[QUOTE="OMG_iTz_Evo"][QUOTE="ston3henge"]

It's not an FPS, it's a third-person game... so there's your first mistake. The second mistake is to listen to anyone in an all-or-none fashion... rent the dang game from GameFly, or whatever, but the real story is if you like it or not... NOT if some toolbag who's trying to pay the bills by writing game reviews while he/she tries their hand at the Great American novel or some punk online with way too much time on his/her hands (including ME).

Personally, I hate third-person games... i hated "SOCOM" on the PSP, I don't like "Resistance" though I respect what they accomplished, it's just not the FPS feel...

Get off your duff and make up your own **** mind.

ston3henge

Dude it's like you don't either... you've been what we call "Post Whoring" for weeks... I see your name. Why are you attacking me for telling the poster my opinion? THAT'S WHAT THE FORUMS ARE FOR. So you back off, and stop reading things into what I say or trying to color the WAY I say them, OK, sport?

The point I'm trying to make here is that as you can see there is a wide bit of polarization to the reviews and so you're never going to find a true consensus - you're gonna have to get a little dirty on this one and shell out some cash if you ever want the TRUTH... read a few reviews, some gamer's thoughts, and then play the game yourself to make the final impressions... but don't let yourself be blindly led around by anyone (and again, ME INCLUDED), when it comes to formulating your own opinions and your own tastes. I've played plenty of games which I personally would have rated much higher than I ever saw in published (paid writer) or gamer-opinions... I'm sure that there are a few games on your shelf that weren't rated very highly but you liked them a lot.

As far as understanding the nature of these forums... well, they might have started with the most noble of intensions, and they may still be governed by those who think they are in control of the editorial content of these pages... but in reality they are being used. Ask anyone at any gamestore, and off the record they will tell you it's true...

If you listen to the rah-rah or the nay-nay on this forum, you'll never find what works for you. Most of the forum blah-blah these days is a put-on; People who are paid to sit and talk about "Game X" on a given popular forum to generate buzz about a title (and I must admit that it worled in my case, I went out and got "Monster Hunter" because I had seen so much back-and-forth about it this last week or two I had to make my own critical run at it - there, mission accomplished). You'll notice that a certain title will all of a sudden get several topics posted about it, so-as to keep the game's title fresh in the prospective buyer's mind, John Cussack does it with a record in "High Fidelity" where he puts on the record and instantly sells two copies... this is a place where they know they can begin to petition their product months and even years before they sink into it, gaging the market and gamer's wildly fluctuating tastes when it comes to "what's hot". This isn't paranoia, it's the truth. These sites and their forums are being used to market things to you, take survey information from you (either with or without your direct knowledge - and not in some weird hacker way, but just by asking an innocent question), in order to streamline the advertising and find out what the pulse is... knowledge is power, and knowing what the gamer wants is key.

So I don't know what these forums are about? Yeah. I might suggest the same to you.

Open your eyes, OMG-It's-EVO... stop being manipulated. Become a gamer with your own thoughts, and your own opinions... why don't you tell us just once what makes you happy or sad about any given game, instead of thinking of inane questions to regurgitate onto this site? EXPRESS YO' SELF!:D

Take it easy, man. Peas.