Shippin' Out September 10-14: Heavenly Sword, NHL, Skate

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@hegetshiskeys Actually, if it were a 360 exclusive, it would have scored in the low 7's. Theres a fairly good sized library of high quality games on the 360, so any new game on that platform has to really exceed in comparison to even get a mediocre review score. The best example would be Darkness. The story and art design were brilliant, but it was way short and had a poorly implemented multiplayer tacked on for no reason. That made it compare poorly to other 360 releases....therefore mediocre review scores.

hegetshiskeys i agree with you bro try to check there reviews in xbox360s lame games compare to ps3 games.... its just not fair tho ..... mybe or "MYBE" most of gamespot reviewers are xbox fanboy .... just my 2 cents

It may take developers a lot of time and resources to get games to run acceptably on the ps3, but the level of acceptability that ps3 owners demand is far greater than that of the other counsels.

GGXXAC is all i want.

Sorry, but Heavenly Sword deserved at the very least an 8.5. C'mon, if it was exclusively for the 360 the dude would have gave it nothing short of a 9, I know it!! Just because the game is kinda short!!!?? LOL!! Thats probably the most unfair and biased excuse I've ever heard! I think Gamespot needs to hire new "professional" reviewers who are actually dedicated gamers, and not dedicated fanboys. And after reading and watching many of Aaron Thomas's reviews its quite obvious he's a die hard 360 fan, just like the majority of Gamespot. - no offense, but your reviews are terrible, man!!!->>>

one more week for Eternal Sonata and two more weeks for Halo 3 :D

When is gears of war coming out to PC already? xD

Hehe, I love how it seems like my comment was the only one that gave the new Guilty Gear game any love. *sigh*

Forget all of these games. Lair is the best one of all! /sarcasm

Are you so desperate for games that you are calling Heavenly Sword, a clear one evening rental a "heavy hitter" and "living up to the hype"? I'm not going to. I'll wait for Blockbuster ot waste their money before I spend even $7 to play it. The biggest piece of this story, who knew that Sonic and the PS2 were still alive and kicking?

The animations and voice work seem amazing on heavenly sword, but I have never been a fan of button mashing isometric beat-em-ups. Once you played one, you played em all. But Heavenly Sword seems to flesh the combat out with some unique offerings aswell. I prefer this type of action rather than turn based action. But I do think that if the game was any longer - it would become a bit too repetetive. Same as Gears Of War, the war gets to its high-points and offers a great story and character depth (for the type of game it is) - but if it was any longer it would seem a little long in the tooth. Resident Evil - Metroid Prime - Metal Gear - all those games have some puzzles or back-tracking to do, which increases the gameplay for a few hours. For linear games like gear and heavenly - 6 hours is more than enough really. But gears of war gives off some good online stuff, which is why it got a favourable review - longetivity away from the main story. Heavenly Sword, I suppose, lacked in depth for its side-order stuff. Who says games need to have a story which lasts 20 odd hours, I would rather play a brilliant story than a drawn out one. I found myself getting rather irritated by the latest metal gear games because of the constant intercom messages inbetween all the action and cut-scenes. And turn based strategy is very drawn out because you can't walk 3 feet without getting into some random battle. Some games are meant to be the length they are, so its a shame why people would mark it down because it is short. If you can easily replay it and like beat your score - then its worth putting the mark up. I miss scores in games :(

@StonyShred420 Its just because developers take a lot of time and resources to get anything to run acceptably on the PS3 (see Stanglehold, Halflife Orange Box, GTAIV, Dark Sector....and dont forget the Madden 08 debacle).

This says Skate is gunna be released on Sept 11, but now EBGames says its gunna be released sept 13, and so does IGN, but last night EB said it was gunna be released today! Whats the deal?

Sigil-otaku you obviously haven't played the full game. It's got many unlockables. NGS gets repetitive as hell too, just that it looks really flashy and has varied environments ppl like it soo much, i personally do like it, but like any fighting game, it gets very tiresome. This game also has phenomenal grafix, HEAVENLY SWORD to the ones not knowing, and the animation is really slick. oh and NGS' fighting system changes are BS!!!

Heavenly Sword.... The PS3 owners are finally getting a heavy-hitter.

Hey, anyone else remember when DiRT first came out on the 360, what 1 or 2 months ago? Way to be behind the times Sony!

@pats_1: yes, many reviewers have had a chance to review the game becuase they will get review copies. @MChammertime05: The game has already been accused of being repetitive (with most of the fights occuring in small, almost identical arena's). So extending the game would probably have it just be more repetitive. unless we assumed it was ideally all new stuff but even with it just being a 7 hour game it has repetition so I would doubt it. To get a 9 it'd have to be great, not repetitive, have only 3 stances with 1 weapon (and two ranged weapons), could do with more enemy types, could do with more unlockables (it has 0 I think) and the different difficulties aren't too hard and the game would have also benefited if it didn't have an auto block (thats too easy >.>). I'd rather play Sigma cos thats much better.

If Heavenly Sword was 14-20 hours, it would have definitely been at least a 9.0

THEY GIVE A REVIEW ALREADY THE GAME IS NOT OUT YET ???

@temmehkan: I trust Edge more than all those reviewers and the fact that they go into a lot of detail and list many realistic reasons why the game isn't as good as it should be, I am going to have to say 6 is the lowest score it got from a major reviewer.

@ heviross_2: 8.0 isn't quite living up to the hype when most people were expecting it to be excellent (a 9.0 or more). Not saying the game isn't good but most reviewers gave it between 7 and 8 and I'd consider it a 7 really since it only lasts 6 hours.

Heavenly Sword got a 8.0 from Gamespot so this game definitely lived up to the hype. I'll get it in a week's time :)

Releases looking good :D but the reviews are coming in so late from GS:? looks as if they are buying the game after release like most of Us and then reviewing.

not the greatest release week. If I didn't sell my PS3 I would have rented Heavenly Sword.

The most interesting thing here , that ps3 fans most anticipated games in the current year were heavently sword, Lair , Warhawk , Uncharted and Haze . untill now I haven't seen any superb game out of 3 that got eleased . I hope that Haze and Uncharted will get better reviews at least ;). peace peace its not a war ....

heavenly sword all the way

Skate is awesome but I cant really compare it to anything but Tony Hawk, since that is the only other game in the genre. It almost feels like it should have been called thrasher 2.

How? Well, Its much more fun, better music, better gameplay and way longer gameplay of course, and how in the hell is NHL 08 better than HALO 3? NHL 08 will never get an 9.0 or higher like the halo games that always do.

MCH0TTY, how is a skating game better than a hack and slash? that's like saying NHL 08 is better than Halo 3.

Well I hope Heavenly Sword can live up to the expectations. Lair certainly didn't.

Well I was looking at Heavenly Sword, but I might rent it 1st and than buy it