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And the next Edge 10 is...
- Thread starter Visualante
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To be honest, I liked Lair's presentation and the gameplay wasn't horrible, but 3 is indeed a well deserved score in terms of Edge.
The game is just a whole lot of empty promises. It feels like once Factor 5 finished the graphics, they started trying to insert the gameplay elements. Everything feels so seperated, objectives are unclear, sometimes the game just feels choppy. If anything, the choppiness is what totally destroys the game. Immersion just dissapears. The best thing the game accomplishes is the sense of scale. Huge landscapes and huge background battles, with epic music, truly serves to only act like a tech demo for the PS3. I definately think Factor 5 needs to hire people with more creativity in terms of gameplay design.
As for Singstar...I don't know much about it, but is the game getting closer to an iTunes kind of thing? I would love a kareoke game where I could just pay for and download the songs I wanted to sing.
Congratualations Halo 3. Many people may or may not debate the quality of the game itself, but its undeniable that Bungie was able to put together all the great elements of an fps together with possibly the best online console exprience. Although it may not rank 10 in innovation or be mind-blowing, the package and quality of the whole experience deserves the high score.
The game is just a whole lot of empty promises. It feels like once Factor 5 finished the graphics, they started trying to insert the gameplay elements. Everything feels so seperated, objectives are unclear, sometimes the game just feels choppy. If anything, the choppiness is what totally destroys the game. Immersion just dissapears. The best thing the game accomplishes is the sense of scale. Huge landscapes and huge background battles, with epic music, truly serves to only act like a tech demo for the PS3. I definately think Factor 5 needs to hire people with more creativity in terms of gameplay design.
As for Singstar...I don't know much about it, but is the game getting closer to an iTunes kind of thing? I would love a kareoke game where I could just pay for and download the songs I wanted to sing.
Congratualations Halo 3. Many people may or may not debate the quality of the game itself, but its undeniable that Bungie was able to put together all the great elements of an fps together with possibly the best online console exprience. Although it may not rank 10 in innovation or be mind-blowing, the package and quality of the whole experience deserves the high score.
ParticleReality
Banned
Lakitu said:
And the joke was missed.
Tim the Wiz
Banned
Can't wait to play it this weekend.
:lol Edge has lost the plot there.
FoggyFreek said:
They don't seem to mention any cons for QW, they love the HUD, the missions, the way every class feels unique and offers something different, the way the game allows for complex strats in squads, and they also like the vehicles and feel they add to the game without ruining the infantry combat.
Visualante
Member
You're in luck, and I think it's going to be huge when the PS3 is affordable to more people.Valcrist said:
Tim the Wiz said:
Perhaps, but Singstar PS3 is the definitive version of the hugely successful franchise in europe. Its bound to get a good score from a european magazine, wouldn't you think?
Saying that, MP3 is really fucking good, it should've been an 8 atleast. Persona 3, a 7 is about right.
FoggyFreek
Junior Member
Please tell me more about Quake Wars! 
i'm Dying to read some reviews for this.
i'm Dying to read some reviews for this.7 for Metroid Prime 3 would tend to indicate they deserve no respect (and personally the 10 for Halo 3 would do the same, there are so many things it's missing - both in the overall game and the visual presentation)nofi said:
As an example of an element of visual presentation it's missing, they borrowed the helmet effect used so well in Prime. But only the HUD, none of the environmental interactions with it are used. No water droplets, no water sheeting, etc (these shouldn't be on in multi IMO because it's obscure view in combat but single it's odd to not see them to me, when a 6 year old GameCube game did them). The single player and co-op modes have actually been quite buggy for me too, the full on multi mode is nice though the beta helped.
British Monsoon
Member
Anyone else think Two Worlds is getting hard done by in most reviews? The games not perfect for sure, but as a fan of games like Baldurs Gate, Dark Alliance, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights and the Elder Scrolls series I felt this was a good mix of those two WRPG styles and thoroughly enjoyed it. It doesn't have the depth of Elder Scrolls, but it has that same addictive character improvement gameplay that made the Baldur's series so enjoyable for me, and the exploration aspect that for me is the highlight of the Elder Scrolls games. I don't see why this game should score so much lower than the Dark Alliance games (which routinely recieved 6's and 7's if I remmember correctly) - to me it felt just like playing Dark Alliance but with more freedom afforded from an open enviroment - granted, that enviroment is largely empty, but I still had a great time exploring it.
TerryLee81
Member
Ikuu said:
Wow.
Smiling Bandit
Banned
The question is how are they going to score Episode 2 now? Because there is a difference in quality between Halo and E2 that warrants at least two points and as far as I can see Edge's score tops out at 10 not 12. So?
donkey show
Member
wtfpicard.jpgIkuu said:
Visualante
Member
They reviewed Super Paper Mario, Pokemon, Contact and Hotel Dusk on import. Nintendo of Europe would probably give their official magazine advances on review code anyway.Steroyd said:
I'm not a Halo fan (Seriously, I am getting a 360 next month for PGR 4, Halo 3 isn't going to get bought), but I can see why it would get a 10 from Edge, as it's a fantastic game, an engaging SP campaign, and possibly the finest MP FPS on consoles (That said, it is not my style), a 10 is fully deserved.
Metroid Prime 3 getting a 7 on the other hand...... *tips over magazine rack*
Metroid Prime 3 getting a 7 on the other hand...... *tips over magazine rack*
Prine said:It doesnt get any better for halo/MS haters does it :lol Top scores, top sales amazing feedback. Yet, its non-deserving.
Now all we need are sales numbers, a few put their accounts on the line for Halo 3 floping
Didn't it already do 1.7m before hour 1?
And stop doing the laughie thing within the post I swear to god
ParticleReality
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AniHawk said:
What the hell AntiHawk? I thought you loved me
Prine said:I proper irritate you dont I? haha
It's a pet peeve of mine. I don't mind the
smiley but for some reason that :lol thing gets on my nerves when it isn't used as a response to something. I think I've been in too many arguments where people pretend to laugh to try and prove a point.I think the original Halo deserved the Edge 10 as it practically created the fps mold for consoles which everyone else followed (no, Goldeneye was good but it wasn't nearly ideal) but I don't think Half-life 2 deserved it's perfect score (not coming after FarCry and not without additional features that it lacked) and I don't think Halo 3 deserves it either. Problems include story presentation, campaign improvement/length(lesser of the trilogy) and graphics.
But then again, one must ask themselves if it would have deserved a Edge 9 as a multiplayer/community only game with the campaign part ripped out and with the rest intact and it would. So having a singleplayer campaign (playable in online co-op no less with plenty enough customisability) can only be seen as top additional value even if it isn't as exciting or polished as one might hope.
(This also ties into an older argument that Resistance probably would have received higher scores at the time of release if it was a mp only game strangely enough even if having the campaign is in fact a huge bonus. It truly was the most exceptional console online title until this Tuesday).
But then again, one must ask themselves if it would have deserved a Edge 9 as a multiplayer/community only game with the campaign part ripped out and with the rest intact and it would. So having a singleplayer campaign (playable in online co-op no less with plenty enough customisability) can only be seen as top additional value even if it isn't as exciting or polished as one might hope.
(This also ties into an older argument that Resistance probably would have received higher scores at the time of release if it was a mp only game strangely enough even if having the campaign is in fact a huge bonus. It truly was the most exceptional console online title until this Tuesday).
ParticleReality
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AniHawk said:
You've been seeing that tramp Jenna again haven't you!
Wollan said:
DIE, HL2 was a masterpiece of gaming entertainment, Far Cry was a visual masterpiece, but the actual game was lackluster. (Oh, and Goldeneye got a 10 primarily for the MP, in my opinion, just like Halo 3)
Thats how I see it, the Halo 3 campaign is merely the icing on the cake, the MP will get far more game time out of it, and is only fitting that it has had the most attention paid upon it, that said, I don't think Halo 3 would have worked as well without its SP, as many people wanted to see the story finished, too.
