This game had better be the bee's knees at this point. The next 3 updates could be Mega Man, Nintendo Online Tournaments and We Pay You Money To Play This Game mode and I'd still be disappointed.
1. The complaint about variety isn't necessarily wrong. The complaint wouldn't be so much with the variety but with the de-emphasis of the strong core gameplay to focus on weak secondary gameplay. Sonic Adventure 2 was pretty much the perfect example of this, where the effort to expand the gameplay hurt it majorly.
2. Anyone using the ''last gen gameplay with next gen graphics'' line needs to stop.
3. I hope that the notion that GameSpot backs the review has to do with GameSpot agreeing with the review. If their was a consensus of agreement that R&C was a 7.5 game and Aaron was simply the guy who typed up the review then there's no problem. If there wasn't any agreement and Aaron just went lone wolf for the review with GameSpot backing him up because he's one of their own or because the last thing they need is to have another reviewer thrown under the bus then Schneider's point is entirely valid.
It would be really interesting to find out what numbers would blow him away. I always found the piracy problem for the PC to be almost ridiculously understated. I have trouble thinking of any PC game besides the likes of Blizzard games and the Sims that people actually buy. Call of Duty 4 being a big release with such low levels of security when everybody has broadband and knows about torrents seems like it could be the perfect storm for big piracy numbers.
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