| LeeAdama said: As others have said: IGN's low score for this one seems to be in the extreme minority. We'll see as further scores come out. Call it the reverse SSX Blur. |
Which Bozon also reviewed as well as the Wii version Scarface with Roper. (Gave it a 85, averaged 72%)
I would suggest the man is far too technically obsessed in his reviews. I've played both Blur and Scarface and they both feel to be well thought out polished titles, yet they both felt lacking in the Fun Factor. (Especially Scarface)
Blur has nice graphics and effects (for a Wii game) the controls work very well and the Ubertricks require dedication an d precision once you realize how useless the tutorial is. But the courses and challenges are fairly generic, the characters are just different skins with slightly different stats, and it kinds of lacks personality and variety. (Something I’ve read other SSX titles are known for.)
Scarface has a lot of genius gameplay elements that fix long standing issues in sandbox roamers, a great soundtrack, polished graphics and sound, and excellent camera and shooting controls. Yet I was bored to hell playing it. It’s story missions were worthless, picky, hard, and generally repetitive, and everything else was recycled crap missions from any game, such as deliver boxes from here to there, or race checkpoint to checkpoint. The game’s “Girlfriend” missions consist of tapping the A Button four times or so. And that’s it, you win, I’m not sure if you can lose them, or what the point even was. You can’t even go on a full on rampage since Tony won’t shoot innocents.
I’ve made it clear I don’t trust game reviewers in general, in Bozon’s case I actually have specific set of reasons as why not to. =P
