... and not a 9/10, according to gamedaily :
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http://gamerush.zoomshare.com/files/news/002595_GameDaily_Some_reviewers_give_Kojima_a_free_pass.htm
| GameDaily: Some reviewers give Kojima a free pass |
Took a controversial position |
| By Dan Freeman, GameRush Entertainment |
| Chris Buffa, Senior Editor at GameDaily, has responded to criticism over his review of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, which he scored an 8/10. “There are a lot of perfect scores and 9s for MGS4, and I can only speculate why. First, I believe that some reviewers give Kojima a free pass because he’s Kojima and that makes no sense. I’ve read some reviews where the writer complains for a good portion of the article and then awards the game a 9/10 or a 10/10. Gamesradar (whom I love) is guilty of this. If you’re going to make arguments against a game, then stick to those points by awarding the game a score that reflects your beliefs. The solution is not to go ‘complain complain complain...but Kojima 9/10,’” Buffa told GameRush Entertainment. “We can certainly speculate that some of the authors are fan boys and that’s possible. I also have a theory that when reviewers see a few 10/10s and 9/10s that they are inclined to follow suit. Obviously, no one will write you an email if you fall in line and give the game the same score everyone has given it.” “It’s also worth pointing out that I am not the only writer to give the game an 8. I’d be curious to read those reviews.” “The bottom line is some people gush over MGS, and its shortcomings matter little compared to its positives. For these people, the game is a 10/10, 9/10, A- or whatever scale they use. For me, it had an opposite effect. Its shortcomings were just too great. In fact, I actually removed stuff from my review. I was going to criticize Kojima for allowing such awful glass breaking physics and animations into the game, as well as horrible looking bottles in Act 1. Now that would have been over the top, yet at the same time...here is a game that took years and millions of dollars to develop, a game that has a heavy foot in realism with all the real world equipment and character models and all this jazz...and your glass sucks. It stands out only because the rest of the game looks attractive.” “I love the presentation. As always, Kojima shows that he knows how to direct above all else. But at its core, this is the same Metal Gear Solid, and its environments and gunplay pale in comparison to other third and first person games out there. That, and the game just didn’t feel like a 9. I can’t explain how it works...but sometimes as a reviewer you just get a feeling that there is no way this game is such and such a score, which only goes to show how silly numerical values are. So I took a controversial position and I’ve received some hate for it, but I stand by what I said. Great game, just not triple A amazing,” he said. |
==> personnaly, my favorite french (basher) website, gamekult.com, gave MGS4 a 8/10
(they gave :
Bioshock/SMG/GTA4 : 9/10
Gears of War/CoD4/PGR4/AssassinCreed : 8/10
Halo3/Unchartred/NG2 : 7/10)
so what do you think ?
To bash or not to bash ?
EDIT :
Gamedaily Halo3 : 9/10
GTA4 : 10/10
Time to Work !
