Edge Issue 196 Reviews

[Zim]

I disagree with you Zen. Fallout 3 is a 7 at best imo.
Graphics? good but not great, animation is horrendously bad. 7/10.
Story? meh nothing memorable. 5/10.
Presentation. Yup pretty good 9/10.
Audio. Pretty good 8/10.
Gameplay. Average in every way, doesn't compare to other fps or tps. Even compared to some other rpgs is lacking.5/10

So basically you have an action rpg with bad action and without the usual fantastic story/characters that boosts rpgs scores.

Also your acting kinda weird. There isn't inconsistancy. There is opinion. They think Fable 2 is better than Fallout 3. You disagree? That's your opinion. From a purely technical side? Hard to say, fable has better gameplay and the dog is very impressive, fallout 3 probably has better graphics and I guess the term would be atmosphere.

Judging games objectively is basically impossible. Okay you can judge presentation like that, but even then what about style? I guess technical profiency you can vaguely judge. Like how smooth the game feels but it's difficult. I guess you would call it polish. Sometimes it's easy to tell. Dead space is a more polished game than something like mercenaries 2. Fallout 3 and Fable 2? I would say fable 2 is more polished. Fallout 3 feels a bit rough around the edges sometimes.

I completly agree with Bodhesatva the problem isn't edge. It's the entire rest of the industry. It's crazy if a game gets in the 70's we consider it average. In the 80's is merely good. The 50's should be average. Edge make use of that.

Once again using mirrors edge as an example. It has good graphics, below average story and characters, good gameplay, bad value (short game, then just time trials). To me a 5 (or as other reviewers would give it a 7) seems perfectly reasonable.