Matthew said:
gingerbill said:
this article is very misleading and it's silly to base a purchase or judje the game on this article , the game has decent reviews and a good metascore . From this article i expected to see 50% reviews on average no the 80% i'm seeing . This sounds like a doom and gloom sensationalist article.
In fact you could say the headline for this article is a blatant lie to attract readers. Not played the game myself but the headline is a lie.
The headline was based on user reviews. PC users *have* slammed Rage in their reviews because of bugs and disappointing gameplay. The game has a user score of 3.3 out of 10 on Metacritic. Nothing sensational about that. I included some of the professional reviews available at the time for comparison's sake. There were only two on metacritic and one wasn't in English -- Rage didn't even have an official score yet. A majority of the reviews from trustworthy publications were negative or mediocre, hence saying they're "mixed at best." Again, nothing sensational about that either.
This is a quick and accurate summary of what I saw being projected by the masses yesterday. Take it or leave it, but I'm not a liar and I have absolutely nothing to gain one way or the other. I don't get a penny for page views. The only thing I can agree with: don't let this post decide whether you'll buy the game or not. Find a review site *you* trust and go from there. I happen to trust Ars, Joystiq and the general consensus of Metacritic users -- again, 3.3 out of 10 says it all for me. Amazon customers rate the PC version at 2.5 out of 5 stars. There's the 50% negative you were looking for.