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GB_Simo
All-Star Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 562 |
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Topic: Games you enjoyed that got panned. Posted: 04-18-2006 at 5:16pm |
Ted, after what I wrote about FIFA 2004 I think I had a debt to repay Much like WoO, any negative reviews ICS received are surely more to do with the reviewer than the game.
Another game I've been thinking of, and I don't know if anyone but JC will have any experience of this, is F1 World Grand Prix on PSOne. There were two of these - one by Lankhor based on the PC game of the same name, and a completely different game developed by Eutechnyx. The Lankhor one was enjoyable fluff, the Eutechnyx one - reviews in the 4-6 range - breaks my heart now.
There's a tutorial right at the start called the Super Licence test. Tiff Needell talks you through starting, cornering, braking and then a full lap, all at Hockenheim. Brilliant driver though he is, he's also a veteran of one Grand Prix - Belgium 1980, and that only came about through Clay Regazzoni's shunt and subsequent paralysis at Long Beach - so you get the feeling they were on a budget. He's great, though, as is the tutorial itself. F1 World Grand Prix feels, at this stage, more like driving an F1 car than any other PSOne effort. Then you start a race weekend.
The handling is marvellous. The AI races you. The modelling of tyre wear is, even now, unparallelled. The only downside is that this great racing, in great cars on realistically worn tyres, happens at about 5 frames per second. The other cars don't even need to be on track, the game just needs to know they're in a nearby garage and it gives up. One lap takes an interminably long time, one 16 lap race is a War And Peace affair. None of the reviews I read mentioned this, so plainly the game was slated for other reasons. They're wrong, but had they mentioned the way F1WGP downs tools the instant an AI car thinks about running a lap, they'd have been spot on.
I couldn't give it any more than a 5 or 6 either, but I still love that bloody game...
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TedSGN
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: Friday Harbor Online Status: Offline Posts: 3288 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 11:35pm |
Adam,
It was your review of ICS at the old CG that got me into that game. Thank you. |
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GB_Simo
All-Star Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 562 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 5:46pm |
Interesting, that. In the UK, ICS was received very positively by reviewers. Seems a bit odd to me but there we are.
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Zeppo
Rookie Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: United States Online Status: Offline Posts: 136 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 5:33pm |
I know there have been several, but I'm drawing blanks. I do know that as a gullible youngster, I did enjoy ET. Maybe more like, happily suffered through ET, surely due to desparate alegiance to the license. That and Superman on the 2600.
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JasonSGN
Admin Group Administrator Joined: 01-25-2006 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 6699 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 1:14pm |
I've got a demo of this somewhere that enjoyed quite a bit. I'll have to find it and give this game a shot again.
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TedSGN
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: Friday Harbor Online Status: Offline Posts: 3288 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 12:27pm |
Couple more.
989's MLB 2004. I'm pretty sure universally loathed, but my top pick for baseball that year.
Indycar Series. Panned by reviewers for being an oval racer. Hello?
Nascar Dirt to Daytona. Best stock car simulator on a console ever. Bitchin career mode. I think it received 7's by reviewers so not really panned.
World of Outlaws Sprintcars. Fantastic racer that reviewers just didn't get (Jason, if you like your racing games fast, furious, and short you should really look for this title.)
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leebo33
Bench Warmer Joined: 02-08-2006 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-17-2006 at 12:00pm |
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JasonSGN
Admin Group Administrator Joined: 01-25-2006 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 6699 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-16-2006 at 7:41pm |
I'm sure I'll remember alot more, but here goes:
There's probably alot more games that got excellent reviews that I hated, but we'll have to save that for another thread. |
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GB_Simo
All-Star Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: England Online Status: Offline Posts: 562 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-16-2006 at 7:33pm |
I used to have a load of these, and now you've asked the question I can't remember many of them. Your starter for 10, then, with more as and when I recall them:
Simo |
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TedSGN
MVP Joined: 01-26-2006 Location: Friday Harbor Online Status: Offline Posts: 3288 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 04-16-2006 at 5:36pm |
Off the top of my head EA's NHL 2001 and 2002. Maybe not panned by the mags, but definitely by the hockey faithful.
As I think of more I'll post them. |
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