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Gamerace on 24 June 2009
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Words Of Wisdom said:
Gamerace said:

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.

Thank you for the compliment.  I think a good back and forth is fun once in a while so let's have at it.  ^_^

One - I think you're right.  I think it was an exaggerated claim much akin to lifting a box and saying "this weighs a ton!"  The box doesn't actually weigh a ton, but it weighs a lot.

Two - If that's the case then at most the reviewer would have been able to criticize the default scheme but nothing more.  It would have been a minor point of annoyance (having to remap it), but not a reason to lower the score on its own.

Third - "the boring story that had me tapping the A button as fast as I could during cutscenes" is the quote I'm looking at and in many games this speeds up conversations and the like.  If pushing A skips things entirely then that changes the entire meaning of the statement.  If he was skipping content then I will agree with you.  If he was simply speeding it up to get back into the action then I will not.

Fourth -  Fourth has a "u" in it.

Fifth - Good point.  While multiplayer is not important to me, it is important in the overall scheme of things.  If he was not able to try online multiplayer at the time due to lack of people online then he should publish an addition to review to incorporate it. 

Okay, round two.

One - I take your point but it comes across unproffessional and totally misleading.   If a forum poster said that, fine you expect take sort of kneejerk statement but not in a 'professional review'.  People might take that as fact not exaggeration.

Two - If he did a more thorough review (instead of his admitted rush job) we would have discovered the remapping option, and proper useage of controls and not had this as a serious complaint.   He discredits himself and the review here.   On the flipside, the game doesn't clearly specify how tossing a grenade works other than by moving the nunchuk so I can understand his assumption (since he's not a Wii player) but it's still sloppy reviewing.

Three - I've been watching them, but I assume A skips at least the portion of the cutscene your in if not the whole thing.  Never heard of an option to 'speed it up' but could be.    Still, if he's going to comment on the story he should be paying attention to it.

Fourth - smartass

Fifth - A lot of FPS now have (very) short single player sessions and really bank on the multiplayer as the main selling element.  The Conduit is not an exception here.  At least he admits he didn't bother (or couldn't?) play it, but then they still go ahead a score it anyway.  Would it kill them to wait a day?  No.   Would it kill this reviewer to play a Wii game online?  Apparently.