In story mode, EA has come up with a winning single-player concept that takes you beyond the classic game progression, allowing you to choose from a series of superheroes as they progress through separate yet intertwined phases of the underlying plot.There's really nothing wrong with this review... until you start to read other reviews on the Internet. It seems like every other major gaming press are only giving the game a fair rating. If you look at the summary of ratings in Gamerankings.com for the Xbox version, you'd notice these ratings by the major gaming press.
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The action is fast and engaging, no doubt enhanced by the game's realism and challenging artificial intelligence.
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Marvel Nemesis is definitely a strong contender for Game Of The Year.
- Gamespot.com - 6.4 out of 10
- Gamespy.com - 3.5 out of 5
- IGN - 5.1 out of 10
- Electronic Gaming Monthly - 5.33 out of 10
There's more. On gaming blog, Joystiq.com, there's a piece that actually mentions that a EA developer is criticising the game. Imagine, saying something bad about a game that's from the company you're working in. The full review by the EA developer is on Game Girl Advance. Now, the game sure doesn't sound like a "game of the year" anymore.
So what went wrong with the Digital Life review? I can only speculate. Maybe because the game was provided by EA for review, there's a sense to want to please the company, hence the good review. Otherwise, it's that the reviewer does not have enough experience with bad games to give an honest review... a case of lack of gaming journalism culture/experience? Having been a gaming editor with a major gaming site, I do know that it's not easy to find gamers who can write, and also get some sort of recognition as a games journalist.
Ultimately, I'm feeling sorry for folks or parents who depend on reviews for making their purchase. They may have wasted their hard-earned S$69.90 on a game that's only mediocre.
8 comments:
This is not the first time. I've seen at least 2 other glowing reviews in Digital Life of games which got sucky reviews elsewhere.
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
No true blue gamer should/would trust reviews from Digital Life.
Surely a guy can like a game and not get flak for it. I mean otherwise he wouldn't bother playing the game. Just surf the web and summarise the others.
I think people are smart enough to not make decisions based on one review - unless over time they've found a particular reviewer's taste to match theirs.
I mean, how many times have you watched a critically acclaimed movie you didn't like or bought a critically acclaimed CD that sucked?
I don't really get what the whole point of this post is.
Digital life's review has always been like that. You need to take it was a serious pinch of salt.
I think the problem with inaccurate reviews are caused by reviewers who give a thumbs up rave or a disgusted thumbs down after playing the game for barely 1/10th of its content.
Reviews given without the reviewer getting pass the starting zone, reviews given by reviewers who have tried only 1 out of 8 possible classes, reviewers who cannot even get pass the first puzzle...
In short, gamers makes the best reviewers for gamers. Period.
even the local HWZ magazine also rates almost all products reviews with either gold or sliver award!!!!!
when you see the same review on the net some of them cannot even make it
Uniquely Singapore :)
wait for the laywers letters since you have copied the words from the paper
can or not?
Can. Fair use.
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