Alan Wake - "Really Unbelievably Good!"

[psrock]

Legend11 said:

psrock said:

selnor said:

psrock said:

selnor said:

Hoops84 said:
When the reviews start to pile in for this game and it gets the 7's, 8's and maybe a a few 9's sprinkled in all of thse people proclaiming alan wake to be the 360 savior will perish into obscurity.

The 360 doesnt need a savior. That would imply it needs saving. It has alot of great games. And while I agree that reviewers will be very hard on the gameplay. It will end up around the score of Heavy Rain. Of course I'm hoping for 90+ though.

I think it will have better reviews than HR since a lot of reviewers just did not like the gameplay, but Alan Wake should be more easy to like, and the 360 exclusives get better scores anyway.

Maybe thats because the reviewers feel they deserve better scores?

so we agree then.

Yeah it makes complete sense.  It makes it a no-win situation for 360 games.  If they get 90+ then obviously it can be argued that the game reviewers are in Microsoft's pocket to put doubt on how deserved the score is.  If the score is less than that then nobody will claim the reviewers are in Microsoft's pocket since it won't fit the score and we'll just cut to the people saying the game was overrated.  And it'll happen all over again with the next 360 exclusive.

Like Mass Effect 2?