Games Issue 64 - Review Scores (Assassin's Creed... Ouch)

KidMakeshift - 762 days 6 hours ago

They gave Mario and Sonic Olympics a 8
Yet Assassin's Creed only gets a 4 and being called "dull and contrived"

Yes, Assassin's Creed isn't perfect by any means, but it isn't the over ambitious mess most people are claiming it to be (I'd give it a B)

Uh, the olympics game is basically like every other olympics game ever made (it's not a wacky interpretation) except now you just move your wiimote and nunchuck up and down like crazy (a majority of the challenges consist of some sort of running), which is how almost every other Wii party game plays out (ex. Rayman's Raving Rabbids). Practically every game for the Wii is "dull and contrived" because the motion controls are poorly implemented or uninspired, and M&S Olympics is a perfect example.

I know the reviews are written by different people and that the games are completely different, but it's hard to take publications like this and Edge (even Play with their love for handing out 9's and 10's) seriously when their scores seem so unjust.

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SabreMan - 762 days 6 hours ago

GamesTM is an awful magazine that tries so much to be a better magazine than Edge here in the UK but fails on all counts, it has a very good retro section but thats where the good ends.

It's also trying to be controversial with it's review of Assassins Creed much like some of Edge's reviews are perceived. A four is plainly ridiculous, Edge gave it a seven and got the review spot on

Keep trying GamesTM however at the moment your way off

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idontcare - 762 days 5 hours ago

eeehm. these guys had a good smoke.

Assassins Creed = 4 ????? ... lol. the game is much much better than a 4.

new NFS rocks. COD4 has one of the best single- and multiplayer ever and if they can't have fun with The Simpsons game, i think it's already too late for them :-(

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Mercutio - 762 days 5 hours ago

Man, AC is the best game ive played this year, so far, accept for HS. Its different, and thats why it deserves at least a 7.5, i would give it a 9.6 though

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resistance100 - 762 days 4 hours ago

I've stopped reading this magazine along time ago, Edge is really the only multiplat mag over here [uk] worth reading.

You may also remember that GamesTM gave R&C:TOD a 6/10 aswell

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wiizy - 762 days 4 hours ago

shouldnt they have the best game in the world right now rated a 10..mario galaxy.

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led1090 - 762 days 4 hours ago

completed it today and its easily the best game i've ever played...thank god i played cod4 before crysis otherwise i mite have found it(cod4) boring which it is not

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Chubear - 762 days 3 hours ago

but people are still more willing to ignore editorial reviews and buy Assasin's Creed than they were with a game like LAIR; I wonder why.

Uhmmm, maybe LAIR should have had a Jade Raymond type producer... cause we all know that's the only reason the game's selling like it is.

What's even more funny is that more and more people are actually buying and playing LAIR now and scratching their heads as to way this thing was lynched by editorial reviews however, with AC, people are still realizing the unacceptable level of the finished product with tonnes of bugs and glitches.

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VampHuntD - 762 days 2 hours ago

And when I saw a 4 I stopped reading. If anyone truly thinks the game is a 4 they are crazy. It has it's flaws yes, but it's far beyond a 4. Their opinion no longer matters.

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andron666 - 761 days 16 hours ago

I have read that magazine a few times and then stopped buying it.

Their reviews are all over the place. They claim to love games, but often their reviews come off as downright hateful.

Edge are much better, but also often strict in my opinion.

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S1nnerman - 760 days 2 hours ago

Need one say more?

I'm currently playing AC. Not perfect buy any stretch but the sheer ambition of the game is worth than 4. Poxy critics ... what the heck do they know anyway? Bah

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