Crackdown 3 Review Thread - MC: 60 OC: 62

[DonFerrari]

Machiavellian said:

Runa216 said:

Nobody's saying you can't have fun. It's a question of, relative to its cost and other games in its genre, HOW much fun are you having? Mediocre games can be fun, but when you stack everything up it just doesn't compare to its contemporaries. THAT is why it's getting middling or poor reviews, it's a disappointment to most. And those who play games for a living have played a LOT of games and find this one in particular to be boring, uninspired, repetitive, and lacking in polish. It's not a BAD game, but it's not a particularly good game, either. It exists. It's barely competent, and other games do what it does better. 

At BOLDED:  For me, this is the reason why I take reviewers opinion with a grain of salt unless they share similar interest in games I like.  I have read way to many reviewer fatigue to know that its best to have a feel for a reviewer before taking their opinion to heart.  Its like a drug, once you have it you are always looking for the next high.  If you play games for a living and not for the pure enjoyment of playing games, they they are always looking for the next fix which old school games like CD3 will never satisfy.  This is why you have to understand the goal of a game and the audience its trying to reach.  There really isn't a lot of games that play like CD3 so trying to say other games do what it does better probably isn't the right way to look at it.  Instead I would say other games does things differently and for gamers who are looking for those types of things, this isn't the game for them.

I agree on preferring to look at reviewers that may have similar taste, and also read what is said to see if perhaps what he is putting as good or bad align with what you want on that game. There are also plenty of reviewers doing reviews for types of game they abhor which is about useless, even if some say they want to hear a reviewer who hate that type of game to see if it's worthy or not.