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Mummelmann on 05 January 2013
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bananaking21 said:
Mummelmann said:
bananaking21 said:
your one ugly zombie!! lol jk! but you can do that with the gamepad? thats one awesome feature indeed!! something weird about this game though is that the reviewers didnt seem to like it much but the users seem to love it, makes the game sound so much more interesting if you ask me


Nothing strange about that. Same goes the other way, a lot of games are highly praised by reviewers and not very popular with the audience. Some of the most enjoyable games I've played this generation have been "mediocre" according to reviewers while almost all my biggest disappointments have been very highly scored. Seeing a huge metascore and reading nothing but praise only to find a weak title with glaring flaws that they failed to mention entirely is something I've grown accustomed to lately.

Overall, its almost as if the "gameplay" category is becoming less and less important for reviewers, they all go for the bells and whistles (i.e; CoD explosions and Need for Speed supernatural feral beast roaring of engines with no root in reality).

i feel the name of the tittle affects the score more these days. i mean i played call of duty black ops, and i played it quite a lot. and i was shocked!! this game had an 88 meta!! the animation was HORRIBLE, honestly in multiplayer that run and dive animation was a joke! the story was sub par, story telling sub par, graphics were a joke. the sound of guns sounded like it was recorded by an 8 year old. the game was utterly shit. yet because its call of duty. 88 meta. 

No doubt the name plays into the final verdict. GTA IV is another prime example of this, to get clicks on your site you need to praise and elevate hyped titles or go the other way and tear them a new one (or close), the former is the safe route while the latter is a big risk, often taken by sites who are losing clicks. The amount of honest, well reasoned and balanced reviews is tiny. A review can never be objective but I grow tired of the ceaseless 9's and 9.5's of the 7th generation. I've never seen so many highly reviewed titles in a console generation before but I've never played so much mediocrity and crap either.