This will be the only legit review. I for one am glad one person got it right.
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Killer Instinct | Review Thread
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This will be the only legit review. I for one am glad one person got it right.
Opus Angelorum
Member
Probably because at its core is a great fighting system.
greatestjediever
Member
Played this at a local MS store. Seemed fun, and would've been better had I remembered anything about how to play KI. Luckily Jago handled enough like a Ryu-clone that I could hack together a match (also helped that the MS employee I was playing against was even worse than me).
shinobi602
Member
Can you edit the title dude?
"Instinct"Nightengale
Member
To be fair, reviews for games like fighters and racing sims should be judged by the FCG and the racing sim community... not gaming press.
Forza is undoubtedly going to get high scores, and I'm skeptical any of the reviewers will ever bring up the fact that Nurburgring is not on disc.
opticalmace
Member
Huh, have you played it?
time will tell, ign doesn't know fuck about that. looks fine to me though.
sixteen-bit
Member
About in line with that I expected.
Now where's that launch trailer?
Now where's that launch trailer?
MastaToken
Neo Member
Ah ok...still sucks that there's no arcade mode :/
Honestly, I wouldn't trust any reviewer telling me if it was or wasn't. That's generally something the community decides.
They are using a very small team to make it
Every year is a new "season" of ~8 characters
So after 3 seasons (2 year wait in our eyes), there will be 24 characters each with story mode etc.
Story mode/arcade is coming with the 8th character... more content coming feature wise.
I feel despite these scores, this game is a can't miss.
Story mode is a free update in March.
Skullgirls had 8 characters and got better review scores.
I suspect KI will have as many problems at launch as Skullgirls in terms of gameplay, if not more.
I did see a preview build at TFC- I was completely unimpressed, though much of it was not liking the artstyle at all and never liking the gameplay or series, so I'm pretty heavily biased against it, though I do like what they're doing on the non-gameplay side.
I do notice the irony that I'm criticizing the game in much the same way folks who dislike SG criticize SG.
shinobi602
Member
Story's mode coming in February-March. Wait until then
it has been known since E3
update later on when all characters are available, there would be no sense having a Story Mode without Fulgore and Spinal
Baleoce
Member
This needs clarification. Is this an EG specific problem, or are all the other review outlets daring to actually post a review of a fighting game without actually trying any of the online components/netcode? If so, be ashamed.
The "against another human" bit is confusing. It either means there's some kind of bug in their build, or they have no second controller.
Destructoid are holding their review until they can try netcode as well, so I'm assuming it's not possible at the moment.
bar mitzvah
Neo Member
The jury is still out until someone weighs in on the netcode. Bad netcode = useless to most people. Simple as that.
Glad the initial scores are good though, but I'm not spending a cent on this game until quality online is confirmed.
Glad the initial scores are good though, but I'm not spending a cent on this game until quality online is confirmed.
Wishmaster92
Member
Will they re-review? Cause both of those things are coming later.
the first few months of any FG are very important
I don't think you'll get answer to that in reviews.
BLACK AMERICAN PSYCHO
Junior Member
Not bad for what is essentially a incomplete game. My most hyped next gen title.
Wishmaster92
Member
I agree. The game is getting great scores nonetheless, funny because it's incomplete.
Games should be judged by what's on the disc, not what developers are promising for the future.
Surely you don't disagree.
Anyone post this? Gamespot video review in progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH96R0Nc2no
It's a little bit different as you can already pay for the 7th and 8th character. It's not a case of the developers saying we 'may or may not add content in the future'.
Wishmaster92
Member
No i agree with you. I'm just surprised at the score this game is getting.
The reviewer from usgamer was definitely playing online... Wonder what EGs issue was.
BruiserBear
Banned
IGN gives a fighting game an 8.4 when it has 6 characters. smh
PetriP-TNT
Member
Yes, the game could have gotten better grades if the game was complete. The scores are average but higher than I originally expected
Yeah, he posted in gaf saying that he has played over 70 matches online.
notice that Jago's HP is doing some WEIRD glitching during his ultra, and that the hit spark for his fireball landing is crazy bright.
Otherwise, the reviewer-to-be seemed to have a great opinion of it thus far, and spoke out the options well.
These XB1 downloads reviews really seem to show a trend to launch games that want to build themselves up over time. It'll be interesting to see how it all works out, and to see if these scores have much effect on these games.
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