IGN....R2 vs GEARS 2 Comparison!

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Zim said:
forevercloud3000 I disagree. The orange box and fallout 3 have both had noticable problems on PS3. Framerate issues etc. Kotaku even had a story recently on the problems in the PS3 version of FO3. The orange box also had a lot of documented issues as that version wasn't even handled by valve.

Bioshock and oblivion both came out a long time on 360 before PS3. So of course they got higher scores. The same game released later is compartively less good. Standards are raised. If Oblivion was released now on 360 it wouldn't get the same high scores it did when it was released ages ago.

Devil may cry 4, what differences were there exactly? The PS3 had slighty shorter load times? After a lengthy install. Seems fair enough they got equal scores. I don't think shortening the installs through the game for a long pre game install is worth an extra .1 of a score.

I do agree though that it seemed they gave these games the same score on purpose. The review of GoW2 basically only has 2 negatives. He thought some voice work was slightly cheesy and there was a tiny bit of lag. I would say the lag isn't going to be an issue when the games released. Epic aren't exactly known for their bad online play. The review read like it was going to be up near 9.8 or so.

 

A 20min install doesnt sound that bad when it completely eliminates all load times in the actual game. I dont know how it ran on other people's PS3s but on mine the screen would turn black for less then a second and then you would be right back in the action which I feel many completely over looked. In DMC4 in particular the load difference is a lot bigger then many give it credit.

Yea you may be right about Oblivion and Bioshock, but I feel these late releases brought more then enough to at LEAST get them the same average score as the 360 versions. Oblivion looked better, played better, as well as came with all the expansions the 360 version had standard for PS3. Bioshock looks on par with the 360 version, some textures being better while others being worse, but it still made up for it with extra content that was exclusive to it. Did it deserve to get .2 percent lower then the 360 version? No.

Then their is stuff like the PS3's blurriness debacle. I frequently test these theories out at my gamestop. Assassin's Creed was boasted to be blurry and darker on PS3 then the Xbox version. I had the two games ran at the same time on two different LCD TVs and the blurriness that I constantly see in these comparison videos simply does not exist. The game looks just as crisp on the PS3. And as for the whole darker thing. Every game that I have seen that is shown as darker on the PS3 then 360 has had a brightness option. I can simply go into the menu and adjust it and they look COMPLETELY Identical.

As for the Orange Box I did read quite a few articles on how the 360 version was vastly superior to the PS3 one. Yet when it comes to word of mouth, every single person that I KNOW that played it for PS3 says that alot of those issues simply did not exist for them at all.

As for Fallout 3. The PS3 version had a few issues supposedly, I watched my friends play it for PS3 and saw nothing wrong. Come to find out, the 360 version has the same ratio of graphical issues if not more. It depends mostly on system to system basis. Also the 360 version has some game breaking issues as well, ones that the PS3 version lacks. So Not only did the PS3 version not deserve to be marked lower then the 360 version, it deserved to be HIGHER. Yet IGN only partially corrected their mistake by making the scores even now.

I personally like to use N4G's average review score listings as the norm. Theirs is better then Metacritic because they are not too picky about which to accept so everyone has a fighting chance. They dont purposely find the worst reviews out their for a game so the score does not look too good. I mean look at Little Big Planet on Metacritic. According to N4G there are over 30 sites available for LBP that gave it a pure 10/10. Out of those 30 MC has only used about 4. And they purposely saught out the reviewers that gave it like an 8 instead of the countless ones that gave it 9+. N4G has clocked Resistance 2 as a 9.4 with 11 reviews so far. GOW2 has a 9.2 so far with over 35 reviews at the moment.