Rocketpig's article on GTA4

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The Ghost of RubangB said:


Here come my ideas about Galaxy, Halo 3, and GTA4. None of them should be 10s. The review system is broken for showering them all with 10s. I think out of these 3, Galaxy was the biggest leap forward in its particular genre, but then again, 3-D platforming was a stagnant pile of crap with no competition, basically waiting for the next Mario anyway. The FPS genre is completely flooded, so it's hard for games to stick out and get 10s. They better be damn good. Sandbox games haven't really changed since GTA3. There's a couple 8s and 9s in the genre, but I don't think a single sandbox game should get a 10 outside of GTA3. And even then, the graphics sucked, the controls sucked, and it was glitchy as hell, so I should lower it to a 9.5 on principle.

Galaxy: I think Galaxy did leaps and bounds for 3-D platforming more than anything since Mario 64, so I'd say it's pretty revolutionary, but... not as revolutionary as Mario 64. So I'd say Mario 64's a 10 and Galaxy's up there, in 9-9.5ish for being almost as historically epic. A damn fine leap that truly transcended its genre and raised the bar, but not as amazingly revolutionary as Mario 64.

Halo 3: I think Halo 3 was a really solid polished console FPS, but it wasn't a gigantic leap from Halo 2 or even Halo 1. The jump between Halos was not as big as the jump between Marios. I'd give it a 8.5-9-ish for being a damn good FPS, but not as genre-transcending and revolutionary as other FPS games like Doom 2, GoldenEye, Half-Life 1, and Portal.

GTA4: I think GTA4 didn't completely revolutionize the sandbox genre. That was GTA3's job. They have the same graphical problems, and car chunks and trees appear out of nowhere. A game that has TECHNICAL issues that jarring and distracting shouldn't be a 10 any way you look at it. I'd give GTA3 a 10 or close to it, and give Vice City a 9.0 and San Andreas a 9.4 for continuing and improving the series in nice ways, but they don't get 10s because they didn't transcend and improve in the gigantic leap that games like Mario 64 and GTA3 did. GTA4 had really high hypes and hopes for debuting the series into the 7th generation, and well, it delivered, but still has horrible technical problems, so it should be a solid 9.0.

THESE ARE RUBANG'S THOUGHTS. Sue me.

*High fives Rubang*

100% agreement, right down to your individual scores (if I was forced to arbitrarily attach a number to a game, that is).