| slowmo said: I'm pretty sure most impartial observers predicted these kind of scores, the game was so hyped up that it was inevitable reviewers would take that into consideration, even though most people would disagree with penalising a game for "hype". Halo Reach suffered the same fate, Uncharted 3, Killzone 3, etc will too sadly.
I don't care personally as the game is precisely what I expected it to be so I'll be picking it up sometime in the new year when I have the time to play it properly. |
I agree, though I find development time also adds a lot to this, which is why MW2 didn't really suffer from overhype.
Just look at FFXIII. It was absolutely murdered in the review department. It actually has a metacritic barely above shitty JRPGs like Eternal Sonata, and I attribute it to hype mixed with its incredibly long develompent cycle. It's a shame, since it's actually a pretty good game, despite its problems near the beginning.
All the cockteasing from Sony in light of the hype has made this all the more brutal for them.
