Edge reviews Halo ODST ! oh! the suspense....

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Slimebeast on 21 September 2009

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MetalGearSolid_4ever on 21 September 2009

They gave KZ2 a 7...I think a 6 for R2 and 7(or was it 8) for Bioshock...Bioshock is a completely different shooter which means its innovative...wtf ?

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uk_matt_xd on 21 September 2009

but it looks like all the harsh reviews have not put off the hordes buying it

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I though nobody cares about EDGE ever since that K2 scores? poor Halo franchise, now they are going to be hated by more raging fanatics for this.

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Qumulox on 21 September 2009

Sooo they give MGS4 an 8 but an expansion pack/spin off gets a 9.

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psrock on 21 September 2009

uk_matt_xd said:

but it looks like all the harsh reviews have not put off the hordes buying it

what harsh reviews?

Beside the EUROGAMER Italy review, most decent website has given it a good review.

p.s too much crying over edge reviews of PS3 games, espacially they havent given Uncharted 2 a 7 YET.

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huaxiong90 on 21 September 2009

MetalGearSolid_4ever said:
They gave KZ2 a 7...I think a 6 for R2 and 7(or was it 8) for Bioshock...Bioshock is a completely different shooter which means its innovative...wtf ?

8 for BioShock.

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Qumulox said:
Sooo they give MGS4 an 8 but an expansion pack/spin off gets a 9.

Exactly, so what?

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Scoobes on 21 September 2009

twesterm said:

MetalGearSolid_4ever said:
I really dont understand their bullshit bias... I mean why ? they gave LBP a high score for being innovative...
so their review system = innovation gets more points ?
how come they are harsh to almost all games and call them mediocore then ? - (bioshock, killzone etc)
their review system is completely changed when it comes to Halo and COD.

I'm not sure what your gripes are with the review?

It's not like they pointed out flaw after flaw, it was an extremely positive review. I actually didn't see the 9 on my first read through and thought after reading it that it sounded like something in the 8.5-9 range. I hadn't really read Edge reviews before so I just assumed they didn't give numbers until someone said 9 and I went back and looked and saw it.

I don't know what score they gave Killzone 2 and Bioshock but I could probably give you a pretty long list of flaws for either of those so that they don't deserve a 9 (actually, I think I gave Bioshock a 9 but that was because it just was a really good game despite its flaws).

The scoring system Edge uses is really quite perplexing. Its meant to be strict, hence why its perfectly understandable why games like Killzone 2 gets a 7 and CoD: WaW gets a 6, but when Halo 3 manages to get a 10 I scratch my head. Not saying Halo 3 is a bad game (not my cup of tea), but if Edge stuck to the conventional scoring system they use then it should have gotten a lower score.

I've comlpetely lost faith in the scores. I get the feeling they have completely seperate people scoring games (fine) but they don't seem to have a consensus on how to score those games (not so good). The actual writing and the features that Edge have are usually quite good though, so its usually best to read the body of the review and ignore the final score I've found.