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[Merlin]

Reviews

360

PGR3 9
Kameo 7
Condemned: Criminal Origins 6
Call Of Duty 2 7

PS2

Shadow of the Colssus 8
Soul Calibur 3 8
Guitar Hero 8
Rachet: Gladiator 7

PSP

GTA: Liberty City Stories 8

DS/GBA

Mario Kart DS 8
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 7
Sonic Rush 7
Gunstar super Heros 6

Multi

Prince of persia: The Two Thrones 7
Peter Jacksons King Kong 8
Stubbs the Zombie 6
Gun 5
The Warriors 6
The Matrix Path of Neo 5


Hype

TOCA 3
Tycoon City: New York
Test Drive Unlimited
Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Sim
WoW: The Burning Crusade
The Outfit
Metriod Prime Huntes
Seiken Densetsu
Lemmings
Resident Evil Deadly Silence
Timeshift
Driver: Parallel lines

Articles on

Black
Videogaming Books
An Audience with Hideo Kojimaa
HD
360

Making of

Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker

Time Extended on

Beyond Good and Evil

 

[Great King Bowser]

That cover looks almost 3D. Crazy.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Very high score for King Kong. I haven't been watching this game.

 

[Kiriku]

Kind of low score for Condemned.
Low score for Gun as well, but not too unreasonable IMO. I would rate it 6 myself.

 

[bitwise]

the warriors 6

yeah right.

well, i see edge still sucks ass for reviews.

 

[JMPovoa]

Reviews

360

PGR3 9
Kameo 7
Condemned: Criminal Origins 6
Call Of Duty 2 7

PS2

Shadow of the Colssus 8
Soul Calibur 3 8
Guitar Hero 8
Rachet: Gladiator 7

PSP

GTA: Liberty City Stories 8

DS/GBA

Mario Kart DS 8
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney 7
Sonic Rush 7
Gunstar super Heros 6

Multi

Prince of persia: The Two Thrones 7
Peter Jacksons King Kong 8
Stubbs the Zombie 6
Gun 5
The Warriors 6
The Matrix Path of Neo 5


Hype

TOCA 3
Tycoon City: New York
Test Drive Unlimited
Tourist Trophy: The Real Riding Sim
WoW: The Burning Crusade
The Outfit
Metriod Prime Huntes
Seiken Densetsu
Lemmings
Resident Evil Deadly Silence
Timeshift
Driver: Parallel lines

Articles on

Black
Videogaming Books
An Audience with Hideo Kojimaa
HD
360

Making of

Jimmy Whites Whirlwind Snooker

Time Extended on

Beyond Good and Evil

Does that cover have depth?!

Anyway, PGR3 getting a 9 is a bit surprising, since if i recall correctly, the previous PGRs didn't score that high.

Condemned is also a bit surprising, as usually Edge scores high for good single player games (and i think that from reviews, that's actually Condemned's selling point)

Call of Duty they surely felt didn't bring anything new to the picture, as maybe with Kameo. But that's just speculating. Could you give us more info on that?

 

[pilonv1]

You do realise a 5 and 6 aren't the equivilent of a Gamespot or EGM 5 or 6?

 

[heavy liquid]

I'm surprised that Call of Duty scored so low.

 

[bitwise]

You do realise a 5 and 6 aren't the equivilent of a Gamespot or EGM 5 or 6?

xplain

 

[Prine]

Good score for PGR3 and Kameo.

They awarded PGR2 with a 6


Pretty much confirms PGR3 as AAA title. Well done Bizzare!

 

[ram]

gun = matrix? no, no, no way! played both games and matrix doesnt even deserve a 2/10!

 

[pilonv1]

xplain

5 = Five
6 = Six

 

[itsinmyveins]

xplain

Edge doesn't just hand out scores like that. A 5 or 6 might still be a good game, and it's extremly rare to se a 10/10. Hell, even a 9/10 is rare. They actually follow the outlines for scoring games on a 1-10 basis. 5 is good. Below that.. Games ain't that good

 

[DarienA]

Warriors is only slighty better than Matrix? Shit I like Path of Neo and even I don't believe that hsit.

 

[bud]

Articles on

Black
Videogaming Books
An Audience with Hideo Kojimaa
HD
360

What's this about?

 

[Speevy]

PGR3 is the real deal, folks.

 

[DarienA]

PGR3 is the real deal, folks.

Now that you've confirmed it, it must be true.

 

[Xellotah]

Hmmm.. no Perfect Dark.

 

[JMPovoa]

Now that Edge confirmed it, it must be true.

Fixed.

 

[pilonv1]

5 is good. Below that.. Games ain't that good

5 is actually average. 6 is competent.

 

[Kiriku]

Edge doesn't just hand out scores like that. A 5 or 6 might still be a good game, and it's extremly rare to se a 10/10. Hell, even a 9/10 is rare. They actually follow the outlines for scoring games on a 1-10 basis. 5 is good. Below that.. Games ain't that good

Actually, shouldn't 5 represent "mediocre" in that case?

EDIT: or what pilonv1 said.

 

[JMPovoa]

Just for reference, Final Fantasy X got a 6 there.

 

[D2M15]

Actually, shouldn't 5 represent "mediocre" in that case?

5 represents 5: mercifully, they've stopped giving scores adjectives to explain them. Scores are numbers.

 

[MadFuzzy]

Just for reference, Final Fantasy X got a 6 there.

And they gave Unlimited Saga a 7. So there's your yardstick for their reviews. :lol

 

[itsinmyveins]

5 is actually average. 6 is competent.

Well, yes. I should have been more careful with my choice of word. 5 is a "okay" game -- or mediocre if you will. Below it you'll find crappy games of various degrees. When I said "good" I didn't mean "GOOD"

What I meant is that a game that scores 5-7 in Edge is likely to get 7.0-9.0 at IGN, or something around that vicinity.

 

[D2M15]

And they gave Unlimited Saga a 7. So there's your yardstick for their reviews. :lol

No, they didn't - it was either a 5 or a 6, I can't remember off-hand.

BUT THEY DID GIVE DOAX AN 8 LOL LOL LOL

 

[Screenboy]

Can you take a picture of the teaser for next month?

cheers

 

[itsinmyveins]

BUT THEY DID GIVE DOAX AN 8 LOL LOL LOL

Dude, everybody fucks up once in a while :lol

 

[D2M15]

Dude, everybody fucks up once in a while :lol

I thought they got it right, myself - I was just throwing out that score before someone comes along and claims they gave it a 9, like in every Edge scores thread.

Hang on, what am I doing in this thread?

 

[MadFuzzy]

No, they didn't - it was either a 5 or a 6, I can't remember off-hand.

I'm pretty sure they did you know, it definitely got a higher mark than FFX.

Can anyone remember the URL for the fan website that has all the Edge review scores in a searchable database, or is it long gone? It was based at a UK university I think.

Edit: it's here but it only goes as far as issue 121, which is the DOAXVB issue.

 

[itsinmyveins]

I thought they got it right, myself

Ah, maybe it's a good score, I dunno. I personally don't like any of the DOA-games so I shouldn't be the judge there

 

[pilonv1]

Edge scores are useless without the review text that accompanies them, DOAXBV is a prime example.

 

[itsinmyveins]

One thing:

Is pointless searching for reviewscores you don't like, because you'll find them in every magazine or on every site you've visited. And just cause you don't like their score it doesn't mean its not fair. It all depends on how they back it up. If they've got good reason to give a game a low score -- why should they do anything else?

 

[itsinmyveins]

Edge scores are useless without the review text that accompanies them, DOAXBV is a prime example.

Exactly. That's what I'm trying to say in my last post

 

[Rlan]

Any mention on whether Lemmings PSP is just a remake [or Lemmings + Oh No!], or a fully fledged new game?

 

[Troidal]

Looks like another interesting issue. Gotta pick this one up when it's out...

 

[Udde]

PGR3 got a 9?!?!? in EDGE?!?!?

 

[sirris]

Edge Covers >>>> Anything

 

[B E N K E]

PGR3 got a 9?!?!? in EDGE?!?!?

UK mags have a tendency to overrate British games. Edge has been guilty of this in the past, eventhough it's probably the magazine where it is least apparent.

 

[hadareud]

UK mags have a tendency to overrate British games. Edge has been guilty of this in the past, eventhough it's probably the magazine where it is least apparent.

PGR2 got a 6 allegedly - so even if overrated, that's quite a nice increase.

 

[cyberheater]

UK mags have a tendency to overrate British games. Edge has been guilty of this in the past, eventhough it's probably the magazine where it is least apparent.

Er... No.

 

[Tiberius]

PGR3 got a 9?!?!? in EDGE?!?!?

 

[Pug]

EDGE gave PGR2 7/10 by the way, not that it matters.

 

[Prine]

ahh right, thanks for clearing that up. It was either PGR2 or MK: DD

 

[Dave Long]

A 9 for PGR 3 in Edge definitely puts it as the number one 360 launch title IMO. I hope they shipped enough of them. I'm not even considering buying any other game at this point based on reviews. I'll rent some of the others, but PGR 3 seems like the only one worth owning from the launch lineup.

 

[fortified_concept]

W.... T.... F.... Edge gave PGR a 9? According to many reviews PGR3 resembles too much to PGR2. So there are two problems:

1) Edge reviews innovation. A 9? WTF?
2) Edge gave PGR2 a 7 iirc.

Something's fishy.

 

[Musashi Wins!]

If we're going to go simply by scores I'll take Edge over any other magazine.

Still don't understand the Warriors though. I think that was one of the surprises of the year.

 

[COCKLES]

Warriors is only slighty better than Matrix? Shit I like Path of Neo and even I don't believe that hsit.

Well let's be honest. Take away the iconic B-movie nature of the Warriors and 'Commeee outt to pplaaayyyaaaaeeee" and your left with a pretty mediocre beat-up em.

 

[Gamedude]

GamesTM >>> edge

 

[Musashi Wins!]

Well let's be honest. Take away the iconic B-movie nature of the Warriors and 'Commeee outt to pplaaayyyaaaaeeee" and your left with a pretty mediocre beat-up em.

I don't think so. The iconic B movie nature definitely works here, but we've had several beu's this year that were no where near as fun to play in their mechanics.