If you read it, the author claims to actually love the game. Right in the first paragraph "As a matter of fact, I believe Mass Effect 2 has the most compelling combat in a game this year. It’s fast, flashy, and more fun than anything else that has been produced in 2010." Your argument is kind of redundant. He wasn't claiming it's overrated because he didn't like it.
It's not to do with the fact it's being released on the PS3, more the fact that it's been nominated for several game of the years from a number of sites. Please read the article before jumping to conclusions.
In regards to the complaints about this review:
I apologise that maybe I didn't make it clear in the review, but the problem we had with the story wasn't our lack of understanding, it was the way the story was implemented through large walls of text. At the best of times, it's not a particularly immersive experience, but when you're constantly having to read through it all, it becomes tedious. Granted a lack of prior knowledge apart from the very limited readi...
I genuinely said that it's perfect as fan service. But for anyone else it's not particularly welcoming, and i considering there is a large community that don't watch naruto but play games, i think it's a fair reflection score wise. Granted i'd have liked someone from the site to be a massive naruto watcher, but we don't have everything :P
I'd have no problem with it normally man, but if you read the review, both of us say the campaign is as boring as, apart from the fighting, which is the minority of the snoozefest.
That's the impression we got. The campaign seems like a fan service as you can play through all these cool battles and as every character essentially, but it just was a chore getting from one place to another! Not actually worth the effort, rather just free battle. One problem i failed to mention was the fact the only way to unlock characters was through the flippin campaign!
20 hours, apologies :P
That's embarrassing! i swear the game is only ten hours long at best as well! 5 hours is disgraceful!
Aren't you talking about Final Fantasy XIII? Yahtzee admitted only playing the first five hours of that...
S*** I can't believe i spelt his name wrong, sorry that's atrocious.
Very much so! I never played the original metroid games but i Prime always had a place close to my heart!
He's claiming it's overrated in terms of it being an RPG.