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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:23PM (Unverified) said

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awful scores, looks like a rental,
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:27PM The Monarch said

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Are you being sarcastic? I don't get it...
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:27PM (Unverified) said

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It was a rental pretty much from announcement. I think it's pretty safe to assume just about everyone knew what they were going to get with this game, for better or worse. It's one of those games you play with a fellow dudebro for a day or two and forget about forever.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:28PM (Unverified) said

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Every reviewer except game informer gave it a score in the 80's. How is that awful?
Also, after playing the demo, game informer's is the only score I agree with. Game is crap.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:28PM RobLink said

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Which scores were you looking at? Because I see three good scores and an average score there.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:49PM (Unverified) said

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oh please universal B games don't belong on my shelf
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:58PM The Wicker Man said

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YOU are a universal "B".
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 9:35PM TheDarkWayne said

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fuck that, dude didn't pay for Arkham Asylum! He's an F!
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:24PM (Unverified) said

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Call me crazy, but I think I'll trust the Game Informer review more.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:32PM (Unverified) said

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According to Game Informer this game is bullshit. Call me crazy, but I trust my wallet.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:59PM The Wicker Man said

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Do you mean you trust Game Informer? What does your wallet tell you to do? If your wallet says to wear teenage runaway's skin I would contact the authorities.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:04PM MrAlex said

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The controls are fine as far as I'm concerned, I reckon they just played solo and disliked the command system or something.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2010 9:29AM eat it said

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my wallet says, "it puts the lotion on the skin"
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:32PM RanWitScissorz said

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Just my personal review, I found the game to be around a 6-7 out of 10. I just completed it about 30 minutes ago.

Pros
- Graphics are improved.

- Partner AI in single player is improved.

Cons
-The plot/storyline is non-existant, you get a little to no explanation of what is going on, other than the city is being destroyed.

-There is not alot of differences in weapons due to the modifications that can change the profile of the weapon.

-I really enjoyed the contract and subcontract options in the previous Ao2, in 40th Day you get money for completing a chapter, for no reason, since there are no contracts and you are just progressing through the town.

-I found the game to be relatively short, with a 4-5 hour playthrough with little to no challenge on normal difficulty.

-Morality decisions hold no consequence that I could tell, I chose the good choices in every decision and basically short changed myself out of alot of $, but got nothing in return by the end of the game.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:32PM mithritades said

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so it's better to go with the bad morality? is that what ur saying?...or did u not play that part yet?
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:55PM RanWitScissorz said

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I didn't choose bad morality options, but all of the bad morality usually had some type of monetary or weapon attachment reward. The good morality choices had no reward. I was hoping for some type of story reward (i.e. Bioshock), but got nothing. I do however recommend saving the civilians, it's the opposite of the bad morality story line options, where saving a civilian gives you $/mods and not saving gives you nothing.

So basically, let the russian rape the girl, let the kid shoot a gun and nearly kill himself, kill the other merc, but save the civilians.

After reading game informer's review, it really hits it on the nail, I would definitly say make this a rental and not a purchase.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2010 12:10AM kentuckyfried said

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aww, that's too bad. I'm still getting it though. Simply b/c I really liked the first one and I'm too lazy to bother with gamefly or nearby rental stores. Too old to be chasing down available copies when it's just easier to front the money and then toss it on half.com or ebay (if it's really that awful; that's only for games that deserve a small, special place in hell such as Jericho or Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2).

I'm not too wrapped up in the moral choices (a feature that's been overblown in this gen so far), but that's kind of poor that there's absolutely no benefit for being virtuous.

The MP is hopefully fun. Maybe the gunplay is fun enough to warrant replays.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2010 9:32AM eat it said

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thanks for the heads up, I'm with kentucky on this one but at the same time I'll wait till it's on sale at amazon for like $40-45
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:33PM Ezio Auditore da Firenze said

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*holds out his fist*
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:34PM (Unverified) said

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*bumps fist*

Dude.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:35PM (Unverified) said

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Hey can you hold out ur fist again. I wanna bump it too.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:36PM AdamSpruijt said

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*bump*
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:35PM iamnotafish said

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Gameinformer talks about other co-op experiences - what other ones are co-op story driven games? The Xmen Legends and Rainbow 6 Vegas franchises are two that comes to mind, but the rest are all single player games that you get an extra person for. I'm discounting firefight and those sorts of MP modes - I'm talking about a two+ player story experience.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:38PM (Unverified) said

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Wouldn't Halo 3 count, since one person is the Chief and one is the Arbiter? It does make shield, HUD, and other differences.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:44PM (Unverified) said

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Well then you're not talking about this game either, because evidently this has 0 story.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:50PM The BZA said

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Resident Evil 5? its only been a year..
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 6:41PM Mza49311 said

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still going to play it, me and a buddy went through the first together, I think we're pretty much set to go through this one, but looks like a definite rent, I've seen worst scores than these
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:00PM (Unverified) said

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wut
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:06PM MrXile said

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Game Informer ; what a bunch of cocks.

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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:44PM The Wicker Man said

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Have you noticed the general tone of their magazine has changed over the past few months? Their attitude toward the readers has become smug. You can really see the bitterness print media has towards game blogs like joystiq. OXM talked a little shit about the 'stiq a few months ago on their podcast. It all seems like sour grapes.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 8:01PM MrXile said

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@The Wicker Man ; yes, its because they, like libraries are being replaced with online content which is much quicker to the draw then anything else.

Printable gaming media is a thing of the past for me.

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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 8:04PM (Unverified) said

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Elaborate more, I'd like to see someone else's opinion on gaming magazines.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 9:46PM TheDarkWayne said

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I still like them, but they are pretty shitty. OXM is maybe the worst, for too many reasons to list. GI is better, mostly because they're the last big gaming mag, so they occasionally get exclusive stuff like the announcement of AC2, Brutal Legend, Dead Space 2, or the first to have details like their next Halo Reach story, but besides the cover stories, everything else is pretty much an exercise in banality
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Posted: Jan 14th 2010 9:02AM ummhello said

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best videogame magazine ever: GameFan

but it's long out of publication now since 1995....
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 7:47PM LuTon James said

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Game Informer; telling it like it is!
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 8:38PM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said

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The demo sold me on NOT buying this game. But, I rented it and have played about an hour or two thus far. The demo actually sells the game short in my opinion. It's really not terrible but not anywhere near as good as Bayonetta or Darksiders. It's another 3rd person shooter that isn't anything special (like most of them aside from a couple like uncharted, MGS4 & gears). Solid and fun but nothing worth spending $60 on in my opinion.
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Posted: Jan 13th 2010 10:53PM QuePasa87 said

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I'll probably buy it this weekend.
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Posted: Jan 14th 2010 9:34PM (Unverified) said

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NICE GIRAFFE!!!!
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