Message #330841

[The Truth]

here's a number of "speed-reviews" to revive this topic:


Tomb Raider 2013:
Let me preface this by saying I haven't gotten all that far yet, I'm only two hours in yet. But you know what they say...first impressions matter.

Graphics: Beautiful, though I've noticed a number of minor clipping issues and the TressFX hair stuff doesn't work for me. 9/10.
Story: Seems very cliched so far. 2/10.
Controls: Not very responsive, especially for the mouse (might be because I have a touchpad, but other games work fine, so that's no excuse), and aiming the weapons is annoying. 3/10.
Music: 6/10. Meh.
Performance: Surprisingly good, even at high settings. 9/10.
Other: endless, frustrating quicktime events, too many cutscenes (often filled with quicktime events), the controls aren't always explained (and other times, it insists on explaining the control EVERY FREAKING TIME), and blood for the sake of blood. 0/10.

Final score: 2/10
Final Verdict: By this point, I'm praying the wolves eat Lara and put her out of my misery.



Bioshock:

Graphics: A bit dark at times, and there's a weird bug with my GPU drivers that randomly makes things look like MissingNo, but overall amazing. 9.5/10
Music: A bit too subtle for my tastes. 5/10
Performance: Nice and fast, even at high settings. 8/10
Story: WOW. I did see one of the big twists coming (Did anyone actually trust Atlas?), but the other one...that blew me away. (Would you kindly?)
Controls: I got kinda frustrated that it kept talking about the "middle mouse button" that my computer doesn't have, but the controls are easy to reconfigure, and very responsive and accurate. 9/10.
Other: A few minor bugs (minor crashes, a few texture issues, and the settings sometimes reset) and an annoying popup that sometimes appears in the settings, but those are minor issues and easily resolved. 6/10.

Final Score: 9/10
Final Verdict: Would you kindly go play this awesome game?


Bioshock 2:
Graphics: A bit better than Bioshock's, but not too different. The texture issue is still there too.
Story: Compared to the original Bioshock, this is pretty...meh. Especially towards the end. 6/10
Music: There was music? 4/10
Performance: Laggier than the original. not too bad though. 7/10
Controls: Pretty similar to the original, though I much prefer the new hacking system. the new research camera isn't as good though, IMO. 8.5/10
Other: A ton of hard to fix crash issues, and that weird popup from the original is still there... And it has Games for Windows. 4/10

Final score: 7.5/10
Final verdict: not as good as the first Bioshock, but still worth the money.