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...By publicly insulting reviewers who dared not to give it a high enough score for his tastes.
[quote="Joystiq"]Speaking to Develop, Rebellion CEO Jason Kingsley made it clear that his company is delighted with the success of Aliens vs Predator. The game recently landed in the number one sales position in the UK -- reason enough to be pleased, no doubt -- but Kingsley is also pleased with AvP's critical reception. "We wanted Aliens Versus Predator to be a critical success as well as a commercial success," said Kingsley, "which we think we have achieved."
Kingsley's words might seem a little puzzling to anyone that's glanced at AvP's Metacritic average. Even the PC version, which has the highest average score, only manages a "mixed or average reviews" rating of 73. However, Kingsley noted that the game has received "three totally **** reviews by some Americans, which is a bit odd," adding that some of the reviews were "inexcusably bad." Said Kingsley, "If you discount those poor reviews AvP is averaging high for us."kejigoto
It's unclear which 3 reviews he's referring to, but one might infer that Jeff Gerstmann and/or Kevin Van Ord's reviews were the subject of his criticisms, especially because low scores from well-known sites would be more likely to be on his radar than GameRevolution or whatever.
Regardless of what you think of AvP, you have to admit his attitude is childish. Even if the reviews are poorly written, this is still the least cIassy way to deal with that.
In the guy's defense the Gamespot review wasn't that great and often knocked the game for things that didn't make sense. I really question if Kevin Ord has played any of the previous AVP games or really seen the Alien or Predator movies.
For instance he knocks the game for when the Predator talks and someone comes over as if they were called by their friend. In the movies the Predator records people's voices and plays them back to others to either confuse people or lure them somewhere. So it makes perfect sense as to why he is doing that. As for why it sounds so bad, you are hearing things from the Predator's prespective, which is garbled and messed up. Any fan of the series would recognize this instantly and wouldn't complain about it.
He also complains about the enemy AI, which some of it seemed legit, but other stuff like people cowering in corners and such, well that seems abit off key. Can you honestly say that no one would freak out seeing one of these things and just run to the nearest corner and cower like child? Its been in the game series since the beginning so why would it change now? Even in the movies people do it! Why complain about it?
Then he complains about how the Alien controls, which is the same as the past games. You just go really fast and it almost feels as if you are floating. Then right after making that complaint he turns around and says that "AVP makes you wish you were playing the other games in the series." Um... ok, the control is pretty much the same as it has been... So why is it ok then but not ok now?
Other things that he complained about weren't showcased at all in the video review despite apparently being a major issue (such as the Predator jumping around).
The review came off as very nit picky to most and though he gave the game alot of praise, he ended up giving it a 5.5 which seems incredibly low. Everyone I know who has got the game loves it. This game is totally geared toward the original fans and it delivers on that feel. It just doesn't seem that with all the praise the game was given and some of the ridiculous points he complained about that a 5.5 was a fair score.
yea that seems really silly on his part. Iv played both avp1&2 and this game and the alien controls the same in each one. Also the "supspend disbelief" comment he made makes no sense. If he would know about the predator he would the facts.
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