Nah. Game sites were telling us way in advance they weren't gonna like the game no matter what. Maybe the game won't be that good, but of course it'll be aided by passive-aggressive reviewers who are quick to dump water on Sony exclusives. Like people feel threatened by the brand or something. It's weird.

Games like this are always short so that and no multiplayer will hurt it.

It's a game that seems to favor narrative and visuals above all else. The narrative for the game better be mind-blowing.

Yeah i enjoyed Ryse actually.  Feel it at least deserved a 7/10

I loved gears narrative through and through xD

the game isnt highly stylized and the AI has to suck, games arent allowed to be hard anymore.

its another try to ride on a trend(steampunk), they did well with the zombie trend, so it could work.

Nope, game's already been judged - few pre-release vocal critics or fanboys will change their mind upon release, and actual reviews are a formality (we know meta's going to be somewhere between 60-75). The real questions are 1886s actual quality and how much of the general Sony install base will ignore the reviews and buy it anyway.

This will be one of the most interesting parts of the review scores imho. Its strange the double standard sometimes. Games like Titanfall will get docked for no SP, Evolve is a "ripoff" at $60, but most of the time it seems those same gamers and reviewers dont care about a game like this costing $60, and wont dock it anything for no MP.

Some people probably already wrote their reviews, sometimes un-doing an idea or a conception is hard, and people do not like to be wrong... and well, some critics really do not like anything that's not "open world" or if it's not open world, it has to be on a Microsoft console for some reason, they get passes on many things.

Still, some already liked the previews, so it should be a mixed bag... I would not dare placing a bet on where it will end up, probably something like Sunset Overdrive or Infamous:SS in the low to mid 80s in total...

You obviously have not played Driveclub....

driveclub has great gameplay...

reviewers will be just like this guy,.. their minds will have been made up from watching the first youtube video from over a year ago.  reviewers aren't going to even play the game at release,.. they'll just write up their old opinions and be done with it.  they'll fault it not for being a bad game but for not being the game they hoped was being made.  just like driveclub the order will be grilled for not being open world,.. the stupidest critizism ever.