I really hope it's a great game, I think it has a good chance at scoring over 90 on Metacritic as the game does look really well made and critics are typically less harsh on new IPs which will counter the fact that critics are harsher on games later in the console cycle. However, this game has an immense amount of hype to live up to, inevitably some harsher critics will say it did not meet the hype and give it less than great scores. Then you'll have sites like Quarter To Three & HonestGamers who will probably troll on it. I think it will score between 89-92% on Metacritic.
Looking at the list below consisting of all the PS3 exclusives that have scored over 90% (not including HD remasters) this generation, I think it will rank above Killzone 2 and below Journey.
| Game | Metacritic | GamerRankings |
Overall |
| Uncharted 2 | 96.19 | 96.38 | 96% |
| LittleBigPlanet | 94.71 | 94.75 |
95% |
| Metal Gear Solid 4 | 93.49 |
93.53 |
94% |
| God of War III | 92.71 |
92.63 |
93% |
| Journey | 92.44 |
92.56 |
93% |
| Uncharted 3 | 92.23 |
91.78 |
92% |
| LittleBigPlanet 2 | 90.95 |
92.04 |
91% |
| Killzone 2 | 91.35 |
90.56 |
91% |
During the past few months my opinion on the game has changed from fairly unimpressed to intrigued/excited and I don't even have to force myself to be excited for this game unlike a certain game that released 2 1/2 months ago which depressed me like I knew it would (not because it was bad, just oh so disappointing). Not long now, we'll see how it does. Hope it's not another huge disappointment, I'm not very hyped for the game so my expectations are fair, it just has to be very good overall and I'll be happy, not expecting a masterpiece.
