Last year November I bought myself a brand new PS3 Slim. With the price drop and all those exclusives that only PS3 owners could enjoy I had to get one.
So I went on a shopping spree and bought pretty much all the highly rated exclusives. So far I have completed the following-
Resistence 1- Dated but if I played it back in 06 I think I would've enjoyed it a lot more.
Resistence 2- Big improvment, enjoyed this game. Is it over as I think it's a great series to carry on.
Killzone 2- Disappointed. Explained in some detail here. http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=97225&page=7
Uncharted- Wow I loved this game, really enjoyed it.
Uncharted 2- What an amazing game! Even better than the first! Everyone must expericance both games.
Right my candidate for the most overrated game ever-
Metal Gear Solid 4.... Now unless your a diehard MGS fan, I can't see how anyone could enjoy this to a great degree. I heard technically it's amazing and I guess back in 08 I would've been impressed a bit more but even so it's really not that great. The sound effects are mediocre and only a couple of memorable tunes. The actual levels are very dull and uninspiring. Seems like all the work went into the characters which do look good (they have no jaggies unlike everything else). The women do look fit (I like Naomi). No screen tearing but constant frame rate hiccups. A lack of post processing effects too. Oh and the installs and loading that breaks up the flow of cut scenes...takes up nearly 6.5 gigs!
But that's not really the problem. My issue is (in order of bad to worse) story, gameplay and voice overs. I played it in English (is that the issue?) and it was like a step back to last gen or even before. Otacon has got be the worst VO I've heard in a long time and he's one of the main NPC. With a game practically based around the story (with bits of gameplay thrown in) I couldn't believe how bad the vo and narrative was. The pacing was way off, there were a lot of pointless cut scenes and it was confusing as hell with one convoluted plotline after another. I heard it was very sad but EVA's and Naomi's death were very poorly acted out with terrible dialogue and hearing Otacon cry just made me angry at how that could've made it into this game.
And gameplay? How archaic is it? Snakes moves like a piece of rock. Stealth? I could just just run and gun around the basic designed levels. I was so surpsied at how basic the level structure was. Enemies respawn, CQC was so basic ( I hardly needed to use it) as was the weapons upgrade. The bosses were mostly whack and the last fight with Liquid was the most basic beat em up I've ever played. Yes I've used the word basic a lot but that's what the gameplay is, it's almost like the gameplay was just thrown in as an after thought. The bike scene for example. All I had to do was hold down firing trigger with auto lock on. Still if the VO was any good I wouldn't mind but man it was so 1995 anime. Snake was the only character that was consistently good (I did feel bad for him) and I liked some of the humour in the game.
20+ hours of MGS4 out the way. Phew.
Now playing Valkryie Chronicles a game I am enjoying. I still have Little Big Planet, three Ratchet and Clank games and Infamous to complete.
