Avatar: The Game feels like all of the development effort was put into building out the look of Pandora. In 3D, if your TV or monitor can handle it, the world comes to life. Even in standard HD or SD, the lush jungle is inviting and exciting. Take all of that away and you aren't left with much worth talking about. The gameplay feels like it needs more work. Loose controls, bad melee combat, weak mission design, and a wonky camera dull the experience. Middling storytelling doesn't help matters, and it ultimately fails in matters of motivation. The thrill of the fight just isn't here, and that's a problem for an action game.
6.5 Presentation
A prequel story that could use better storytelling. Offering a branching game with both sides of the story is a nice touch.
8.0 Graphics
It's easy to be impressed by the game in 3D. The environments are special. Some of the animations are a bit stiff.
6.5 Sound
The voice acting is at times quite underwhelming, as is the music. Other times it gets the job done.
6.5 Gameplay
Generic mission design and loose controls. The camera struggles in close quarters.
6.0 Lasting Appeal
About 10 hours of gameplay, more if you're a completionist and enjoy menial tasks. None of it is particularly exciting or memorable.
6.8
Passable OVERALL
(out of 10 / not an average)
There have been so many games in the industry that were overhyped. In the end they went on to become such huge flops that their names will never been forgotten just due to the fact that these were a combination of both commercial and critical failures.
This article (spread out over numerous pages to maximize clicks) is a joke. Apparently all of these games are both critical and commercial failures, and yet the writer even points out how Diablo 3 (number 1 on the list) was the best-selling PC game the year of its release and broke various sales records (selling 12 million copies in first year).
How does that constitute a commercial failure, exactly?
Apparently the author does not know, since their reasoning for Diablo 3 being the number 1 flop on PC so far is this mess of broken English:
"And if looks for the game play and different actions, legendary items are sometimes worse than rare items and also the gold rate is very low you need lots of gold to get the items from the market. Also online connection requirement can cause some serious frustrations, weapon system flies in the face of traditional RPG logic. One of the most annoying thing is disconnection from server will ends the game and you have to start over."
Was this written by a 12 year old? What a garbage website.
"(ESRB) had listed entries forLimbo for the PlayStation 3 and PC platforms, Playdead confirmed that this was a mistake on ESRB’s part, and that they had no plans for the game on these systems"
Limbo is on Steam......
Read the article and first thought that comes to mind
"God dammit!! I f***ing gave them a site visit count"
What a piece of sh*t article. Might as well include all kickstarter games and the cheap ones found in walmarts PC game section.
Also seriously we can't report the guy who submitted this nor the people who approved it. How the hell can we get quality articles on N4G?
"We decided to put together a list of some of the best dinosaur games for the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii and more."
Surprised Dino Crisis 1 wasn't on here, or the early Jurassic Park movie games, they were good
I was so excited for Jurassic Park on my SNES. When I first got to play it I was expecting so much more than walking around collecting dinosaur eggs. In comparison to the Genesis version which made it look so cool and awesome, the SNES version was definitely a head scratcher.
The arcade light gun games were fun too.
We really need more dinosaur games....so many Zombie themed games but never enough Dinosaur ones
Dino Crisis 3? seriously? that game was so bad it killed the franchise! should have gone with DC 1 or 2 IMO.
Why the author choose Dino crisis 3 over 1 and 2 is beyond me. The list is called top 10 Best Dinosaur games. so why chose the worst in the series. And James Cameron's Avatar the game? Really!?
3D in video games is rather a hush hush affair, almost a pandering to those who have adopted 3D TV sets and monitors. With little fanfare for 3D enabled games, is it really just one big failure?
no not really as matter of fact im getting a 3d tv next week sony and a sony 3d blu ray hometheatre system
i believe its not a failure, more a work in progress. Eventually it will have its day.
The graphics piqued my interest, it made me think there was more to this movie-game. Then again a movie-game it is, so I digress :(
color me....
NOT SURPRISED
games based on movies have rarely (and i mean raaaarellly) been worth playing.
Go ask OCEAN from the glory days of the nes/snes. Their games were beyond horrible. After getting the addams family and home alone i knew to stay far away from movie licensed games.