GamesMaster has settled on an 81% review score for Final Fantasy XIII, calling the game 'a classic example of style over substance'. Ouch.

But it's not all bad. GM praises the title's 'stunning vistas' - calling it the 'sumptuous eyeball feast you'd expect from Square Enix'.

'[It's] wondrous, yes, but a tad soulless,' GM reports. 'The vast majority of locales seem sadly impersonal and cdn.static.'

It concludes: 'There's not enough raw game packed into the 35-40 hours it takes to complete the narrative.

'And that leaves us with a distressing situation - a Final Fantasy game scoring less than 90%. Dear friends, we're as shocked as you.'

What do you reckon, readers - are you still interested?

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Only opinion that matters is my own, so hell yes i'm interested! and 8.1/10 is a great score!

I was never interested in this game...but posting individual reviews like this is pointless. Just wait for agregate score from metacritic or something before making a judgement.

I don't see anyone who is a FF fan passing on this game even if it gets 6/10

"style over substance"
That's exactly the words I usually use to describe every final fantasy after VIII (including VIII and excluding IX)

GamesMaster UK FF reviews:-
- Final Fantasy VI (III SNES) = 90/100
- Final Fantasy VII = 93/100
- Final Fantasy VIII = 95/100
- Final Fantasy IX = 91/100
- Final Fantasy X = 92/100
- Final Fantasy X-2 = 83/100
- Final Fantasy XI = 86/100
- Final Fantasy XII = 91/100

Final Fantasy X-2 better than Final Fantasy XIII? I really liked X-2, so for me it is not a problem.

Well you got to remember different people probably rated them. It is better to judge the game for yourself because everyone knows this game will be better than X-2. Which was a good game though.