Metroid Prime 2 review at gamespot

Swifty

9.1

Not too shabby! Only makes me want it even more. Think I'll place me a pre-order in Smyths after work.

http://www.gamespot.com/gamecube/action/metroidprime2/review.html

rainbow kirby

I now officially want a time machine to fast forward to the 26th so I can buy this.

Gileadi

surely they have a time machine out in the ucd science department,just ask that nasa guy from physics department

Steven

In my (admittedly modest) opinion, the rating system over at gamespot isn't worth the tiny pieces of hard drive it's writted on. Any system that only allows gameplay, the most important facet of any game on any platform, to account for 20% of the total score and gives equal values to graphics, sound, value and tilt. Although, they do use the tilt to push up the scores of better games with poor graphics or sound, it's all just a bit too mechanical for my liking.

Anyway, back on topic. Metroid Prime was a fantastic 3d conversion of one of my favourite game series of all time and it looks like they've improved on it once more. Death to the nasty smelly Space-Pirates and the Ing! Long live the Luminoth!

balkieb2002

american advert for the game @ http://www.gamebiz.com.au/content/metroidpri2_spot_wm.zip (only 3+mb)

also website here: http://www.metroid.com/prime/

Retr0gamer

91%?

They seemed to love it except the bolted on multiplayer but only gave it 91%?

i_am_dogboy

Well in most cases rating schemes are bull****.....so i wouldn't mind that they only gave it 9.1, they seemd to like it from reading the review. Sure didn't they only give homeworld 7 or something?

nesthead

dont need to read any reviews or see any trailers of this.... i will be buying it on the 26th (24th or 25th if im lucky)

TheAlmightyArse

Any news on the length of the game? About the same as Metroid Prime or a shorter, typical length Metroid? I'll definetely be picking it up regardless, but it's a deciding factor in whether I buy this or Paper Mario 2 before Christmas.

Jim

http://www.metroid.com/main.htm

Official Echos webby.

[edit] major fappage on that site [/edit]

balkieb2002

balkieb2002 wrote:

also website here: http://www.metroid.com/prime/

Ahem

Jim

balkieb2002 wrote:

Ahem

Yea, thats a link to the Prime site, not the Echoes one.

Swifty

TheAlmightyArse wrote:

Any news on the length of the game? About the same as Metroid Prime or a shorter, typical length Metroid? I'll definetely be picking it up regardless, but it's a deciding factor in whether I buy this or Paper Mario 2 before Christmas.

The reviewer at gamespot states the game time clocked in at around 20 hours for him. Apparantly this doesn't include looking for the secret stuff too. 20 hours is pretty impressive. I can't remember my first completion time of the first game, think it was 10-12 hours.

astrofool

I HATE people who complain when games get too low a mark from someone they don't know, or that it should get 3% more or something stupid

/me glowers at retr0

Retr0gamer

I'm just saying that it seems a bit low for something that the reviewer had nothing but glowing praise for. It's a comment on the gamespot review system or else the reviewer who didn't take into account any negative aspects except the multiplayer game which most people aren't interested in.

KdjaCL

Retr0gamer wrote:

I'm just saying that it seems a bit low for something that the reviewer had nothing but glowing praise for. It's a comment on the gamespot review system or else the reviewer who didn't take into account any negative aspects except the multiplayer game which most people aren't interested in.

Look at all Gamespot highest review scores then look at who made them , then look at the frequency of the ads of the people who made the games they gave high scores to.(say that really fast)

Then do the maths

Gamespot suck Edge or Euorgamer tbh!

kdjac

Steven

The reviews can be helpful over there if you don't take the scoring system too seriously and the features can be helpful and/or entertaining (You also get news much quicker than waiting for a magazine). IGN, however, have the collective reviewing skills of a sack of blind marketing directors on speed.

Mr E

Keep track of the reviews here:

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/gamecube/metroidprime2echoes/

Main complaint seems to be the multiplayer aspect, and its dragging the scores down. Current average score is 92%.

Jim

Multiplayer means feck all to me (i have no friends).

i_am_dogboy

The only way they could make the multi player work is if they changed to time splitters type controls, which would make the single player game completely crap. Fair play to them for trying-and any way, i'm sure people will make up some fun morph ball related games rather than just run around and kill.

L5

i_am_dogboy wrote:

The only way they could make the multi player work is if they changed to time splitters type controls, which would make the single player game completely crap. Fair play to them for trying-and any way, i'm sure people will make up some fun morph ball related games rather than just run around and kill.

http://cube.ign.com


9.5 review

i_am_dogboy

L5 wrote:

http://cube.ign.com


9.5 review

huh? wha? I was just saying that metroid primes single player wouldn't work without it's controls......I'm confused.

evad_lhorg

hes sayin ign gave it 9.5/10 you fool!!


cant believe the multiplayer is bringing the scores down. if it wasnt there it would get much higher scores id say! how can thjey complain about a bigger 1 player with somethin extra added in? ****!

i_am_dogboy

yeah but i wanted to know how it related to my post...you fool

I didn't say i cared about the review score how the multi player changed the reviews....still confused.....

Jim

I don't think he meant to quote you.