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bmmb1 on 21 May 2011

Funny that when Madworld missed sales expectations (Madworld - a short, rather repetitive game with no multiplayer and as per Sega's CEO "as bizarre as you like") it was the Wii audience fault, not the game...



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oniyide on 21 May 2011

I wasnt impressed with Madworld or Bayonetta and this game looked less impressive, thats why i didnt get it.



forest-spirit on 21 May 2011

I think SEGA are expecting too much from Platinum. Their games are great (with one exception ) but they aren't exactly mainstream material.



Ultr on 22 May 2011
Jdevil3 said:
Ultr said:
arcane_chaos said:

Vanquish was awesome!!! hope they make a sequel, I'm trying to plat this but that 6 challenge trophy is  a B.I.T.C.H.!!!


DAMND IT IS!

I heard only 400 people could do it, and even some of the developers arent able to do it!


Only 400 people? where did you get that from? :O

I guess I'm one of them :P

wow nice, Platinum games themself said it on the forums! :_D



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XanderZane on 25 May 2011
Mr Puggsly said:

Something I've noticed is fast paced and sci-fi shooters are risky. Vanquish is both of these. To make matters worse, it offers no multiplayer. How many successful shooters this gen don't offer multiplayer?

Its not surprising it failed. Too little value.


The game is great. The low sales is most likely due to the lack of multiplayer and the single campaign wasn't long enough. I've gotta get the full version before it's gone.



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Bruno Muñoz on 25 May 2011

It bombed even harder than MadWorld and this time they cannot blame the Wii, I can't wait to see how hard Max Anarchy flops.



Boutros on 25 May 2011
Bruno Muñoz said:

It bombed even harder than MadWorld and this time they cannot blame the Wii, I can't wait to see how hard Max Anarchy flops.

Vanquish sold twice the amount of Madworld in the first ten weeks. I fail to see how it bombed harder.



Hephaestos on 25 May 2011

bought it last week!



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A203D on 25 May 2011

I think Bayonetta is the best action game thus far, exceeded only by the story and characters of the God of War series and now Castlevania. but the gameplay in Bayo was phenominal.

but Vanquish was not a great game imo. the shooting was way to monotonous and repititive. in Bayonetta you have different types of encounters with enemies, and you determine how you engage the enemy. with great boss battles scattered in between.

Vanquish just featured the same robot encounters again and again, theres only one way to detemine encounters and thats by shooting and hiding. the whole boost and slow motion thing was nice, but there was no real varitey to the way you would use them.

i think a better example of semi 3rd person shooters are Dead Space 1 and 2, which i felt were much better than Vanquish in the diversity of gameplay. the story in Vanquish wasnt that great either tbh. so i think the game was lacking in several key departments, and worst of all it had no multiplayer, i dont give a toss about multiplayer, but a shooter releasing in October with no multiplayer isnt going to sell well, regardless of metacritic.



Pichsterz on 25 May 2011

The game look really fun to play, but I'm hesitant on buying it because I get headace's playing FPS/TPS. I can cope with playing Uncharted, but Vanquish is fast pace game that will probably make me want to vomit. -.- It's a shame the game couldn't get 1 million in sales. Platinum is one of my favorite game studios.