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Gamerace on 24 June 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
Majin-Tenshinhan said:

I think you need to reread the thread more thoroughly, honestly. It's hard to call the reviewer professional when he starts the review off by lamenting that Nintendo should've made an HD console instead. It's also hard to take him seriously when he contradicts himself on several accounts -- Such as the controls sucking, only to turn around and point out that the controls are fully customizable and he was "perfectly happy" with the default controls.

Fact of the matter is, this review is not a good review. I'm not saying that because I'm supposedly insecure over my console choice (why in god's name would I be insecure about having bought a game I have yet to buy anyway?), I'm not saying it because he didn't give the game a 10/10, I'm saying it because the review was not professionally written and was overall a very poor review. In fact, the only part of the review that I have not taken issue with is the scoring.

First, he said that the Wii's hardware shortcomings are essentially a handicap.  This is one of those "water is wet" obvious type of things that is usually taken for granted.  Fun fact, Wii fanboys are just hyper sensitive to the fact that the Wii is underpowered compared to its competitors and thus react more strongly to mentions of it (much like Sony fanboys and multiplat quality).

Second, he specifically complains about motion controls for throwing grenades and melee combat.  Based on his description, those do sound pretty bad.  I'm not fond of the idea of even shaking the Wiimote in an FPS game because that throws off aim.  I can see how having to do gestures in a game that uses the IR pointer for aiming can quite easily become problematic.


WoW - You know I have total respect for you but I am going to take you to task here.

It is painfully obvious the reviewer resented having to review this Wii game and totally half-assed it.

One - The comment that Halo 3 compared to Halo is a far cry better than Conduit compared to Goldeneye is not only completely unture it's just plain stupid.   If he said Conduit compared to Perfect Dark I'd have totally agreed with him.

Two - I've got the game.  He has a slight point with the melee attack since if you make a  subtle motion it may not detect it.  As for ruining your aim, you just jab it forward slightly, it was never tossed off my aim- plus it's totally mappable to another button.  As for tossing grenades he never bothered to find out how it works (you aim and shake and it tosses it to where you're pointing) made some false assuptions and then condemns the game because it doesn't work.  It works fine.

Third - He admits he skipped all the cutscenes then complains he didn't understand the story.  WTF??  That's assinine.  That's like reading the first and last chapter of a book and complaining you don't understand how the end happened.  No sh--.  Not saying the story is great but who is he to judge?

Forth - He didn't even play the multiplayer which is half the game (at least).  That would simply not be tolerated on a review of a major FPS on 360.

He grudgingly admits it's fun and that he liked the controls but he had predetermined this game would suck and the review shows that.