I’m not the only person on my side here. Check out some of the links in my blogroll and you will see my same opinion repeated. Maybe not as crudely as mine, but the underlying theme is the same. There are flaws, the game is good, but not amazing(for me).

Ive gone beyond bitching about scores, I can just say the game is good, I don’t think its ‘incredible’. I don’t really think that the fact that you get used to them is any reason to support the controls. If you play any game at all with the worst control system you will get used to it because that’s how you know it plays.

I’d still call MK and SF2 great games, because they still are. You can pick it up and bar the initial OMG WHATS HE DOING TO THAT GUYS SPINE? moments, the game is still the same. It’s sure as hell not incredible now, and it wasn’t back then, it was just a new spin on the genre as a whole, as opposed to the rehashed sequels.

But like the Zero Punctuation review says, if you can get past the tedium in the first dozen hours and the constant stopping of action, im sure it’s great. I just havent gotten past all the boring tutorial missions yet.

Ok, I don’t know how many other ways to explain that.

The hype was huge and I didn’t expect it to deliver on it. For me, it HAS. I could go into all the details why but you can go off and read the countless reviews that agree with me

I can’t put the game down. I certainly can’t be bothered to pick anything else up to play. In fact, I can’t really be bothered to READ about anything else right now (so nice work on this post!).

I’d definitely say to you to give it more play time. I don’t think I was appreciating how good it was that early in the game. The story takes a bit to get into. Some of the funny characters aren’t until later than that. And the controls you don’t like (which neither did I at first) become natural and comfortable. The gradual/slow camera turn work well when combined with the other analog control (at least on 360 it does). If it were fast it’d be much harder in crazy situations to keep control. It’d overcompensate. I’m sure they tested it to death and figured that one out. The manual analog can be used slightly to get extra turn on the corners. All stuff you figure out and mold with the longer you play.

I know you’ll never agree to 10/10 but do follow up when you cover the MP (which is just crazy fun) and say whether it has grown on you at all cos I think it will if you give it a chance.