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[Sandpit]

http://www.gamespot....reviews/816249/

[Sybreed]

it's pretty much meta critic part deux

[Jin Ma]

i think people were making the reviews on gamespot way before the game launched

[Zphyr]

Yep, a fairly old review, even though it was posted today.

"The in-game tutorial is no more than a poorly implemented video" - tutorial part1 was implemented at 3rd of September. This review was written before that but after 3rd person, therefore somewhat outdated. While it does speak of relevant issues, I think s/he is being too harsh. The game is not "very hard" nor deserves a 2.

Edited by Zphyr, 22 September 2013 - 10:57 AM.

[MechFrog1]

Zphyr, on 22 September 2013 - 10:56 AM, said:

Yep, a fairly old review, even though it was posted today.

"The in-game tutorial is no more than a poorly implemented video" - tutorial part1 was implemented at 3rd of September. This review was written before that but after 3rd person, therefore somewhat outdated. While it does speak of relevant issues, I think s/he is being too harsh. The game is not "very hard" nor deserves a 2.

The game has not changed in any significant way since the 3rd.

[Roadbeer]

More than a few inaccuracies, if not just blatant exaggerations, and not just in spelling or grammar.

However, reviewer isn't entirely wrong.

[Rhent]

The reviewer is dead on for the rating.

Putting in Seismic changed how you ambush, you had to rush ahead at an ambush point and then stand still waiting for an unaware mech using seismic to rush ahead and give you a back shot. Now after 3PV was implemented, the unaware just run around in 3PV and can see around buildings and not get ambushed. Ambushing in the game was almost dead with seismic, now as a tactic it is dead except outside of tunnels or extremely high buildings that 3PV can't show.

Ghost heat itself is completely flawed and then to implement ghost heat and not describe it in ANY WAYS MEANS OR FORM in the weapon description is criminally negligent, coolant flush, lead game designer having no clue how to balance weapons leading to wild swings in weapon use and a poor tutorial alone is enough to warrant the review rating. Failing to deliver community warfare is itself a ding. I gave the game a 3 on metacritic. If ghost heat wouldn't have been implemented the game would have gotten a 5. If Seismic and 3PV weren't included the game would have gotten an 8 from me.

[Johnny Z]

This cross title trash talk is getting a little old.

[Zphyr]

mint frog, on 22 September 2013 - 01:51 PM, said:

The game has not changed in any significant way since the 3rd.

The game has not changed in any significant way since closed beta, actually.

But for a review posted today, s/he could at least update it a little bit. But then maybe s/he submitted it a month ago but only went online now though.

[Lord of All]

What? These were the complaints from a few months ago. they didn't get addressed before launch?

[Sephlock]

Was the original title of this thread "Gamespot Iser Reviews Are In" ?

[Corvus Antaka]

Why did you link to a bad review? Score was at 7.6 until a bunch of 0-2 scores in the same blatant " i hate this game and PGI and will try to troll it to death cause I'm a loser" trolls showed up.

Keep trolling. It's only just now getting lightly amusing.

Full review list is here.

http://www.gamespot....ws/platform/pc/