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Astrodust said:
I think the review said something about it not being just the SIXAXIS controls that affected this game. I wonder if Sony pushed Factor 5 in any way to make the SIXAXIS controls a dominant part of the game. If they nailed it down they could of easily bragged that the PS3 is very similar to the Wii with motion controls but great graphics as well. However I've seen more game reviews brought down by the SIXAXIS. I'm not sure PS3 owners care if motion controls are implemented in their games.

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Lair

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thats it so far.. Warhawk is so good with six axis, oh wait its 60fps...



 

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Closing comments:

"You might think I'm being too hard on Lair, but if you do, you clearly haven't played this game. Although there are levels where wide-open environments and spread-out objectives trick you into thinking the Sixaxis stuff isn't that bad, whenever a handful of enemies are on screen, your flight space becomes limited or you need to be precise, this game falls apart.

At one point, Lair looked like one of the most promising titles coming to the PS3, but the final version -- even with its interesting story, occasionally impressive graphics and amazing score -- falls well short of anything you should be playing."

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Ultimately, if the GAME SUCKS - if doesn't matter how pretty, good sounding or impressive the presentation is.

Goodnight Factor 5 - this is your death knell.



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Seriously if you read most hands on previews and watched gameplay videos it was pretty obvious Lair wasn't going to be a fantastic game. However saying that a 4.9 is incredibly low. Even Red Steel scored a 5.5(?), in fact also like red steel there is one insanely high review. I wonder if it's a similar case where the controls are bad but can still be coped with if you learn them. I was thinking it would be somewhere around 6-7 from ign.

I wonder if gamespot will rate it higher or lower? Usually I think gamespot will rate things lower but in this case I could see them going quite a bit higher as gamespot always kinda seem more graphics focused to me.

Factor 5 should stick to making games where you can't control any organic beings. Anyone remember the on foot sections in Rebel strike? Awful.

It's kinda weird though. How often is there a game hyped for 2 and a half years( E3 2005 right?) that turns out to get reviews that low =/. Usually games that score that low are the ones that turn up suddenly. I wonder if Sony will try and distance themselves from this title as one of their big ones this year =S



Turkish says and I'm allowed to quote that: Uncharted 3 and God Of War 3 look better than Unreal Engine 4 games will or the tech demo does. Also the Naughty Dog PS3 ENGINE PLAYS better than the UE4 ENGINE.

Oops forgot that Warhawk nailed down the SIXAXIS. Maybe they can share the code with other developers as to how they got it right.



 

 

Astrodust said:
Didn't someone on this site say that they were waiting for the IGN review to justify buying Lair? I can't remember who it was but I was wondering if this review will change their mind.

LOL that was me...yea im definitely gonna give this a rent first... it seems that the controls seem to be the reason why this game is getting rated so low... sorta reminds me of the ratings of red steel for the wii... reading  this article which ign put out only a couple hours ago it seems like they could have rushed their review out..  since they didnt know the game was coming out today.. but its still a very poor score nevertheless



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Sucks for Factor 5...hopefully they'll try again with a better game...

I'm sure it'll still sell well though. At least...it better...because they probably spent a lot on development.



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Bonafide732 said:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/817/817117p1.html

 

thats the worst review so far i think dam dam and dam.. and i had hight hopes for this game... hopefully it can still manage to sell moderately

No - I hope NO ONE buys this game. It will be a blight on the PS3, and the more people that buy it - the more people will be pissed off.

360 --> Bioshock

Wii --> Metroid

PS3 --> LAIR

(pray it doesn't sell!) 

 



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I am not going to argue the score, like I said with the 1up Wii review, they are entitled to their opinion. Comments like that are ok coming from me, but I don't like some of the ways IGN words things, just like 1up's wording. It's a little harsh on the platform, it's not the hardware's fault that the game is not up to their liking.



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Zim said:
It's kinda weird though. How often is there a game hyped for 2 and a half years( E3 2005 right?) that turns out to get reviews that low =/. Usually games that score that low are the ones that turn up suddenly. I wonder if Sony will try and distance themselves from this title as one of their big ones this year =S

 They already have.  If I remember correctly, Sony didn't push Lair at all at E3.  They probably listed its name among many games, but they never mentioned it in the conference.  Apparently they knew it wouldn't end well.



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no need to flame ps3 owners just flame the makers of this game... HEAVENLY SWORD IS STILL GETTING ABOUT AN 8.5 ON AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE.. and WARHAWK IS GETTING ABOUT THE SAME so 2 out of 3 big titles isnt bad..



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