So we promised you a new feature involving you guys, and here it is.
See, we think we’ve built up a pretty good community of fairly smart guys and gals here at TSA and we like to hear what you have to say about things every now and then. With the discussion topics we’ve been posting you’ve had a chance to express your views on every topic under the sun, from your favourite gaming snacks to huge issues like piracy.
However, we haven’t really given you an opportunity to have a discussion about your favourite games, so that’s what WeView is.
Basically, we want to give you a chance to have your say about the games that you love. Every week we’ll be picking a new title for you have to your say on, giving a short review and your own score for the game. However, we don’t want you to rate a game from 1-10, we’re giving you a much simpler rating scale that we know many of you like. So, instead of the traditional 1-10, we want you to use the Buy It, Bargain Bin, Rent It, Avoid It rating scale which is pretty self-explanatory and easier to classify games under.
Now here’s the other important point, we don’t want you doing this in the comments.
When you write your actual review, we’d like you to go and do it over in the forums. We’ve even set up a brand new board in the forums just for these reviews. Every week we’ll be posting a new thread, like this one here, for you to fill with your reviews. You’ll have until the Sunday night to get your commentary in if you want to be included in Monday’s wrap-up post, where we’ll pick out the best bits and work out the community score for the game.
Now that we’ve got the system out of the way, let’s look at this week’s game. We’ve picked CryTek and EA’s newest shooter, Crysis 2. We posted our review of the game a little over three weeks ago, and Peter was pretty positive about the game, giving it 8/10. For those of you who’ve forgotten what he had to say, here’s his overview of the game.
All things considered, Crysis 2 is a triumph. Sure, it has its occasional issues with checkpointing and enemy AI but you will usually be having too much fun to care too much. The early pacing really does drag for a few stretches but the latter half of the campaign more than makes up for that and the multiplayer, while a little unbalanced, can present great opportunities for superhuman struggles powered by the ubiquitous Nanosuit.
It plays like a strange mix of Call of Duty and Halo but in taking the best aspects from each of these series, Crysis 2 might just have found a winning balance.
That’s what we thought of the game but the big question is do you agree? Did Peter nail it, or do you think he gave the game too much praise? Well now’s your chance to set the record straight, just head over to the forum thread and give your review and rating.
icuyesido
Will it be a recently released game each week or will we just go through a well known selection?
colossalblue
we’ll try to get a balance of classics that loads of people have got and things that people are still playing now.
We’ve even been talking about setting up some way to take suggestions but for the first few weeks we’ll be picking the titles.
Death_In_Flamez
100 words? I’m sorry can I go over that? I love my in-depth reviews :3
colossalblue
write as much as you want but bear in mind that when it comes time to round up reviews we won’t be able to read anything too long – we simply won’t have time.
The point it, it’s quick and accessible for readers to throw down their thoughts without having to cover all bases.
jb08brownie
was this feature named by Jonathan Ross???
stonyk
Okay, I say “Buy It”……..Oops :-)
Good idea though.
AG2297
Having a go at this now and I have got to say there is absolutely no chance of keeping it to around 100 words. With keeping it all to the point and heavy cutting I could probably reach around 400 minimum. 100 words is more of a paragraph!
Ben
Superb idea, the community will be all over this like toys in a nursery. I may not have actually played many of the games likely to be under review, however I’ll do my best to rate them in terms of the concept in it’s design and execution and also take into account the hype surrounding the games development through to launch.
Smallville2106
Great new feature. Looking forward to hearing what people think of this game.
DuffyBox
Great idea, but pleeease think of a better name than WeView ;)
TheDeathAvenger
What’s wrong with WeView? I think it’s really good; it’s simple, catchy, self-explanatory.
If it was done the Sony way, it would be called something like ‘TheSixthAxis Community Game Review System’ ;)
blackredyellow
Great idea guys, I’m the same as many others in that I haven’t picked up this game. Perhaps someone can persuade via this feature… I am the putty, mould meeeee!!!
Akuar
Lovely initiative and idea, will definitely participate in this when you feature a game I’ve played.