Bloodborne Review in Progress | IGN

IGN:
"As the crumpled corpse of one of Bloodborne’s hulking boss monstrosities disintegrated at my feet, that peculiar mixture of relief, bliss, and nagging jabs of dread returned. It’s a particular feeling that’s all but absent in the space between From Software games, and a testament to the potency of the studio’s action role-playing formula. The mechanical basis of Bloodborne shares much in common with the Dark Souls games, albeit with an aggressive new pace of combat that serves to strip away even more comfort from what little exists in those games. Despite a few technical oversights that poke holes in the dense, immersive experience that Bloodborne otherwise wraps around you, it’s thus far been an enthralling, exhausting, and utterly exhilarating journey."

[DarkOcelet]

This game better get higher score than Evolve IGN. 9.5/10 is the least you should give this game.

[Jalva]

It might just win GOTY, still not gonna be easy though as the competition is brutal, The Witcher 3, Arkham Knight and MGSV are all fighting for that crown too.

[DarkOcelet]

There are many beauties coming this year. Its a great year to be a gamer.

[Rimeskeem]

I hope Bloodborne wins at least a GOTY award from somewhere.

[Deadlead]

The scores coming in are huge! And usually IGN comes in at or around the the metacritic average so I'm guessing 9.25-9.5

[chrismichaels04]

Bloodborne is getting some great scores across the board. GameInformer gave it a 9.75. Everyone else is giving it around 9.0 scores. As of right now, its sitting on a 93 on metacritic with almost 30 reviews. Not a bad start at all. Definitely the biggest new game release of March and a great addition to the PS4 library.

[Kingthrash360]

Bet they give it a 8 for hits.....8.5 at most...mark my words.

[-Foxtrot]

Don't remind me of that....9.5 for Evolve <sigh>

Seriously something went on for that game

Not one reviewer mentioned the lacking content or the fact it's full to the brim with DLC packs you have to buy

[DarkOcelet]

They probably got the game,dlc and something else for free. And we are the ones paying for it.

[dcj0524]

Angry Joe mentioned it.

[DragonKnight]

You think this will be bad? I'm waiting to see what Polygon gives it.

"Blood represents institutionalized misogyny that was rampant in Victorian England. 2/10 -Ben Kuchera"

[Jason_Plays_PC]

The game is getting great reviews no need to worry about ign,s review, they lost the last of their credibility when they gave alien isolation 6.5 and evolve 9.5.. They review based on swag bags and checks.

[Cra2yey3]

Evolve got a 9.0 just for the record. People just brush off other people's words I noticed. The first comment meant he wanted Bloodborne to get at least a 9.5 cause he doesn't want it in the same catogory as Evolve.

[bloop]

I actually passed on Isolation after the negative reviews but picked it up when it was on sale on the PSN store there a couple of months ago. 6.5 for that game is ridiculous. At least an 8.5 in my opinion anyway. I don't think they'll score Bloodborne low though, not with all the other positive reviews going around. I was going to wait to get this as I have a huge backlog of games at the moment. Halfway through the Witcher 2, on the last few final missions of FC4 and have Dragon Age sitting on my ps4 hdd not even started yet. With all these 9's coming in I think BB is going to jump to the top of the queue though :-/

[-Foxtrot]

The thing is about Isolations review is that IGN's might be too low but other sites gave it a score too high.

Least IGN noted the faults of the game

I mean it was good but no where near a 9, 9.5 or 10.

[miyamoto]

The game site reviewers has CHANGED their approach in reviewing Bloodborne.

The reviews come as a discussion/analysis review with two gamers discussing rather than the view of just one person.

Very interesting take on reviews.

Example:
Videogamer
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Games Radar
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Very informative.
This game changes a lot of things

[mushroomwig]

I'm expecting high praise from IGN, I can't think of a reason why they wouldn't praise it.

[DarkOcelet]

Too many 9's and 10's out there. IGN 5/10

[dcj0524]

I don't like video games 6/10

[badz149]

too dark, no variety in colour pallete and no quickscope - 5/10!

[Aceman18]

IGN 6.5/10 just because we can :)

[StormLegend]

IGN Italia gave it an 9.4

[foxmccloud]

Congrats to Sony on a great exclusive game.

First AAA game this gen with this level of acclaim, gonna be a hit. Sony got the 90+ games on lock so far.

[XiMasterChief]

Dude how can you they got the 90+ games when it's only been 3 months so far in 2015.

[foxmccloud]

I know, just so far...

[AsunaYuukiTheFlash]

IGN: Too much blood. 2/10

[AstroCyborg]

that sounds just like what ign would complain about

[dudebrokiller]

Do they have to put the review up before release?

[Der_Kommandant]

Review in Progress?

Well.. Here's my comment

http://www.schultzlawoffice...

[James Vanderbeek]

getting this. never really played a game like this

[LAWSON72]

To much blood... 7.5

[outsider1624]

too hard...7.5

[Bathyj]

IGN's Borderlands review is up. No review in progress?

Does anyone else feel like IGN are still trying to find something about Bloodbourne they dont like?

[pwnsause_returns]

they probably want to try out the servers first before giving it a score,

[kenwonobi]

I think they are writing down any glitch they can find and looking for cliche bad review sayings as we speak.

[Str8Chaos74]

I think it depends on who reviews it. I could see it getting a lower score because it's too hard or too long like Alien Isolation, and it seems a lot of their reviewers have a FPS bias in my opinion.

[Bathyj]

Well it doesnt really matter. Its not like we need the mighty IGN USA to tell us this is a good game. They might be wrapped up in their own self importance but Im not. It just a shame when to see sites trying to drag the average down or get clicks for controversy.

[Str8Chaos74]

Agreed, all I know is the reviews are good and more importantly it looks like a game I would enjoy so I am going to buy it tonight and enjoy it. Hope you do as well.

[rainslacker]

Gives them an extra hit. Considering many outlets have their reviews ready, it makes me wonder what they've been doing the past couple of weeks when they likely received their review copy.

[Bathyj]

They would have as believe theyre just being thorough and the like, but I feel like theyre just looking for dirt. Probably waiting for the launch day server load that every game has now so they can complain about it.

[quenomamen]

Well if it was titled COD Bloodborne then IGN would probably be given it a 9.5. But since it doesnt then Im thinking 8.5 - 9.0

[DC777]

Hopefully the real review won't be written in this Edgar Allan Poe wanna be gibberish.

[Crummybear]

I'm pretty sure this is the same guy who reviewed The Order. I don't know why they use Joe Schmo for this review. Does Marty not do reviews, because he seems like he loves the game. This other guy, I'm not so sure...

[kenwonobi]

Ps4 officially has the highest rated exclusives of this generation if you go back and check metacritic. With this release that puts The Last of Us and Bloodbourne as the only two exclusives from either console above a 90. Then there are the great score of Resogun and its sequals, Second Son, Transistor, and of course Drive Club which was a good game after the update of weather. Ps4 has the best exclusives if you go by score. It was kinda already known they would have highly scored exclusives. Thats what they do. This year is supposed to be the best year yet. So enjoy.