Philip Kollar writes: "Have you been getting your weekly dose of The Review Crew, 1UP's new video podcast where we give you our straight opinions on the most recent games? If not, there's no better time to start than now. In this week's episode, Greg Ford sits down to talk about Ubisoft's PS3-exclusive shooter Haze. After that, Nick Suttner explains his controversial review of Ninja Gaiden 2."
[Scores]
Haze (PS3): D+
Ninja Gaiden II (360): B-
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 debuted in 2009; ahead of Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty's launch, it's time to look back at one of Tecmo Koei's best titles.
Alex S. from Link-Cable writes: "When shopping for new video games you can often trust the name publisher or developer on the box to be an indication of the quality of the game. Names like Nintendo, Square Enix, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Capcom, Xbox Game Studios and Sega are world famous because they helped shape the industry by releasing some of the most defining video games of all time. Though sometimes even these great gaming houses stumble and put out a stinker."
Splatterhouse remake . Loved the og’s at the arcade growing up . Hell the best thing about the remake was the og,s were included . And left alive by Square . That game had so much potential , but the gameplay was worse horrendous .
once Great studios getting destroyed is actually common. happened with ND and Last of Us2, Bioware and Mass Effect Andromeda/Anthem, Bungle and Destiny .
I'm pretty much certain that any Sonic game that comes out will be terrible, I've not enjoyed one since the original side-scrolling days of the MegaDrive.
For this Topic it says Good Studios that make bad games. Sonic Team hasn't been good in years.
Yeah I'm sorry but I didn't really enjoy the Haze demo and I have yet to try NG2. Dunno about NG2 because I haven't really been hearing all too many good things about it either.
Sure it's pretty underwhelming if you followed all the hype, but i'd still give it a 7 for an overall score.
two hyped games and just one flop: HAZE. And all the retards "HZE wasn't hyped" "two worlds, vampire rain bla bla bla". NG2 well the reviews are right, the camera sucks but it's a great game, metascore of 81%, not a GOTY but a good game. HAZE metascroe 60% and a 4/10 like LAIR, a totall FLOP!!
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edit: I think that a lot of this overblown negativity towards games or overblown hype towards others has a lot to do with the fact that these reviewers are in a position of "power", where many people are able to see their opinion in their favorite publication and take it as a gold standard. They will tend to blow things out of proportion in order to recieve more hits or an extended readership in their articles. Also, there are many reviewers out there that are forced to give a quick run through a particular game, especially when they have a hefty gaming schedule to keep up with; some of them probably never get to enjoy a game to its fullest extent because they are already looking to get it over with and move onto the next title.
If you look at many actual user opinions of games (take Haze, for a big example), the actual scores and opinions are usually different, especially when extreme negativity is given towards a game. I think normally when people are allowed to make up their own minds is when you really see discrepancies in a consensus about a particular title.
Haze was a flop, Ninja Gaiden 2 was not.
Thats just the way the cookie crumbles.
But it's ok because the ps3 has goty, mgs4 so it really doesn't matter too much either way. Gears 2 will come in second also being an amazing game.
MGS4=best campaign
Gears 2=best multiplayer
What can I say? It's a great year to be a gamer.