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Well... i think the score speaks for itself really... i really feel for John Walker who reviewed this, the poor poor man.

3%

Anyone got the game in the hope that it would be good? Has society changed in attitude towards this sort of humour?
 
wow. tht must be the lowest score i;ve seen them give
 
Maybe it wasn't a good game, but it deserves more than 3% (yes, i've played it).

Its not Big Rigs.
 
Tinneth said:
No game deserves 3%..

trust me, it does. ive read the review... this is just a game full of offensive mini games. you have to get a girl drunk, then domplete a wacky mini game, then have sex in the most bizarre way. for instance one girl will only sleep with you if you have a tree costume on. its terrible. the mini games arent even responsive, apparantly they are dire.

and about the offensive bit... there are only two black people in the game, one of them is a pimp, and the other is mentaqlly disabled. plus every single bloody woman (which is most of the cast) is so dumb you could shoot her in the foot and she wouldnt notice. you even have to trick a girl into having sex with a dildo strapped to a toy!!! thats not funny, thats sick! how do the developers find this funny?

and y'know whats the worst thing? thef fact that laods and loads of people have pre ordered it allready. not that they'll like it.. even if you can stand the gameplay, from all the screens i have seen, the graphics are worst than most budget games. yay! 03% sounds about right.
 
Suicide42 said:
trust me, it does. ive read the review... this is just a game full of offensive mini games. you have to get a girl drunk, then domplete a wacky mini game, then have sex in the most bizarre way. for instance one girl will only sleep with you if you have a tree costume on. its terrible. the mini games arent even responsive, apparantly they are dire.

and about the offensive bit... there are only two black people in the game, one of them is a pimp, and the other is mentaqlly disabled. plus every single bloody woman (which is most of the cast) is so dumb you could shoot her in the foot and she wouldnt notice. you even have to trick a girl into having sex with a dildo strapped to a toy!!! thats not funny, thats sick! how do the developers find this funny?

and y'know whats the worst thing? thef fact that laods and loads of people have pre ordered it allready. not that they'll like it.. even if you can stand the gameplay, from all the screens i have seen, the graphics are worst than most budget games. yay! 03% sounds about right.



Read the review here too.


/me nods in agreement.




Stupid stupid people....
 
it didn't get a 3 percent, I have pc gamer in my lap it got a 39%... In PC Gamer U.S. anyways, reviewed by "D.J. STAPLETON"
 
Sh4mp00 said:
it didn't get a 3 percent, I have pc gamer in my lap it got a 39%... In PC Gamer U.S. anyways, reviewed by "D.J. STAPLETON"



This is PC GAMER UK


Obviously a much higher class of publication :p

j/k!



EDIT: Beaten.... considerably beaten...
 
wow didnt thoug that games was like that

I see it and I now that you hav to get a girl drunk but didnt know it was so dirty
 
This is a shock to me, the game has been hyped up like made and some games get hyped and flop in the reviews, like Viet Cong amongst others... but 3%... one hell of a shock for people who have preordered, it bieng part of such a fine series of games and all.
 
Suicide42 said:
trust me, it does. ive read the review...
Have you played it?

If no, then how can you say it deserves a certain rating without judging for yourself?

I'm not trying to say its a good game, just that it deserves more than 3%.
 
Lmfao! Feel bad for the people who made the game.
 
Raziel-Jcd said:
Lmfao! Feel bad for the people who made the game.
From what the review says, it seems they are all 11 year old children... the ones that made up the jokes anyway, and the stereotypes...
 
I still dont think any game should deserve 3%. I mean look at the graphics. They arent that good but the graphics alone should take it above 3%. If you know what I mean.
 
Tinneth said:
I still dont think any game should deserve 3%. I mean look at the graphics. They arent that good but the graphics alone should take it above 3%. If you know what I mean.
I dont know... it doesnt seem like there is much of a *game* there to play with, so as a game it'd get 3%, i doubt the graphics are so good you'd sit arond staring and forget that it's really crap gameplay (ala doom3 maybe).
 
nicrd said:
Have you played it?

If no, then how can you say it deserves a certain rating without judging for yourself?

I'm not trying to say its a good game, just that it deserves more than 3%.

normally i would completely agree, but when a game is sexually offensive, racist, sexist, bizarre, not funny AND has no gameplay elements whatsoever, i dont need to play it. i mean what could possibly make me change my mind when i play the game? even if the gameplay was excellent, i wouldnt like a game that makes you dress up in a tree costume i order to have sex with a stupid hippie.
 
Heh, review scores this low will probably help sales...people will buy it just to see how bad it really is :p
 
John Walker is excellent at bashing terrible games with brillaint wit. Guy doesn't get paid enough.
 
/me remembers review for 'Heist' which got 7%, but only because it came packaged with anti-virus software.
 
John Walker...

the same John Walker that made the game? The A.I. Programmer for High Voltage?

if so, thats really sad...I know the guy, and he loved the Leisure Suit Larry series..

he has one of the best quotes EVER:
"There aren't very messages that tell you much in the form of error dialogs, etc. Usually it's more like the game execution is hosed and we're trying to give a hint to the user why it crashed (after the fact). Although I do throw a dialog if the video card looks too weak, but you can just hit a button to go on. I don't trust my video card test.

Example: The Atlas cross-platform engine we use for all our in-house games at HVS doesn't handle random D3D device loss during the middle of a rendering loop (it was written initially for consoles and consoles don't do that). So if, for example, you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and it interrrupts the game in the middle of a draw (which is usually what it's doing) Windows yanks the D3D device, the game code freaks out and boom, you're sitting there on your desktop wondering what happened.

Bug: Game crashes on CTRL-ALT-DEL.
Fix: Don't do that.

-- john"

Actually, come to think of it, I think he was a little upset at the development of LSL:MCL....makes sence...
 
Im sorry to say but, PC gamer US is a bad publication but I have a subscription LOL. For instance...it gave san andreas a 100% and 98% to HL2....,YARG lol. Also they test the games on the worst settings possible......so its very unapetizing to say the least.
 
For instance...it gave san andreas a 100%
Umm... I believe 98% was the highest it ever gave..

Also they test the games on the worst settings possible......
How would you know what they tested the settings on?


We arn't talking about Pc Gamer US.
 
MarcoPollo said:
For instance...it gave san andreas a 100% and 98% to HL2....,YARG lol.
San Andreas isn't even out for the PC. And what posessed you to resurrect a 5 month old thread? :rolling:
 
oldagerocker said:
This is a shock to me, the game has been hyped up like made and some games get hyped and flop in the reviews, like Viet Cong amongst others... but 3%... one hell of a shock for people who have preordered, it bieng part of such a fine series of games and all.

Even if you pre-order something, the stores where I'm from, if you change your mind before opening the game, they will give you full credit.
 
did i say san andreas....well im to lazy to edit i meant...something else that wasnt as good...i forgot...oh well.
I SUCCESFULLY RESURECTED A THREAD. Im like someone that resurects people.
 
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