Comments on: Edge Xmas Scores

By: n_duffy_91

n_duffy_91 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:47:03 +0000

i heard it was the same too, i would much rather play a realistic story game rather than 1 with aliens, no offense R1 and R2

By: n_duffy_91

n_duffy_91 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:44:18 +0000

Wdf is animal crossing, it gets a better score than cod? either its an amazn game or the people rating these games are assholes!

By: n_duffy_91

n_duffy_91 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:41:41 +0000

Get CoD, the storyline is quality and the online is top notch, i would give it a 10/10 ten times out of ten lol

By: n_duffy_91

n_duffy_91 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:38:29 +0000

Endwar looks very shit! Too tactical

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By: bigwhiteyeti

bigwhiteyeti — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:57:30 +0000

Resistance 2’s campaign is even better than the first, without being drawn out too long. It’s graphics are upped in every way imaginable and boss battles like the Kraken and Leviathan are epic. Believe me, while the online is awesome, the story mode stands by itself easily.

Added bonus: no annoying narrator or crappy picture-based cutscenes!

By: bigwhiteyeti

bigwhiteyeti — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:52:22 +0000

In my opinion has become an Xbo360 hype engine. It gave 9 to Gears of War 2, which I played. And beat. in 6 hours. It is undoubtedly a good game, but it felt like more of the same from Gears 1, with minor visual and technical improvements.

Resistance 2, on the otherhand, scored a 6. This is complete bullshit. Resistance 2 looks just as good, if not better than Gears 2, has a more interesting storyline (aliens in WWII! Awesome!) and has some of the most innovative gameplay I’ve ever seen, with 60 player online skirmishes and the co-op campaign. While it’s not perfect, I certainly would rate it higher than Gears, which was essentially a remake of the first game.

Disappointment.

By: Brodiesan

Brodiesan — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:12:39 +0000

I used to be a huge proponent of Edge. Monthly subscriber – the works. Then I started to detect the usual theme of haughtiness started to really go overboard.

Then there are the review scores which can be sometimes baffling. This is the magazine that gave 6/10 to GTAIII and Heavenly Sword. To me these games were not “average” which is what this mark in Edge accounts for. HS is by no means a perfect game; its length, the sameness of the combat (despite the number of combos), the loading times issue which is almost criminal (not being able to skip through some of the same movie clips you have to watch over and over again) but all these issues do not detract from the fact that the game is fun, has wonderful production values, amazing animations and a well told story. 6/10? The LEAST this game should get is a 7. I’d personally give it an 8.

The fact is: Edge is becoming more and more irrelevant. In five years I can’t even see it selling half its current distribution as more and more people are getting their gaming news (and reviews) online. As someone else says here: it’s also handy to be able to comment to the reviewer and get a response.

I’m disappointed with the 6/10 for R2. I had problems with the beta but I thought it was fun enough. As for Mirror’s Edge getting a 5/10 – that just boggles the mind. I haven’t played it yet but I know a few people who have and have said: “Yes, it’s not perfect but it’s great fun. A nice departure from the normal FPS format.” How does that equate to “below average”?

Edge is officially out of favour in my house now. It’s been heading this way for a while and I just want to say that it’s not just the bizarre scores that are turning me off the magazine. The articles have also become really tired and hackneyed. Ah well, it had a good run …

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:39:30 +0000

Over recent years I’ve always thought Edge had a pro-Sony edge (ahem) to its prose. I’m not suggesting a sinister bias or what-not, but that’s the feeling I always got from their features dealing with the big 3.

Anyway, Resistance’s 6 is probably like our 6 for Pacific Rift. Some people are obviously loving Pacific Rift, so I wouldn’t be too concerned that R2 is going to be pap.

By: seedaripper1973

seedaripper1973 — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:34:31 +0000

Bloody elitist EDGE, as the others have said up top, i think that they sometimes fall for their own hype, ner ner, industry standard etc…and they charge a fortune for what is essentially a very boring read..i like a bit of humour injected into my reviews (hence me swinging by TSA for that) and not stuffy, overlong diatribes on the idiosycrancies of video games…they are the conservative party of reviews (whereas TSA is the monster raving mad party)

sod ‘em, i dont trust ‘em… can i get a ‘word up’ ?

By: online4ntagonist

online4ntagonist — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:09:33 +0000

I’d feel cheated when I pay €65 for a game and then pay again to play it online.

By: MarkSawbo

MarkSawbo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:34:06 +0000

i think its coming to a time where we should give up on ps3. im not goign to yet. but i buy all my games for ps3 and dont buy xbox games. i feel cheated.

By: Dash

Dash — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 03:21:57 +0000

NFS – 3? How could they have messed it up so much?

By: fredrikpedersen

fredrikpedersen — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:33:12 +0000

EDGE’s opinion < My opinion. That about sums it all up.

By: Mick939

Mick939 — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:22:39 +0000

Wow odd that resistance everywhere else even ps3 hating ign gave it a ten, glad i couldn’t give two shits about boring old stuffy edge.

By: colossalblue

colossalblue — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:45:46 +0000

Well, f*ck them, I just went out and bought CoD5. HA!

By: cc_star

cc_star — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:15:39 +0000

Animal Crossing FTW

By: cc_star

cc_star — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:13:44 +0000

Here’s my review

TSA – 10
Metacritic – 10

Edge – 4

By: thelastguy

thelastguy — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:20:45 +0000

Hmm i’m really a bit worried about R2 now, it was going to be my big Christmas day game but 6/10???? Edge gave Kane and Lynch 6/10..I think there is the strange internet phenomenon of insomniac games being rated badly maybe because they are PS3 exclusive. Edge get scores really wrong and seem biased against Ps3 like when they gave God Of War2 a 7. Edge are quite full of themselves. I rate them QUITE LOW.
It looks like my biggest fear for R2 may have truth in it, I have zero interest in online FPS I only like story mode or campaign as it is more usually known as now, i always think just how great games like R2 could have been if Insomniac had been able to put all their effort into the story mode instead of wasting all that time and effort on online. I dont see any point in online fps running around shooting anonymous people for no reason.Its boring.I rate the original Resistance story mode very highly I really enjoyed it and I constantly see people slagging it off on the internet so i will ignore the negetives and get it anyway,and take a risk, its not like im paying for it. I cannot believe that Insomniac have messed it up so badly unless all the effort went into the online part… OH i hate online!

By: Roarster

Roarster — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:15:39 +0000

Yeah, I heard a lot of bad things about the beta but then looking at Metacritic there seem to be tons of 9 out of 10 reviews (and a few with even better scores). I could understand the discrepancies for a game like Mirrors Edge which understandably is getting a wide variety of scores but I’d expected a straightforward game like to R2 to score fairly consistently.

I’m undecided between picking up R2 or CoD:WaW though both seem to be picking up widely varying scores. Maybe I’l just wait for Killzone 2…