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IxisNaugus said:
Ok everybody. Listen. I JUST got my ONM today aaaaaaaaaand........ it's real. The pages posted by 11ht11 are real, complete with the blatant errors of the missing WFC symbol and incorrect release date. Wow... this comes as a big surprise to me, i was so sure it was fake too. I really didn't think the errors were such coincidences but it seems this time i must accept it. ONM always overrate stuff, i dunno how this ended up below 80%... especially since CoD: WaWii was rated 92% but... *sigh* oh well.

I still don't like what was written in their review, i'll wait and see what most others have to say, either way this game is still mine come the end of June. I'll say again that the review IS REAL. Looks like you win this time TWRoO XD

First off, there was no compelling reason to call this fake. As Torillian pointed out, there've been some fake reviews floating around and I suppose that's what put you guys on edge. That probably made it difficult to see that this was a real review, but the reasons you provided for this being fake are insubstantial by themselves.

Second, why don't you like what was written? Have you played the single player campaign? The multiplayer? The time to disagree with a review, assuming that it doesn't have glaring factual errors, is after you've played it. Saying you'll still buy the game is fine, saying you disagree with a review for a game that you haven't played makes no sense.



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Amera: They gave cod waw wii 92% and this 76%...

It's pretty obvious that the conduit has better graphics, control, control custimisation, better online(from all the hands on with the online+footage)

The only thing where cod:waw wii could be better is the singleplayer and to be honest. The singleplayer sucked in cod:waw



Samus Aran said:
Amera: They gave cod waw wii 92% and this 76%...

It's pretty obvious that the conduit has better graphics, control, control custimisation, better online(from all the hands on with the online+footage)

The only thing where cod:waw wii could be better is the singleplayer and to be honest. The singleplayer sucked in cod:waw

I too find it hard to believe that they'd give TC such a score when they gave a game like COD WAW 92%... :s Really odd, especially after all the universally glowing previews and hands-on reports...



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Well, so far this seems to be the only review which doesn't call Conduit the best FPS on the Wii, the conclusion reached by Nintendo Power and both those german reviews posted above.

You might call that damning with faint praise, but it's gotta count for something. :P



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Just so you know, guys. The game has 3 reviews so far.

Nintendo Power: 80%
some german magazine, I don't know it's name: 87% (Right?)
Official Nintendo Magazine: 76%

So far, the average is 81%. That sounds alright.



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ameratsu said:
IxisNaugus said:
Ok everybody. Listen. I JUST got my ONM today aaaaaaaaaand........ it's real. The pages posted by 11ht11 are real, complete with the blatant errors of the missing WFC symbol and incorrect release date. Wow... this comes as a big surprise to me, i was so sure it was fake too. I really didn't think the errors were such coincidences but it seems this time i must accept it. ONM always overrate stuff, i dunno how this ended up below 80%... especially since CoD: WaWii was rated 92% but... *sigh* oh well.

I still don't like what was written in their review, i'll wait and see what most others have to say, either way this game is still mine come the end of June. I'll say again that the review IS REAL. Looks like you win this time TWRoO XD

First off, there was no compelling reason to call this fake. As Torillian pointed out, there've been some fake reviews floating around and I suppose that's what put you guys on edge. That probably made it difficult to see that this was a real review, but the reasons you provided for this being fake are insubstantial by themselves.

Second, why don't you like what was written? Have you played the single player campaign? The multiplayer? The time to disagree with a review, assuming that it doesn't have glaring factual errors, is after you've played it. Saying you'll still buy the game is fine, saying you disagree with a review for a game that you haven't played makes no sense.

A few mistakes in a review are enough to catch people's eye. Maybe the reasons i stated for thinking it was a fake weren't so big, fair enough, but the fact that there have already been a few fake reviews and the very obvious errors made me doubt its legitimacy. Especially since i cannot remember the last time i remember such obvious errors in a review from ONM.

Oh, and i don't like what was written, i guess mostly because after reading it all i feel they didn't spend enough time on the pro's and the cons didn't feel so large to me (comparisons to Perfect Dark etc.), not large enough for the score to be put down so low. I didn't say the review was bad, i didn't say the reviewer was totally wrong. Also, yes i think it is possible to disagree with a review for a game you've never played if you know enough about it.

I feel you were a bit mislead by my posts, which is down to how i wrote them so i apologize for that. But i think you've gotten the complete wrong idea about me and what i was trying to say.



How technical is your game?

Huh... Bit disappointing.



Roflinator said:
Just so you know, guys. The game has 3 reviews so far.

Nintendo Power: 80%
some german magazine, I don't know it's name: 87% (Right?)
Official Nintendo Magazine: 76%

So far, the average is 81%. That sounds alright.

A second German magazine gave it an 83.



"The worst part about these reviews is they are [subjective]--and their scores often depend on how drunk you got the media at a Street Fighter event."  — Mona Hamilton, Capcom Senior VP of Marketing
*Image indefinitely borrowed from BrainBoxLtd without his consent.

while i agree that the game looked completely average the whole time, i thought it would do better than that.

im going to guess that the game is going to do in the 60's on metacritic



famousringo said:
Roflinator said:
Just so you know, guys. The game has 3 reviews so far.

Nintendo Power: 80%
some german magazine, I don't know it's name: 87% (Right?)
Official Nintendo Magazine: 76%

So far, the average is 81%. That sounds alright.

A second German magazine gave it an 83.

So now that brings it to:

 

German Magazine 1: 87%

German Magazine 2: 83%

Nintendo Power: 80%

Official Nintendo Magazine: 76%

 

Average: 81.5%...82% rounding it up.