Currently a 79/100 on Metacritic. Basically the main reason for the low scores is that its too familiar....is that supposed to be a bad thing? Oh well, I'm still buying it. I want familiar.

The funny thing is that games like Dead Spaced 3 get bashed for straying too much from the formula while games like Ascension get bashed by not straying much at all. What the fuck do people want?

EDIT: I'm avoiding spoilers. Have any of the reviews mentioned multiplayer? 

Here in lies my biggest gripe with current day reviewers: inconsistency. Funnily enough, this trend started with God of War III.

Push Square:

"The game in general benefits from years of technical experimentation on the PS3 hardware, boasting image quality and attention to detail that’s on an entirely different plane to other current generation games. The frame-rate – which hovers around the series’ 60FPS benchmark without too many hiccups – gives the animation an extraordinarily believable appearance, which is particularly noticeable when the camera zooms out on antagonists large enough to fill the screen. There are moments where the scale is so big that it becomes a detriment to the actual gameplay – fighting on the back of an enormous mechanical snake as it races through a collapsing ice cavern is one such area – but it’s hard not to appreciate the spectacle as you zip through the world".

Looks like Ascension holds the console graphics visual crown. The Last Of us and 3EYOND - bring ya "A" game!

Push Square:

"The game in general benefits from years of technical experimentation on the PS3 hardware, boasting image quality and attention to detail that’s on an entirely different plane to other current generation games. The frame-rate – which hovers around the series’ 60FPS benchmark without too many hiccups – gives the animation an extraordinarily believable appearance, which is particularly noticeable when the camera zooms out on antagonists large enough to fill the screen. There are moments where the scale is so big that it becomes a detriment to the actual gameplay – fighting on the back of an enormous mechanical snake as it races through a collapsing ice cavern is one such area – but it’s hard not to appreciate the spectacle as you zip through the world".

Looks like Ascension holds the console graphics visual crown. The Last Of us and 3EYOND - bring ya "A" game!