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wow, amazing. Somehow it’s even more fun to hear you rip a game apart than when you like it Nice review, although I wasn’t interested in this game to begin with.

Thank you for this Review… first, I was thinking about to buy this game - but now I think I will go back to my old Xbox and play some BLACK - has nicer grafics anyway.

(sorry for my crappy English), grettings from Germany,

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In these days of multi-million dollar budgets, large testing teams and the amount of money spent on game development in general seeing something like this is even sadder. The ads for new devs always emphasise the love of games that you should have and there are departments geared entirely towards market research but we still get tripe like this. It is somehow baffling. Hollywood can make money off of rubbish because a ticket to the flicks is six quid, but people are generally (EA Sports as the exception that proves the rule) more careful with forty quid, so I’m baffled as to how they recoup their costs.

Of course, there was never a time when everything was great, but the costs of producing a normal-mapped HDR lit game nowadays precludes teams from taking the risks that they used to be able to, which I think reduces the innovation that we’re going to see. Even within those confines though, I can’t see how crap like this and Frontlines is made. The FPS genre is nothing if not mature and I wonder how the decisions that have ruined both these games have been made. It’s sad, they’re both okish ideas that if executed well would have been alright, but as it is they’re both turgid lups o’shite that do nothing but disappoint. You’d think with that sort of cash on the line the parent companies would pay a little more attention.

It’s a different thing to Kane & Lynch which I think is potentially a very good game ruined by being rushed - these feel like games with an original idea built around a rickety framework. Do they honestly want to trundle about emptying mags at each other all night long, or are they simply unwilling to accept that others (CoD4) have essentially nailed it and learn the lessons therein.

Apologies for the rant, but it’s a pet peeve. Maybe it’s the rose tinted specs, but eight years ago I had more games to choose from than I knew what to do with and now the only thing that has me genuinely excited is GTA IV. Bah

Also, why two stars? Did the rolex on the hand model sway you at all, because the rest of it is godawful. Blerch.

“More clipping than a fraudulent hooker.” Quality. Sheer quality.

No zoom on the sniper, well that sucks.

Ouch, that sounds like a really, really crappy game. To contrast, what’s your opinion of Frontlines: Fuel of War?

RawSteelUT - Frontlines:FoW coming out today, looking forward to trying it out!

Hello Katharine, sorry its been awhile since I spoke with you. My computer was being fixed and i could not see the show.thank you for taking the time to make me a play digital t-shirt !!!!! If you could send me an address ,ill send you the money to make it ok?My birthday is may 10 and I would like to have it for my birthday!!!! As always the show is great and you are soooo cute and hot!!!! take care , tom.

Hi Tom, if we end up making Play:Digital t-shirts you will be able to purchase them through the website. Please do not send any money in advance as I am still looking into how feasible it will be to set up a print run, and will also need to put the idea to the powers that be, so i can’t promise that it will happen, or how soon and at what price. I will do my best though, and will absolutely remember to sign yours if it goes ahead. I’ll try to get them out before your birthday, but again, no promises! Thanks for supporting the show
As for Force Unleashed, I am very excited. Will try to review it on as many platforms as I can in the initial release (I wish it was coming to PC). And dude, I don’t need a costume; everything I wear is a jedi outfit - my midichlorian count is through the roof!

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