Rate the last game you purchased
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I bought No More Heroes just a couple of days ago, and I must give it an 8.5-9. It's got great gameplay, great characters, and a great story, which are all getting harder to find these days. It avoids a perfect 10 from being a little bit repetitive in between ranked missions, not enough variety in weapons and apparel, and a huge dissapointment that was one ranked mission in the middle of the game, which you probably know about if you have played it to that point.
Red Faction: Geurilla
I give it 3/5 stars. It looks great and the controls work very well, but for a Red Faction game the story is kind of weak and the misssions all get repetitive and boring after you've completed the same exact quest for the tenth time. But where it shines is the shockingly realistic manner in which you demo buildings and structures. It's totally badass after sneaking into an enemy stronghold and setting up remote charges then detonating them and watching the building implode under it's weight. It's a game where you can really unleash your inner terrorist.
I give it 3/5 stars. It looks great and the controls work very well, but for a Red Faction game the story is kind of weak and the misssions all get repetitive and boring after you've completed the same exact quest for the tenth time. But where it shines is the shockingly realistic manner in which you demo buildings and structures. It's totally badass after sneaking into an enemy stronghold and setting up remote charges then detonating them and watching the building implode under it's weight. It's a game where you can really unleash your inner terrorist.
A .5 score would indicate the reviewer thinks the game varies between a 6 game and a 7 game.mentor07825 said:
I personally break my scores down in the 3 brackets, 1-4 = Poor, 5-7 = Average and 8-10 = Good. Now I could just review a game by saying Good or Poor but it doesn't really give an indication of how good or bad a game is. Some good games are better than other good games and a number based system allows the reviewer to show this. A .5 mark also allows the reviewer to show that a game might be on the cusp of his or her review boundaries
Let me see, I have not finished the last game I bought, but I'll say a 7.5 at this point? Oh, and since all the title said was rate, I'm not gonna tell you the game is Final Fantasy XII, because you never asked... HAH!
The 5 star method just doesn't have enough room for variation between scores for me personally. I've found that magazines/sites who use that system such as Edge tend to reserve 5 Stars for only the very very best games which leaves the vast majority of games sitting in the 3 and 4 star bracket.mentor07825 said:
But on the other hand you have the percentage method used in PCGamer which I think is just too much, I mean what makes Half Life 2 1% better than Civ 2?
But each to their own. Review away!
Well technically Prototype was the last game I bought but since I haven't had any time to play it the last game I bought and played would be Sacred 2. I'll give it a 7/10 (0.5 bonus points for the Blind Guardian quest). That was the best reward I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in a video game.
Knights in the Nightmare...
An SRPG/Bullet Hell shmup.
Yes it is very strange, very complicated and incredibly brilliant.
I'd give it an 8 due to the learning curve and niche appeal.
An SRPG/Bullet Hell shmup.
Yes it is very strange, very complicated and incredibly brilliant.
I'd give it an 8 due to the learning curve and niche appeal.
I don't remember which one I bought last, Call of Duty World at War or Dead Space.
World At War is fun but at some points a little abusive. It doesn't add that much to the series, but the controls are as smooth as in CoD4 and the bolt-action rifles are as satisfying as they were in CoD2. Easily a 8/10 for Treyarch's little trip back memory lane, because the Bayonettes are just that much fun to use.
Dead Space was my first proper foray into the world of 3rd-person-shooters and I must say, once you got used to the controls, this game was really, really fun. The gameplay was intuitive and fun, the story was amazingly complex and very well written with some great voice-acting, and I found the whole experience to be nothing short of fantastic. Only complaint is that is was too damn short. Ten hours first play-through, downright disappointing. 9/10 for that little failiure.
World At War is fun but at some points a little abusive. It doesn't add that much to the series, but the controls are as smooth as in CoD4 and the bolt-action rifles are as satisfying as they were in CoD2. Easily a 8/10 for Treyarch's little trip back memory lane, because the Bayonettes are just that much fun to use.
Dead Space was my first proper foray into the world of 3rd-person-shooters and I must say, once you got used to the controls, this game was really, really fun. The gameplay was intuitive and fun, the story was amazingly complex and very well written with some great voice-acting, and I found the whole experience to be nothing short of fantastic. Only complaint is that is was too damn short. Ten hours first play-through, downright disappointing. 9/10 for that little failiure.