Gears sells 5.2m, and a Metacritic of 94, and is a mediocre flop?

Seriously keep drinking the Kool-Aid cause you just beat Sonarus as the fanboy of the week! lol

On a serious note, I agree that the Gears 2 hype should be taken down a notch, but I'd say that Killzone 2 should do the same... Or else they're both going to fall under the weight of their huge promises. But I don't have much hope for that happening any time soon, heck we've got new screenshots and multiplayer footage for Gears 2 coming tonight!

In my opinion, if any game's should be hyped some more it's Little Big Planet and Banjo 3. Sure they're not shooters but they're both pushing user-generated content in new and exciting, albeit very different, directions.

throw in Assassin's Creed with that list. I remember reading everything i could find from the first time i heard about it, and it was one of the biggest let downs that i have ever experienced.

And it was only a letdown because people hyped the living heck out of it. It was by no means a bad game.

you should ignore Haze from that list to make you correct.

out of your playstation over hyped list i'll give you Lair and Heavenly Sword, because they were one of the'first' games to come out on the PS3 and a lot of hype was created to get people excited for the system. Killzone 2 gets a lot of hype because of its past.

FYI, Halo 3 didn't "suck". It just wasn't as amazing and groundbreaking as everybody made it out to be, thus disappointing many people. The article is 100% right.

I agree with Viva Pinata and Crackdown they are seriously under appreciated titles. And I'd openly welcome better marketing for future sequels of both.

But in regards to Halo 3, I don't think it was over hyped so much as hyped for the wrong reasons. I'll explain...

The marketing campaign pushed a supposedly single player odyssey on a grand scale, which we all know then turned out to be nothing of the sort and quite frankly appeared to be an afterthought to the rest of the package.

What Halo 3 should have been hyped for was it's online community features, multiplayer variety, coop campaign, online integration and user generated content. And whilst COD4 is in my opinion the best straight online FPS it has none of the feature set (nor does anybody a year later!) of Halo 3. The amount of variety in custom matches and maps, the stat tracking, the ever-changing playlists, Forge and the film editor and camera are simply unparalleled in the console world. Forge is a game/tool in itself well worth the entry fee in my opinion.

This disconnect between hype and the game is what in my belief is the root of the controversy that is Halo 3. Gamers were told to play it for the campaign which was decidedly average and ended with a collective WTF! Reviewers largely ignored the campaign and went for the real meat of the online component and rewarded it as the groundbreaking, innovative and completely unmatched package it was back in Sept '07 (well before the COD4 & Bioshocks arrived).

Playing only the single player campaign of Halo 3 was like an anorexic Hollywood tart licking the bland icing of an otherwise very tasty cake and then telling everyone you ate the whole thing! The fact that MS marketed the icing and not the cake was very misleading behaviour and rightly led to a lot of pissed off gamers, who had swallowed the mountain dew and anticipated the "campaigns to end all campaigns".

@ Ngg
Yeah, I fully agree with your thoughts on Halo 3. Heck, I'll admit I even bought into the hype after loving the first two games. But as soon as I started playing for the first time it was obvious things were f*cked. It really does deserve it's to be called one of the most overrated games of all time IMO. It's just sad when a game series takes a step backwards like that and still becomes a huge hit based on hype alone.

Some may disagree and that's fine. But I'm sure many share the same view.

I agree 100% man. Many Halo haters still won't give Halo 3 credit for its multiplayer features and just say it sucks. That's what made the game amazing and got it good reviews. Any review on a good site said the single player isn't where the game shines, but haters just seem to look past that and always point out the single player.