I'm not denying the fact that it is a great game. But still it does not deserve full 10/10 reviews it has been getting or the 9.8. Those scores should only be assigned when game is original, genre defining and vey well done.
It is very well made but it provides nothing truly new to gaming. It should be awarded little over 9 tops. This game is not the best game ever it's only a Michael Bay movie as a game but with more interesting story.
Many reviewers are saying in their reviews that looking past the few flaws (especially in the PC version) it is almost perfect game. No! This is not what you're suppose to do. You are suppose to look into those flaws and bring them up to discussion so that some day developers might learn from them.
I remember time when reviews were actually in depth, sharp tongued and sometimes even gave bad grades because the game was bad. Apparently the new style is that you make a 2 page commercial for a game that has been dummed down for the masses.
If this is the way gaming journalism is going I'm booking a ticket to the 90's.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
"a game that has been dummed down for the masses"
Do you even realize you're insulting yourself?
Reviewers never seem to care about campaigns anymore.
If the campaign is 4 hours long and the game has a multiplayer, they say it has a high replay value and give it a 9+/10.
i fully agree with this blog post.
very true tbh. the ammount of hours i've sunk into this game already is pretty crazy, but it's still not a major step up from cod4. you could say 'don't fix what isn't broken' but i've seen a lot of reviews critisise games for not doing anything new.
mw2 does what it does really well, and for that it deserves it's 9's, but it really does feel like reviewers are actually affraid to mark the game down because it's such a big release.
It is a bit short, but the length didn't seem that bad to me. It felt long enough to get its point across. Making it any longer didn't seem to make much sense.
There is the Spec ops mode, which you could say is an extension to the single player experience. You can play that on your own, although I'm sure its not as fun that way. I think the game is very deserving of high 9 scores based on its overall package. Of course, if you were never into Call of Duty in the first place, there is nothing here to make a non-believer change his/her mind.
Like you said, the game doesn't really offer anything new to gaming. However, some other top games (Uncharted 2, Ratchet and Clank, ODST, Left 4 Dead 2) didn't really offer anything all that new either. In these cases, you may have had a bump in graphics, a few more modes added on to the core experience, or maybe just more of the same. But, they are still considered well-done, fun, or just all around great achievements. Should we knock these games because they don't reinvent their genres? Or should we just enjoy them for what they are?
Based on your standards you believe, none of those games I listed should probably get more than an 8.5 to a 9 at the most. Because none of those games hit all three of your standards for a high scoring game.