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makingmusic476 on 07 February 2009
MaxwellGT2000 said:
makingmusic476 said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
makingmusic476 said:

From that I've seen in that gaf thread, the review is pretty positive overall. The say the game has amazing multiplayer, and some of the best AI seen in a game yet.

Here's a quote from the final paragraph of the review:

Thanks largely to its online play, Killzone 2 should find itself a fanbase no one can overlook.


One of the comments on the article:

Just finished reading Edge's review of this, they liked the gunplay, the story 'stinks', the Helghast provide some of the best enemy AI seen yet, FEAR is name checked along with Stalker and COD4, the levels could be played in any order and still have no effect on the plot, multiplayer is good and probably bolsters the score of 7/10


"liked the gunplay"

Take that, maxwell! The lowest review yet doesn't even knock the game's controls. :P

 

Gunplay =/= controls, take that MM :P

Gunplay is meaning more of the style, weapons, and feel, not the controls if it was the controls he would have stated controls and not "gunplay"

Are you implying that it could be really fun to play and shoot in a game while also having bad controls?  That makes no sense.

 

 

I'm implying he could have not been bothered by the control set-up as much, or maybe the final build is better then the demo, but he never said the game had amazing controls only amazing gunplay which is two totally different things.

You can't have good gunplay without good controls.  If the controls suck, as implied by you, then it would probably be troublesome to aim, and a pain to get around in general.  This apparently had no effect on the person.

He enjoyed shooting, despite whatever bad controls some may percieve the game to have.

 



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MaxwellGT2000 on 07 February 2009
player1 said:
hahaha
EDGE sux. They gave MGS4 8/10. Resistance 2 6/10.
They are ridiculuous. Just dont take them serious

 

Or they could have a different opinion then the hundreds of sites and magazines that hype up a game give out amazing scores and then the players feel let down ala GTAIV, having a different opinion is good for a game site/magazine.  It would be more intelligent to either back up your claim with an example instead of saying "Edge sux" and do two random reviews you don't agree with, maybe if the substance of their reviews were sloppy ala Electric plays review of Super Smash Bros on the N64 where they didn't even realize you could use items with any character, play multiplayer, etc.  showing an example of incompetence can go a long way in making a point.



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MikeB on 07 February 2009
makingmusic476 said:
Edge makes no sense. They give Gears 2 and Fable II 9s, Halo 3 a 10, but they give Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 a 7s, and MGS4 an 8.

And then they gave LBP a 10.

It seems rather inconsistent to me (more so than most websites/magazines). But then, that's the way of the reviewing world.

 

Maybe they are friends with these fellow brits (Media Molecule), so LBP got a free pass for not being on the 360. GTA IV by british developer Rockstar got a perfect score as well, although I think it's a great game, IMO it's far from perfect especially over the pre-patch period.

As I said before this is speculation, but I certainly see a lot of inconsistancy with regard to their scoring (maybe based on platform and developer).



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Staude on 07 February 2009
waron said:
well i don't see a reason in giving killzone 2 more than 8/10 since it's just like any other fps on ps360 but with slightly bumped up graphics and huge hype among ps3 fanboys - nothing new and nothing great. and yes i played the demo of this game.

 

But, have you played the multi player ? with it's supposed new level of dept ?

 

Have you played the full game ? and how many times did you try the demo ? The more you try it the better it gets. I'm not even joking on that one. The third time i was playing it i was having a lot more fun than the first. I'd gotten a better grip on controls etc. I wasn't throwing grenades when i wanted to fire (i'd just been playing mirrors edge XD)

 

You can't really say what it deserves from just trying a demo of it. That simply isn't how it works.



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MaxwellGT2000 on 07 February 2009
makingmusic476 said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
makingmusic476 said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
makingmusic476 said:

From that I've seen in that gaf thread, the review is pretty positive overall. The say the game has amazing multiplayer, and some of the best AI seen in a game yet.

Here's a quote from the final paragraph of the review:

Thanks largely to its online play, Killzone 2 should find itself a fanbase no one can overlook.


One of the comments on the article:

Just finished reading Edge's review of this, they liked the gunplay, the story 'stinks', the Helghast provide some of the best enemy AI seen yet, FEAR is name checked along with Stalker and COD4, the levels could be played in any order and still have no effect on the plot, multiplayer is good and probably bolsters the score of 7/10


"liked the gunplay"

Take that, maxwell! The lowest review yet doesn't even knock the game's controls. :P

 

Gunplay =/= controls, take that MM :P

Gunplay is meaning more of the style, weapons, and feel, not the controls if it was the controls he would have stated controls and not "gunplay"

Are you implying that it could be really fun to play and shoot in a game while also having bad controls?  That makes no sense.

 

 

I'm implying he could have not been bothered by the control set-up as much, or maybe the final build is better then the demo, but he never said the game had amazing controls only amazing gunplay which is two totally different things.

You can't have good gunplay without good controls.  If the controls suck, as implied by you, then it would probably be troublesome to aim, and a pain to get around in general.  This apparently had no effect on the person.

He enjoyed shooting, despite whatever bad controls some may percieve the game to have.

 

 

I didn't say the controls suck, not once, I said it's uncomfotable and there's no excuse for there not to be custom controls when it's so easy to program in.  Get it straight before you say something :P



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megaman79 on 07 February 2009

Well im sick of 10's. Theres no way Let's Tap is better, in any way possible, than KZ2 and i don't care for KZ2 at all.



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Mr.Y on 07 February 2009

Man, what is with people and their different opinions?

What a bunch of jerks!



sabby_e17 on 07 February 2009

they give most games shit scores




Reasonable on 07 February 2009

Well, this thread isn't as mad as I thought it'd be - unless in skimming it I missed the really angry comments.

As ever its an opinion, although I do agree that EDGE seems to have been somewhat inconsistent of late. I like that it's harsh - to me a game as to be fantastic and deliver something new to rate a 10, while absolute best in class with little innovation should be 9 at most - but its scores for the console big AAA titles seem to swing from super harsh to easy pass, which is not good.

Funny thing is reading the actual text you really expect an 8.5 at worst, as it seems to praise everything but the story, and let's face it from Halo 3 to Gears 2 to Resistance 2 story in big recent FPS/TPS has hardly been anything to praise overmuch.

Personally I liked the feel of the demo, although I found I had to fiddle a bit with sensitivity settings to get the aiming response I wanted.



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Garnett on 07 February 2009

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