Mass Effect 3, like all the series, clearly was a 10/10 game. No need for favours there at all, one of the best games I've played in years, despite the controversy over the ending. Poor EA games, like Medal of Honor and Army of Two get poor scores, quality games like FIFA and Mass Effect get good scores. There is no conspiracy, it's not like the days off official magazines giving their games 10/10 even if they were awful.

Magazines and online gaming sites will not give scores significantly warped by big games companies as they would get destroyed by their readers and they would go elsewhere for their reviews.

Thanks.

Rubbish. I've completed ME 1 & 2 and neither are the pinnacle of gaming. A generous review would be 8/10

I'd give them both 7

Something like Demon's Souls makes them both look average at best

ME1 i'd give a good solid 9, loses a point for the boring and pointless planet 'exploration'. Mass Effect 3... well... i'd have given it an 8 at best, turned a great RPG into an action duck-n-cover shooter with the occasional RPG element.

Demon Souls.. too difficult but a good game

All Mass Effects, like Halo are dull affairs. They offer nothing in terms of replay factor, which Borderlands, Fallout, Skyrim have.

Borderlands 2 is excellent.

Mass Effect has replay value, Halo doesn't though

7

ME3 is not a 10/10 game. That suggests it is nigh on perfection, which ME3 clearly isn't.

From what I have seen from Borderlands it is just a loot game, like Diablo. Go here shoot some bad guys, get loot, repeat. Suppose it has the FPS thing going for it so instead of just hitting the mouse button, you have to do other stuff but it is a really boring genre IMO.

ME on the other hand represents one of the finest pieces of story telling (ending apart), ok the action might be average but it is playable and the other stuff more than makes up for it. Although it is no Deadly Premonition

Nigh on perfection? No, it just means it's an outstanding game. Can you even name one game that can hold a candle to it? I'm struggling, it's a fantastic series.

It's really not that hard. You just have to grind for a short while against the first few skeletons on 4:1

It actually gets much easier as you play through it. There was only one boss battle I found a challenge and I'm not great at games

I'm currently playing a game at the moment which I've already completed god knows how many times and keep going back to it. I don't care if it got bad reviews, I don't care how buggy it is, I don't care if it appears on the "worst games ever" list, I think Alpha Protocol is absolutely bloody fantastic. The concept is superb and I wish someone would pick it up for a sequel or do something similar.

Mass Effect 1 and 2 are both infinitely better games and stories. The older Final Fantasy games, Fable and Skyrim are all better games off the top of my head. ME3 is a 6-7/10 at the most - only 1 great mission and a lot of poor, repetitive, linear gameplay.

NFL 2k5 is easily the best sports game made and is nigh on perfect still despite being 7 years old.

Of course it means it's perfect. By giving something 10/10 it means there's no possible way it could improve. Outstanding games get a 9, thus indicating that they are brilliant games but not without their flaws. I would give ME3 a 9/10 for this reason.

Of course this is always going to be down to the opinion of the reviewer. I could name a list as long as my arm of games that I enjoyed more than ME3, but again it's just personal opinion.

I've completed that. Enjoyed it. Recently finished Deus Ex too, which, did exactly what AP did, only 10 times better, Give it a go if you like AP, mate.

Been meaning to Give Deus Ex a go for a while, it looks like a good game.

also seen a gameplay trailer for rugby league live 2. it actually looks decent. certainly a lot smoother and more flowing than the previous efforts. looking forward to it a lot more now. I played a lot of the union game "rugby challenge" which I think shares a lot of things with this game going of the footage.

I know I'm very late to the party, but I've just finished playing ME2 for the first time over the weekend. It's a 9 at least.

I'll probably play ME2 again. But in all honesty, even if I don't, I've clocked up over 73 hours. That's more than enough not to criticise it on the grounds of replay value IMO.

Cheers mate, think I may just give that a go!

Loving fifa 13. The career mode has really improved with little things like having scores and table positions read out to you ala soccer saturday. The commentary refers to Wigan as a rugby league town aswell which will drive the hard core latics fans crazy



Gameplay overall seems better and where in older versions you just knew that a team was going to score that feeling seems to have disappeared. Shooting from outside the box is harder as shots get blocked a lot more aswell as the keeper being harder to beat. However I've scored countless goals already just from deflections from the keeper. Scoring headers from corners and crosses also seems a bit easier. The commentary now also includes Geoff Shreeves giving injury updates and announcing scores from other matches in play which is a nice touch.

Theres also some great skill games to help train you up and earn points so that you can buy unlockable items a bit similar to fifa street.

It's not often I say this with Fifa releases but this year round I actually think there's been enough changes to warrant buying it. instead of it being almost the same with just different rosters. at this point last year I was fuming about fifa 12 but this year things seem very different!

How have you got the game already?

If you buy the Season Ticket through Live/PSN you get to play the full game 3 days in advance of the boxed release.

What is this about FIFA points? It seems you now have to buy MS/PSN currency then exchange that in the game for FIFA points in order to buy Ultimate Team packs and other content. According to a tweet the exchange rate will be different in every region/country.

Is this just another way to cynically rip the UK customer off?

Most things do.

Half the time they just swap the $ for £ and ignore exchange rate (especially noticeable with cars)

Anyone order FIFA 13 from Tesco online? I did and I've only been charged £22.01.

Kind of wish I'd waited to get it at midnight. Nothing like being one of the geeks waiting round looking rather sheepish and embarassed for a midnight release.

Suspect that order will get cancelled as a balls up!