Because in the last few months I think that the following were all pretty poor or vastly inferior to the early games in the series:
NFS Undercover-Awful game, runs poorly on all platforms even if you have an uber rig it still stutters badly in places and is 3 years out of date as EA/Black Box obviously ran out of ideas after Most Wanted. This plays and feels like a MW clone with worse gfx & gameplay as at least MW had some fun police chases in it which 3 years ago were quite fresh but still plays better than this today. EA went from selling 8 million copies of MW to this rubbish in under 3 years.
Tomb Raider Underworld-Lacking in any sort of replay value as all the bonuses and motivation to collect them are gone as is croft manor exploration(apart from a few tiny destroyed parts of it), gfx are barely an improvement on the 3 years old Legend and much worse in places with uninspired art direction. The actual game area is also tiny compared to Anniversary & Legend. Most of the time you have vast open spaces with little to do except run to the next area. Has bad stuttering issues regardless of hardware as well as buggy controls & collision detection. This is my biggest gaming let down from 2008 and it feels like those 2 exclusive 360 DLC levels were ripped out of it along with all the bonuses & features those should have unlocked. Time to give this one to someone else to develop as CD have run out of gas now.
Far Cry2- Terrible dated gameplay, bland gfx due to the repetitve pallette choices and design.
Silent Hill5- Absolutely dire gameplay. Worst in the series by far and absolutely tiny game area of around 7 small areas and several tiny sub corridors/mini levels. Stutters badly in places regardless of hardware. Lacking almost every element which made the other SH games great except for the sound/music by long time series maestro Akira Yamaoka. (you can get it on US Steam now as a gift or the region free US PS3 version. EU PC-DVD version is on sale next month & I reckon it will be a budget price as its so poor).
Red Alert3- Poor cartoon gfx art direction. Dated gameplay & poor level design. Even the cheesy eye candy babes FMVs are not worth looking at for long & feel very tired in places.
Rainbow Six Vegas2- Really dated gfx which belong in the last century, poor level design and lacking everything which made RSV1 good. Also very short as can be completed in under 5 hours.
PC needs some new IP now as all these games are unlikely to get further sequels for a long time to come if ever although Far Cry2 sold quite well so perhaps that will get another entry. The rest are either cancelled or on very dodgy ground. Scary thing is that nowadays sequels get the funding before anything else as they are known financial properties so as none of these sold well on any platform except for Far Cry2 I wonder what will happen in the future as new gaming IPs are very expensive to make from scratch.
Cannot believe how much money I wasted on this lot either
NFS Undercover-Awful game, runs poorly on all platforms even if you have an uber rig it still stutters badly in places and is 3 years out of date as EA/Black Box obviously ran out of ideas after Most Wanted. This plays and feels like a MW clone with worse gfx & gameplay as at least MW had some fun police chases in it which 3 years ago were quite fresh but still plays better than this today. EA went from selling 8 million copies of MW to this rubbish in under 3 years.
Tomb Raider Underworld-Lacking in any sort of replay value as all the bonuses and motivation to collect them are gone as is croft manor exploration(apart from a few tiny destroyed parts of it), gfx are barely an improvement on the 3 years old Legend and much worse in places with uninspired art direction. The actual game area is also tiny compared to Anniversary & Legend. Most of the time you have vast open spaces with little to do except run to the next area. Has bad stuttering issues regardless of hardware as well as buggy controls & collision detection. This is my biggest gaming let down from 2008 and it feels like those 2 exclusive 360 DLC levels were ripped out of it along with all the bonuses & features those should have unlocked. Time to give this one to someone else to develop as CD have run out of gas now.
Far Cry2- Terrible dated gameplay, bland gfx due to the repetitve pallette choices and design.
Silent Hill5- Absolutely dire gameplay. Worst in the series by far and absolutely tiny game area of around 7 small areas and several tiny sub corridors/mini levels. Stutters badly in places regardless of hardware. Lacking almost every element which made the other SH games great except for the sound/music by long time series maestro Akira Yamaoka. (you can get it on US Steam now as a gift or the region free US PS3 version. EU PC-DVD version is on sale next month & I reckon it will be a budget price as its so poor).
Red Alert3- Poor cartoon gfx art direction. Dated gameplay & poor level design. Even the cheesy eye candy babes FMVs are not worth looking at for long & feel very tired in places.
Rainbow Six Vegas2- Really dated gfx which belong in the last century, poor level design and lacking everything which made RSV1 good. Also very short as can be completed in under 5 hours.
PC needs some new IP now as all these games are unlikely to get further sequels for a long time to come if ever although Far Cry2 sold quite well so perhaps that will get another entry. The rest are either cancelled or on very dodgy ground. Scary thing is that nowadays sequels get the funding before anything else as they are known financial properties so as none of these sold well on any platform except for Far Cry2 I wonder what will happen in the future as new gaming IPs are very expensive to make from scratch.
Cannot believe how much money I wasted on this lot either
