Hope everyone enjoyed the review. I personally think this is one of the best, if not THE best fps on the arcade market solely thanks to Rare's ambition that surpasses quite a few other shooters on the market. This remake would've been on par with the original in my eyes if they tweaked the gameplay and technical design just a little bit more.
It's been awhile since I've played it, I'd imagine there's quite a few that still play it (given the sales numbers). Even if the online is a dead zone when you're on, you can have up to 11 bots with personalities you can tweak.
As stated in the review, there's a 12 player maximum limit; however, there's 8 human positions allowed (the other 4 can be filled with bots). You can flucuate the bot count in order for you to fill up the game with 12 total players.
You give it 6/10 for gameplay and overall 9/10. Your reviews are all over the place, you gave Resistance 3 a better score for gameplay 8.5, but only gave that game 7.7 overall. Surely gameplay is the most important factor when reviewing games?. You seem to throw logic out the window when you do a review. Which makes you a good candidate for the postition of chief reviewer at IGN
1.) Whenever you're creating a review a caption is made next to the overall score that states: "__/10 / not an average". I'm not being arm-twisted to use my calucator and round up to the nearest 1/10th with every review. That's just not how it works, nor should it work that way.
2.) Even though I thought I stated it perfectly in the review, I'm going to restate why this remake has a 9.0/10 : When observing the sum of its parts, this games screams dated (as to be expected with a 10 years old game); however, when examining the WHOLE game, you'll be treated with a remake that's overflowing with a vast array of options that are in a greater abundance than 90% of today's FPS.
This is the same as the music community recognizing "Sh-Boom" by the Chords to still be one of the greatest songs of all time, or watching older sci-fi movies in HD. You know the technology is archaic in today's time, but it's still excellent thanks to the content in the movie or the song.
In the end, I found this review to be a healthy challenge of weighing ambition to the dated mechanics. In addition, it should be noted that this remake started out at only 800 MS Points, rather than 1200 like almost every other FPS on the arcade marketplace since...'09/'10. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.
Upon reading criticims, I recalibrated the scores in gameplay & sound. Although I'm not forced to diligently follow averages when weighing in the final score, the category scores may have come off as being too divisive with the overall score, which may have caused some head scracthing. I was wrong in giving this game some scathing remarks when understanding that they still feel complete and functional.
I'm truly sorry for the rubber banding of the overall score, and hope my apology (and changes) can alleviate some of the frustration. As stated before, feel free to PM me with any questions (since I'm out of bubbles). Once again, sorry for any of the frustration this may have caused.
Howw many people play online?
2.) Even though I thought I stated it perfectly in the review, I'm going to restate why this remake has a 9.0/10 : When observing the sum of its parts, this games screams dated (as to be expected with a 10 years old game); however, when examining the WHOLE game, you'll be treated with a remake that's overflowing with a vast array of options that are in a greater abundance than 90% of today's FPS.
This is the same as the music community recognizing "Sh-Boom" by the Chords to still be one of the greatest songs of all time, or watching older sci-fi movies in HD. You know the technology is archaic in today's time, but it's still excellent thanks to the content in the movie or the song.
In the end, I found this review to be a healthy challenge of weighing ambition to the dated mechanics. In addition, it should be noted that this remake started out at only 800 MS Points, rather than 1200 like almost every other FPS on the arcade marketplace since...'09/'10. Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions.
I'm truly sorry for the rubber banding of the overall score, and hope my apology (and changes) can alleviate some of the frustration. As stated before, feel free to PM me with any questions (since I'm out of bubbles). Once again, sorry for any of the frustration this may have caused.