Conflict: Denied Ops Comments by Ellie Gibson

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...did you see what I did there? ;)

I played this on break in work, it made me want to jab a knife through my heart after just 10 minutes.
Terrible.

Geordi La Forge - now that's a name I haven't head for a while.

I kind of suspected as much after playing the demo.

The fact reviews were pretty hard to come by (it was released last week) sort of confirmed it.

Shame really - it was looking good originally.

Also: Ellie reviews another dangerously average game!

Shame. I was kind of looking forward to this and it was looking promising a while back.

Yeah, i could see this coming since the dreadful demo.
5 is generous.

So we're two-for-two with the new 'Buddy-action movie' genre of coop-designed shooter games both being crap.

What are the odds that Army of Two will make it a hat-trick?

Waiting for Frontlines and Army of two. Those two will be good.

conflict games have never really been any good, they simply didnt have much good competition in the past.

Frontlines also looks pretty average, although certainly not as bad as this...I think 5 is generous!

^Don't forget Vegas 2 isn't far away either.

"5 is generous"

Ukdev+1innit...

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4 meh! still too high

This reads like a 3. What'cha holding back for EG?

The script is sub-Armageddon

ouch.

Hooray for accessible shite!

Hooray for fucking up a perfectly decent franchise!

Hooray for no more 4 player co-op (which was the main selling point for me)!

Nice job fuckwits :(

Where's the Diagnosis Murder game anyway? I'd buy seven!

I liek this review, it made me titter - and that's not a word I use lightly. Or at all, in fact.

More reviews of shit games by Ellie please. It's funny when she's blithely cutting.

"Frontlines also looks pretty average"

I think Frontlines look pretty good and the reviews (not many) so far has been very positive.

Im thinking an average score of about 8 for both Frontlines and army of two.

Vegas 2 will be better but more standard.

When I played the demo I had little idea this had anything to do with the earlier Conflict games on the Xbox/PS2 which I'd played the first two of and thought were great at the time. However, time has passed since then and there's been hundreds of shooters since, many far better. This new game seems so safe, generic and ordinary, like many other FPSs of late, that playing it is enough to make me really start to hate the genre with gusto. It's boring to play, the visuals are mediocre, the level design is bland, the weapons feel weak... there's nothing at all noteworthy about the game from the demo, it's just another production-run FPS made for people who still think this kind of thing "rocks".

Has Ellie reviewed a game that was more than 7 out of 10? :p

yeah guitar hero 3.

The demo was painful, I'd say 5 was generous but I've not played the full game

Can't say im completely shocked!
Was always shaping up to be a bit of a disappointment.

Holding out for Army of Two for Co-op goodness!
Fingers crossed it plays well, im still not 100% convinced by it yet.

@syphaa

Im sure Army of Two is very entertaining in Co-op with a friend. On your own its just ok. Its made for coop. A friend of mine is a reviewer and he thought it was great playing it coop, but you should expect a llittle bit of arguing through the campain. The multiplayer (team deathmatch) is also very good.

I was sent a movie that turned out to be an ad for this game. They must have known it was a stinker as they rely on having a large-breasted stripper in it...although saying that SCi have never been known for their class so they may well have made the ad even if it had been 9/10.

Have played this co-op with mates online and off and had a lot of fun. Sure, its rough around the edges and there's nothing new here, but the co-op makes it a 7/10 for me.

With Army of Two, Saints Row 2 and Frontlines on the way hopefully the co-op trend will continue.

"Have played this co-op with mates online and off and had a lot of fun. Sure, its rough around the edges and there's nothing new here, but the co-op makes it a 7/10 for me"

Thats the funniest thing ive read all morning, good to see theres some clueless casual gamers still floating around here, 7/10 lol...please stop my sides!!!!! splitting!!!....encore encore!!!

@Kujata

Even average games can be rather entertaining in coop.

@tinners - That was a bit uncalled for... a splitscreen or online co-op can make mediocre games far more enjoyable than they would be otherwise... haven't you ever played Doom 3 on the Xbox or Gears of War on the 360 that way? ;)

talking of which the dialogue in Gears of Wank is equally risible.

@Darren

indeed you are right and yes it is a bit, you will have to excuse my bitterness i kinda knew what this was gonna get first hand.

Co-op games i find are really enjoyable if the game itself is great or at least decent in the first place. GRAW 2 , Crackdown, Gears of War all good competant games in the first place, Army of Two will actually enforce proper co-op play etc.

I get annoyed when a game has something tacked on for the sake of it etc, i remember when splinter cell pandora tomorrow came out on the PC and it was the first co-op game for me where you actually work together as a team, without the other player the levels could not be completed, with this and many other games the only thing co-op about it is that there's two people on screen killing shit, there is no co-op objective etc which is why army of two should piss on this and also makes me wish COD had this, because that makes war so much fun!

I accept the enjoyment of a game is far greater when your playing with a mate but from 5/10 to 7/10 i just cant see where the enjoyment comes from an utterly generic game which we have all played for years on end already.

Downloaded demo, caned it twice, once as each character, completed it twice in online co-op, bought the full game, enjoying it.

It's nothing new or special, it's just a good, solid, shooter.

@BBIAJ

I played the demo. This game is neither good or solid. But with a friend i believe it can be ok. Never solid though.

@WaxBrazillian

Touchy, aren't we?

At least when blithely passing comments on games I haven't played, I take my standpoint from Eurogamer's review scores. And I think you'll find that the review and editorial 2007 top 50 standing here disagree with you.

/smug

@WaxBrazillian

Your missing out on the best Coop game to date. Crackdown was fantastic.

co-op Crackdown is still only two people on screen killing shit.

horrible game

2/10 more like.

"...run around the world shooting foreigners in the name of justice."

I've never heard it called that before! ;)

@WaxBrazillian

Woah, man, perhaps you should lay off the PCP. Maybe it's what's making you, like, totally gay :)


In the interests of factual correctness, I must point out that I was not the producer on Crackdown. In fact I no longer work for Realtime Worlds. As such, I reverse the right to talk (either blithely or with great seriousness) whatever shite I like on internet forums.

What the hell is going on here?

For the record, Crackdown was brilliant!

Why do you hate Mentalist(air) so much, WaxBrazillian?:)

/intrigued

Crackdown rocked - it's demo was a little too generous.

LOL I've been reading this thread with the exact words "What the hell is going on here?" looping through my brain, and when I got to asphalt's post I had to laugh out loud.

So am I to gather that some psycho in Brazil singlehandedly wrote a game called "Bomberman" and he has a personal vendetta vs. a mentalist, who single-handedly wrote Crackdown? And that everyone hates gay people? And also, what does any of this have to do with Conflict: Denied Ops?

@ muscleblade:

How is it not solid?

It does what it sets out to do perfectly well, and there's certainly nothing game breakingly awful about it, therefore it is never anything less than solid.

To me at least...

Nice to see the game employs Xbox360's 'backwards compatibility' function to look like an Xbox 1 game.

Instantly forgettable and doomed to miserable sales. The demo was a serious mistake... should have left a bit more to the imagination.

Why can't you two stop the facade and admit that you're in love with each other?

Anyway Crackdown is good bargain bin material.

a cheap shot @ the work of "Denied Ops"

If anything, I'm taking a cheap shot at Kane and Lynch. 7/10 isn't such a bad score, but Kane and Lynch's reputation was pretty much destroyed by the Gerstman affair.

just because he was a member of the crackdown team

It's you that started dragging my past work into this, presumably because you've been digging up my post history.

everyone hates gay people

No, just people who get oversensitive about words they need to look up on Dictionary.com.


I've made an enemy, what fun! See you around trashing my posts on other topics in the future, WaxBrazillian...

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