TheBigFatJ said:
I own SSX blur -- both myself and my fiancee played it for ~40 hours and loved it. IGN gave it an 8.4 because it is a very solid game and was a ton of fun. You'd be insane to give it anything below a 7. |
I don't think you have to be insane... I just think you have to have zero tolerance for motion controls. That seems to be the case with all of 1UPs reviews, regardless of system (Lair anyone?). I remember a 1UP show a while back where they spent half the show bitching about the motion controls in the Warhawk beta. I played that beta on a friend's PS3, and although the learning curve was steep, the motion controls were very smoothly handled.
Similarly, any game that makes heavy use of motion controls is criticized very harshly. If you read their MP3 review, they constantly bitch about the motion control actions. I have been playing for over 10 hours now (in fact I have the game on as I'm typing right now) and I can tell you that the game reads the motion controls very smoothly. If you aren't ADHD and actually pay attention to what you are doing you shouldn't have any problems executing all motion commands effortlessly. They gave Wii Sports a 6.5 because of the motion controls, despite it's industry average being a 7.7. I think what they are against more than the Wii in specific is anything that changes their limited view of what gaming "should be."
