- Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:37 am
#33964
It’s all about first impressions and in that regard Driv3r was a piece of crap. Buggy with mundane mission tasks, the game was doomed to fail.
We the hardcore and loyal fans played the game endlessly and really appreciated the driving as well as the film director but the average gamer just plays the story (most don’t even finish it) and tries out the mini games a little bit and that’s it. Driv3r required a legitimate time investment to appreciate but most didn’t do that. And to be fair the game was rushed and clearly not finished and rightfully deserved most of the criticisms it got.
The PC version was the same damn game with the same damn problems and it released after San Andreas so it was obvious it would score lower then the original 5.4.
DPL on the other hand was finished but was nothing more then a carbon copy of a 4 year old game at the time of its release so how can you expect scores of 9 or whatever?
Gertsmann is actually a pretty good reviewer. It’s true his D3 review was overly harsh but to the casual gamer it reigned true. 1 other thing to add is the fact that Atari paid off 2 magazines to give the game a high score pre-launch and when that info leaked it gave the industry a bad name and ultimately D3 paid for it.
max.thunder wrote:Score: 5.4 by Gamespot, WTF?. Driv3r was great
Double Mac wrote: Well… I can only hope that Mr. Gerstmann – who also penned the lukewarm DPL review (‘it's better than Driver 3, but that doesn't make it a success’) – abstains from gracing us with his account of DSF. The way I see it, he simply lacks the qualifications.I don't really want to get to into this too much since it’s basically a 6 year old discussion but I'll say 1 thing. You guys are missing the golden point when it comes to reviewing games. They don't spend a hundred hours on a game and that's why a product like Driv3r got almost nothing but bad reviews.
It’s all about first impressions and in that regard Driv3r was a piece of crap. Buggy with mundane mission tasks, the game was doomed to fail.
We the hardcore and loyal fans played the game endlessly and really appreciated the driving as well as the film director but the average gamer just plays the story (most don’t even finish it) and tries out the mini games a little bit and that’s it. Driv3r required a legitimate time investment to appreciate but most didn’t do that. And to be fair the game was rushed and clearly not finished and rightfully deserved most of the criticisms it got.
The PC version was the same damn game with the same damn problems and it released after San Andreas so it was obvious it would score lower then the original 5.4.
DPL on the other hand was finished but was nothing more then a carbon copy of a 4 year old game at the time of its release so how can you expect scores of 9 or whatever?
Gertsmann is actually a pretty good reviewer. It’s true his D3 review was overly harsh but to the casual gamer it reigned true. 1 other thing to add is the fact that Atari paid off 2 magazines to give the game a high score pre-launch and when that info leaked it gave the industry a bad name and ultimately D3 paid for it.
driver4_ wrote:Yes both of my avatar and sig are from the latest game from 2008. In America it's called SIREN: Blood Curse (Download only, 9 gigs!) but I imported mine from ASIA which was in full english, so it took up less HD space, on disk and it is uncensored. In ASIA it's called, SIREN: New Translation.Yea I'm familiar with it, I played the demo and enjoyed it but the fact that it was separated into 12 parts that each required downloads and installations really turned me off. I still have the original Siren on PS2 - good game. Hopefully the next one offers the choice to download or purchase at the store for North American players.
PostalDude wrote:I mean winning the awards).I know hey, its been a long time coming but it's nice to see that the series is finally on the comeback. I wonder from which publication or site the best racing game nominee is from? Where did you find that pic Nick?