Blacksite Comments by Kristan Reed

I will stick with COD 4 then

No wonder the producer new the game was cack. 5/10 are a time like this with so many great AAAs is devastating.

no surprise.

I wasn't that interested in this game anyway but I have to say I don't think I see eye to eye with EG on FPS after their Resistance review...AND their Bioshock review...AND...their Halo 3 review.

That said, I can't really remember who it was that reviewed those games.

Might be the same reviewer :P

EG has been spot on with their fps reviews.
fanboyism aside, and Halo 3 is superb get over it

in other news 360 becomes the new home of half assed fps

Er...I have a different opinion. Get over it, yourself;-)

"Zombies Ate My Neighbours" is Ultimate!

A black mark for Blacksite. Or Blacksh... oh never mind.

Scimarad - maybe the reviewer fatigue mentioned in the article explains it a little (except for the unjustified gush on Halo3). Just be glad you don't have to waste your life playing through tosh like this.

"EG has been spot on with their fps reviews."

Finally, someone that agrees with EG's FPS reviews, I suggest we stuff him and mount him on the wall.

The demo (the first demo at least) was actually pretty good, technical issues aside. Shame the game's turned out to be a turkey.

Say what you like about past EG reviews, but Krudster's got this score bang on. Unfortunately COD4 makes this title look pretty average.

COD 4 stays in the tray!

All I know is that Bioshock did NOT deserve a 10. I'd rate it an 8. I guess that makes every FPS review from Eurogamer score +/-2 from their written score (compared to my taste). So this game could be everything from 3-7/10.

Shame that both Blacksite and Kane & Lynch were poor games... I agree Bioshock was not a 10, but I think that Mass Effect deserved a lot more than an 8.

"in other news 360 becomes the new home of half assed fps"

They had another home?

Readers in different opinion to the reviewer - shock!

Full details to follow...

Serves them right for the thinly veiled attack on the Bush administration. Keep that out of video games please. Clearly knowing that the game is subpar, they tried to drum up support by making a political statement hoping to strike a chord with spliff smoking, liberal, out of touch gamers?

On another note isnt Aeron Pierce the name of the president's bodyguard in 24? How original.

"Readers in different opinion to the reviewer - shock!

Full details to follow..."

At least Midway can't really get you fired. :)

saw something yesterday about how the producer dosnt even like how the game turned out (no time for QA or something) can't find a link just now

COCK. I was going to get that.

Luckily, i've agreed precisely with every score ever given on EG (including games I haven't played yet, but instinctively know what they should receive) - the second that changes i'm never coming back.

But that's what reviews are for, eh readers?

Err...no. That's what forums & metacritic are for.

EDIT: No offence. I just find them far more reliable than anything else.

This never looked like being any good.

I quite liked the demo, I know it was short but it had atmosphere and made me want to play a bit more.

quite suprised this has turned out to be bad, although i'm still tempted with a rental ;D

why does everyone like COD4 so much i personally think it's a four our long version of COD1 with a new engine and a desperate attempt to elongate the game with random unfair deaths.

i thought harvey smith was making a mistake going to midway, this game confirms it, the alegory with the current bush administration is boring atthe best of times and cringe worthy most of the time, the AI's are cheesier than Gears of War and as useful as wet sticks except when they miraculously open a door that you can't, my assumption is that one of the pranksters glued the gun to your hands before the game starts.

the really annoying interactive supposedly moral choice of do i or do i not trust the doctor who's injecting me with 'vacines' oww wait i'm not allowed to speak or leave te room till i take it, whats the point in making it optional if you can't progress without it, & this is trying the half life main character has no need to speak thing except he does and AI's regularly ask you questions in which you completly ignore them, sometimes one of your comrades is there to bail you out and respond for you but usually you just leave them hanging for an embarrasing momment.

one thing that isn't fair in this review though is the performance issue although i played it on the PC it ran at 1280x1024 with everything up full (which isn't a hell of a lot for the unreal engine) at a solid 60fps, but that was on my new 8800gt and all my unreal engine games perform the same.

"one thing that isn't fair in this review though is the performance issue although i played it on the PC it ran at 1280x1024 with everything up full (which isn't a hell of a lot for the unreal engine) at a solid 60fps, but that was on my new 8800gt and all my unreal engine games perform the same."

"Hi, I'm a PC owner. Let me tell you the intimate details of my 'rig' and how amazingly powerful it is until you shit your brain out of your arse with boredom"

Screw you guys. Bioshock was an 11.

"But that's what reviews are for, eh readers?

Err...no. That's what forums & metacritic are for. "

Ok, but metacritic only exists because it compiles review scores so you take away reviews and metacritic vanishes as well.

As for Blacksite I was hardly even paying attention to it, there are enough great FPS' around at the moment that anything remotely average I'm not going to bother with.

an embarrassment of riches for shooter fans.

Haha, that's one way to call being drowned in generic repetitive FPS clones.

Don't tease them krudster :p

well i liked the demo (the first one at least) - does the game just carry on like that for the next few hours?

I don't see how they could have gone so wrong from those first very promising steps.

Jeez.

Since when are Halo 3, Orange Box, CoD4, Bioshock, the Darkness, etc half assed generic repetitive FPS clones. have you been living under a rock or are still waiting for the second coming.

kridster: Readers in different opinion to the reviewer - shock!

Having differing opinions is one thing. Being dead wrong is another :P

Suggesting that only supporting 10 people for multiplayer is a bad thing seems a tad harsh, aftaer all, I had a lot of fun with the 8 player Gears of War.

That said, the game sounds so God awful I can see why you'd be viewing it all somewhat negatively.

Abduction sounds EXACTLY like Halo's infection, which was no doubt copied from somewhere else.

I liked the first demo, and the helicopter bit on the second but not enough to spend more money on games I'll never get around to playing.

37 replies and only one Jeff Gerstmann/GameSpot joke so far. Shape up, EG folks!

*ahem*

If a 6 gets you fired, what does a 5 do?

/runs

You shouldnt take EG's scores as fact for gods sake; it's just some knob who has a play and decides whether he likes it or not (and whose motivations for scoring as they do only being known to them); everyone will have a different opinion.

Halo3 was never a 10/10; most people who've played the game through and arent total 360 fanboys would likley agree with that; but the EG knob who reviewed it is entitled to his opinion; just see it has his warped opinion ;)

Simple solution; just download the demo of a game, if you like that then thats good enough, don't need to be told by some brainless teenager what they think of it :) Or at the very least look around all the other review sites; dont just rely on the EG kiddies to tell you what the crack is ;)

"Since when are Halo 3, Orange Box, CoD4, Bioshock, the Darkness, etc half assed generic repetitive FPS clones. have you been living under a rock or are still waiting for the second coming."

Well IMO...

Halo is the definition of generic to me. Faceless dull super marine takes on aliens in sub-par story. If it wasnt an exclusive that was markted to hell by MS I dont think it would have gotten anywhere close the same recognition.

Orange Box. Well Half-life is the best FPS ever IMO, 2 and its Episodes are superb although not quite as good as the first game.

CoD 4. Very short but a lot of fun. Multiplayer is my favorite game on Live since PGR 2.

Bioshock. Man I couldn't get passed the first couple of hours no matter how hard I tried. Absolutely hated how the game controlled and felt to play. Cumbersome and Sluggish.

2 out 4 aint bad I dont suppose. (never played The Darkness)


Does no one else get bored of people moaning about review scores and slagging of reviewers. So you dont agree with the score. So fcking what? You will never agree with anyone 100% of the time. We are individuals with our own opinions after all. Well except when it comes to Halo 3 and Bioshock where the reviews were totally wrong :p

I predicted the final score... such a shame, it had potential.
Kane & Lich on the other hand, i don't care what reviewers say about the game, i will buy it day one along with Uncharted.
In what concerns FPS, none can come close to COD4... both single player (altough too short) and Multiplayer. No more FPS till Kilzone 2 and Haze hit the shelves, by the way, Orange Box is outdated shit.

/waves farewell to Krudster

Surely he'll get sacked for such a low review score?

;)

Eurogamer: rubbing up people the wrong way since 1999...

"Orange Box is outdated shit."

No Haze and Killzone 2 look like bastions of originality. It's like calling the FPS Godfather am old fart.

"in other news 360 becomes the new home of half assed fps"

and let's not forget that when this comes to the ps3 it'll still be halfassed, but will also be half the framerate

Ok, but metacritic only exists because it compiles review scores so you take away reviews and metacritic vanishes as well.

The difference being that it's an average of opinions.

Abduction sounds EXACTLY like Halo's infection, which was no doubt copied from somewhere else.

It originates from a game mode invented by Halo 2 players (zombies).

FooAtari: Not saying anything about the reviewers but I trust people I know and play with a bit more than 1 opinion from a reviewer I don't know. I.e. EG claimed that SR was shit while people who played claimed that it was the best online shooter of the year. TBF, I'm glad I listened to them and not the reviewer.

I'm sure that reviewers are writing the best reviews possible but I just trust friends more than anonymous people.

No Haze and Killzone 2 look like bastions of originality. It's like calling the FPS Godfather am old fart.

TBF, Portal is the only fantastic game in the box. ¬_¬

It's getting really boring reading all this bitching about EG reviews (the same ones, no less) over and over and over again. You didn't like some of the scores, get the fuck over it and grow up, they're not gonna change it to suit your tastes. I don't agree with Halo 3 review either and I don't nag about it every time some new review is up.

And every time I hear "it's only some bloke's opinion" I wonna kill someone.. Opinions are not equal, get that in your thick heads! Sure, at the end of the day, we listen only to our own, but if we didn't play some game yet, where are we gonna get worthwile opinions? From developers, publishers, store clerks? Or maybe, I don't know, from game reviewers, who probably got their job 'cause they fucking know and love what they do!? When you're sick, do you go see a lawyer or a doctor, ffs?

I do not understand the Hype around Killzone 2. The first game sucked. So why would the sequel get any kind of hype? I'm not saying its guaranteed to be a bad game but it needs to prove it's self as a finished game before getting recognition. Maybe I don't understand how the fan boy works.

As for HL2 eing outdated. Personally I feel that Half-life, a game 10 years old, still stands above 90% of FPS's released today. The A.I. of the soldiers still impresses me more than most current games... The only area it cant compete with current shooters is graphically obviously. Half-life 2 has an atmosphere (very 1984ish) that I haven't felt in many games since.

Instead of all these average FPS's some developer needs to see the complete lack of any sci-fi space flight sims. With the exception of maybe Eve there hasn't been a good once since Wing Commander 4 and Privateer 2

"TBF, Portal is the only fantastic game in the box. ¬_¬"

Maybe. I still prefer HL2 over 90% of the generic half assed shooters out there. Simply because all of them would probably be even worse without HL and HL2.

"near-miss project"

5/10

Eh?