Destructoid Review: Quantum Theory

Destructoid: Quantum Theory is one of Japan's many attempts to "appeal to the West" and you can't get more appealing to the typical North American consumer than a big, beefy, steroid-friendly cover shooter. Nobody ever really expected much of it, but it looked like it could have been a fairly decent "Western" style game for Tecmo Koei.

[NewsForMe]

I don't know what to say...............

[FACTUAL evidence]

The shit sucks!

[Imperator]

The gameplay isn't too horrible, but everything else is just bad. Graphics suck, dialog sucks, the story is too...obvious, and it's simply not fun. I tried playing it but I just couldn't have any fun with it. Gave it over 1 hour and ended up going back to Reach.

[SilentNegotiator]

Oh Jim, I am disappoint.
I was expecting a 10/10 and an internet riot.

[RockmanII7]

You keep things fresh by keeping them rare.

[SilentNegotiator]

Jim's "riot reviews"....rare?

You slay me.

[DigitalAnalog]

If the demo indicated anything for my experience. Jim actually stated the game was solid (which I so righteously defended here in N4G). Unfortunately for me, like most demos, it really wasn't those times where it is the "representative" of the entire product.

And I was looking forward to this.

Regardless, THIS is how to do a review. It explains everything that is needed to know about the game. I wanted to purchase this out of my support for the Japanese companies trying something "new". But after hearing about the "impossible" platforms and the "twin" bosses did that actually put me off.

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[Apotheosize]

I hope Japanese devs attempt to appeal to the West, fail, and then go back to their roots

[No FanS Land]

apparently square-enix didn't get the memo among other devs.
quantum Theory should prove as an staple in westernisation failure.
next up: DMC?

[Gue1]

But DMC is being made by a western dev though...

[likedamaster]

It's a blatant ripoff of Gears, seriously, down to the voice overs. Only thing they couldn't clone was the aiming... it sucks bad.

[MGRogue2017]

Indeed... Indeed.

Sadly, It trys so very hard to be like Gears of War... but fails miserably. -.-

[-Mezzo-]

According to Him, Kane & Lynch: Dog Days was worst than this.

http://n4g.com/news/585956/...

I would pick Dog Days over this bull crap any day.

[Godmars290]

Was just about to call people out for not questioning Sterling for being too harsh, but of course he's been harsher...

[TheGR]

I now see why Sony didn't keep this game as a ps3 exclusive.

[maxcer]

its nice to see the rating scale actually being used instead of the regular 7-10 most review scores go with

[Leafhopper]

No lube was used for this review.

[PirosThe4th]

wow... the controls must be worse than clunky gears... i was looking forward to this game D:

[EazyC]

I'm sure it isn't too good of a game, but if you ever go on a Destructoid review and see that Jim Sterling wrote the given review you shouldn't be too fussed about what he thinks, because he seems to hate everything.

[kasasensei]

No. He loves MAG.

[EazyC]

For the most part then, he hates everything! =)

[-Mezzo-]

lol.

[Kingdom Come]

Gears of War.

[Yangus]

Quantum Theory much better Vanquish!