I don't see how length should have any jurisdiction over a game's price. The original MGS can be completed in less than 3 hours, for example. Yet it was obviously a massive success.

@ zslash - Times have changed since then, as you well know. These days, games have 100's of people working on them, back then, nowhere near as many worked on each game, and for less time.

When every game sold at full price, as Vanquish is, save discounts at some retailers, has at the least either a long campaign and no multiplayer or a short campaign and an extensive multiplayer, then you have to expect to be hammered by gamers if all you have is a very short campaign, and I think this is only fair enough.

One more thing, zlash, do you seriously believe than quantity has no bearing over price? Sure, I would rather get 4 hrs of pure awesomeness than 8 hrs of merely good gameplay, but I will still feel cheated paying full price for the 4 hr game when the other game has a multiplayer element satisfying enough to keep me going for many hours at no extra cost.

To be honest, anyone with a limited budget who picks up this gaming is letting themselves down, with games like enslaved, medal of honor, assassins creed, black ops, fable, fear 3, driver, need for speed, dead nation, gran turismo, sly trilogy, god of war psp and many more coming out in the coming months or having recently been released, why spend US$60 (or $90 Australian) on a game that is only going to last you 4 hrs, perhaps 8 if you are upto going through twice?

meh you aint completing either under 4 hours when playing the game the first time and discovering it .
Only way would be playing in easy mode , and even then reviewer and people vastly shorten and exagerate length of such games .

You guys need to remember that many reviewers dont play beyond easy and in a rush , dont even bother finishing their games and make stuff up .

Hell when that kind of game gets long , reviewer enter schizo mode and complain it's repetitive after a while .

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Either way , if you are the kind of person that is done with games like vanquish after a single play , then it wasnt probably for you anyway .

Games like that , god of war 1-3 , bayonetta , dmc and a few others are always short , but worth replaying over and other for its multiple challenges

Multpile human players all sliding around the same map and triggering bullet time tag-lag? Not possible however great it sounds-how would you EVER implement it fairly or satisfy everyone playing? Co-op is also out of the question for the same reasons plus staying together would be a nightmare and need false rules to do it at all.