Starhawk is an interesting experiment in genre blending. While everything works and all the “boxes are checked off”, it seems like there wasn’t a lot of time put into actual design. Story missions and maps seem slapped together in lieu of having players design the battlefields themselves.
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Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.
Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.
Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.
I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.
I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.
There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'
( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )
Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything
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I miss Dark Cloud I mean damn, Dark Cloud 2 is one of the best Action RPG game ever made. The game have: Rich Worlds, different setting, tons of contents, vareity in gameplay like never before (and even after), best buliding mechanics, crafting system like no one did and finally impressive graphics.
Most underrated game ever. It deserved the popularity and sales of Zelda and Final Fantasy. ut unfortunately, Level-5 and Sony didn't advertise it at all.
My franchises I wish would make a come back, are Battlefront by pandemic studios - galactic conquest was the best, mercenaries 1 and 2, and prototype 1 and 2...great games!
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six out of ten? That's just irresponsible. Almost like they are looking for web traffic.
Check the very last sentence, this review is based on 8 hours of SP and a mere 2 hours of multiplayer. Two hours.
I'm having a break right now, and although I'm loving the action like nothing before I admit the game isn't perfect and could use some more balancing here and there, the fora are full of it. But the core is brilliant and very well put together. Took LBI years to make, so he starts his review with something on devs daring to do something new, yet he only gives himself 2 hours for a review, imo that's not really doing justice to this game or helping his readers.
My biggest issue so far is the mics, it's like they don't work, only very few times I hear somebody. In games with All Talk on, in de pre/post game playerlist (even when you see somebody's icon 'speak'), not even with clanmembers in practice (with messaging like "yeah I got my mic on but can't hear you"). Not sure if it's a NAT problem or if it could be patched, but it doesn't improve the necessary teamwork.
I must agree that this game deserves good scores. I cant understand why people are bitchin about no cover in a 3rd Person Shooter. Really, i dont understand. Are there rules to make a 3rd person shooter? Its fun has hell to play this online. I love, Battlefield and COD, for 3rdPS i love Gears. Starhawk as a diferent flavour. Its gun and run and have fun. That what it is.
Somebody tell me this site isn't on Metacritic...
Edit Of course it won't change how much I love the game. But crap reviews like this from crap sites like this get added to Metacritic or moved around the internet and people take them seriously. Good games can do without the bad publicity.
"A copy of this game was purchased by Blistered Thumbs for review purposes. The game was played for 8 hours, completing the single player mode in 6 hours, and an additional 2 spent in online multiplayer."
two fucking hours? they cant be serious. he couldnt pick it up and master in 5 seconds like some casual COD game, so he wrote this petulant, pathetic review as result.
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"For starters, there’s no cover mechanic when you’re a soldier on foot. It goes against all your gamer instincts you’ve built up and is simply unacceptable to not have in a shooter-heavy game like this."
Is this guy serious? a cover mechanic would completely throw off the balance of the game. it has no place in this game
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"You’ll die way too fast without a vehicle to ride or building to hide in."
that is the point, genius. it is a vehicle based game. the build and battle system is crucial. you cant just run in "rambo style," which this idiot probably did. clearly he was not playing the game as it is meant to be played and got his ass handed to him.
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"In Starhawk there really isn’t any design employed because players are essentially designing the maps themselves"
duh. if all the buildings were already made the "build and battle" system would be rather pointless...... moron.
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I cant believe people like this are actually allowed to write reviews