6/10 for Ratchet & Clank PS3, 9/10 for Super Mario Galaxy among GamesTM Scores

shmee - 771 days 1 hour ago

some mags dont even know what they are doing

Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction - 6
Pixeljunk Racers - 8

Pixeljunk > Ratchet???????????????

lol

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TnS - 771 days 1 hour ago

I can't understand why people care so much with review scores. ;)

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MK_Red - 771 days 1 hour ago

TnS, I understand what you say but sadly some people only buy one or few magazines and their review is like law for them. Many GamesTM subscribers would see this review and without checking the net for better reviews (Many people don't even check the GameSpot let alone others) think the game (Ratchet here) is bad and won't buy it.

There is nothing more painfull to me than seeing a game Ratchet flop or sell few copies while likes of Wii Sports and Wii Play stay in the top 10 for months.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 771 days ago

edit: anyways I removed the link to that trap, its a little too cruel, esp when you try to close it. This review sucks major donkey balls and PS3 will do fine(funny right now the best thing I like about my PS3 is its BC)

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The Brave 1 - 771 days ago

and people say theres not a conspiracy against the ps3

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resistance100 - 770 days 23 hours ago

'British gamers are among the best and they deserve a much better magazine than this.'

Agreed we are the best, however there are far better magazines in the form of Edge. The Official magazines here (OPM, OXM and ONM) all done by same publisher and are all very well respected and tbh give unbised and honest reviews. Computerandvideo games are also a very reliable source for reviews and previews.

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Snipes1616 - 770 days 23 hours ago

And another one goes,
And another one bites the dust...

Lair, then HS, now this.

Do they really hate Sony that much? Come on. I'm a Wii60 fan most of the time and I know Ratchet and Clank is better than a 6.

Maybe the magazine editors are angry that game companies don't release their top titles in Europe first...

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Bathyj - 770 days 23 hours ago

I hear what you're saying. After this year I'm beyond giving a rats arse what these "proffessional reviewers" think. More and more they seem to me like snobby food critques who dont allow themselves to be impressed by anything. Have you seen Ratatooie?

The reason some people still care about review scores is because I had some idiot the other day try to convince me R&C was a 7.5 game when it obviously isnt.

He'd forgotten already the perfect 10's, the many 9.5 and 9's and even the odd high 8. Suddenly in his mind the game was only a 7.5.

The force has a strong influence on the weak minded and unfortunately some people still take reviewers words as gospel. These reviewers need to realize how much power they are wielding and stop being so flippant with their scores.

You ever get the feeling some of these reviewers just want to stand out by being the ones who didn't give a good game a good score. Most people never heard of these people before, but I bet alot have gone out of their way to find out about them now. Its sad that when it comes to web site hits, popularity and notoriety are virtually the same thing. Just as long as that get that extra number on their counter it doesn't matter what they had to say to get you to click there.

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ATLRoAcH - 770 days 22 hours ago

They gave Pixel junk racers an 8 ans gave Ratchet a 6.These reviewers are dumb.

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BrianC6234 - 770 days 20 hours ago

I never pay attention to actual reviews in their magazines. They seem to have terrible taste when it comes to games they like. Pixeljunk Racer gets an 8 and R&C a 6? Wacky Brits.

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QuackPot - 770 days 17 hours ago

It's easy to spot the BIASED fanboy sites these day wrt R&C

Average critics score: 9+

Biased fanboy site: < 8

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Jenzo - 770 days 17 hours ago

Let's put this thing in perspective. Pretend you were a movie reviewer.

All of your friends tel you that you have to watch the movie 300. They say it's the best movie ever made and they know you will love it. So you start watching it and notice that it's a piece of "facist-art" with half-naked, bearded men screaming and fighting in slow motion(homo-erotic?) for 117 minutes. Ok, that's my opinion, if you enjoyed 300 then replace it with some other movie you did'nt like. Just an example.

Here's the deal. After you've watched the movie your supposed to write a review of it. Some of your friends might get upset if you give it a bad review. So what should you do?
Should you review the movie and write what you actually thought about it, or should you give in and become a puppet and write what your friends want to hear?

Now, would it be better if the reviewers at Gamespot and GameTM wrote what the majority wants to hear instead of writing what they actually thought about the game itself?

If you don't like their reviews, read someone elses. Go for IGN or something. Find one that you think has the same taste as yourself in games.

Or...we could force all reviewers to think alike. And why not make all politicians think alike as well. Let's create just one party. And let's call that party the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. lol!

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DolphGB - 770 days 15 hours ago

This review is probably more to do with not getting enough advertising revenue than the game itself. There's a lot of stuff in magazines that only gets printed because of the money that moves around.

When R&C is getting 9 and 10 out of 10 almost everywhere, getting a 6 just shows that magazine or website up as foolish.

This is also why we don't do 'reviews' or give scores at PS3 Attitude - we'd prefer to say how we felt about a game when we played it and let you make up your own mind.

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pswi60 - 770 days 11 hours ago

6 things that need changed NOW in game reviews

http://pswi60.wordpress.com...

have a read...

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commadore65 - 770 days 9 hours ago

'Or...we could force all reviewers to think alike. And why not make all politicians think alike as well. Let's create just one party. And let's call that party the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.'

LOL! rare I actually laugh out loud at comments made on this site.

Reguarding reviews they are personal opinions. People should actually read the reviews though to find out what the reviewer says about a game.

If your interested enough to buy a game you'll want to find out more about it first, and the reasons that a reviewer has the opinion they have.

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RelloC - 770 days 8 hours ago

Very, very well said my friend. +Bubble.

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gamesR4fun - 770 days 8 hours ago

a solid game and the very best platformer ever made. No gamer could give this less than a decent score. So whos reviewing these over there? M$ execs?

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shmee - 771 days 1 hour ago

the graphics alone in R&C makes it get 9

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socomnick - 771 days 1 hour ago

I must be like gamestop then too because I played it and stopped playing it just ass fast. I spent more time on the 2nd folklore demo the 1st folklore demo sucked. 2nd one was pretty nice.

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ruibing - 771 days ago

I find it hard to believe that you actually spent the time to play the game. What in the world were your criticisms after you played it? No multiplayer doesn't count.

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forum_crawler - 770 days 23 hours ago

Graphics alone make it worth a nine?

What if the game was about picking your nose? would perfect photorealism make it worth 9/10? I don't think so.

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DolphGB - 770 days 15 hours ago

I'd actually pay good money (well, £1.99 at least) for a photo-realistic nose picking game. It's a much underused genre in my opinion.

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SofaKingReetodded - 771 days ago

the same as Ace combat tells you ALLLLL you need to know about these hacks.

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forum_crawler - 770 days 23 hours ago

Is it possible that it plays just like the first one did? If it does, then it offers very little in the way of innovation. Graphics alone don't account for innovation since every other game is pushing the polygon count and what not on the PS3.

I'm NOT picking up fights, I'm just pointing out why they might say what they say...

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lonestarmt - 770 days 20 hours ago

thats meaningless. It does play like that first couple of games, its more like a love song to those type of games. It playing like the last ones is a mute point. A game doesn't have to be completely different to be leaps and bonds better. Just more refined. Better story, better gameplay. Its damn right stupid, look at halo 3 its the game just with what? new story, and better gameplay supposedly( beaten all halos except this one). I guess super mario 3 isn't very good since you still jump around from left to right?? Its the same thing just more refined, extra stuff, new stuff,longer, and updated graphics, better controls. Thats what this new rachet and clank is. Anyone who can't understand this is only hating on the system. Look at contra 4 on the DS, is the same style as the much older contras, but lots of people are exicted about it. I guess since its very similar then it should get a 6 and not worth your time.

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QuackPot - 770 days 17 hours ago

The obviously they must have rated Halo 3 low.

It's just a prettier version of H1 & H2.

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MK_Red - 771 days 1 hour ago

Wow, they gave Resistance 6/10 and Warhawk 5/10!? They really need to see a doctor ASAP.

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Grassroots - 771 days 1 hour ago

I guess some people just don't enjoy great games!

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stevenhiggster - 771 days ago

Seriously you'd have to be making love to an xbox to give warhawk a 5, or maybe just dead from the neck up! What total retards.

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Bathyj - 770 days 22 hours ago

Thats all I need to hear to never give them my attention.

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Daishi - 770 days 4 hours ago

Every site needs to give the same exact score for the same games and have the same opinion, that way people who hate sports games will have to pick them up just because of all the high scores. I hate opinions they are just so different from one another...

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Baba1906 - 770 days 17 hours ago

not everyone but this totally unfair and you know it.

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Jenzo - 770 days 17 hours ago

...but I don't see many 360 fans whining in here.

The PS3 is in a weak spot, desperate for such silly things as good reviews. That's why PS3 fanboys can't accept the fact that not everyone shares their opinion.

Everyones entitled to their own opinion? Even reviewers, right?

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ngg12345 - 771 days 1 hour ago

Look at gamepro, clearly biased to sony, gamestm clearly biased to nintendo, and gamespot clearly biased to microsoft. It is like themart is clearly biased to microsoft, or nasim is clearly biased to sony. These writers like the people here, are biased to a console. They are human beings, and all of them will believe that 'x game is better then y game' before they even play the game or review it. No one will have a blank slate before playing the game, except probably non gamers. If reviews weren't subjective why isn't every review have the same score. Not one game had an acceptance of 100%.

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riqued - 771 days 1 hour ago

Conan sucks man, it's trying to be a God of War style of game and sucked!

If they want to give R&C 6 they need to say they hate platforming or sony because that's not possible!

@9.1 But they are journalist I would expect them to be professional about their preferred or hated console

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Ares84 - 771 days 1 hour ago

He has both and he said that PES08 is way better than FIFA08. So here is another site/mag that gamers should not look to!!

Where do people get these morons to review games??

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Ares84 - 771 days 1 hour ago

So they can go hand in hand with GameSpot!

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