@ Majin: You have to wonder if people just don't "get" Bionic Commando. To be fair, a lot of people didn't get it back in 1988 either.
In addition to the swinging being criticized, reviewers also criticize the corny humor and story? Isn't this the same darn thing that reviewers PRAISED Bionic Commando: Rearmed for? So a game can't be tongue-in-cheek unless it's a campy remake of an old series with in-jokes for the fans? This just ticks me off. At least this isn't "Gears of War," where one of the main protagonists gets about 2 minutes of story dedicated to his lobotomized wife he has to put out of her misery. It makes me sick to my stomach that game reviewers will praise something as transparently added for crappy emotional material as that as "deep" and go on to criticize BC for its intentionally corny humor.
Guess one of the problems could be the "multi-media" part of gaming might be kicking in... 'causing a lot of people actually solely to play games for the story/narrative. Gameplay being nothing but a tacked on piece interaction. This while ignoring entirely how generic/outdated/unpolished the gameplay side of things are, 'cause it doesn't really affect them, as they don't really have any idea (or opinion on) what good gameplay actually is...
So, in all honesty, no f-ing way it would have been different on the Wii.
Random game thought :
Why is Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 getting so much hate? We finally get a real game and they're not even satisfied... I'm starting to hate the gaming community so f****** much...
