EDGE Christmas 2008

[Skull Commander]

Why do you let these scores bother you? If you enjoy the game then ignore the score you disagree with!

[Eight Rooks]

I wouldn't rate Mirror's Edge that low, but having played 5 of 9 chapters I can really see why someone would. It is one hell of a disappointment in some ways and I'm interested to read precisely what it was they didn't like.

Fallout 3 I've only played through the intro, but the score doesn't entirely surprise me, nor people getting furious over it. As I remember Edge have always been indifferent to the Elder Scrolls games at best, which suits me fine, given I think they're some of the most tedious, characterless fantasy nonsense going. I loathed Morrowind, no matter how many times I tried to like it, and much of the fan enthusiasm for it really struck me as "But I've just spent six hours picking flowers in a lifeless wasteland to mix alchemical potions, therefore if I've put that much time in the game must be good" etc., etc. And much as I liked the opening to Fallout it really did strike me as - surprise! - Oblivion with guns; same ugly, dated graphics engine, same ugly, dated interface, same clunky, dated gameplay. Maybe I'll change my mind some? But to begin with at least it certainly seems "good, but in no way great" material, doesn't matter how much pointless busywork there is or how many ohoho-so-amusing opportunities to be a dick there are.

[112]

Well, looks like no one will get Silent hill: Homecoming now with all these low scores its been getting..........

Sigh............

What was the main issue they had with fallout then?

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[rmoxon]

The left for dead demo made me feel like there wasnt that much to the game, but I guess they disagree.

Fallout 3 is good but I wasnt overly impressed with it or anything so the score seems ok to me.

Resistance 2 just looks like the first one.

The Call of Duty World At War score seems the iffy one to me and no one seems to have mentioned it.

Also they must have fixed the mental camera with Tomb Raider Underworld or thats deffinitley not an 8 either.

[Tetsuo]

No 10/10's this month?

[Lebowski]

Resistance 2 just looks like the first one.

The Call of Duty World At War score seems the iffy one to me and no one seems to have mentioned it.

Was on the beta for Resistance 2 and online is rubbish its not that great a looker either so I'm not surprised with the score in the slightest

call of duty world at war isn't even as good as cod4 so no suprises there i imagine it will go the way of cod3 hopefully and the nice cod4 community will stick around for a while yet

as for the mirrors edge review from playing the demo and from reading the text seems like an ocd sufferers wet dream

[Brad]

Different people will always have different views on games. We're just discussing it! I personally don't like Edge anymore as I often disagree with their reviews so their reviews have no value to me. Are GamesTM any better these days? I used to subscribe to them both and remember fondly the month that GamesTM gave Boiling Point a 9/10 and Edge gave it a 2/10.

EDIT: I thought the online in R2 was fantastic!

[rmoxon]

call of duty world at war isn't even as good as cod4 so no suprises there i imagine it will go the way of cod3 hopefully and the nice cod4 community will stick around for a while yet

Well all the other reviews for the game, and the reaction on here, makes it sound alot better than that to me.

Just becuase its not as good as what alot of people thought was the game of the year when released dosent mean its not a good game either really does it?

I also dont give a crap about online play really.

[Asura]

Endwar is terrible

It has a brilliant online structure, like Chrome Hounds - it's just a shame this idea isn't used in more games.

[Dazzyman]

Was in both betas (closed and open) it was as clunky as hell, online is fine but the single player experience is well lacking. I loved the voice recog but its definetly not better than Fallout or CODWAW

[Lebowski]

I also dont give a crap about online play really.

never understood that as the single player bit of cod is usually over in ten hours tops for me and is a nice little bonus to the main event that is the online play.

[rmoxon]

never understood that as the single player bit of cod is usually over in ten hours tops for me and is a nice little bonus to the main event that is the online play.

I usualy finish COD games twice, which is 20 hours at least, and thats more than most games get, so i'm not sure why you dont get that.

Also having now played the game I can safley say its worth more than a 6 for the flamethrower alone, never mind the fact that the rest of the game has such brilliant set peices and is constantly so brutal and intense. Its a great game and i still dont care about the multiplayer.

[Dragon2k4]

Need for speed undercover a 3? lol oh dear i was really looking forward to that - i missed Most Wanted antics - hmmm, i guess i best wait for more reviews'n check out the demo wen it arrives...

[ezee ryder]

Love to be the controversial, the boys at EDGE. Suprise they didn't give Gears of War 2 a 7

[rmoxon]

Love to be the controversial, the boys at EDGE. Suprise they didn't give Gears of War 2 a 7

I suppose its hard for even Edge to give a nearly perfect game anything below what it deserves.

Still not getting that call of duty score though.