Gamepro reviews The Conduit, 3.5/5 wich is 70%

[theRepublic]

Words Of Wisdom said:

I think the people who say the reviewer obviously hates the Wii actually need to follow the link and read the whole review.

Reviewer's points:

Pro:

• Aiming is good.
• Interface is customizable.

Cons:

• Graphics are great for Wii, not-so-great overall.
• Game is short--only 5 hours long.
• Ending is pretty much non-existent with no final boss fight.
• Melee controls are bad.
• All-Seeing-Eye is annoying.

As a whole it's a fairly decent review that touches on gamemplay, length, controls, and visuals.  

The people screaming fanboy and Wii-hater here are projecting their own insecurities on this guy.  I mean, have you all gone so far off the fanboy deep end that you can't tell the difference between fair criticism from genuine Wii-hate?

theRepublic said:

radioioRobert said:

From the Gamepro reviewer's twitter: https://twitter.com/taelurkim

Quote: 
My mistake was forgetting the passing of the Internet Opinion Act which outlawed opinions on the Internet. I wish I'd voted no now. Haha, thanks? I'd try and respond to all the criticism but I'd have better luck draining the ocean with a teaspoon.

This guy has NO CLUE why people are upset.  Opinions are fine, but they need to be defensible.  I could be of the opinion that the earth is flat, but that is in no way defensible.

His assertion that the graphical gap between The Conduit and Goldeneye is less than the gap between Halo 3 and Halo or Killzone 2 and Killzone is not defensible.

His constant insults of the Wii for an exclusive Wii game are in no way defensible.  In the same vein, his praise of the hardware of the 360, PS3, and to a lesser extent PC are out of place in a review for an exclusive Wii game.

At the start of one paragraph, he claims the controls are "terrible" and then in the last sentence of the same paragraph says, "I played with the default and was absolutely happy with it."  It goes without saying that contradictions are not defensible.

He complains about the mapping of two functions to motion controls, without mentioning that you can completely customize all control options.  He could have mapped those functions to buttons.  Leaving that out of the review, or more likely not spending enough time with the game to find the option menu, is not defensible.

Not playing multiplayer of a game made primarily for the multiplayer, is not defensible.

This was easily the worst review I have ever read.

From the review:

...or do I blame Nintendo for creating a console whose lack of hardware power essentially handcuffs every developer who tries to create a "next-gen" game for it? 

...they did a great job of squeezing every last drop of performance out of the Wii's tiny, bumblebee-like engine. 

I almost couldn't help but wonder what the game would have been like on the 360 or PS3.

Those quotes are only from the first page.  None of them belong in a game review.  This is especially so for an exclusive Wii game.  If there were 360 and PS3 verions of this game, it would make more sense to compare them, but they don't exist.  This guy obviously hates the Wii.