[QUOTE="Promised_Trini"]Well thats a review I stopped listening to reviewers a long time ago.
rubedisky
you mean totally don't agree with this rev.?No, that's not what the poster said, it's more about making up your own mind. The problem facing lots of games today is that we as a community have given the power of life & death to reviews, and if a review lauds a game it's future is assured, but if the thumb turns down that game will rot a quick corpse on shelves, and that's sort of wrong.
Wrong, because gaming is open to interpretation like art... and what one player sees another may not. If you read that IGN review, what is said is honest perception. There's nothing wildly off the mark, but the way it's worded would really sour me on the game before I had played it, if I weren't a fifteen year fan of the series. I had a similar situation with my love of "Tiger Woods Golf", and "NASCAR" games over the years. Every year the games would get reviewed, and every year I would hear about how Tiger was too hard (frustrating putting, etc), and how "NASCAR" was too boring. Every year I would buy the games against review. And every year I would find cool changes and further polish to Tiger as well as new courses, and most years I would dig the changes to the "NASCAR" franchise (though EA Sports could sometimes throw a wrench in the works, so to speak). Often, the reviewer would even say (especially in a NASCAR game) that they weren't fans of the actual sport or some-such qualifier as to why they made their hillbilly jokes and "Drive Fast, Turn Left" apraisals of how boring stock car racing was to them instead of reviewing the GAME. So, when those games came out I stopped reading reviews for them.
After awhile, I just started doig that for games of ALL genres I was interested in. And I found that I played more games and was more happy because of it. There's nothing wrong with reviews up to a point, technically, (if a game is broken, it's broken and there-for unplayable) but when it comes to interpretation of the material presented, they should filter what they say. Games can hold a lot of little things for each different gamer and you never know, the reviewer might be going through a divorce when he wrote that review of "Lara Croft" and he wants ALL women dead & buried...
That's sort of why I put my post up, about the game being a lot of what ardent fans want - More missions with the same polish "Ace Combat X" had. If you're a big fan of the series, this game is going to please you. You can turn off the bad voice acting. You can turn off the bad music. You can turn the controls to 'Expert' because you know how to fly these birds, the control settings where you want them, and the difficulty up to 'Hard'... the plot? Knock their planes out of the sky. There are things the reviewer may not be tweaking to make the game the best it can be for their play-through, because at the heart of it they just don't care deeply enough about hte game or it's genre to be in a position to pass judgement. Keep it in mind when reading anyone's assessment...
Even mine!
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The graphics are excellent for the platform, and together with the gameplay it's a continuing showcase for what can be accomplished on the system. Is the voice acting embarrassing? Yes it is. But you can turn that down (or off). If flying jets is fun for you and it passes the time waiting for the commuter bus - Or better-yet, REMOVES you mentally from having to ride that bus - Then you'll dig "Joint Assault".
Cheers, all!
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