Gamespot review predictions

[Kazuki_Fuse]

Gamepsot overate so much it's not funny. I find that Gamespy on the other hand underate, so the get a real idea of how good the game is I calculate the mean for both two ratings.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

Sorry 'bout the double post. I forgot to include my prediction.

98% PC Gamer.
5 out 5 Gamespy.
96 Gamespot.

 

[evil^milk]

When will we know the actual score?

 

[torso boy]

it will be first game since THPS3 to get a 10...that i know of

but since they gave far cry above a 6, they are obviously on drugs now....

 

[DarkStar]

I Predict...................................9.2.

 

[Johnny]

It better get a 9.0+ score for how long it has taken to make. Blah I think my hl2 ticket is starting to go rusty in me closet... If the game has everything they say it has in it and more, there shouldn't be much to worry about should there? I realy do not care what some random site gives it just as long as I like it. I dont think any low score is going to stop me from getting it or playing it.

I sorta liked farcry, but then again i was only playing the demo. I still dont even know what the story line is for that(all i know is somthing about some monster) I just liked to play around with the scenery and blow up stuff all pretty. I like to have a story too but I realy dont see it making a game.

 

[disruptioN_]

HL2 better get a higher score than Far Cry. That game had no story and gameplay was decent at most...I got too bored to finish it.

 

[noluck]

doesnt effect me at all.. those are meant for people who are deciding to buy a game.. apart from that.. its one's personal taste which effects the score.. i remember them voting some star-wars game "best game of 2003" which frankly i didnt like at all.

for those here who feel hl2 is the best, source is the best.. and upcoming mods seem to be really original.. good.. frankly what ANY gaming review site rates.. shouldnt effect how much you would want to play the game

how much? .. dunno.. cant remember how much they rate

 

[lans]

I Predict...................................9.2.

That would suck in Gamespot's part.I mean how can they give the same score to game which has a MUCH better storyline, even without seeing the actual game - you can make that out - HL2's story seems more intresting than far cry's cliche ridden tale. If they degrade it just because it doesn't have "plastic graphics", then gamespot doesn't know what they're talking about...

The problem people have is that Valve said that they were deliberately keeping the new weapons under wraps, and yet the previewers for some reason complained that there didn't seem to be any new weapons in the game. Either they were being sort of stupid, or they were just searching around for something to complain about.

I felt that too.While we aren't sure of this, I really hope valve has more than one new weapons - otherwise it would be slightly dull to play with old weapons + their sounds. Which leads to another point - gamespot was deliberately trying to find negative points about hl2.

To others: Sorry if I sound as anti-gamespot, but I really am very dissapointed in their reporting/reviewing skills in the past 6 months. They have seriuosly underated some very good games (namely FSW) and overated some on the other hand (namely Far cry).

 

[KagePrototype]

Well, if they give it a bad review, then it might not get as good of sales. Thats, really, the only reason I can think of. If they give it a bad review, it will turn people away from a game that they might love. But, like you said, it doesnt matter. Because, in the end, we're gonna love it :cheers: cheers

But how do sales affect you? Besides, people will buy it if it got bad reviews or not. It's Half-Life 2 for god's sakes.

 

[Apos]

I really hope valve has more than one new weapons - otherwise it would be slightly dull to play with old weapons + their sounds.

Given how wacko some of the new ideas of theirs are that we've seen, like the IR rifle's crazy secondary fire (the bouncing ball of evaporation death) or the manipulator or all the crazy new enemy behaviors, I'm pretty sure they'll deliver a lot of cool new stuff. The one great thing about Valve is that they are creative: they think up neat new gameplay types and events, instead of rehashing old experiences. I do, however, think that by and large a lot of the basic arsenal will be from HL1 will be returning though. Somewhat different model guns in most cases, but they'd probably alienate their audience if they didn't include the standard pistol/high powered pistol/shotgun/machine gun/rifle/sniper/rocket launcher weapon options. Even there, though, I think their new polish and physics will help them seem newer. The rocket launcher in particular looks awesome: I love the way the rockets jerk around instead of following a slow, lazy path to the targeting dot. Almost like they are firing afterburners to change direction suddenly. Such a cool effect....

 

[lans]

Given how wacko some of the new ideas of theirs are that we've seen, like the IR rifle's crazy secondary fire (the bouncing ball of evaporation death) or the manipulator or all the crazy new enemy behaviors, I'm pretty sure they'll deliver a lot of cool new stuff. The one great thing about Valve is that they are creative: they think up neat new gameplay types and events, instead of rehashing old experiences. I do, however, think that by and large a lot of the basic arsenal will be from HL1 will be returning though. Somewhat different model guns in most cases, but they'd probably alienate their audience if they didn't include the standard pistol/high powered pistol/shotgun/machine gun/rifle/sniper/rocket launcher weapon options. Even there, though, I think their new polish and physics will help them seem newer. The rocket launcher in particular looks awesome: I love the way the rockets jerk around instead of following a slow, lazy path to the targeting dot. Almost like they are firing afterburners to change direction suddenly. Such a cool effect....

There is no denying the fact that valve is creative, yet since they are opening so many possibilites with the manipulator gun alone I was thinking that they might not create newer weapons. I like the new rocket launcher too - for one thing it actually looks like the real thing but more over it's clever steering mechanism as you have mentioned is very good. However, we have hardly seen anything of the game yet - so I expect more weapons to be unleashed later on, hopefully.

 

[Apos]

I just hope the Hivehand doesn't return. Not that it wasn't a cool weapon to have yourself, but having it used against you was irritating as all heck!

 

[Warbie]

what is good or bad, it's all relative...you can't say far cry is a bad game without actucally having a better game to compare it with. So if u say far cry is bad, name any game that u can buy in the market that is better than far cry and explain why it's better than far cry ( like graphics, story, gameplay, etc). If you ain't able to name a game and explain well, you really suck for calling far cry a bad game and what u say is just full of shit.

Far Cry does have great gfx, and some levels are excellent \o/ Unfortunately some are very poor . So, to sum up - some great bits, some average, others crap - not a bad game, but not a great one either.

Golden Eye/Perfect Dark, Half Life, Metroid Prime and SS2 still piss all over Far Cry from a great height. Which is a shame, had Far Cry remained as consistently good as it was in the first levels, throughtout the game, this wouldn't be the case.

(the first few hours I played FC were amazing. The choices available, the visuals, the vehicles! Then it slowly started to go wrong. Suddenly there weren't many ways to tackle a situation. I'd ventured into a cliche, generic monsters of the worst type stumbling aroung and ruining what was, at its height, the first game to show me that emergent gameplay wasn't just a buzzword)

 

[lans]

Hey guys read this:

http://www.gamespot.com/gamespot/features/all/e3_2003/bestof/31.html

...and concentrate on this:

It's not that there weren't plenty of great-looking games at E3, because there certainly were. It's just that none really compared to Half-Life 2. It's like we were looking at a game from two or three E3s into the future, rather than something comparable to the already high current standards of gaming quality.

Some games show amazingly well at E3. Over the years, games like Freelancer and Star Wars Galaxies have wowed us at the show, and then proceeded to wow us less with each passing year, as they're delayed time and time again. The thing is, by all accounts, Half-Life 2 isn't going to be at another E3. Valve steadfastly maintains that the game will be released in the fall of this year.

That's one big reason why gamespot isn't favouring HL2 anymore.

 

[riTuaL]

I think they're not gonna be a******* when it comes to reviewing and scoring it. I mean, as much as they don't like Valve they can't deny that it's going to be a great game, possibly another classic.

 

[Subz]

im guessint 9.1 for PC

9.4 for console

(they usually rate FPS on console higher because PC has higher standars for FPS. If standards are higher for FPS,..more games get lower scores. you following me?)

 

[Zerox]

Im guesssing HL2 gets an rating of 9.8

 

[Sprafa]

I say between 9.9 and 10.0

Any less and I stop visiting them.

 

[lans]

Im guesssing HL2 gets an rating of 9.8

No other FPS other than the legendary Goldeneye has gotten such a high score at gamespot, being a FPS.

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/goldeneye007/index.html?q=goldeneye

Wait, Perfect Dark got 9.9 - the highest score awarded to a FPS on console.

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/perfectdark/index.html?q=perfect+dark

The highest score received by a PC FPS at gamespot is probably Half-life, and probably the highest score given ever to a PC game is that. (9.4)

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/halflife/index.html?q=half-life

Although, UT2k4 also got 9.4 this year so half-life's record has been broken.Sad fact, but I really think that giving UT2k4 a 10 in graphics is overating a bit.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/ut2004/index.html?q=unreal

 

[A True Canadian]

I'll just post what I predicted in the other thread from last year:

GAMEPLAY - 10
GRAPHICS - 10
SOUND - 10
VALUE - 10
TILT - 10

According to Gamespot:

10.0: "Perfect"
This exceedingly rare score refers to a game that is as perfect as a game can ever aspire to be. A game that receives this rating could not reasonably be improved upon in any meaningful way.


It's quite possible that Half-Life 2 could end up like this.

Just look at some other high-rated games (I know these are only two, and for the old N64, but it goes to show that it could happen).

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/...ark/review.html

http://www.gamespot.com/n64/action/perfectdark/review.html

EDIT: Ignore the links as they are the same as in Ians post

 

[lans]

EDIT: Ignore the links as they are the same as in Ians post

I prefer being called Lans , but I suppose that was a typo.

Umm, I really don't think Gamespot will give 10 in graphics to hl2, now I know I'm merely speculating but they didn't seem to comment on HL2's visual eye-candy in any preview this year as being great any longer - infact they said the charm factor has totally gone compared - to you won't believe what they are comparing hl2 with - UT2k4...

 

[A True Canadian]

Why not give Half-Life 2 a 10? The whole facial animation thing is revolutionary, and I still feel that this is Half-Life 2's strongest feature. I've said this before, but the facial animations are better than the in-game movies of recent games. Only a few come close.

And sorry about the name lans, that was a typo.

 

[lans]

Why not give Half-Life 2 a 10? The whole facial animation thing is revolutionary, and I still feel that this is Half_life 2's strongest feature. I've said this before, but the facial animations are better than the in-game movies of recent games. Only a few come close.

And sorry about the name lans, that was a typo.

Heck, I'd give HL2 11/10 in graphics - because IMO the still make me piss in my pants. But it's a matter of opinion, some may think it looks slightly dated. In gamespot's case they are literally comparing it with a very graphically weak game in this particular context - I mean UT2k4 doesn't even look half as good as HL2 even at ungodly resolutions. But I suppose they should give some boost points for the facial expressions - if they like Chronicles of riddick's expressions, then they HAVE to LOVE hl2s' - yes it's that big of a difference.

 

[A True Canadian]

Heck, I'd give HL2 11/10 in graphics - because IMO the still make me piss in my pants. But it's a matter of opinion, some may think it looks slightly dated. In gamespot's case they are literally comparing it with a very graphically weak game in this particular context - I mean UT2k4 doesn't even look half as good as HL2 even at ungodly resolutions. But I suppose they should give some boost points for the facial expressions - if they like Chronicles of riddick's expressions, then they HAVE to LOVE hl2s' - yes it's that big of a difference.

I see what you mean. I've just been quickly perusing throough their highest rated section and the only game to get a 10 in graphics was Freedom Fighters 2.

FREEDOM FIGHTERS REVIEW

EDIT: ESPN NFL FOOTBALL

Granted these are not First Person Shooters, but they've been bragging about how good The Chronicles of Riddick looks, and IMO that pales in comparison.

 

[lans]

I see what you mean. I've just been quickly perusing throough their highest rated section and the only game to get a 10 in graphics was Freedom Fighters 2.

FREEDOM FIGHTERS REVIEW

umm, freedom fighters 2?

and the link that you have given is of FF1, which has gotten 9/10.Very nice low poly models BTW.

Edit: seeing that as you have edited a bit. New games like halo2, chronicles of riddick, doom 3 and far cry use what is known as normal mapping. That means low res models but high quality textures and good lighting which makes them look more CGI quality. This technique sorta debuted in this year's far cry so the games of 2004 are far above in comparison to those which released last year. Gamespot, or any gamesite for that matter rates on "what is available in the market", in terms of graphic,sound,e.t.c. So yesterday's awesome graphics are today's mediocre graphics.

 

[A True Canadian]

Ooops I was getting ahead of myself, I meant the first one. I also just noticed that Far Cry got a 9 for graphics. I'm starting to think that you may be right.

 

[lans]

Ooops I was getting ahead of myself, I meant the first one. I also just noticed that Far Cry got a 9 for graphics. I'm starting to think that you may be right.

Read my edited post.

BTW - far cry got 10.

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/farcry/review.html

 

[TMPer Tantrum]

I think Gamespot will probably be highly critical of HL2, especially after the Sep 30, 2003 fiasco, and may downgrade the score out of spite. Something along the lines of

'If HL2 had made its original release date this would have been an easy 9.8. However the years delay has made it look a bit dated [insert Farcry comparisons, etc] and so we are only giving it 8.9'.

 

[lans]

'If HL2 had made its original release date this would have been an easy 9.8. However the years delay has made it look a bit dated [insert Farcry comparisons, etc] and so we are only giving it 8.9'.

That's EXACTLY what I had in mind, 8.9. You have mind powers TMPer?

 

[TMPer Tantrum]

That's EXACTLY what I had in mind, 8.9. You have mind powers TMPer?

Heh, yes. When I close my eyes I see naked women.

Or did until I read the BoothGabe thread and Now I am afraid to close my eyes.

I haven't slept in a week.

 

[Sai]

i cannot beleive the blind biasedness that people have for gamespot, they keep acting like it's the only company that gave far cry a high score, people lable gamespot as having a negative view on games for their not as high scores, people don't realise that just b/c gamespot doesn't throw away the 9/10 score they don't have pre-judged opinions, if a game that i have been looking forward to gets an 8 from gamespot that will not at all stop me from getting the game, since when was an 8/10 a low score????????

i think all this bashing is coming from the less then stellar impressions of the game pre e3, but they obviously got less of a build then other companies and they didn't really have a negative outlook on the game in general, they simply stated that they do not have enough to judget the game over

 

[Tork]

9.5/9.6......