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Metareview - Okami

Capcom's Okami for the PS2: The reviews have it sounding like a very legitimate contender for game of the year. Really, this thing is getting 9s and 10s all over the place, and some are calling it a top-notch Zelda with paint brush graphics. Here's a sampling of critiques:

Siesser6274d ago

I'm about 12 hours in, and can feel that I'm barely scratching the surface of this game. It's truly a great experience, much like Shadow of the Colossus; it just makes you FEEL like you're playing something special.

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Unheard of: The Best Boxing Games on the PS2

Take it to the ring and punch him in the face with this great list featuring the best boxing games on the PS2.

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altarofgaming.com
Terry_B2d ago

Ready 2 Rumble 2. The rest is not important.

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10 Worst PS2 Games of All Time

Uncover some of the PlayStation 2's worst failures. From shovelware to ports, these games probably made Team Ico wince.

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anast2d ago

I only played Deathmatch at a party and it's a bad game, but yeah the rest of those look not fun.

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Embracer CEO confirms TimeSplitters studio faces closure before Christmas

TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design faces closure before Christmas, Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors has privately acknowledged.

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Obscure_Observer3d ago

I hope those (selectively) against acquisition of studios are now satisfied.

Nitrowolf23d ago (Edited 3d ago )

What does this even mean lol, this very studio was formed out of a acquisition (purchase of the IP)

How does that in any way serve towards your comment

Not to mention the layoffs from Embracer

Obscure_Observer3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

"How does that in any way serve towards your comment"

Had Xbox acquired that studio from Embracer before gone, you know N4G would gone riot.

Nitrowolf23d ago

????
So you're making up scenarios for a studio that was created for the sole purpose of this IP, for console warring?? Where has Xbox ever said they were interested in buying them, and vice versa?

Where's this assumption that they would want to even save them? If that was the case, we would never have any studio closure.

Crows903d ago

@obscure

Wow...cant even begin to imagine the lengths you take to be so inaccurate.

This studio has barely released anything in the last decade. You think people would've rioted? The contrary. It wouldve been an investment into elevating the studio to be able to bring back timesplitters. I wouldve been grateful.

shinoff21833d ago

He's basically saying ms acquisition is good embracer bad

mastershredder2d ago

^ Obscure observer is denser than lead.
Obscure’s mouth flaps, and a whole lot of stupid comes out every freak’n time.

northpaws2d ago

@Nitrowolf2

Don't even try, Obscure_Observer has the special power to make every single news into a "XBox good, PS bad" story, powered by infinite amount of delusion, you can't win.

ocelot072d ago

He just liked to ramble and spout nonsense. Just politily nod and back away slowly.

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Crows903d ago

Tell me how ignorant you are without telling me how ignorant you are.

ChiefofLoliPolice2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Dude Obscure_Observer is a complete idiot. He always and I mean ALWAYS make comments and responses that make no absolutely NO sense. Trying to get that moron to learn anything is like trying to teach calculus to a drywall.

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-Foxtrot3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Jesus

People lose their jobs before Christmas

Obscure_Observer: "BETTER USE THIS TO CALL OUT THOSE PESKY MS HATERS AND BIG MS UP"

I hope those (selectively) who wonder why you get disagreed to oblivion are now satisfied.

Profchaos2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

Xbox dont want studios they want publishers and all the studios that come with it and this isn't even about them not everything is a Xbox slander piece

ziggyzinfirion2d ago

Obscure_Observer

No offense but I think you seriously need to see a doctor.

shadowknight2032d ago

I'm pretty sure Obscure_Observer gets a kick after each comment he reads that bashes him (Some people are like that). He would stop eventually if people simply stopped replying to him altogether lol. But then, maybe everyone who fuels his behavior also gets a kick out of it too

Mr_cheese2d ago

The ultimate satirical troll of N4G strikes again.

But... but... but.... if xbox.

Behave yourself.

1Victor2d ago (Edited 2d ago )

@obscured:”I hope those (selectively) against acquisition of studios are now satisfied.”

Translation by google translate from Xbox fanboy to reality

“I hope those (selectively) in favor acquisition of studios are now satisfied.”
Well when you eat more than you can chew ether you choke to death or poke out, unfortunately when corporations play monopoly thousands of employees families suffer. 😩

Obscure_Observer2d ago

1Victor

"Well when you eat more than you can chew ether you choke to death or poke out, unfortunately when corporations play monopoly thousands of employees families suffer. 😩"

Check your facts and tell that to Sony which fired hundreds of people while shutting down studios and canceling games in the last few years.

shinoff21832d ago

Sony didn't lay off 10k people. Ms did though. Wtf is wrong with you.

Obscure_Observer2d ago

@shinoff2183

1Victor was talking about "eating more than you can chew" and all Sony has been doing lately is layoff hundreds of people at *Playstation* including Bungie which under Playstation is 8% smaller after just one year despite the fact that Sony paid 1.2 Billion dollar for talent retention.

The layoffs at MS you mentioned only hit a small fraction at 343i at the time. No other Xbox first studio was affected!

SIE is getting people fired left and right, not to mention cancelling games and shutting down first party studios.

Talk about "eat more than you can chew".

Barlos2d ago

I just can't take you seriously.

You're either a troll or you have some serious mental health problems.

Obscure_Observer2d ago

I don´t give a flying f* about what you think about me dude.

Read my name, scroll down and spare both of our time replying to my comments. It´s simple as that.

thorstein2d ago

In the old days on N4G, trolls like obscure would only be allowed one comment per article.

I miss bubbles... and Cat (Legendary Queen of the Mods)