A game spent 7 years in development, restarted 3 times under publisher-pressure, is going to beat an auteur-driven project using the most realistic real-time humans, developed in 5 years.
I'm not saying Alan Wake isn't going to be great, but the two don't really compare. And if you think they do - you should play Gears of War and Splinter Cell, they're practically the same game!
With MS and Nintendo it's a horrid solution that some marketing douche thought up in 5 minutes.
What's worse with Nintendo is the space on the Wii. I'm perfectly willing to buy more games, but I ran out of space! And installing an SD, moving some games over, just so I can buy and download new ones it's remarkably more complex than Sony's "Gimme Money, Here's your Game" solution.
Is my honourable mention of last year.
It was derivative, but it pulled it off with a style we don't normally see. I loved the more precise climbing and zip-lining, the free targets (seeing how many I could get before dying is too much fun), the escaping from the Nazis by hiding in a pisser, or kissing a girl on the corner.
If people would stop thinking "It's not Assassin's Creed" for 5 minutes they'd realise it's probably a hell of a lot more fun than anyt...
pick up a rock and throw it... you'll get Mirror's Edge for less than £10 most places. I picked it up two Christmases ago for £15.
Flawed as it was, it was still worth a play through, and if you dug the free-running, the time-trials alone were worth the RRP.w
Half the games provided some great times gaming. Why does every game need to be a carbon copy of a popular FPR/RPG? The lower scoring games have more character!
Lair is fine after you get used to the controls (I still use the motion control, even after they released the Analogue Stick patch).
And Alone in the Dark is the kind of game you have to replay to appreciate. It's full of great cinematic moments and gameplay (stabbing the fuel tank of a car to create a trap) ...
8.8 is probably too high (but then I consider 6/10 good and anything above 9/10 to be a damned classic), but I have my Special Ed on preorder :D
Or just looked at Metacritic?
P.S. Lair was actually pretty good once you got used to the controls, which was easy if you've ever played a Wii game.
Look like the same game it was 10 years ago, with a few additions. 6/10 isn't so bad in that respect.
People need to stop expecting other folk being as easy on the scores as they are.
Sad because they sold 1 million? On a single platform?
Are you:
a) High? or
b) Unaware how large a number 1 million is.
That's (optimistically) $60 million for a 2nd party developer, and for Sony who published it in-house.
Dammit, you've had 3 Sly games.
Let the rest of us have 2 more of the best Superhero games ever made!
It's very fashionable to have a dig at the "big, evil, game maker", when it's no longer the worst in the industry (Bobby Kotick of Activision is trying hiss best there).
They took quite a few risks giving us something a little fresher like Mirror's Edge, Dead Space, The Saboteur, Brutal legend. So how do we repay them? We buy Wolfenstein, Resident Evil 5, Assassin's Creed 2, Prototype.
Thanks guys, you make me proud to be a gamer...
I do wish PS3 had more mindless T&A games
MS ceased production and support of the original Xbox... But they probably kept Live on the original going for as long as it made more money than was involved in maintaining it.
Goes over to 360, isn't appreciated, picked on by journalists... Fans of the original cry :(
Still hoping for a 3rd game.
I loved the first, but waggle was not a great control scheme for it.
TA came close. But it still didn't topple C&C, and tehn along came Starcraft.
They were great games, but Big Things?
Nothing by speculation, ignorance of its competitors and the world outside the US, to back it up though.
"I woulda got away with it too! If it weren't for you pesky nerds!"
ME will in all likelihood end up on PS3 - EA, Bioware, MS have all said there is no exclusivity contract. So nothing is stopping EA from publishing all 3 on 360, then porting a collection to PS3.
From the way you guys are going on about it, I think it's probably worth the wait, too.
Lost Odyssey was apparently good enough to warrant a slot in a top 10 of anything.
Can anybody make a Top 10 of anything article even if they haven't played every game?