Absolutely brilliant - why in the world did it score so bad on gamespot?
It is a truly brilliant game. It is not legendary and much work can be done on it to improve it to come near legendary but it even has improvements on GTA. It took GTA out of the box and improved it. However, GTA stays GTA and will always be legendary whereas Scarface can become a legend but more work would need to be done on it.
It has innovations that the next GTA should definetely incorporate, if they're smart. You gotta own fronts, upgrade your mansion, buy and sell different stuff and win territories.
I absolutely love it and would definetely play more games out of this franchise if they do decide to turn it into a franchise series which I doubt they will since this has is already seen and it is hard ti improve much on it, but I still love these kind of games as many of you do and for a reason, they fun even if you're not going after your main or even side mission.
I am thinking between marking it as 8.5 or 9. It definetely deserves to be 8.5 since it is truly awesome but does it deserve to get 9 and enter the Legendary Games living area? When I mark a game with 10 it is an absolute legend and you gotta play it before you die. 9's are just short walk behind them because they didn't have that extra umph or whatever you wanna call it (perhaps the X factor?).
I actually like it so much that I don't want it to go amongst some other games that I gave 8.5 or 8 but which I think are of a whole lower rank than this game, so this one has to get a 9. Absolute fun of a game, it probably got a poor score because of the GTA monopoly.
My marking system is as follows:
10 - Absolute Legend
9 - Must Be Played
8 - Excellent and Worth Your Time
7 - Worth playing if you have nothing else to play
6 - worh playing if you have nothing to play and are incredbly bored and have not got absolutely anything else to do. (Barely playable/enjoyable).
I don't give marks 1-5 as if a game starts sucking I don't finish it, so I only review the games that are barely playable (6) to the absolutely amazingly incredible ones (10).
I will also probably keep my reviews short as I don't like discovering too much about the gameplay. I only like to give my quick opinion and get on with life.
Best Wishes to everyone,
Zak