SW Magazine #68 - Luigi FLOPS gets a 6.5; Mass Effect, Journey, Sonic, and more!

March 25th, 2013 - Issue 68

Letter from the Editor:

Does intentionally going against what other people think count as being opinionated? Only if I don't like how you diss my games! This...is....SYSTEM WARS MAGAZINE!!!!

- Willy105, Totally Not Biased In Any Way

In this Issue:

PODCAST: Pedal to the Metal #3 - Sheep Invasion!

DFeaturing your hosts Heil68 and The Eroica, with drops of Jupiter and OreoMilshake. We talk about the Wii U and Nintendo rehashes!MP3 Download Link or Youtube version!

REPORT: Is Luigi's Mansion 2's Metacritic score inflated? 

Gamespot's Carolyn Petit definetaly thinks so. By Willy105

ARTICLE: Journey Was Special

Just how great was Journey? Better than your game. By NAPK1NS

ARTICLE: Looking Back at the Mass Effect Trilogy

Did this generation's premier sci-fi trilogy lived up to it's hype? By WiiCubeM1

REVIEW: Sonic Generations Unleashed Project

We review this official expansion pack for Sonic Genera....wait, it's a mod? By Willy105

ROUNDTABLE: PS4

What does SWM think about the PLAYSTATION 4 ®?

PEDAL TO THE METAL

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That Sonic Generations mod looks good.

That Sonic Generations mod looks good.

gameofthering

[QUOTE="gameofthering"]

That Sonic Generations mod looks good.

bbkkristian

luigi's flop was a tough to see. damage contol threads were made, and even the poll was deleted.

finally listened to the full podcast, great stuff lads. Tell you what, Char knows his s***!blue_hazy_basic

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]finally listened to the full podcast, great stuff lads. Tell you what, Char knows his s***!Heil68

[QUOTE="Heil68"][QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]finally listened to the full podcast, great stuff lads. Tell you what, Char knows his s***!bbkkristian

[QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]finally listened to the full podcast, great stuff lads. Tell you what, Char knows his s***!Heil68

Love the cover lol Just read Wiicube ME article. Having played through all the ME games at least three times (1 & 2 i think 6 times a piece) I wish you'd tried fem shep, her acting is immeasurably better than male shep, but I agree its an amazing series that receives way too much hate on SW, and 3 (except for the end - although the dlc improved it) was great, esp with the added story brought by all the DLC's.blue_hazy_basic

Doing a playthrough as femshep now, actually, but having recently been rehired, it's going to take me a long time to do the story arc.

[QUOTE="Heil68"][QUOTE="blue_hazy_basic"]finally listened to the full podcast, great stuff lads. Tell you what, Char knows his s***!blue_hazy_basic

luigi's flop was a tough to see. damage contol threads were made, and even the poll was deleted.

CaptainGamespot

Lego City Undercover met the hype but that poll was closed because some people vote after the flop so people can't vote.

i just can't agree with Carolyn's review of Luigi's Mansion. I bought it 2 days ago, nearly finished, and haven't had a problem with it yet. It's just damn fun.

It would be like me saying Soul Calibur V is worse than I think it is because Legendary Souls mode is REALLY difficult (It took me over 50 hours to beat. My Xbox was on for 2+ weeks because I didn't want to lose my place... only time I ever threw my controller at a wall in sheer anger was at this game).

It's a good review, but I think she placed too much incentive on her own, personal trouble with the game.

[QUOTE="CaptainGamespot"]

luigi's flop was a tough to see. damage contol threads were made, and even the poll was deleted.

Nintendo_Ownes7

Lego City Undercover met the hype but that poll was closed because some people vote after the flop so people can't vote.

respectfully, nintendo owns7 luigi was hype aaa, it got 6.5.

voting after wouldt matter, aaaa never wins giant polls hhistoricaly. it was butthurt to delete poll.

i know why polls get closed, just record the poll after game comes out, then it dont matter. luigi mansion 3ds hype thread fail.

shinobi the tc so mad at review,he made a new thread: http://www.gamespot.com/forums/topic/29372846/luigis-mansion-dark-moon--must-have-for-those-who-love-adventure-games its all butthurt motives. other sheep try to defend butthurt of that thread, but it was damage control.

i got luigi, i like it so far.

Looks like Carolyn Petit review of Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon flopped. Gamespot has the lowest score for the game out of 46 other reviewers. Then she says Metacritics scores are inflated. lmao!! How ironic. The game is excellent by the way. I got my copy. blackace

After putting in a good 10 hours I think I can safely say that Luigi's Mansion is awesome and Carolyn's review is a pile of bunk.

you forgot this one: "biased look at critical consensus". Biased because not all the sites have the same weight on the final average. And if anything, sites dedicated to just one platform should have lower weight than a multiplat site like the Giant Bomb which is really low compared to Xboxic (WTF is Xboxic anyway?).