11:26 AM)

Originally Posted by Seiken:

I thought they gave Brutal Legend 11/10?

No SuperPlay did in their last magazine. Same guy who reviewed it for LEVEL though. Anything over 8 is to high if you ask me. Sure somethings in the game is 10/10 but not the entire game.
I would give it a 7 or 8.

Seiken · (10-29-2009, 11:27 AM)

What were the ups and downs with Ratchet?

Tenkai Star · (10-29-2009, 11:28 AM)

Originally Posted by Seiken:

What were the ups and downs with Ratchet?

I am at work and magazine is at home so can't say right now.

CiSTM · (10-29-2009, 11:28 AM)

I always come to Level review threads for the cover art and never leave disappointed.

whatevermort · (10-29-2009, 11:34 AM)

Brütal Legend - 8, 10 , you say? Interesting.

On a wholly unrelated note, that cover is great. What game is that?

GrotesqueBeauty · (10-29-2009, 11:37 AM)

Originally Posted by whatevermort:

Brütal Legend - 8, 10 , you say? Interesting.

On a wholly unrelated note, that cover is great. What game is that?

Maybe not wholly unrelated.

intheinbetween · (10-29-2009, 11:37 AM)

Originally Posted by whatevermort:

On a wholly unrelated note, that cover is great. What game is that?

Brütal Legend?

Forza 3 = 8 ¿?

whatevermort · (10-29-2009, 11:46 AM)

Originally Posted by GrotesqueBeauty:

Maybe not wholly unrelated.

Lord Phol · (10-29-2009, 12:02 PM)

Eff, swedish gaming journalism.

Seiken · (10-29-2009, 12:04 PM)

Originally Posted by Lord Phol:

Eff, swedish gaming journalism.

Better than everything else 'cept EDGE

Lord Phol · (10-29-2009, 12:11 PM)

Great indeed, like the time when Level/SuperPlay journalist Thomas Wiborgh gushed all over Halo 2 for like 4 pages giving it an OUTSTANDING best of the best 10/10.
.. and we all know how that game ended up (saved by it's multiplayer, faaar from flawless).

Seiken · (10-29-2009, 12:14 PM)

Originally Posted by Lord Phol:

Great indeed, like the time when Level/SuperPlay journalist Thomas Wiborgh gushed all over Halo 2 for like 4 pages giving it an OUTSTANDING best of the best 10/10.
.. and we all know how that game ended up (saved by it's multiplayer, faaar from flawless).

Great, you're amazing, you managed to find a subjective flaw in a video game magazine that's been out for 10 years!

Success!

Wtf, what are you, 10?

pswii60 · (10-29-2009, 12:16 PM)

Ratchet seems to be getting lots of 7s :(

I know I'll still love it but I can't help but feel Insomniac were better when they only concentrated on one game at a time.

Lord Phol · (10-29-2009, 12:20 PM)

Originally Posted by Seiken:

Great, you're amazing, you managed to find a subjective flaw in a video game magazine that's been out for 10 years!

Success!

Wtf, what are you, 10?

One of many, which after awhile makes you take anything they put out with a grain of salt. I used to be a subsriber to both SuperPlay and Level.
Atm I'm not big fan of what either of those magazines are offering, which ofc is my opnion and you are entitled to disagree.
Let's just leave it at that.

I'm 21, don't see how that is relevant though.

neorej · (10-29-2009, 12:24 PM)

Originally Posted by pswii60:

Ratchet seems to be getting lots of 7s :(

I know I'll still love it but I can't help but feel Insomniac were better when they only concentrated on one game at a time.

They are, while the programmers are working on resistance, the designers are working on ratchet and vice versa. The main problem with Ratchet is that it hardly does anything new.

Lord Phol · (10-29-2009, 12:33 PM)

I shall retract abit from my formar harsh statements and say that there's on thing I do like about Level.
They are not afraid to use the whole (well more than only 9s and 10s) scale when giving scores.

nelsonroyale · (10-29-2009, 12:57 PM)

Enjoying BL muchly, although it does have a few pretty silly design flaws. Nordic countries are pretty hugely into their metal so the 10 is not that surprising...10s are thrown about too often these days...this game certainly doesn't deserve that kind of score

zoukka · (10-29-2009, 01:07 PM)

Originally Posted by nelsonroyale:

Enjoying BL muchly, although it does have a few pretty silly design flaws. Nordic countries are pretty hugely into their metal so the 10 is not that surprising...10s are thrown about too often these days...this game certainly doesn't deserve that kind of score

But not everyone rates games with mathematic equasions. If the review guy had a blast with the game (whatever the reasons might be) a few flaws in the game won't necessarily have to reduce the number from "10".

please don't type the word "consistent" in this thread. I might get mad.

Mithos · (10-29-2009, 01:51 PM)

Originally Posted by zoukka:

But not everyone rates games with mathematic equasions. If the review guy had a blast with the game (whatever the reasons might be) a few flaws in the game won't necessarily have to reduce the number from "10".

In my opinion if your reviewscore is not backed up by the reviewtext you have done something wrong.

Tenkai Star · (10-30-2009, 11:16 AM)

Originally Posted by Mithos:

In my opinion if your reviewscore is not backed up by the reviewtext you have done something wrong.

True that. Sometims you read a review and the text says something like: "This might be one of the best games ever" 8/10. Wtf?

user_nat · (10-30-2009, 11:23 AM)

Forza.. 8..?

RAGE.

zoukka · (10-30-2009, 11:23 AM)

Originally Posted by Mithos:

In my opinion if your reviewscore is not backed up by the reviewtext you have done something wrong.

That didn't have anything to do with my post? Of course you need to back up the score with the text. My point was that many reviewers don't think of games as "100%" and then start decreasing that number as flaws start to show up.

WretchedTruman · (10-30-2009, 11:25 AM)

Not quite sure I agree with much there.

Takuan · (10-30-2009, 11:26 AM)

Wow @ the Tekken scores. They must be big fans.

Tenkai Star · (10-30-2009, 11:29 AM)

Originally Posted by WretchedTruman:

Not quite sure I agree with much there.

I agree with the 8 for Brutal Legend. I don't think I will agree with the 6 and 7 for Borderlands but I will not judge until Zavvi get their fingers out of their asses and get me my game =(

Mithos · (10-30-2009, 12:18 PM)

Originally Posted by zoukka:

That didn't have anything to do with my post? Of course you need to back up the score with the text. My point was that many reviewers don't think of games as "100%" and then start decreasing that number as flaws start to show up.

In a way it did have something to do with what you wrote. Even if a reviewer have a blast playing a game, if the review text say the games have flaws, it SHOULD be reflected in the review score (but many do not do this).

zoukka · (10-30-2009, 12:28 PM)

Originally Posted by Mithos:

In a way it did have something to do with what you wrote. Even if a reviewer have a blast playing a game, if the review text say the games have flaws, it SHOULD be reflected in the review score (but many do not do this).

No it SHOULD NOT if the magazines scoring system doesn't require it.