Shadow Fall reviews are unfair

look at this junk

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/reviews/egm-review-killzone-shadow-fall/

Not one mention of multiplayer. Like most of the reviews, THEY ONLY PLAYED SINGLE PLAYER.

Shadow Fall is a great multiplayer game that will soon get clan support.

I agree. The MP is excellent, if not bare bones. They need to get better friends list and clan support in pronto.

I agree that this game's SP is around a 7.5. But the MP is an 8.5 easily. Maps are generally well designed, gunplay feels right, visuals are stunning.

Oh **** off, what do you expect when you follow COD.

Unfortunately was out of stock when I went to buy it. Hoping its back in soon!

Obviously it got rated down on its weak singleplayer. deal with it

Reviews don't bother me. I'm enjoying the game a lot. I even like the SP, how open and massive it feels. The MP is great thus far too. I am looking forward to coop as well.

Reviews are just 1 persons opinions, play the game and decide for yourself.

It was rated down because most reviewers didn't take the time to spend any meaingful time with the multi-player. You can see it in the reviews, where often very little is even written about the MP.

Imagine if the CoD Ghosts reviews largely didn't write much about the Multiplayer. You'd be like, "wtf! I didn't buy CoD for the fuckn story!" Well, we didn't buy Killzone for the story. Yet very little attention has been given to the MP. Maybe 2 or 3 reviews total went in-dept about the MP experience. That's a shame because that's what should be deciding most purchases of this game.

74 metacritic deal with it and I was watching my friend play the MP last night it honestly doesn't look anything special maybe some quick fun but that's about it.

once again, boo fricking hoo. deal with it

When you have games like Team Fortress 2 that cost $0. Not much point in dropping $800 for a PS4 with what is essentially, a tech demo.

I actually enjoyed the single player. Not perfect, but still a more valiant effort than CoD: Ghosts. I can't seem to figure out how it scored lower than Ghosts.

This. Team Fortress 2's art style is timeless.

That was...

...on right, System Wars. No intelligent discussion allowed. Everyone is a fanboy here.

look if you like the game, then what the hell do you care about reviews. I really liked Alpha Protocol, but according to reviews it just kind of an average "meh" RPG. Didn't mean i enjoyed it any less

@Heil68: This man speaks the truth. I never understood why people got hung up over reviews.

@PonchoTaco: I LOL'd. Game has a good score. Just like DR3. If you cant like a game that is 7/10 then you got problems imo.

Because it's the only way to have some form or organized conversation here. If everything purely came down to everyone's individual opinion, how could have have "ownage" and salty feelings?

What would fanboys do to quench their constant need to justify their choice in console if they could only afford to pick one?

Meh. Who gives a shit? It's Killzone. It's not like it was ever anything special to begin with.

you do realize that this place EXISTS on passing ones own personal opinion off as fact right? :P

Excellent point.

Sometimes I still expect rational conversation to take place. Sometimes it happens. Other times I just wonder why people wasted their life time to type something not worth reading.

The insatiable need of fanboys to make themselves feel better about what they do or don't have never ceases to amaze me.

It doesn't need to be special; it just needs to be solid. Its multiplayer is solid. Hence the conversation.

It's def not a 7 or anything lower lol. I'd put R: FOM at 7, this offers lots more content and re playability and excellent MP.

But alas, idc about reviews. This is one of those cases where sales vindicate the game and gamers just enjoy it

It is the best KZ in the series.

A 74 is a solid score, especially when 7 universally translates into "good" on the review scale. If the game is just solid, it shouldn't be getting 8s aka "great."

lol at crying over review scores.

Xcom: Enemy Within is a game more worthy of gamers attention.

Cows......the biggest whiners in SWs.

I couldn't agree more... to think about how much time is spent wasted on validating personal feelings is astounding.

Most of us who've actually played the game agree that the SP is around a 74, and that most of the reviews only spent time with the SP. Thus, that 74 is reflective of where the SP is. "Good" but certainly not great.

However, the MP is substantially better than the SP, but the game score is not lifted by it in most reviews because most reviewers didn't wait until they could play the MP before giving it a review. This is the point of contention. Scores should reflect the MP and SP in a game like this, as it does for other FPS games.

Again, imagine if CoD's scoring was only done based on it's hot garbage SP story. Imaigne if BF4's was. All CoD and BF games would be 70-something titles. If that were happening, people would feel those reviews were short-sighted and they'd be right: you're not buying those games for their compelling story. You're buying them to play their MP daily for the next 3 or 6 months. The same is true of Killzone, so the importance of spending time with MP in reviewing the game is just as high. So when you read a review that only offers a couple of sentences about the MP, it's hard to use said review as an indicator of how much or little you'll enjoy the game because the review doesn't reflect how you'll be spending 90% of your time for the next several months with the title.

This is the point of contention in this discussion.

If your only goal is to play CoD, BF or Killzone for their SP stories, you'll find them all to be in the 7-range. However, the MP in all 3 deliver. All 3 feel different enough to not feel like you're buying the same game 3 times...and all 3 are 8+ MP experiences.

Dude dont leave SW again, you're one of 5 people with a working brain here lol.

WTF 'special" ?? LOL CoD isnt special..

Yeah man, why can't they just give your generic 5 hour long auto-aim shooter a 10.0 it deserves.

Stop letting reviews anally frustrate you. It was played at review events. Reviewers were given the best the game had to show them at a closed-doors event, and it still came out as mediocre.

If you enjoy the game, move on with your life. Reviews are just a stupid game on system wars.

we can at least agree on Alpha i liked it too, TC if you enjoy something thats all that should matter.just like pc gaming who cares if its ubernerdy as long as you like it

@Dreams-Visions: @Douevenlift_bro: Agreed Douvenlift... No one should leave system wars... shits just getting started... Ive had some really great conversations with people on here over the past few week... like actual disagreements, but with respect and humility. You know trolls are gonna troll, but after a while the good always rises to the top.

Yeah I think more reviews will be coming in this week because some wanted to hold off and play the multiplayer. It's truly the best in the series. The classes are more diverse since they collapsed them into 3. The maps are some of the best I have played in FPS. I keep finding different little passage ways that sometimes you have to crouch to get into. It's going to take a while to figure them all out. Graphics are outstanding. If this is what a launch title looks like, I can't wait to see what some of the titles look like in year 2 and 3.

IGN gave it a rather odd score though, and they had played multiplayer in a beta I guess. They talked about how its the best core title in the Killzone series, then gave it an 8.0. KZ2 got a 9.4 and KZ3 got an 8.5 on IGN haha. My first reaction was, "Great...was it a rushed game or what?" I watched the review to find out why they scored it low, then all he did was rave about most of the game haha.

If you think that the reviews are rushed, then blame Sony and their review event.

boo hoo, my average franchise that moonlights as the posterboy for mediocrity got called out for what it is.

I say boohoo with a double sniff .

What do you mean better friends list? Please don't tell me Halo 2 did clan support and friends lists better than Killzone SF....

Okay I won't tell you.

They do need Clan support in there to truly surpass KZ2 online. KZ2 clan support was some of the best of this past gen (I guess we are officially into next gen).

Yes the world is out to get Sony and Playstation. Stop whining over review scores. You like the game power to you. Play the game and stop caring about reviews

Ya borezone deserve a 5 at best.

Honestly I loved the career. The multiplayer is fun too, but if I wanna play a competitve FPS I play Battlefield. I just love that shiz.

TC's right, it should of got a 6

Is BF4 Conquest working yet? Because it's been broken and bugged since launch. Not to mention the filesave corruption issue.

The multiplayer is arguably the best in the series. Playing for an hour or two at a Sony event doesn't provide enough exposure to digest what's available. Adam Sessler played for two hours for example. I'm quite certain many of the reviews you see had the single player opinions in mind. It's as if the multiplayer portion was relegated to, "yeah, it's there, but so what."

The campaign isn't phenomenal though they do a good job of breaking things up. The story? So the **** what, lol. The AI and hit response system isn't as good as Killzone 2, so that is a big let down. The single player deserves most of the scrutiny it has received. I'm just really scratching my head about the lack of attention or respect the amazing multiplayer has gotten.

This is the one game that makes me sad I don't own a ps4 yet. everything about it looks ace.

I LOL'd