EA Says Mass Effect 2 Has Sold 2 Million Units
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That depends on ones criteria for formulating an arbitrary review score. If purely down to the individual reviewers tastes, then there is no reason a game cannot get large numbers of "perfect" scores, though also acknowledging that reviews are purely subjective. Alternatively, if the score is based on a more "objective" checklist, then again a perfect score is entirely reasonable, where the game ticks all the boxes & leaves the decision down to the readers personal tastes. From what I understand, liking Mass Effect 2 or not will boil down to whether you like Sci-fi RPGs (& Bioware's brand of RPG in particular) or not. If you do, the perfect scores reflect the likelihood that you will be hard pressed not to like this game. If not, then the review scores are ultimately irrelevant since you wouldn't have bought it anyway.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Deserves every single award it get. One of the best games that I've played this year and probably this entire decade.
Fair enough, but having one person who actually says "I didn't like this", "I think it could have been done better" would have been good.Cousin_IT said:
Seriously, does N perfect scores actually mean anything anymore? We're going through a global recession and we've had a perfect film, a perfect MMO, and now two perfect games?
It's all a little silly really.
(This is not to say that ME2 isn't worthy of it, I haven't played it so I wouldn't know)
5 stars out of 5 is technically a perfect score. When you go to metacritic and see LOADS of places scoring something 100, that's what they gave it. 5 stars out of 5.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Imo that's not nearly the same as giving something 100 out of 100, but meh.
There are no doubt many more "perfect" movies, games & books etc out there atm. The difference between them & Avatar (& the like) is not quality, or indeed reviewer support, but the marketing/PR department & public hyperbole surrounding them. After all, it is the PR monkeys that collect all these review scores & reviewer soundbites to dangle infront of us consumers, which is how most of us probably find out what reviewers beyond our favourite publication(s) think in the first place.The_root_of_all_evil said:
Incidentally, I would be very interested to see if Yahtzee sang, or was able to sing, the same tune if zero-punctuation relied on being able to review games before general release, rather then acting (to paraphrase his own words) as a sort of post-release reality check.
No surprises here; I've only gotten two hours in so far, but I'm relishing how the story unfolds as I continue.
Bioware deserves all of these accolades. Mass Effect 2 is nothing short of superb. This, to me, is what video games are all about. Great plot, great characters and voice acting, amazingly realized universe, near gameplay perfection (especially when compared to ME1), and the knowledge that I WILL play it again almost immediately after my first play-through. All for 60 dollars. Thank you, Bioware. You magnificent bastards.
This game is absofuckinglutely amazing, the first one was an incredible experience, if somewhat flawed, but #2 builds on the weaknesses of the first perfectly leaving all of the goodness intact. It's also stupidly funny in places, such as the advertisement for Hamlet with an entire cast of a certain monotonous alien race.
The only issues I've come across so far are in the bugs department, such as:
Incorrect voices on certain characters, Garrus for example will quite often gain the ability to do perfect impersonations of other people, which left me confused for a good while.
'Climbing' onto high objects, sometimes the cover mechanics bug forcing you to hop on top of very high obstacles.
The only issues I've come across so far are in the bugs department, such as:
Incorrect voices on certain characters, Garrus for example will quite often gain the ability to do perfect impersonations of other people, which left me confused for a good while.
'Climbing' onto high objects, sometimes the cover mechanics bug forcing you to hop on top of very high obstacles.
Damn. Now we're never gonna hear the end of this...
oh well. Good to hear the game actually lived up to it's promises.
oh well. Good to hear the game actually lived up to it's promises.