Game Informer Reviews: RDR 9.75; SMG2 9.25

I want this effing game.

impressive score for rdr! the lost planet score also looks fair. ign gave it a 6! that´s a joke. the game is really good. the competitive multiplayer is even more fun than in the first one and it has pirate fortress!!! 8.5 totally agree this far, maybe even better for my taste but i need more time to really judge it…

HOLY SHIT THEY ACTUALLY PULLED IT OFF! :O

yeah i admit i was a doubter but i’ve been converted, forgive me!!

Good score, but i hope reviewer dont do what they did with GTA4; Insanely overate it.

Fuck, that’s a pretty high score.

@ 4

I agree with that, as much as i love GTA IV and the awesome attention to the littlest details, it definitely did NOT deserve those 10′s it got from some sites and in alot of those reviews i didn’t read one negative point, which is impossible, cause there’s enough to complain about.

BUT….

Can’t wait for RDR!!!!!!

now HERE’S some news! =)

Yes, imo GTA4 is the most overrated game this gen (if not of all time). It a great game but notwhere near as good as its scores.

I’m really looking forward to RRD, looks awesome but i’ll be cautious of reviews.

As for LP2, that score is abit to high from what i’ve heard and played in the demoes. That said, dvd.co.uk shipped my copy of the game today.

@8 that’s your opinion…obviously not the reviewers, or mine. I agree with the high GTA4 scores. Now Killzone 2 on the other hand…

who the hell needs reviews for RDR??

From what i understand about Lost Planet II is that for Singleplayer…well, you might as well just not even buy it then. But it’s great for co-op, and that’s exactly where i’ll be buying it for eventually.

Alane Wake same with Trash Planet 2!! A they idiots?
Shit Second 8.25 for what?

Come on Loki, you haven’t even played any of those games yet, just the demos. You can’t judge then

Expect a LOT of very high or perfect reviews for Red Dead Redemption

@14 Actually i don’t think so.

If i remember, Rockstar devs on this game had serious problems. I hope it lives up to the hype, i still didn’t preordered it because i’m waiting for the Meta reviews.

1º DLC free http://www.clandragonrojo.es/red-dead-redemption-1%C2%BA-dlc-gratuito

well….not so sure about lp2 anymore after playing it for quite some time today…really a little dissapointing.i was a huge fan of the first one – but i really miss the spirit…for the competitive it´s cool but the coop – hmmm -

9.75? Whoa!

/hugs pre-order

who doubted that??

I’m still skeptical about this. Need metacritic result.

Not to worry, EG will give it a 7 or something.

I’m going to play this anyway, even if it’s glitchy. there really aren’t that many western games, and the last open world one (Gun) was 5 years ago.

@21 Fuck Eurogamer and bring on Edge.

Not every game is perfect.

That’ll be why Edge gave SMG2 a 10 the other day, then.

@24 Well… Yeah… Then the last for me is metacritic score.

Touché!

there’re no flawless videogames, a perfect score doesn’t mean the game is perfect, it means it ‘s so great to play that the flaws can be overlooked.

@26 in some stupid mags it is, of course.

But you know, there are scores from 1 to 10. If it is 10 it’s perfect, if it is 9 it must be brilliant, if it is 8 it’s probably an excellent experience, 7? Good, 6? Almost good. 5? average and e.t.c. This how scores must be.

Reviewers give 9-10 because of money and reputation. It’s just no one wants to abuse publishers that pays them for advertisement. I mentioned before Absolute Games. Their scores makes sense somehow. I’m really pissed off from these scores. It’s like every fucking game is an incredible experience but in reality not so much.

Look at the Game Informer scores for example. So basically every game is an excellent experience? Even Iron Man 2 is somehow decent and enjoyable.

Halt. http://www.metacritic.com/

Look at the movie scores and game scores. Almost every freakin’ game is a perfect or an awesome experience.

the system you described is the one Edge use. but 10 doesn’t mean perfect, since there really aren’t games that have zero flaws. it means ‘outstanding’, 9 is just ‘great’ like you said and etc.

Edge and EG can actually be taken seriously though, they mostly rate games for what they’re.

Reviews are just indicators. Noone should really care, if a game scores 8.5 or 9.75. In the end its all up to your likings… Its just that a 9.75 suggest that you must’ve played it. Because of the huge production and gameplay value. But what if you hate wildwest stories? Will you buy it day1 just because reviews “told” you so?

people should know that scores means nothing:/

LP2 Score a tad too high…lately it seems GI has been a bit too generous with their scores…loosing a little clout with me, but I get the magazine for free so I take it for what it is. I like to use Metacritic.com to get an OVERALL picture, and not rely on a few reviews.

I’ve already cancelled my Lost Planet 2 pre-order. I expect a lot more from a single player campaign than just dumping me in a bunch of MP levels with some badly programmed bots.

Red Dead Redemption hasn’t really been on my radar, and while this score is very good, considering GI gave Lost Planet 2 such a high score I’ll wait for Eurogamer’s review as I generally trust their opinions.

They must have let a girl review Alan Wake as well.

@ 15

That stems back from the articles about Rockstar employee wives writing a letter about the bad working conditions at Rockstar. I really only remember one article where only one dude claimed the game at one point in time didn’t really look that incredible. After that i’ve only read incredibly positive previews and saw all those awesome gameplay videos, if i’m gonna have to judge it on that…it looks to be insane.

@ 32

With all due respect, but you trust Eurogamer reviews? After they gave Dead Space a 7 (which they gave to Alone in the dark too,lol) and also INfamous, i can’t really trust them anymore. Dead Space, a game with barely any bugs, a damn good atmosphere, lots of scares,awesome graphics and simply a damn fine game gets the same as Alone in the dark, a game with a few nice moments but overall very buggy and mediocre? Sigh…credibility zero IMO!

except EG’s AitD review reads like a 6, and DS one – close to 8.

DS didn’t deserve anything above 8 anyway.

@34 first of all it depends not on Eurogamer. There are 2 different reviewers on Dead Space and Alone in the dark.

so i can’t say there is no credibility.

nah, to be fair it shouldn’t really matter if they were reviewed by different people.

I have to be honest, I never really got into Dead Space. It got really good reviews but I found the controls a bit slow and ponderous and I gave up fairly early on. It’s unfair of me to judge the game from a short play, but what I did play felt like a 7/10 to me. One day I’ll try to get back into it.

EG can be a bit odd at times, but I generally find what they hate and like coincides well with my own tastes. They’re a lot better than IGN where the review scales starts at 7!

I liked DS a lot, the game was very polished and they perfected the RE4 control scheme. but at the same time I almost struggled with the ridiculously slow narrative, cliched plot and characters, the game felt even dull at times. it was also more about the visuals and atmosphere than the actual gameplay, the fighting was relatively repetitive too.

a lot of people I know who are into these horror games and SH and the such felt DS was barely scary and didn’t like it at all.

I find DS was exactly the setting I’ve always hoped to play in. Like a broken, alien infested spaceship, zero gravity and a really teriffic atmosphere. I don’t mind that the combat is repetitive. Or the dull story and charcters. It was the closest thing to Doom3, almost for me. I hope they can develop the story and the gameplay for campaign and don’t relate everything to MP on the second one …

Btw: It could have scored a 5 and I didn’t give a good, creamy sh!t

Someone told me that either the French OPM or PSM3 (probably PSM3) has given Red Dead a 21/20 (as they did with UC2 if its PSM3).

“Btw: It could have scored a 5 and I didn’t give a good, creamy sh!t”

heh, one of my favourite games this gen, Call of Juarez was rated 5-6 by many, including Edge. I can totally agree with such score though, since if it wasn’t for it’s plot and protagonists (which were really decent for a videogame) it wouldn’t be good at all. albeit I liked the gameplay myself, no matter how clumsy and irritating it was at times.

I’m like that with Mirror’s Edge. The story was terrible, the characters were rubbish and the combat was embarrassing. Yet none of that matters once I’m racing along colourful rooftops and scaffolding… It has so much wrong with it, but I love playing it all the same.

Glad RDR has a high rating, i never doubted this game.

The combat in DS was repetitive? Can’t that be said about every survival horror games and many games in general then? . The dismemberment feature of DS was great, and i don’t think any other games had it at that time, and DS still remains i think the only one that has it.

DS has a great upgrade system and plenty of weapons, ok so the only real way to kill the beasties is by shooting off their legs and such, but in games like Resident Evil you…also shoot at the beasties and there’s no dismemberment and this goes for many horror games. So i fail to see the logic there. The combat really ain’t a negative point of DS if you ask me.

The atmosphere is king in that game, you constantly hear environmental sounds and when the shit is about to go down you hear this uptempo BGM to only make it more hectic and scary and IMO it really works, it fricking works perfectly.

it was the only horror game that had a dismemberment based gameplay because others didn’t really need something like that.

what was fun in 1998 realy isn’t the same ten years later.. I’m sure when Wolf3d came out nobody felt like they were playing a demo of a ray casting engine. survival horror games like Silent Hill or Fatal Frame were never about combat at all(until they decided to change the series gameplay in SH4, and it died).

but sure, RE4 was also repetitive at times, the problem with DS was that the gameplay was really shallow, take away all the smoke and mirrors, all those disguised qtes and you have a really unfun gameplay experience. besides the game felt a lot like just going from door to door, room after room, level after level. can’t say RE4 was like that. any system becomes repetitive eventually, it all depends on how quickly that happens.

Sure, you do open alot of doors, but it never bothered me, not at all. I guess it’s a matter of opinion for that.

Heh, look at those scores.

Not a single 5, not a single 4? I guess no one makes medicore or below average games anymore.

NOT!