naznatips on 21 August 2007
| albionus said: Lair is expected since it's been getting bad reviews all around. As for Warhawk if it got a low score soley because it's multiplayer only then it just again shows you have to read the review and not just go by the score. Fair or not some reviewers expect a console game to have a single player component. There's two ways to express that, 1) dock the score due to only having multiplayer, or 2) don't dock the score but make sure it's very clear that the game is multiplayer only so it's not for people expecting any single player mode (say by putting that in the title or bolded in the first/last paragraphs). I prefer option 2 since people do just look at scores or average scores sometimes but many reviewers prefer option 1. So as Wii fans have learned you have to read the review and toss out the offending parts. Such as a review that says "It's RE4, but the controls suck, I can't hit anything, I can't move, my knife comes out when I don't want it" should be read as "It's RE4" by those who can handle Wii controls. In this case I'm assuming the review is more like "It's fun and really intense action but it doesn't have any offline content and lacks different modes of play" should be read as "It's fun and really intense action" by those who are only interesting in multiplayer gaming. Again that's assuming there weren't other major issues with the game. |
Yeah, good points albionus. I think that is how PS3 owners should read the Warhawk reviews. Like Wii owners read Wii reviews. You should look at the content of the review, rather than just the score.
