Mass Effect 2 is one of the best games I ever played, the immersion the story the choices the endings (which are... just kidding no spoilers) and Red Dead Redemption is The best Free roam game I've played, I never really liked GTA 4 and found it to be overrated. With Red Dead Redemption you pretty much do what you expect in a western, also Rockstar added something that's been missing in GTA all those years, the choices: In GTA 4 I would've liked to save a guy for him to give me more money and/or help me but it was too linear, in Red Dead Redemption, the World is yours. As for Halo Reach I played the Beta and honestly it kinda sucked, looks the same as Halo 3. Now I know people are going to bash me for saying that but it is yet another FPS not only that, it's Halo, Halo is a series that is playable but not worthy of GOTY, all too repetitive and Master chief is a character that is pretty boring, sure he might be a tought guy but that doesn't give him a personality. In Half life per example, Gordon Freeman didn't talk, you created his personality, you played as if he was you because the game gives you the freedom to make of him what you want, he doesn't even have a face and yet he has more personality than most of the video game characters because a lot of room is given for the immagination. As for Mario Galaxy 2, I haven't played it so I can't really judge but I can say that in my opinion the Mario franchise is the most overrated in the industry. Since Super Mario 3, Mario games didn't feel original for me, the latest one I played was the first Mario Galaxy and it was good fun in the beggining but gets old after. We have yet to see some releases this year since we still have half of the year to account for.

PS: Oh and I want to say Hitman 5 will beat all of the games you can think of this year... what? not coming out this year? Not even one detail about it? but it's been like 4 years now, what happened to the 2 year interval. arrrgghhhh eidos.

we shouldn't even be arguing anyway, you don't think that the game is good based on GS review, I respect your opinion. that's it.

[QUOTE="aTbagger"] but anyway gamespot reviews aren't always the best and other than gamespot and GI, all the reviews were good.MrGeezer

*shrugs*

Just depends on how much stock you put in the reviews. So far, the only reviews I've read were from Gamespot and IGN. IGN gave AVP an 8.5. But reading the reviews, the Gamespot review just looked more informative about the kinds of stuff that I'm more likely to care about.

Even IGN hinted at the poor controls, though they didn't go very much in-depth about that. But Gamespot review elaborated on that a LOT, and that makes me not want to play the game at all. One thing I LOATHE is when games make me fight the clunky control scheme more than I'm fighting the actual enemies. The Gamespot review provided quite a few examples of things that tend to piss me off in games.

When they mentioned nonsensical stuff (such as Predator being able to jump 20 feet through the air, but not being able to jump over a fence simply because the developers don't want us to jump over the fence), that kind of stuff really turns me off in games.

And furthermore, I was mostly interested in playing as a Marine fighting Aliens. To be honest, I'm mostly interested in feeling like I'm in the movie Aliens. Gamespot's mention of a crappy story is sort of subjective, as is their claim that only the first two levels are really very scary (with the game becoming less scary once it switches to brightly lit jungles). But as far as I'm concerned, that's much of what I was looking for in the game anyway. So...I could check out more reviews, but I seriously doubt that I'm changing my mind. Gamespot's review was pretty explanatory and thorough in its criticisms. Even if they did skim over the game's more positive aspects, the negative aspects that they wrote about are probably dealbreakers for me.

Hey, I'm not saying that the game isn't for anyone. But based on what I personally care about in videogames, I doubt that Gamespot's review is very far off.

[QUOTE="aTbagger"][QUOTE="Grammaton-Cleric"]

It hasn't been posted yet but I stumbled unto the review here at GS:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/aliensvspredatorworkingtitle/review.html

A 5.5? Based on the demo, I really don't see how that's possible unless the SP is really as bad as they claim.

That score does concern me, even taking into account my own distain for most GS reviews.

MrGeezer

Doubt it. They very specifically pointed out what look to be some serious flaws.

Guess I'm gonna pass on this game. At most, I'll pick it up cheap once it heads to the bargain bin.

It hasn't been posted yet but I stumbled unto the review here at GS:

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/aliensvspredatorworkingtitle/review.html

A 5.5? Based on the demo, I really don't see how that's possible unless the SP is really as bad as they claim.

That score does concern me, even taking into account my own distain for most GS reviews.

Grammaton-Cleric

Just one thing: the amount of people saying that they will not buy this game because the DEMO didn't connect well is big. but what the hell guys it's a demo the final product isn't going to be like that.

Great job on the thread hatered and thanks for the heads up on the UK IGN review I didn't notice it even thought I don't really like IGN.

I just found out about the gameinformer "review" and I have to say that that's the worst piece of **** compilation of words I've ever seen, and they try to pass it as a review, man gameinformer is really pathetic.