BigJKO

When I saw this months ago, I could've sworn the WiiMote was shoved up his... ass.

Well, it's not that small. http://www.blackmesasource.com/team.php

That's basically what you paid for before, with WarCraft and StarCraft expansions. Except now there's an actual difference in the gameplay between each one.

In all fairness they just used a picture of New Super Mario Bros. to represent the series, as it says Super Mario Bros. in the title above the picture. So I'm assuming all the people that voted "New Super Mario Bros." a classic actually saw the title said "Super Mario Bros."

They also use a shoddy picture of a guy watching a computer screen of DooM 3 to represent DooM.

Preston: "3D worlds have been done before in previous Mario games."

What does that mean? Are you talking about spherical worlds? I don't remember a Mario game with spherical worlds..

One thing worth noting in this otherwise fantastic nega-review. The two-player isn't only about collection star bits. The reviewer must've played this for a very limited time because there's star shooting, enemy dazzling and platform pulling available as well.

He's not reviewing Halo, so whether or not it did ground-breaking things is completely irrelevant. Furthermore he's reviewing Halo 3's single-player, which, according to every review out there, is decidedly avarage.

So no, he's being particularly harsh, IMO.

Ahh, how I wish I had a 360 now..

Yes, Iwata did announce online multiplayer way before we saw any trace of this game. They haven't mentioned it since, though, even when they talked up all their other online titles.

Plus, when Iwata announced it he also said it would be a launch title. So, it's not the most sound promise..

They're assuming that because that's what he said. He didn't say "I would have preferred they'd announced online instead of this."