Shame Train Roundup Comments by Ellie Gibson

CRASH TIME IN HIGH(ish) REVIEW SCORE SHOCKER!
http://www.totally360.com/gameinfo.php?g...

"Heh, I'm a Bleach fan, but I must agree, the Wii game was terrible. I guess I was spoilt the DS and PSP games which were good fighting games and at least techinally impressive respectivly. But the Wii game isn't enjoyable even on a fanservice level".

I absolutely love the anime, and have enjoyed playing the PSP games - which were pretty darn good, but I was so sure the Wii game could have been great...instead it sounds like a pile of crapola...so I'm glad I've yet to get around to playing it.

All the other games are classics, dunno what you're on about Ellie ;)

I imagine plenty of people prefer reading the bad reviews they are strangely compelling, much like the bopttom 100 list on the IMDB.

Another bonus is that the comments section is decidely free of people slagging off "teh power of sixaxis", xbots and so on.

Based on the demo, I'd totally buy Crash Time for a fiver. It's like a good old-fashioned Mastertronic budget game.

So wrong about Crash Time and Bleach: Shattered Blade. With regards to crash time, what other game allows you to race 6 18 wheeler juggernauts on a rally track against an armoured personnel carrier?

And the bug reports there are massively exaggerated. Didn't crash once for me (apart from when I was supposed to, like...)

The Alone In The Dark review from gamereactor.no has been withdrawn!

The demo for Crash Time was decent; I'd buy it once it hit the bargain bin, but not a second before. ;)

great! shame those fools! gotta feel for ellie playing all that crap though, still at least she doesn't have to play rock band on national tv. oh wait...... ;)

Not that I'm bitter or anything, but Chromehounds was marked down as a 4/10. Which when you look at the crap reviewed here shows how much of travesty that was.

That's the best game review I've read in ages.
Thank you for reminding me why we pay £40 for a decent game, and why I shouldn't gripe about small details (like the lack of tutorial in Battlestations Midway) when the rest of the industry is replete with chaotic developers whose creative types have overrun the asylum.

Limbo of the Lost surely beats this list into submission..

Actually, Limbo of the Lost 2 is set to feature all of these!

BOOSH!

I bought the train game (sucker) ages ago but returned it as I wanted to spend the £40 on other stuff. Its major failing is the instructions - you have no idea what you're doing.

"Time for another Wii fighting game based on an anime TV show I've barely heard of and couldn't care less about."

Nothing worst than being a lazy reviewer than to take solace in the fact itself.

Noboy recognizes the irony (or rather, hint of fate) of a game named "Crash Time" being made for the 360? No? Oh, screw it.

Thank you for demonstrating once again that looking at a bunch of games for five minutes and pre-judging them as bad because they don't have mega budgets and PR support is still a journalistically worthless endeavour. (See EG's early Virtual Console coverage for another example of this.)

If you want to know anything about Atrain HX, check out Videogaiden's review, where they actually bothered to learn to play it.

What's next Eurogamer, reviewing box blurbs?

Console gaming is doomed, evidently. This is proven by this selection of poor games.

This is a great feature, more please! :o)

Could you also introduce a kind of "out-take EG:TV" feature, showing appalling moments of horrendous un-gameplay?

Come on! it's got to be better than the usual gratuitous flame-bait or interview portions making front page headlines.

WOOOOO! BRING IT ON BABY!

Oh hang on, that's the Cole Train...

Actually forget that, just review more bad games individually (or at least review more games that fall into the murky grey area of a weekly release schedule than just the "AAA" stuff...)

This is fun and generally really well written. However, the review makes it sound like Bleach is obscure, and not in fact among the most popular and widely watched anime series ever made. How many people who don't know or like Bleach are going to bother with a Bleach game? Very few to none. Therefore, what is the point of giving it to a reviewer who in her opening sentence states explicitly that she does not know or care about it?

@yourmessagehere

Had Ellie known about Bleach do you think the score would have been higher than 4/10. Sounds like a shit game to me.

Crash Time has a bit of a EG forum following. Well, at least the demo. Check the forums.

@ emilia'shorse

The issue is not whether the author knew about it; it's whether the author liked the license, because nobody who doesn't like the license is going to buy the licensed game, so non-fans reviewing is meaningless. People buy licensed games purely because they want to do what happens in the film/anime/sport league/etc. If I reviewed FIFA, irrespective of how good the game was, I'd give it a crap score because I hate football, so it would be pointless to give it to me to review. I don't personally like Bleach or beat-em-ups much, so I speak mostly from recieved opinion/knowledge, but reading the review it seems that it was pretty typical of an average beat-em-up game but given a sheen of "oh no an anime license, animelol, bound to be terrible" and hence marked down. To be honest the ATrain review seems a bit like the author generally doesn't like that sort of game being told to review it as well.

But hell, I get the distinct impression this is mostly here for fun, and regardless of my above point, it's a fun read.