Killzone 2: Curse of the Review Score

SlamVanderhuge - 273 days 14 hours ago

This is why the 100 point (or even the 10 point) review scale is absurd. Its impossible to distinguish between a 84 and an 86, or a 92 and a 94. The only real point to such a large scale is to incite fanboy riots when their game gets rated 2 points below a similar game on a competing platform.

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tharealest - 273 days 14 hours ago

GOTY.. Those sites that don't acknowledge thate are simply looking for hits.. like Edge.. 7/10.. WTF

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khellendros1 - 273 days 13 hours ago

I don't get pissed about the criticism or the score. I just want them to be fair. Flaws are overlooked in some games and they still get high scores. Other games get nitpicked to death and points are deducted for everything. I just want them to be consistent.

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HungPHAT - 273 days 13 hours ago

I could care less about reviews and Fanboys I go by Demos and eye candy that the game offers . Reviewers are a joke now a days ! IGN is the worst , that get paid for reviews , so who to you trust ? NO ONE ! if you're intrested in the game then go for it regarudless what any reviewer has to say , I've played so many games there were called crap and turned out to love those games , so my advice is play what you like , not what reviewers tell you what to play

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SirLarr - 273 days 13 hours ago

You need some kind of summary to an entire review or people won't read it, but the 1-10 number scale carries too much baggage.

Reviews should use a more arbitrary scale like five stars, thumbs up/down, or my favorite: buy it / rent it / skip it

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harshtruth - 273 days 13 hours ago

On my first play through of the demo i missed this, i thought you could only shoot off helmets... turns out in the warehouse section there's a second Helghan rifle to pick up (not the Helghan sub machine gun) if you shoot a dead/alive Helghan in the face it blows their head completely off.... this gun only shows up once in the demo, the guy sniping above the office has it and he must fall off the office when he dies for you to get this gun... its sweet

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ar - 273 days 13 hours ago

As long as I like the game the reviewers can say whatever they like. For the game developers on the other hand the sales numbers is probably the most important aspect in the end.

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somekindofmike - 273 days 13 hours ago

Review criteria should change, they should only rate the fun factor, how fun is it to play regardless of faults. because lets face it all game have faults, it oh so easy to critise, it's a lot harder to try and understand the larger picture!w

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Hellsvacancy - 273 days 13 hours ago

Ive never bothered with reviews the only times ive EVER looked at reviews is when i use to go on2 GameTrailers.com and look at some of the older video reviews games like Blazing Angels, The Darkness crappy games that im really not bothered about but i would play enjoyable crap as my Dad would say

I know my own tastes i dont need any mofos tellin me any different

Just my opinion i can understand that sum people may need that extra nudge in deciding on buyin summin thats cool but dont complain when wot u read is bad because then it defeats the point in reading the review in the 1st place

Please 4give my spelling and gramer ive had bit of a drink and a smoke 2day :-S

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tudors - 273 days 13 hours ago

KZ2 has had some great reviews, it's obviously not a bad game, if they were all bad reviews fair enough.

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Hellangelzx - 273 days 12 hours ago

I still don't understand what's the point of 9.2, 9.4, 7.6.

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A HiFi - 273 days 11 hours ago

I was glad to see this live up to the hype of critics and fans alike. Even a 7 from Edge is a great score. But I don't know what they said about the game, which I will go and check now...

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Heath134 - 273 days 10 hours ago

Wow, this has sparked some very interesting discussion. Keep it up!

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A HiFi - 273 days 6 hours ago

Upon looking at the Edge review, they seemed to have made a balanced case (well...by that I mean as 'balanced' as Edge can make) and a 7 seems to sum it up quite well. We must remember that they also gave Halo Wars a 7. It is not a bad score, especially not from Edge.

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primordialmeme - 273 days 4 hours ago

Great article. It perfectly describes fanboyism and corrupt journalism.

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yojoe26 - 273 days 3 hours ago

I have found myself getting totally irate with people (fanboys) as a result of their total inability to reason and be intelligent about things. I have never been like that before so this whole N4g console war thing has really gotten me out of whack. It is one thing to have a preference on which console is better or which one you prefer, but to bash the other person's choice constantly and belittling that person is just totally unnerving to me. I think that maybe I just need to stick to my gaming sites that only support playstation products, that way I am not tempted to stoop to the level that people began to call me a fanboy and a retard and such. I lost some bubbles today just for getting onto some jerk-wad xbox fanboy who was being totally irritating with some of the people on N4g. The things they were saying were rational and well thought-out and then he and some of his friends would just answer back with juvenile comments and four=letter words. It drives me crazy!! It's the same way with reviews. There is absolutely NO place for biased reviews on either side for ANY console. I am beginning to think that the whole number system or star system needs to be abolished. That way, there is no hard scale with which someone can compare and say "Oh yeah they give an Xbox game a 10 and a PS3 game an 8!!" If all they do is review the game and give a relevant list of pros and cons, that should be enough for people to decide whether the game in question is worthy of a purchase, rental, or none of the above....

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Dragon Boy - 273 days 2 hours ago

I say play the game and decide for yourself. The graphics in Killzone are far beyond anything I ever witness in my lifetime of playing video games. The way I start shooting and the smoke from the battle clogs my vision, to glare of the sun, to shooting an enemy close up having his blood get all over my screen. In my book this game merits 10's and nothing below. Anybody who has been playing since the days of atari and sees this game and his jaw dropping graphics needs to realize this game just set the bench mark of graphic of any first person shooter on any console to date.

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Spike47 - 273 days 13 hours ago

gve me a link to that Edge Review and I'll give you a link to 5 perfect scores for Killzone 2.

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 273 days 13 hours ago

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After the main Eurogamer portal awarded Killzone 2 with a 9/10, alongside the Portuguese 10/10, head editor of the main portal Tom Bramwell posted an editor’s blog entitled ‘Exclusive reviews?’ – explaining that Eurogamer had regional (European presumably) exclusivity on reviewing the game. It’s an interesting read, but it left me questioning why Eurogamer had to defend their integrity and how we know Sony had no say in the score. Money talks"

Exactly. Those and the first OPM PS3 biased once, including the before embargo lifted East European mag reviews that needed to sell mags were driven to the self fullfilling prophecy of PS3 fanboys. KZ2 will get a high rating, it will it will it will. It must it must it must

Total Videogames and EDGE are the ones like there was one guy at Gamespot that got fired because he was honest about a game just one year ago. I am really curious what Giantbomb will give KZ2

"Unfortunately, although the game captures the visual flair of those trailers, it rarely manages to capture the diversity and concept in terms of the mission challenges and gameplay. All too often the game falls down into familiar territory, with only the occasional section straying beyond the genre's conventions of shooting increasingly tougher opponents. Although KillZone 2 ticks many of the boxes for a solid fps experience, throwing ambushes, squad, and solitary sections into the mix, the game's pacing and occasional bland level designs prevent it from reaching the echelons of the genre's finest. Guerrilla hasn't attempted to throw anything new into the mix, and who can blame them when the pressure was on to deliver the PS3's visual magnum opus? The strict reliance on the check boxes however is a little too stringent for our liking, and whilst sections such as the assault on a speeding train are solid enough, the overwhelming sensation is one of 'seen it all before'! "

Spot on. Feel the same already generic after playing the demo.

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@ the one below

Yes, if KZ2 would be multiplatform it would have had the same score from EDGE.

Because Halo Wars ain't MP, its 360 exclusive and it gets the same score as KZ2. Thus: they're not Microsoft paid off to do anything.

EDGE is the most unbiased mag out there. Though they are a bit harsh. I would say a score from 8 to 9 might fit KZ2. But EDGE is hated like Jeff from Giantbomb was with Zelda score at that time and like he was spot on on more games.

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ReTarDedFisHy - 273 days 12 hours ago

hate score systems that rate every tenth... OF A TENTH. It's okay when it's a .5 because it might not quite be a 10 but it's definitely more than a 9 sometimes. But 9.1 vs 9.2 is ridiculous... Even worse, most sites that do that DON'T EVEN USE AN AVERAGE. But whatever I don't take those .1s seriously. I think I hate the .9s the most, JUST GIVE IT A FRIGGIN FULL POINT

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Spike47 - 273 days 11 hours ago

Killzone 2's flaws are very few. It doesn't bring anything new? Call of Duty 4 didn't bring anything new and it was the best FPS of 2007. The controls are simply "more realistic". This game deserves a meta score of 93 and acually more.

Biased pathetic trolls THAT HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO DO BUT BRING DOWN GOOD GAMES, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU MAKE A DAMN GAME WORTH EVEN LOOKING AT.

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