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CVG: Enslaved Review

Pure combat fans would be better advised to try Castlevania: LOS first, but if you're after a fun ten-hour action game in the vein of Uncharted - just not quite as slick or refi ned - Enslaved is a good shout.

It's bold, fast-paced and varied, but lacks the sheen of Drake's epic adventures.

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Game-ur4940d ago

This review sums it up rather nicely.

SIX4940d ago

These a$$ hats don't deserve your money. They gimped up the audio for the PS3 version for no known reason. I'm buying this used. These idiots won't see my money.

AKS4939d ago (Edited 4939d ago )

The audio at the top end appears to be higher quality, LPCM, which doesn't affect me because my receiver can handle all the audio types. It sounds quite good in my setup, playing in 5.1 LPCM.There is an error at the low end, however, which should be corrected via a patch. I suspect that they mistakenly placed 2.0 LPCM at a higher priority than DD and DTS; if that's the case, it should not be difficult to fix via a patch.

SockMaster4940d ago

I think regardless of reviews im going to get this game, maybe not now but in the future when its a little cheaper, that way if i dont like i have only spent less money then i would if i bought it now, still unsure about castlevania though.

GuruStarr784940d ago

Just rent it.....why buy it at all if thats how you feel about it.

kasasensei4940d ago

Keep in mind you can not rent video games in severals country across the world. :)

Game-ur4940d ago

Rentals cost me about 6 dollars a week, my standard way to play games. But I do buy games if I love them too much. Or long like RPGs.

BeOneWithTheGun4939d ago

Oblivion and Fallout 3 were my last purchases. GameFly the rest.

SockMaster4939d ago

Ah True, Well Personally i enjoyed the demo which is good enough for me, usually demos dont do a game justice but well its a matter of opinion right?

To be fair i didnt know that, i thought renting games was commonplace but i guess i was wrong!

Sarcasm4940d ago

I've been playing it on the 360. The story, world, and overall concept is very good. But I feel the unreal engine is dated for this type of title. "TeH Jaggiez" makes it look terrible. And the unresponsive controls is a turn off sometimes. They put too much emphasis on canned animations.

Otherwise, 8/10 is about right.

Rainstorm814940d ago

i agree i also have been playing on the 360 and thats my take on it as well.....so far

memphis24939d ago (Edited 4939d ago )

quote on quote "unresponsive controls is a turn off sometimes." you may want to learn how to play the game a lot more. the controls are actually fluid one of the best controls i've seen yet. this game is not like the unresponsive gow, hence button mashing.

Sarcasm4939d ago

GoW is far from unresponsive. I hit light attack he light attacks, I hit heavy attack he heavy attacks, i hit jump, he jumps.

Enslaved "can" be fluid, it's just when you hit attack, it animates for 1 second to attack, then when you hit jump, it animates a jump for 1 second. etc. etc.

That's what I mean by unresponsive controls. It just takes the feeling away of control from the character, which quite frankly takes a bit of the fun out of it.

Don't get me wrong, although I say GoW is responsive, the most responsive games has to be Ninja Gaiden.

hellraiserpop4940d ago

I'm starting to like CVG a lot now. Their scoring system seems very consistent and professional.
Reach 9.2, CLOS 9.4, Enslaved 8, thumbs up to all those scores ^ ^

raztad4940d ago

Judging by the demo 9.4 is too much for Los. Game is nowhere close to a masterpiece.

8.5 would be a much accurate score IMO.

SIX4939d ago

LOS doesn't demo well. The final game really opens up. If you like this type of game do not pass it up.

ASTAROTH4939d ago (Edited 4939d ago )

Judging by the demo ENSLAVED is amazing but the reality is that the first 6 chapters are boring. Its after the first 6 that the game gets a little better. Anyways dont judge a game by a mere demo, at least try it... Ohh and LOS IS AMAZING!!

raztad4939d ago

Yeah, the demo is enough to tell about gameplay. The story sure will be epic but the gameplay is just copy of something that has been done before and in a smoother way. 8.5 sounds about right and it is a damn good score.

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi8d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming7d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long7d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming7d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple1017d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor7d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing697d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming7d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno7d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming7d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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The 10 worst PC ports that ruined otherwise great video games

From Xfire: "It's not unusual to see the occasional bad PC port, but these ones make the bad PC ports look great in comparison."

Kados1014d ago

To be fair with GTAIV, it was a very CPU bound game, released at a time when the vast majority of PC gamers still believed that the CPU was nearly irrelevant, and that you only needed a good GPU. 95% of "gaming" builds back then were using turds for CPUs.

Giblet_Head1014d ago (Edited 1014d ago )

Ya, 2005-2010 was an interesting period. Entry/mid level CPUs have come a long way since then.

RonsonPL1013d ago (Edited 1013d ago )

The "majority" is still just as dumb as before.The game was simply f...d.
It had micro-stutters and never ever ran properly. People who say otherwise simply couldn't see the microstutter because of their LCD display's blurry motion. It should fly in 85fps or 100fps on fastest CPU back then, but it didn't. It was a buggy, awful port. I had a CPU over twice as fast as what x360 had. A GPU 5x as fast. And I couldn't do anything to make it run perfectly.
I don't know who's fault was this. Maybe it was not the developers alone. Maybe it was because of the drivers and the fact nobody gave a flying f..k about stable, high framerate on a PC game. We've had two different OSes then, and as I pointed out, microstutters were not that obvious on an LCD. There was no Digital Foundry to point such problems out and not many people still played on CRT monitors to be able to notice the problem (in like 2 seconds of playing, seriously, you don't need any tools. It just hits your eyes like a speeding truck)

GTA V continued the tradition. It manages the CPU resources so badly, it basically cannot run at locked 144fps till this day, or even 60fps in stereoscopic 3D mode (so 2x 60fps per second) because it's so dependant on single core performance and because it's so messed up by either port devs or Nvidia (who said they will fix it, then 3 years of promises led to shutting the forums down, which solved the problem in their eyes - no one complains anymore ;)

GTA III port was never optimized for even 60fps, not to mention 100 or 120.
The port of GTA V was hidden in their cabinet for almost 3 years, during which PC gamers were bein lied to about it.

See the pattern yet?
Yeah. They don't give a shit about PC gaming or assume a buggy, stuttery mess is good enough, as long as people keep buying the games.

Actually... to think of it. They didn't make a proper Lemmings game for PC either. There was Amiga version and that's it. Only later on they mercifully released Lemmings: Tribes sequel. Until then PC gamers could only dream about digitized (real recorded audio) sounds and music. So this tradition of shitting onto PC gamers is now 30 years old ;)

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Active Quest Episode 117: Star Wars: KOTOR Is Likely Returning, Atelier Firis DX Is Addictive

Joseph, Josh, and Chris go over a striking Sony decision, a Star Wars: Knights of the Republic remake seems to be happening, and local JRPG lover Chris talks about Atelier Firis DX.

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