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GameSpot: Enslaved: Odyssey to the West Review

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is a great adventure that has just enough excitement and diversity in the gameplay to keep you engaged, while the striking visuals and memorable story push you through to the ultimate conclusion.

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Gago4958d ago

heavenly sword while looked great, played generic and was a bore fest.

This is a minor improvement.

I smell the same score for DMC reboot.

ReservoirDog3164958d ago

Like I've said before, I hate that at the start of the generation they gave so many games perfect 10s. I love a lot of those games but now everyone sees a very* good score like an 8 and says it's a bad score.

Look at every review from the best PS2 games. Bet you your favorite games all got 70s on metacritic.

SilentNegotiator4958d ago (Edited 4958d ago )

Game reviewers are so lenient these days.

This game has incredibly generic combat and platforming. Like ReservoirDog said, a game like this would more likely have gotten a 7/10 average last gen.

nycredude4958d ago

Heavenly Sword was anything but a bore fest. It was a bit short but was a good game.

ico924958d ago

the problem that i had with heavenly sword was its length it was far to short, and on top of that the game suffered from arena based combat,

rdgneoz34958d ago

Yep, its only downfall was the short length of the game. Was great besides that.

dc14958d ago

Bore fest?.. Gago,.. thats about as far of an off base statement that I have read regarding Heavenly Sword.

You get an award for originality!

Kain814958d ago

Heavenly sword was an Amazing game, it was short and the gameplay had its problems but the Game itself was GREAT.
I hoped for a Sequel with improvments like the Unchared or Infamous improvments.

But NT choose not to listen to their fanbase, the 1.5 mio. sold units were not enough for them...

hazeblaze4958d ago

Heavenly Sword was an awesome game... in fact, I would have rather seen a sequel to that than this new IP.

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colonel1794958d ago

I find it very hard to believe this game is "better" than Castlevania: LOS, according to GameSpot and IGN. I played the demo, and while I enjoyed it, it felt unpolished, maybe because it was a demo, but Castlevania looks way better anyways.

I'm still getting both though, I just hate reviewers this gen

DeathGazer4958d ago

I enjoyed the Enslaved demo a little more than the Castlevania one.

I'm still getting Castlvania day 1 though, thanks to it's nearly 20 hours of game length.

ironcreed4958d ago

You got that shit right. Both LoS and Enslaved look far more appealing than yet another, kill, die, respawn, kill, die, respawn military shooter. Just ugh.

Don't get me wrong, I love shooters, but there are so many of them and so many more coming out that the thought of playing yet another one currently makes me slightly nauseated. I have enjoyed Reach, but I am pretty sure I am done with shooters and multiplayer frag fests for the year.

hazeblaze4958d ago

Yea, I'm going to be buying Castlevania instead... It just looks like a much more interesting game imo. I probably won't buy Enslaved but I will rent it.

MGRogue20174958d ago (Edited 4958d ago )

I am still on the fence.. Not sure if I'll buy it on day one.

I am worried about replayability.. like, what exactly can you do after you've finished the game?

TheMutator4958d ago

ok now im piss off Enslaved suck and have better review than Castlevania and Dead Rising 2 that is horrible get 8.5

LeonSKennedy4Life4958d ago

I take it English isn't your first language?

Or second?

Or third?

TheMutator4958d ago

no is my third , i speak german and spanish

dredgewalker4958d ago

This game is not really on my radar list since they messed up DMC. I will not support any developer who gets on my nerves. Though I loved Heavenly Sword, it may be the only game I will ever respect from NT.

pacosanchez884958d ago

you sound like a whiny tween. must have been a rough break up. i know, i know, NT is pig, you have every right to be bitter. here's a tissue. ohhh you know what would be totally hot? next time you see NT, you should totally make out with the first studio you see. NT willl be sooooo jealous!

dredgewalker4958d ago

You must love being with the emo crowd if you think the new Dante look is okay with you. Gaming is an expensive hobby and studios must always offer us something good to get our money. I have already Square, Activision And NT on my hate list. Why give mney to developers who isn't giving me great games? It's like going to a concert for a band that's " meh" to me. If they couldn't make Enslaved into a great game then I doubt they'll make DMC a better game with stupid reboot. I see you prefer sucking up to studios that make mediocre games while ruinng other games they didnt make.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi18d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming17d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long17d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple10117d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor17d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing6917d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno17d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming17d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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The 10 worst PC ports that ruined otherwise great video games

From Xfire: "It's not unusual to see the occasional bad PC port, but these ones make the bad PC ports look great in comparison."

Kados1023d ago

To be fair with GTAIV, it was a very CPU bound game, released at a time when the vast majority of PC gamers still believed that the CPU was nearly irrelevant, and that you only needed a good GPU. 95% of "gaming" builds back then were using turds for CPUs.

Giblet_Head1023d ago (Edited 1023d ago )

Ya, 2005-2010 was an interesting period. Entry/mid level CPUs have come a long way since then.

RonsonPL1023d ago (Edited 1023d ago )

The "majority" is still just as dumb as before.The game was simply f...d.
It had micro-stutters and never ever ran properly. People who say otherwise simply couldn't see the microstutter because of their LCD display's blurry motion. It should fly in 85fps or 100fps on fastest CPU back then, but it didn't. It was a buggy, awful port. I had a CPU over twice as fast as what x360 had. A GPU 5x as fast. And I couldn't do anything to make it run perfectly.
I don't know who's fault was this. Maybe it was not the developers alone. Maybe it was because of the drivers and the fact nobody gave a flying f..k about stable, high framerate on a PC game. We've had two different OSes then, and as I pointed out, microstutters were not that obvious on an LCD. There was no Digital Foundry to point such problems out and not many people still played on CRT monitors to be able to notice the problem (in like 2 seconds of playing, seriously, you don't need any tools. It just hits your eyes like a speeding truck)

GTA V continued the tradition. It manages the CPU resources so badly, it basically cannot run at locked 144fps till this day, or even 60fps in stereoscopic 3D mode (so 2x 60fps per second) because it's so dependant on single core performance and because it's so messed up by either port devs or Nvidia (who said they will fix it, then 3 years of promises led to shutting the forums down, which solved the problem in their eyes - no one complains anymore ;)

GTA III port was never optimized for even 60fps, not to mention 100 or 120.
The port of GTA V was hidden in their cabinet for almost 3 years, during which PC gamers were bein lied to about it.

See the pattern yet?
Yeah. They don't give a shit about PC gaming or assume a buggy, stuttery mess is good enough, as long as people keep buying the games.

Actually... to think of it. They didn't make a proper Lemmings game for PC either. There was Amiga version and that's it. Only later on they mercifully released Lemmings: Tribes sequel. Until then PC gamers could only dream about digitized (real recorded audio) sounds and music. So this tradition of shitting onto PC gamers is now 30 years old ;)

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Active Quest Episode 117: Star Wars: KOTOR Is Likely Returning, Atelier Firis DX Is Addictive

Joseph, Josh, and Chris go over a striking Sony decision, a Star Wars: Knights of the Republic remake seems to be happening, and local JRPG lover Chris talks about Atelier Firis DX.

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