The elephant in the room - Kane & Lynch reviews :D

[ReNo]

Played it with a mate last night and we had a great time with it. We were going out so only planned on having a wee go, but we ended up getting to a fair bit through the Pagoda mission and not leaving for the pub until 10:30 I'm looking forward to starting again in single player, although I'm a little worried about the difficulty as we played on the hardest (a least initially unlocked) mode and found a few spots to be hugely challenging. Single player might prove a tad frustrating if the enemy numbers or whatever aren't scaled down a little.

From my experience so far I'd say its a 7/8 out of 10, but you seem to be most proud of the multiplayer which I've not even checked out yet so maybe that'll knock my estimate up a notch.

[Mazy]

Cool Reno, it brings joy to my heart that you're really enjoying it. But expect an epic difficulty spike when you reach Havana, I did D:

[ctswin]

Havana is a bitch

Having a great time too on co-op

[Mr. Happy]

I don't listen to reviewers really, it's entirely upto you at the end of the day whether the game is good or not, critics aren't always right.

Congrats on finishing it anyway Mazzle~

Exactly how I think. I'm going to pick this one up at any rate, I think the concept is really good, and appeals to me alot.

[ReNo]

Played from the start again in single player tonight, and didn't wanna stop playing until I hit the Havana mission. At that point I realised it was 1.30 so I should probably start thinking about getting some sleep Really enjoyed everything so far, and my fears about it maybe being too hard in single player if the coop were anything to go by were completely unfounded as I seem to be finding it quite a bit easier. Sounds like the Havana mission might change that however - I'd better get a real challenge or I'm gonna be disappointed Mazy

Tried to get a couple of rounds of Fragile Alliance in this evening too, but it kept giving me shit about connection problems and booting me back to the main menu I'll give that another shot tomorrow I guess - looking forward to some backstabbing action!

[Rick_D]

Well, I can't even give you my opinion as the game just crashes at the same place every single time; whilst loading the first mission. Every time without fail.

Mazy, do me a favour and put in a Mantis bug for that shit :S :S

I'm also massively pissed about the windows live shit - it's just a good thing I already have an account or it'd be a blatant slap in the face. Not too happy with the way Live is integrated into the game. Overall it makes it feel like the PC version was a very sloppy port.

This game had me very interested from day one; I don't know what happened during development but, no offence here, this seems like a really shoddy release. Was there a lot of unreasonable pressure from Eidos?

(also the install time is unbelievable - 30 minutes of copying files!)

[Rick_D]

sigh, a full reinstall and it's still fucked.

pathetic

[Sentura]

installed it and took a quickie (around 20 mins)

first impressions of gameplay were awesome. i really like the way the intro propels you into the story and the fact that it doesnt really look or sound like another generic shooter, which was my biggest fear since reading the reviews. also, some of the mechanics like the avoid the sniper minigame were pretty cool. graphics aside i think the game is, from what i've played, pretty solid. reminds me of freedom fighters, which is only a good thing. ;D

also, congrats mazy

[KungFuSquirrel]

Holy shit, if true: http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50134

[Algor]

The forums are looking equally hilarious;

http://forums.eidosgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=72

A lot of people seem to be obsessed with telling people to perform oral sex on them, and at the same time hating homosexuals. Are all of those posts by the same group of 12 year olds?

Edit: Having just seen the video review and been following most of the review scores on Gamerankings/Metacritic but not having played the game, it seems all of the reviewer's criticism were within reason. The score might seem a bit low based on his given opinion of the game, but some times you just don't seem to buy into a game for one reason or another, and you can't always change that. It seems absolutely ridonculous to fire him based on a harsh review when large amounts of advertising money is being thrown their way. I still can't come to a decision of who I think should be in the spotlight, but the situation definitely does not seem justified. Personally, Gamespot is generally notorious for laying down the law on game reviews, with providing strong reviews and enough reason behind the scores they give. It seems when there's money involved, there's a clear line in freedom of speech.

[Mazy]

Oh damn, I've heard this rumor from various management people at IO the last couple of days, but I thought it sounded too crazy to be true. This isn't good at all, at least if the K&L review is the main reason. In fact I'd say that I'm a bit ashamed to be working under a parent company that has put these kind of things into motion. It's pretty serious if advertisers have this kinda power of the reviewers, pretty sad.

However, I do agree that Jeff's review did feel very angry, especially the video review. Although I'm in no way saying that K&L is a perfect game, and that its metascore probably is somewhat fair, then it felt like he was ONLY hitting on the worst bits of the game, and totally ignoring most of its good parts.

Guess we'll have to wait for the details :G

[Mazy]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50134

Confirmed.

[Skjalg]

: (

[Warby]

our game cost somebody his job .... this makes me feel terrible

however i do disagree with his score and tone of the video review !

[dux]

Entitled to his opinion, and how that was handled is just atrocious. Eidos and Gamespot should be ashamed.