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By: Prime Gamer » The State of Play: 2009

Prime Gamer » The State of Play: 2009 — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:25:16 +0000

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By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:52:06 +0000

You can’t judge Killzone 2 based on its demo. After the demo I really thought it was going to be bad, but that’s because the demo is just a bad demo. It’s an uneventful part of the game (right at the start), it’s too short and just doesn’t give you an accurate feel for how it’s going to play. I can understand not wanting to splash out full price for it, but then it’s dropped to something like half-price in Europe now and that’s a decent price I’d say.

And yeah, the multiplayer is the best aspect of the game. Warzone was the most fun I’ve had in a multiplayer game so far this year, it’s well balanced, challenging, fun, looks great, played relatively lag free from my experience and the unlock system felt smart and rewarding. The only thing missing was a crew of people to play with, which would have kept me ploughing time into it and would probably have made the thing ten times as fun.

I agree with you about Dark Sector. I had no problem with the game for the price I paid, but it in no way justifies being a full-price game. It certainly would be nice to see people take a punt on releasing games at a cheaper price-point, but it seems the reverse is happening with companies upping the launch price of games they believe will sell well, just look at Modern Warfare 2.

By: Devin

Devin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:10:34 +0000

Resident Evil 5 is by far still my favorite game released this year. I did just about everything possible in that game (aside from the competitive multiplayer), but I still don’t mind busting it out to play it with friends who just got it.

Killzone 2…I honestly don’t see what the big deal is. I only played the demo of it, but it just wasn’t that great to me. I’m sure the single player gets better as it goes along, and I’ve heard the multiplayer was much better (they should have released a demo of that alongside the SP demo), but it just didn’t do enough to entice me to buy it at anything close to full price. It’s something I might be willing to try out for less than $20, but based on most other first-party PS3 titles I doubt that’ll happen anytime soon.

And Dark Sector is great for what it is as long as you got it for cheap. In fact, I wonder if it would have performed better at retail if they had initially released it at a cheaper price point. There seems to be some stigma nowadays when a console game is released at a budget price point, but if more publishers realized that not all titles demand full price in the first place then maybe you wouldn’t see such fast drops to the bargain bin (Dark Sector, for example, started at $60 and went straight to $20 (and now $10) just a few months later, but if it had been released at $40 maybe it could have retained its price longer).

By: Nathan

Nathan — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:30:11 +0000

You’re right, I forgot about co-op on Crackdown, probably because I didn’t do it very much.

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:34:11 +0000

What, Crackdown had multiplayer? Well, it has co-op, but it was a lot of damn fun I’ll say that much. Or did you mean the ‘tad repetitive’ comment when referring to Crackdown?

And no, I was in the States and unaware of the Peggle price-drop so I missed out on that one.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:07:13 +0000

Prototype is fun, though it has been getting a tad repetitive. Still worth a purchase, though the lack of any sort of multiplayer is sorely lacking. But the same could be said for Crackdown, I suppose.

Did you pick up Peggle for iPhone when it was 99 cents a few weeks ago. Sure, it’s the same game, but it’s great to have it in portable form too.