Ok I bought this game a few days ago. And for all those who read the IGN review like sheeple and took their word for it. Then this is for you. The IGN review is the most inacurate review I've ever read about a game. And btw. There are a lot of good reviews for this game.
So I'll quote the IGN review and then dispute it.
IGN: "Starting with a fairly robust character-creation mode, the game immediately follows into a series of unintentionally-hilarious video tutorials hosted by none other than 'Machete himself', actor Danny Trejo"
Now what is strange here, is that Danny Trejo IS holding two playstation Move controllers in his hand. I honestly think this introduction is tongue in cheek more than anything and totally lost on this aussie guy reviewer.
IGN: "After undertaking a laborious calibration process (which happens before every single fight)"
The laborious calibration process that IGN talks about here is really just something that takes 3 seconds. Seriously. You just put your arms out, and then under your chin. How laborious is that?
IGN: "You'd think that blocking would be as simple as holding your dukes up towards your face, but many times we would lose calibration and would have to hold the O button on the PS Move to calibrate the fighter in the right direction again."
Now. I really don't know what this guy is talking about here. The blocking is really as simply as holding your fists up. However maybe this guy has never been in a street fight and realize that you have to hold your hands higher than a boxer. Simply because you have no gloves. And I have no idea why this guy was losing calibration. This has not happened to me.
IGN: "This can feel extremely unnatural and it'll take some time to get used to pressing it before you think about throwing your hands up."
This guy must be seriously retarded.
IGN: "Throwing punches seems like something that'd work quite naturally with the PS Move controller. Unfortunately, this isn't the case."
If you calibrate your controls properly. The game has VERY GOOD 1:1 tracking. When you rotate your wrists it even picks that up. When you hold the PS Move , you automatically make a fist. So why the hell doesn't this feel natural? He said unfortunately this isn't the case. But it is.
"No matter how hard and fast you throw your punches, your on-screen counterpart moves with the speed and precision of a blindfolded senior citizen trying to whack a piñata"
When you start the game you guy isn't weak or slow. But you need to train him up. Like I said before the game has 1:1 tracking. If you don't throw a fast and hard punch, then the game doesn't do that either. The reason his character was slow and weak was clearly down to him.
The Fight is trying to be a simulation, NOT an arcade game. You can't be lazy playing this game.
IGN: I kept finding that while some of the time my punches would hit their target, I'd also have a frustrating amount of my punches go way off the mark.
Again. This game has 1:1 tracking. This is soley down to the guy being physically inept.
IGN: It also doesn't help that even when your punches do connect, they are weak and ineffectual.
Again. Down to him. But you can train your character up to make him stronger, faster, etc etc Something this guy does not mention.
IGN: As the game requires you to stand in the same spot for the entirety of the fight, moving around at all will cause the camera to misplace you, making your punches even more inaccurate than they already are.
You have to be an idiot if you cannot stay in one spot and throw straights, jabs, uppercuts, crosses etc etc.
IGN: "Add to this the fact that most of opponents keep just walking backwards, or other ****c fighting tactics, such as constantly walking around you in a circle and you will be spending much of the fight not punching with one hand because you're holding your controller forward in an effort to catch up."
If you don't throw, your opponents come to you. But moving forward by pressing the move button and tilting it is not that hard at all.
IGN: "Unfortunately, despite being in a well-lit room, the game would tell us that our lighting condition was 'terrible'"
And there you have it folks. This guy was playing the game in terrible lighting conditions. Now I don't know how. I've played this game in all times of the day. In natural lighting and with the lights switched on. The lighting conditions were excellent at all times. Despite them varying.
Now if you DO play this game in terrible lighting conditions then your going to be pretty bad at the game. I don't have to explain why do I?
The IGN review is the most unproffesional inacurate review out there for a game. He doesn't even mention online or the training routines. It's obvious that this guy has played it for 20 minutes. Got his assed kicked, got tired, didn't know what he was doing and then made that crap review.
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