I've been waiting for this review for a long time because I suspected that Yahtzee would find its atmosphere to be rather impressive. That's what I thought before I played the demo, anyway. After that, I didn't think that this would be a "brilliant game" and was just waiting for a funny review. That is what I got.
You watch zp to decide if you buy a game? I just watch it for fun and fun it was^^ Otherwise you end up with maybe 3 games in 5 years, excellent games at least.
nope... all you got is your main story line and the ability to drive .... thats it.
you can steal cars and smash them in the junk yard for cash or rob stores, either way you probably get the police on you and then its an annoying situation where you either kill every one that sees you or drive away and have the cops on your tail then you need to go through the trouble of changing clothes again and again so police doesn't suspect you. there's like one ramp in the whole city where you can jump it but doesn't give you anything. that's all you do ... for hours drive back and forth between your house and the next job.
Quick question, who is that one guy in each of the new ZP videos? I have no clue who he is nor was it ever explained but it is a real face of some dorky guy in each of the new videos. His face shows up even if it isn't needed or warrented. Thats fine and all, but who is he?
Yahtzee uses the image to express blandness, normality and regular grey mass everyday Joes. The photo was taken by some fairly unknown photographer of one of their family members ( or at least that's what the theme was ).
I honestly cannot remember who the person was, but to be honest, it doesn't really matter either
The review wasn't as funny as last time, but it is about as accurate as an atomic force microscope. There are significant dampers on fun, and it is priced way too high to be "interactive theater".
I don't get one thing though: Mafia 2 gets blasted with the shit cannon because you have nothing to do outside the missions but look for playboys. And yet over here was inFamous, a game that gave you nothing to do outside of the structured missions (so story missions + clean up city missions) but look for electric rocks and satellite dishes, and it gets treated like one of the best games on the PS3. If anyone figures that one out, let me know.
I think its the "treated like one of the best games on the PS3" part. The PS3 doesn't have very many good games. It probably was one of their better games...
I quite enjoyed this game, but I enjoyed this review more. The game is very repetative but the story is great. Although, Yahtzee put the predictability into perspective...
Hilarious and also perfect review, reflected my experience completely... funish game, but with too much wasted potential and shitty gameplay mechanics to embrace completely. And if the story was a river, Mafia 2 just skipped along the stepping stones of cliches. It's well executed, but that doesn't really make the story itself, the plot, good. I could see each chapter coming a mile away.
Also much agreed on the whole CRIME DOES NOT PAY thing, it's entirely unnecessary. It was great in the first game imo, because the story was fantastic and it executed that part well, you start out right away saying how you got into the life of crime and how you want out. Mafia 2 on the other hand just chucks bullshit at you. You can kill half the bloody city, blow up/set buildings on fire, steal a million cars, but
robbing one safe of nearly-expired gas stamps and you get 10 years of prison? Sod the fuck off really.
You watch zp to decide if you buy a game? I just watch it for fun and fun it was^^ Otherwise you end up with maybe 3 games in 5 years, excellent games at least.
Well, no, I was just saying that I don't watch zp to decide if I buy a game, because like I just said, "sometimes Yahtzee tends to miss the good aspects of games."
Hilarious and also perfect review, reflected my experience completely... funish game, but with too much wasted potential and shitty gameplay mechanics to embrace completely. And if the story was a river, Mafia 2 just skipped along the stepping stones of cliches. It's well executed, but that doesn't really make the story itself, the plot, good. I could see each chapter coming a mile away.
Also much agreed on the whole CRIME DOES NOT PAY thing, it's entirely unnecessary. It was great in the first game imo, because the story was fantastic and it executed that part well, you start out right away saying how you got into the life of crime and how you want out. Mafia 2 on the other hand just chucks bullshit at you. You can kill half the bloody city, blow up/set buildings on fire, steal a million cars, but
robbing one safe of nearly-expired gas stamps and you get 10 years of prison? Sod the fuck off really.
Color me boring but the very things that Yahtzee takes issue with are the very things that attract me.
Just proves people are different and have different tastes. Funny how Russ Pitts' take on Mafia 2 and Yahtzee's are at the exact polar opposite opinions.
Thankfully the game universe has grown so much that we all have a fantastically diverse array of choices today. It is so great to be a gamer today.
And Yahtzee is far more enjoyable for me when he dislikes the game he's covering. He doesn't care for Mafia 2.
Great review, dumb game. Someone force Yahtzee into slave labor where all he does is reviews for the fan base! Oh wait sorry, I was reliving a dream again...
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