Very low score.
The graphics are beyond anything other than Killzone 2.
The multiplayer is rock solid.
The gameplay is incredible.
The gigantic Blu-Ray provies incredible uncompromised audio quality.
It will be hilarious to see what crap they padded out their negatives list to keep the game out of the 9.7-10/10 range it really is in.
There is no way MW2 could possible get a 9.4 or anything close to it.
The graphics in the game are barely above Wii quality.
"A million RRoD articles are posted a day, yet one YLoD article comes through and all hell breaks loose. God, I'm sick of this double standard."
WTF???
Microsoft knowingly creates and ships hardware that is fundamentally broken.
But to be "fair" to Xbox fans there should be just as many PS3 hardware stories regardless of the fact that the PS3 is like every other console in history besides the Xbox 360 that simply work with some margin...
Are there actually people who were claiming the next Call of Duty game would be GOTY 2009 for some reason?
So far everything shown from the game is at best 'meh'.
"It's well established the Playstation 3 has had a fairly lukewarm reception and the sales of the first console have reflected that"
Don't need to wait for anything.
The PS3 is the third fastest selling console in history.
Just another idiot with a website spewing garbage.
-Plonk-
Unbelievable.
Sony not only isn't being sleazy and sending out 900 bribe 'gift bags' to reviewers, the first review of their one of their biggest exclusives of 2009 has a foaming at the mouth Xbox Sony/Playstation hater as the head editor???
And the game is good enough to still get a 5/5 Game of the Month and called one of the greatest games in history?
Epic Win Sony.
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"Maybe the Japanese just prefer there local hardware."
What has it been now? Seven years that same silly rationalization has been made?
The Xbox is a niche product. Targeted mainly at:
* Bitter ex-Dreamcast fans
* Windows gamers
a demographic of 25 million or so people mostly from the US and the UK. A relatively tiny group of fringe gamers relative to the overall console market who hate 'teh Evil Sony'.
The quest...
It is scary to think how much money the big PS3 exclusives are going to end up costing gamers:
Demon's Souls
Uncharted 2
Ratchet and Clank
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2
God of War 1/2 Remake
God of War 3
just to name a few. That's about 350 bucks right there. And even crazier for PS3/PSP owners.
"yeah the only thing standing between mirosofts path is microsoft"
"those free repairs are a god send"
"hopefully they've learned their lesson and make it right next time.. they've done a greatjob making the xbox a major brand this gen'
Boggle.
There was some silly belief that somehow Microsoft would be able to compete with Sony on the hardware front after doing so poorly last gen. And that somehow that they would be able to shop around to various suppliers and manufacturers to keep up with Sony's insane internal hardware design and manufacturing capabilities.
For some reason many people are only realizing just how inane that idea was now that the PS3 has reached 299. It was obvious before, but I guess the 299 vs 299 ma...
Yay! Microsoft has 'a lead' on some little kid's fake sales site!
Hooray Microsoft!
"This is a pretty blatant anti PS3 article"
But it is awesome.
You know the insane PS3 Slim sales numbers have to BE ABSOLUTELY KILLING THIS GUY for him to spout such a bunch of desperate garbage.
You can just see the Sony haters out there sitting at home in front of their keyboards with teeth gnashing and fist clenched trying to come up with a way to put a negative spin on MASSIVE WORLDWIDE PS3 SALES.
"PS3 seems to be catching up to the 360. "
What?
The PS3 has long since dumped the 360 into last place in Japan.
And even before the price cut the PS3 has dumped the 360 into last place in Europe.
Do you actually think game developers and publisher surf over to vgchartz and look at the fake sales figures there and allocate their development resources off 'the lead'?
"At that point what are you paying your $50 per year on Xbox Live?"
The laggy P2P network, of course.
Dropping the idiotic 50 dollar online fees is the least of Microsoft's problems trying to match Sony's online service.
Maybe Microsoft can hire Sony to teach them how to setup dedicated servers so Xbox games aren't the horrible lagfest they are right now and have the LAN-like smoothness PSN games have.
And then Microsoft can work o...
"The console world wasn't always like this"
Kotaku are nothing but the leftovers of the pathetic attempt by Microsoft to hijack the gaming media this gen.
It was a broad ad hock strategy by both Microsoft and Xbox fans:
* Get as many Xbox fans hired at as many gaming websites as possible
* Get themselves into positions where they can review PS3 games and report on PS3 news
* Do their best to keep PS3 exclusive review s...
"time is repeating it self"
It is like watching some top team execute on the field. On the one hand you really aren't shocked to see their strategies and execution work once again, but at the same time it is amazing to see such skills in action.
Sony knows the two fundamental pillars success in the console market is built on:
1. Hardware design and manufacturing ability
2. Exclusive content
The insane graphical power, ...
There were three things that were challenges for Sony this gen compared to the PS1 and PS2:
1. Worst economic climate in half a century going on
2. The HDTV transition that the PS1 and PS2 didn't have to deal with
3. Brand new disc technology compared to CD and DVD
HDTVs have dropped far enough in price that they are no longer an huge impediment to moving to a PS3. There was little point in upgrading from a PS2 if you still couldn't afford a...
Sending out bribes to reviewers is not 'custom'.
Feel free to provide some evidence that other games get anything even remotely close to a bag of gifts from the publisher that is valued at some 900+ dollars like Microsoft was forced to resort with Halo 3.
Journalist to MS: Take your $800 Halo 3 bribe back, Halo 3 isn't all that:
http://forums.maxconsole.ne...
Deve...
"They dropped the score by .5 because there wasn't a tutorial for stealth, which is pretty self explanatory... Don't be seen! From the video review it looks like they just chickened out of giving it a 10"
IGN is playing fanboy games.
These are the clowns who gave Killzone 2 a 9.5/10 for graphics...
And gave GTA4 a 10/10...