Metareview - Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure

Is it just me or have there been absolutely *no* new games worth mentioning/discussing/touching since the Xbox360 launch? Not that I'm fiending or anything, but this game-lull has me gnawing on old Nintendo cartridges in a closet (while self-flagellating, naturally), in anticipation of the next worthwhile adventure. /SIGH/

That's uncharacteristic of gamespot to lead the pack in scoring- they normally know how to put the hate into a game.

id really like to see a good graf/action or adventure title for the revolution, i think that would be amazing.
you could even shake the controller like you would shake a can of spray paint.

soooooo, if any developers are reading this article.... get on that

I played this game very early on in it's development, it bored the shit out of me. Gameplay elements seemed 'broken', sometimes moves would work as described/expected, sometimes it wouldn't and you drop back down to a platform to start over again. And well, there just wasn't anything about it really seemed to reflect 'grafitti culture' as expected. There was fashion labels, industry logos, commercial hophop records, and well, killing armoured grunts? Nothing to do with art or expression. It is worse than Crime Life.

How is it now it's released I wonder? Any better? None of those reveiws are saying anything I didn't learn from the Pre-Cert.

I don't understand Gamespot's score on this one. I played the beta and thought the game was pretty weak.

Even according to Gamespot's review "Actually painting in Getting Up is a pretty easy process that doesn't take a whole lot of skill." If this is a grafitti game and painting doesn't take a whole lot of skill, what's the point?

The whole thing felt more like a Tamagotchi game than anything else. Move here, stand here, press a button. Repeat. Some of the fighting moves looked cool, but overall it felt like the fighting was there because all urban games require fighting (e.g., if GTA has it we've got to have it).

I think there's a good idea waiting to happen here. Imagine an online game with multiple people fighting for tagging territory with everyone capable of designing their own tags in real time. Instead, Getting Up shows me where to paint and the only thing I can do is hold down a button and jiggle the cursor a couple of times.

Pete, welcome to January/February. The goal is to get it out by Christmas. Gamers are still working on their Christmas games, so the following month or two is traditionally slow.

I think it's a great game and I think they did a good job on making something orginal, fresh, and fun. They need to stop hating on the game. This is probably the only urban theme game that's come out that's actully worth playing.

"Original, fresh and fun"?

I'm sorry but "A mash up of Jet Set Radio, Prince of Persia, and Grand Theft Auto" is not original.

I had an instructor in the past who was on the development team for this game and when he first told us about it, it basically sounded like Jet Set Radio with a hip-hop theme.

Yay for another lame urban/hip-hop themed game (/end sarcasim/)

Thats because Gamespot has supported this game from day one!

They have got a back hander on this one trust me. They have covered this game soooo much in the past. Chexk out the content on there site. Also they advertise the game all over there site!

yeah, it's true that gamespot has been giving this game a lot of coverage for a while now.
from the looks of it, this game does seem a little too much style over substance, and i think for any graffiti game it would be hard to beat jet set radio since it's much more fun to to play a character skating to areas and bombingwriting or whatever.
who


ps. a revolution graff game would be nice!

Style over Substance... Humm.. it sounds like a perfect fit for the hack that is Marc Ecko.