>>> Give Halo Wars a Better Review!

6.5? Honestly? I would be willing to accept the concept of Halo Wars not living up to all the hype, but the demo I played was worthy of a higher score than that! Halo Wars does a great job at being a fun, immersive Halo-based RTS that's fast-paced and totally intuitive on the Xbox 360. I never knew an RTS could even be this easy with a controller. Yes, it sounds like the campaign is disappointingly short, and I can understand that knocking off about a star. But this reviewer seems to have compared the game ruthlessly to a PC RTS, complaining about, for example, the lack of ability to form control groups, though the game's intuitive group-forming selection achieved by pressing down on the D-pad is very easy to use. Also complaining about the lack of many diverse multiplayer modes shows a hardcore RTS player, while the game never claimed to be targetted towards such an audience. Also his gripe about the lack of Flood as a playable race is pure taste - personally I am glad they didn't, I think that would have been cheesy and badly balanced if they stayed close to the perception of the Flood as given in the Halo trilogy, and too radical of a re-imagining if they had been able to balance the Flood as a comparably diverse and controllable race.

Basically I'm asking for a more realistic, properly targetted review from Gamespot USA. What say you?

Its not the review that matters, its the player all the way, we are what matter to game developers, as long as we the players enjoyed the game, thats all they care about.

POWER TO THE PLAYERS!

gamespot reviews are jokes, they used to be good, but now they are very lackluster, i mean the left for dead review got an 8.5, i played the game, and found it to be one of the best, solid, and incredibley fun games in a while, and that was from the single player standpoint

GAMESPOT!!!!! GET YOUR FREAKING REVIEWS RIGHT!!!!

A review is ONE persons opinion. No reason to CHANGE there opinion of the game. If they didnt enjoy it, they didnt enjoy it, simple as that.

The demo was pretty average imo. Ill rent the game later on, but RTS games on consoles just havnt been very good so far.

The company who made the game has made some fantastic games in the past (age of empires1-3 and age of mythology), but Halo Wars demo wasnt enjoyable at all.

Just judge the game for yourself man, so many reviews i dissagree with, so i dont pay them much attention at all.

Gamespot gave Lost Odyssey, Last Remnant, Mass Effect (360) and The Witcher (PC) below AAA status, and those are some of my fav games and rpgs this gen.

GameSpot is supposed to reflect their opinions onto us when reviewing a game; not only telling us what their opinion of it was, but also predicting how WE would feel about the game after playing it. If they're here to tell us how they feel only, that's pretty shallow. Depth is professionalism. Their score is definitely supposed to support our opinion on the game.

In other words, I don't go onto GameSpot thinking "I wonder if Zelda: Twilight Princess is everything [GameSpot editor] wants in a game or hates in a game." I go on thinking at least "Will I like it if I play it? Does his opinion reflect how I would or could feel?"

To sum it up, GameSpot is guaranteeing 6.5 out of 10 on this product, Halo Wars. I guarantee you from the overall feelings on this game that 6.5 is a nincompoop's judgment of how everyone else feels about this product.

If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.ryokinshin6x3

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.please-help

[QUOTE="please-help"][QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.ryokinshin6x3

6.5? Honestly? I would be willing to accept the concept of Halo Wars not living up to all the hype, but the demo I played was worthy of a higher score than that! Halo Wars does a great job at being a fun, immersive Halo-based RTS that's fast-paced and totally intuitive on the Xbox 360. I never knew an RTS could even be this easy with a controller. Yes, it sounds like the campaign is disappointingly short, and I can understand that knocking off about a star. But this reviewer seems to have compared the game ruthlessly to a PC RTS, complaining about, for example, the lack of ability to form control groups, though the game's intuitive group-forming selection achieved by pressing down on the D-pad is very easy to use. Also complaining about the lack of many diverse multiplayer modes shows a hardcore RTS player, while the game never claimed to be targetted towards such an audience. Also his gripe about the lack of Flood as a playable race is pure taste - personally I am glad they didn't, I think that would have been cheesy and badly balanced if they stayed close to the perception of the Flood as given in the Halo trilogy, and too radical of a re-imagining if they had been able to balance the Flood as a comparably diverse and controllable race.

Basically I'm asking for a more realistic, properly targetted review from Gamespot USA. What say you?

fionndruinne

Blind in your case meaning as long as they don't give the games I like bad scores I'll stick by them. Averages are obviously something you couldn't understand considering your fine calling anyone who doesn't think GS sucks a fanboy. Sad really.

[QUOTE="please-help"][QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"] Please don't embarrass yourself here, you have no idea how much weight I put on GS reviews and you all seem perfectly happy bashing them because it does not fall in line with what you want. Sad really.ryokinshin6x3

Blind in your case meaning as long as they don't give the games I like bad scores I'll stick by them. Averages are obviously something you couldn't understand considering your fine calling anyone who doesn't think GS sucks a fanboy. Sad really.

I think Halo Wars deserves much better then what Gamespot's review, does that mean Gamespot is completely out of line by giving it 6.5? No. Other reviews have also confirmed that this game is of quality, but it still does not say the 6.5 from this site is meaningless, that is what I'm saying. If the score was like 5.0, then we have a problem.

To the above, if anything you said even made remote sense to what we were talking about, it was lost in your own rambling.

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"][QUOTE="please-help"] aw, "sad really." man i hate comments like those- i have no idea nor do i care how heavily influenced you are by gamespot. they're are other places that give reviews that aren't so blind.powlicious

Blind in your case meaning as long as they don't give the games I like bad scores I'll stick by them. Averages are obviously something you couldn't understand considering your fine calling anyone who doesn't think GS sucks a fanboy. Sad really.

haha, i dont know how stupid and narcisstic you are, but what your are writing is such a b*llsh*t :D

to judge a game for something it wanted never to be ist... stupid.

to review a game and call it "perfect"... is stupid.

to believe its the "way of a reviewer" to just post his opinion... is STUPID.

reviewers have to be neutral and objective. they have to find a balance for ALL kind of gamers. not just posting a freaky stupid review loser opinion oô most reviews didnt have the time to play a game at its fullest and they mostly are tired playing. not flexibal... not such open to new things like new gamers. and there are MANY new gamers out there.

and btw. i dislike gta iv. badest gta ever in my eyes. for me it was really boring. but it got a 10.0. 10 means... every gamer... independend of your favourite genre, its a suck-you-in-and-its-a-very-unique-experience-game...

got the point?

guess i am just tired and my english is a little bad :> i am missing objectivity in reviews... and i see that most reviewers truly just post a selfopinion. and thats not their job. i got the feeling that the reviewer here was awaiting another kind of rts here and he didnt review the game for what it is.

it would be okay to just point it out...dont think its a high micromanagment game with much units... not to say. its not high micromanagment and simple so its bad. thats just a stupid review.

guess i am just tired and my english is a little bad :> i am missing objectivity in reviews... and i see that most reviewers truly just post a selfopinion. and thats not their job. i got the feeling that the reviewer here was awaiting another kind of rts here and he didnt review the game for what it is.

it would be okay to just point it out...dont think its a high micromanagment game with much units... not to say. its not high micromanagment and simple so its bad. thats just a stupid review.

I'm just saying, just because 10 reviewers say a game is 9/10, and one says 7/10, it doesn't mean you discredit that 7/10. Oh and please-help, I apologize for any insult, at the very least you are capable of civilized talk unlike a lot of people on here.ryokinshin6x3

If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.ryokinshin6x3

Well most other sites have been rating it around the 8.0 range...

But what can you do, the reviewer didn't like it so he didn't give it a good score. Everyone has the right to their own opinion.

Now with Halo Wars, when he says a short single campaign and lack of multi features are not fantastic, that is true and obviously he put weight on that for his number score. Will that mean it is not a fantastic game in the end? OXM certainly thinks not. I actually don't understand any Wii game review, but that is something for another time.ryokinshin6x3

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.MrSlippery39

Well most other sites have been rating it around the 8.0 range...

But what can you do, the reviewer didn't like it so he didn't give it a good score. Everyone has the right to their own opinion.

[QUOTE="MrSlippery39"]

[QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"]If you think the GS review score is completely out of line, your fanboyism is in the way of understanding anything.please-help

Well most other sites have been rating it around the 8.0 range...

But what can you do, the reviewer didn't like it so he didn't give it a good score. Everyone has the right to their own opinion.

I will end it with this. What is fun is not always good, but what is good will always be fun.ryokinshin6x3

OH LORDY LORD!!!!

GOD FORBID THE REVIEWERS GIVE AN HONEST OPINION OF THEIRS ON A GAME...

No I'm just kidding. I'm no screamer troll. But seriously OP, no butthurtin over the review for christs sakes. If you loved this game more power to you broski.

I played the demo. It was a little simple for my tastes in RTS, I am used to doing more. BUT on a console, it met my expectations at the door, and along the tour managed to wow me. It was a GOOD RTS on a console. Something I once claimed impossible.

I hope they make a PC version (If there isn't one while I'm writing this at least. Forgot to check and I'm too lazy to multitab on my browser). But I will consider any PC version garbage UNLESS it is made more complex to meet the amount of extra abilities a PC opens up. For the console, it is perfect. But that type of simplicity is stupid for the PC when it comes to RTS, it would be like scraping on the smallest bit of potential off the idea.

Generally, I set quite a lot of store by Gamespot reviews, and to their credit, I've agreed with their scores in the main on most games I've bought.

I was really surprised to see such a low score for this game; past previews have implied that its simplicity is one of its strengths (in terms of control setup and playability on a console) and yet it seems to have been penalised for this now. I think the comments about a short campaign are well made and if that is indeed true, I won't be best pleased about shelling out for a short single-player experience and a weak multiplayer experience. I guess CoD4 with its equally short single-player experience scored points for having a much stronger multiplayer behind it....

I think marking the game down for being aimed at more casual RTS players is almost missing the point a little. Perhaps it was intended to be a little more accessible to HALO fans as FPS players, rather than HALO fans as hardcore RTS addicts. I've seen a few games try and be all things to all people, and fall flat, and I did suspect that Halo Wars would never be a 'hardcore RTS' experience. I just don't really personally agree with giving the game such a harsh demerit for being pitched at a more varied audience, than perhaps your 'Civillisation' or 'Command & Conquer' might be.

As for me, well, I'm not a massive RTS fan, largely due to the fact that I never seem to be very good at them, but for me, the fact that it's more simple than a traditional RTS, and geared towards a more casual experience, makes me want to play it even more, because that's part of the appeal. Like I said, for those reasons, I personally don't agree with the review score (although I can understand it, Ijust don't agree with it) but that said, I'm still going to pick this up.

Its not the review that matters, its the player all the way, we are what matter to game developers, as long as we the players enjoyed the game, thats all they care about.

POWER TO THE PLAYERS!

mackey12345

[QUOTE="please-help"][QUOTE="ryokinshin6x3"] Please don't embarrass yourself here, you have no idea how much weight I put on GS reviews and you all seem perfectly happy bashing them because it does not fall in line with what you want. Sad really.ryokinshin6x3

Blind in your case meaning as long as they don't give the games I like bad scores I'll stick by them. Averages are obviously something you couldn't understand considering your fine calling anyone who doesn't think GS sucks a fanboy. Sad really.

Dude, calm down, Gamespot was good... Till Jeff left, then all the reviews started to slowly bomb in quality and truthfulness, Giantbomb is alot better, and they have alot more fun whilst reviewing.

And remember now, Don't pay attention to Gamespot!

POWER TO THE PLAYERS.

its not bad most people are saying that because they are fans of halo.

player gave it a 9/10