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richardhutnik on 10 November 2009
Lord Flashheart said:
Man said:
I cant believe they could give a sub 5 hour game a 9.5
That is so far below an acceptable length for me that im no longer getting this. I was starting to get hyped, but now ill hire it and be done with it in a day.

It's a sign of the change of times in gaming.

Online and multiplayer in some case are far more important than the offline single player.
This games multiplayer is so huge it's its biggest feature.

You'll have to play it on its hardest difficulty and hunt those achievements to drag out the single player.

There was a time when a game lacking in single-player would end up paying the price.  You couldn't sell a game that was just about multiplayer only.  Well, I guess those times changed.



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scat398 on 10 November 2009

Can't wait to pick it up.



piggychan on 10 November 2009
gametrailers gives it ... 9.5


NKAJ on 10 November 2009

oh god...the hype...



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Boutros on 10 November 2009
Kasz216 said:
Fab_GS said:
Kasz216 said:
Wait... the Musical score was done by Hans Zimmer?

Geez i wonder what they paid for that.


What?! Hans Zimmer composes video game music?

That appears to be what IGN is saying.  Which is... well insane.

Then again by "Adaptive score" maybe they just mean that they liscensed his music for the game.

Either way that has to be expensive as all get out.

 

No they really paid Hans Zimmer to make the score.

 



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Gh0st4lifE on 10 November 2009

lol @ anti-hype people, really, some games deserve to be both praised and mainstream, live with it.



God i hate fanboys, almost as much as they hate facts

 

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selnor on 10 November 2009
leo-j said:
selnor said:
FKNetwork said:
KylieDog said:
--OkeyDokey-- said:
Why is that whenever something becomes mega popular everyone starts hating on it?

 

The hating is on the review, not the game.

 

So the game has iffy graphics and isn't even 720p...so what.   However saying these quality of graphics is a perfect 10...bullshit.

Have you actualy played it yet? if not how the fcuk would you know ANYTHING about the game or graphics.....

The game looks and plays amazingly, by far my favorite game of the generation, play it and you will see why, and yup, graphics are easily a 10, its cod 4 on steriods.

People have complained that Killzone 2 got 9.5 for graphics on IGN and COD4 MW 2 got 10. Well they arent the only ones who thought MW2 was better. GameTrailers review said the only game they played with equal or better was Uncharted 2 visually. That says alot. Who cares if it's multiplat, and who cares if it means the PS3 isn't the all powerful machine you were lead to believe. Be happy it looks fantastic. It feels much more like war than KZ2 partly due to visuals.

surely you have played KZ2 completely to know that

Actually no. I have played through about 70% of KZ2. Not all. But Even from playing through the first 3 levels of MW2. I agree entirely with the reviewers on this one. MW2 is up there with Uncharted 2 in visuals. In different ways. But when compared to KZ2, MW2 wins.



Gh0st4lifE on 10 November 2009
WheelStriker said:
Giving the game a 10 for its visuals is absolutely b.s. Considering that its a multiplatform.

Graphics should be somewhere between 9.1 - 9.3.

 

 

OMG...



God i hate fanboys, almost as much as they hate facts

 

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Spagoodle on 10 November 2009

I'm sick of this completely false idea that some how games have gotten shorter. Does anyone remember Golden Eye? It was possible to beat the game in 40 minutes for **** sake. If you think the single player is too short for your taste that's one thing, but to claim that a 5 hour campaign is some kind of revelation in the fps genre is laughable. Not every fps is HL.

As for for people complaining about the 10 for last appeal. MW was one of the most played games online of this console generation, millions of people have spent 50+ hours with this game online. Infinity Ward has made the online experience a major focus and deservedly so due to the response of its community. If online isn't your thing then no it doesn't have a lot of lasting appeal, but then the game isn't designed with you in mind, it was designed with the millions of players who buy these games with online play as a focal point of the experience. This is like complaining about the lasting appeal of Oblivion if you hate open world rpgs. If this type of game is your cup of tea then yes the lasting appeal is a well deserved 10.

I know reading reviews is to hard for a lot of people. The review clearly states that if you are buying the game for the single player you might be disappointed and should consider renting it instead. I know thats hard to get from looking at a number. Pro tip: spend 5 minutes to read a review before you rip it apart.

Lastly IGN is not one guy in his basement. Mark Bozon gave this game a 9.5 some other editor reviewed Uncharted 2, these are the opinions of different people and are not directly comparable. To say Uncharted deserves a 9.9 if this game got a 9.5 is absurd considering these are reviewed by different people with different standards.

So many absurd posts in this thread that seem to be propagated by people with agendas rather then well formulated opinions or arguments.



**Slash** on 10 November 2009

music by Hans Zimmer eh, dident know he made also music for games



   

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