Rez HD

Mr E

Out today on the 360, looking forward to seeing what the fuss is all about. Eurogamer just gave it 10/10, so its at least as good as Halo 3 :rolleyes:

0ubliette

oh eurogamer, you and your inflated review scores.
Rez was great, i had it on the ps2 back in the day, but its certainly no 10/10.

Fnz

I have the original - so if I get this does it make me a graphics or achievements whore?

10/10 for 'select and delete' gameplay - yeah right. :rolleyes:

mcgovern

1UP gave it 10/10 also.
Since I love trance, I'll definetly be getting this!

Zapp Brannigan

I'll try the demo.

Riesen_Meal

I hate trance, can I put on some minimal?

lol

Never played rez, be a good time to start!

Retr0gamer

I heard you can put a second xbox 360 pad down your pants and get the full 'enjoyment' of using the DC transvibrator peripheral. Wonder if I could get it in my ar...

mpit

bretttp1

This'll bring back some memories, I used to play this for hours.
The funny thing is on the original Dream Cast instructions said to play it with the lights on and the music at a low volume, so naturally the best way is in the dark with all the dials at 11 !!

Retr0gamer

Just read the eurogamer review:

The game heaves and builds through a pregnancy, the birth of its finale a transcendental moment in videogames as each previous boss re-emerges, augmented and awesome.

What utter ****. Who pays these people to write this crap, I'd say the reviewer is probably a pompous Edge freelancer.

Still, excellent game, will be picking it up when I get the money.

Vyse

Great game. Have it for the dreamcast but it's packed away in the attic. Sound is great in 5.1. I think it is a case of style over gameplay but what style.

cosgrove80

Don't think I ever got past level 3 in my Dreamcast days. Might give it a go and put the demons of failure behind me

Lex_Diamonds

Still a great game. The new visuals and graphical filters you can apply are also ace! Time to get 100% in everything again...

0ubliette

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Just read the eurogamer review:



What utter ****. Who pays these people to write this crap, I'd say the reviewer is probably a pompous Edge freelancer.

Still, excellent game, will be picking it up when I get the money.

pretentious ****ing twaddle. i dunno how anyone can write such unmitigated ****e and take it seriously.
Great game tho, the hd makeover is great, the game still looks gorgeous, and playing it in 2008 on my hdtv, compared to 2002 playing it on a 14" portable tv makes a massive difference
im not a tehno fan either but the tracks in this game are ****ing bat**** mentalist brilliant

Fnz

Area 4 was my favourite. Excellent track 'Rock is Sponge' and a neat boss - no spoilers now.

Kiith

Played this for the first time last night and thought it was brilliant. Music was great, and the gameplay is pretty cool though. Will definatly pick it up when i finally get paid.

Julez

Had the demo for this on the dreamcast back in the day, didn't have a clue what it was about then... and don't have a clue what its about now!?!

jayteecork

Eurogamer gave Kula World 7/10 on the same day.
Eurogamer can got to hell as far as I'm concerned.
As for Rez, I've bought about 5 copies of the PS2 version second hand and sold them all on eBay for huge profits.
I think the game is absolutely bollocks.

silvine

Got it last night. It's perfect post-club gaming....


The 5.1 sound is the business.

Retr0gamer

jayteecork wrote: »

Eurogamer gave Kula World 7/10 on the same day.
Eurogamer can got to hell as far as I'm concerned.
As for Rez, I've bought about 5 copies of the PS2 version second hand and sold them all on eBay for huge profits.
I think the game is absolutely bollocks.

To be honest the guy who writes eurogamers retro reviews really doesn't have a clue. He has given some outrageously low scores to some absolute classics and probably plays the games for about 5 minutes.

jayteecork

Yeah.
Think I'm done with Eurogamer now.
Retro: What site do you use for your daily news and reviews?
I need to find a replacement.

quarryman

me too.

the only thing is EG seem to review EVERY game so its great to look back on scores for older games.

Retr0gamer

jayteecork wrote: »

Yeah.
Think I'm done with Eurogamer now.
Retro: What site do you use for your daily news and reviews?
I need to find a replacement.

Sad to say that eurogamer for me seems to be the best. They have some good reviewers but they also have their bad ones. I'd really only trust the good reviewers scores. The best sites for review scores are metacritic and gamerankings since you get an over view of all the game sites review scores.

Fnz

silvine wrote: »

It's perfect post-club gaming....

... if your eyes can focus on it.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The best sites for review scores are metacritic and gamerankings since you get an over view of all the game sites review scores.

1UP/EGM, Games™ and Eurogamer are the only ones on the Metacritic list I really pay any heed to. Edge sometimes but are, all to often, up their own ar... ....mpit. Are there any others that have 'cred' (of the street variety)?

tman

From the EG site;

A score of ten reflects a game that, within the reviewer's estimation, is something you must buy: this is the message we're trying to convey. On a basic level it's almost certainly the best quality game ever seen within the context of its genre, and that's why Eurogamer doesn't dish them out very often. A score of 10 usually applies to less than a trio of games in any given year.

I was almost in agreement until the last part, that just made me lol:p
EG is still one of my favourite sites, but as Retr0 said you need to only really listen to the regulars. This guy has just joined the twit that reviewed Resi 4 Wii edition on my list of people to ignore.

Played the first level and enjoyed it, but couldn't see myself every giving it more than 8/10...

Mr E

Played the first world up to the boss, the demo ended and I bought it.
Turned the lights off, turned the TV up, and had a blast... what a great game.

Loveless

yeah, you can imagine if they locked the Chemical Brothers and Kraftwek in a room together and made them come up with a game - Rez would be the end result.

I was going to download the demo the other night but seeing as the full game was the exact same size, I bought it. I found it a bit easier than the original Dreamcast version. I got all the way up to the end boss at Area 4 before being killed. (There is an another area to be unlocked aswell.)

So just to compare the two, I fired up my working Dreamcast a few days ago, and got about half way through Area 2 before being killed. Although the poxy DC controller design might have something to do with that :rolleyes:

Fnz

Loveless wrote: »

I was going to download the demo the other night but seeing as the full game was the exact same size, I bought it.

Many games on XBLA are the same size as their demo version. If you decide to buy after playing the demo you don't have to download it again, you simply download a tiny bit of data that unlocks the full game AFAIK.

Mr E

I'm still playing this every couple of days, and I'm up to area 5 (which is such a beautiful level, so its worth working your way through the first 4).

I know that eurogamer twat was going on about how "the birth of its finale a transcendental moment in videogames as each previous boss re-emerges, augmented and awesome." - truth is, it is kind of cool..... Got to the third one before dying.

koneko

Definitely, area 5 is fantastic, and it's just so great when the music kicks in properly on that one

fear is the mind killer

, a real turn-the-speakers-up-and-enjoy moment

Maddzy

Got this last night since some mates have been going on about it for years since the DC version. It really is an awesome game.