I'd say that a game deemed to be shovelware would have the majority of the reviews being less than 50. 10/18 reviews are 50 or more, and I personally think that the IGN review should be made null and void because the dozy twonk reviewing it was incorrectly calibrating the controls every time he tried to block punches. I emailed the IGN editorial staff asking them why he decided to edit his glaring error out of the review text without adjusting the score accordingly. I'll be very interested to see what the other IGN regions mark the game as. They can't mark it down for having broken controls as it's plain to see that the controls work fine, and they'll find it difficult to give it a score too high if they really like it to stop the original reviewer looking like a right plank lol. Hmmmmm...7/10 perhaps..? lol

IGN is always wrong.

The "ps3 crowd" huh? Depending on your definition of that (bullshit)term it could be 41plus million people, which are probably a better indicator than 18 reviewers, lol.BTW as this game is PS3 only I think it's most important objective is to be "good to the PS3 crowd", heh.

Why is it so important to you that all people agree that this is "a bad game" huh? 

I think shit like postal and rape simulators are bad games, but a fighting game that might or might not work as well as it should in no way is a "bad" game to me, just an enjoyable or not enjoyable one. 

Just seen this video that shows how accurate the game is - comments about broken controls are false.

Personally I've enjoyed in the past some shovelware with broken controls too. Like I said above, and twestern elaborated on that, it doesn't make it a good game, we're just enjoying crap.

Why are you always trying to twist someone else's words?  He did say that "a bad game" is (plain speaking) a game of bad taste, like postal, all the other games can be enjoyable or not enjoyable (not good or bad). The fact that you do not understand is that The Fight is a good (enjoyable) fight-simulator/fitness game, while it is a bad (not anjoyable) arcade-like fighting game, but that's not its fault: it wasn't meant to be an arcade-like fighting game. All the gripes against some reviews are just due to this fact, it is not an action game, it is a simulator/fitness game. It is not shovelware (ie: a poorly realized game based on a popular genre), it is a niche game (ie: a game designed for a restricted crowd). By your standards MS flight simulator would be a bad game with bad controls, because the airplane is very difficult to control and you can't shoot.

This is it, the game doesn't have broken controls. All of these arguments are coming down to this point.

It doesn't? Why the majority of the gaming press says so? They are all wrong then, lol.

Seriously, I created this thread to slap in the face of people that the game actually is a piece of crap not the glorified simulator fans make out of it and trash talked IGN. But it seems that every other major gaming press agrees with IGN review. I wonder who's wrong.

He wasn't twisting my words, my message was pretty simple and he was right...

You can name it whatever genre you want, the reviews show that it's a bad game.  There are people that like it (and that's great!) but it's still not a good game.  I'm sure we all like our share of bad games, there's nothing wrong with that.  The thing that is wrong is trying to convince people that reviews for the game are wrong because you like it.

As for videos showing it working, I've seen videos of Sonic Free Riders working perfectly, Lair working perfectly, and Red Steel (the first one) working perfectly.  That really doesn't prove much.

People who played it: it works just fine, reviews were too harsh/out of line

People who didn't play it: reviewers said so, i trust them more than you guys

This is not gonna end..might as well let this discussion die