Don't forget about me.

Nice score, but I don't really trust IGN. They seem to give a lot of PS3 games high scores.

More important than the score, which is nice, is the fact that it actually reflects the commentary written by Greg.

Still, from the previews, demo impressions and such I already knew what to expect from this game gameplay-wise. I will definitely try it out, but I'm just not eager to get my hands on it. Open-world, free-blasting, sub-missions and that kind of stuff is not really my preferred mix in a game. The leveling/upgrading experience system and the karma system seem to really set it appart from the likes of Spiderman and GTA, which is a good thing (specially since I hate the way the GTA gameplay is schemed). Probably not my cup of tea still, but just because it might be really fun (lots of powers and upgrades), I'll give it a try.

One thing kind of gets me down, though. There's been no mention, and the IGN review is no exception, of pivotal boss fights. I don't know if they're so neccessary for this game, and I don't mean a "boss fight" in the traditional way, but I would have liked to fight some kind of powerful adversary. Maybe there are, but the review fails to mention this. There are different gangs of bad guys, they're certainly run by some leader, I guess I'll have to play the game to know, or wait for someone with the game to tell me.

Oh, one more thing I haven't read or heard anywhere is about your choice of powers. It seems is kind of irrelevant to the development of the game which karma side you choose. However, I'd really like to know if there's anything more going for the different powers than just making the game more convenient, easy and/or fun to you. Like for example, being able to complete some kind of missions only if you have certain power, which you can only adquire if you go bad karma. That kind of thing. I really like to have my abilities to play some kind of role in games, not just have a stock of cool stuff to do just because it's there and I can, even if I could just very well play through the whole game defeating everybody with the standard set of blasts.

The thing that worried me before was the possibility of the fighting mechanics to become overly repititive.
Haven't heard that complaint in the review though.

And from reading the review, it sounds like exploration will be like assasins creed on steroids.
All I need now is to play the demo, and if I like that, then it's a first day buy.

mmm, wonder if it can end up as an AAA title?

This game looks to be great fun, the Uncharted 2 Beta code is just icing on the cake

Wow, this game should end up around 85 on metacritic, very nice - I was always very skeptical of it, but it really came through.

Hell yeah! PS3 games are shit and everyone knows that! IGN is biased!

/sarcasm

PS3 GOTY anyone?

I mean, EVERY time a 360 game gets good reviews, it's: "oh, I don't trust that site". But then they'll be the first ones claiming that the 6-7s are "fair and reasonable". Can't a 360 game just be good, damn..

Great score.