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"Who cares about high scores?"

Hunter: The reckoning, a game scheduled for release next month on Xbox is one of those games you're quite interested in, and then, shock horror, it gets a pretty average review.

Getting a score of 6.9 or something on OXM, this game is set in a town which like Racoon city, it's prone to zombies appearing and creating chaos. I really liked the sound of the game, Hunters sent in to clean up the big mess, monster slaying, lots of blood, shooting, and perhaps the most exciting feature, 4 player on one screen. It seamed fun to me and I was, and still am prety certain that my friends and I would love it.

I read the review and it pointed out clearly the faults, basicly it gets repetative, a simple no-brainer blast from start to finish, which results an the low score. Ok, there were other faults but none that really seam to bother me. I can put up with it being repetive and so it still remains as one of my wanted game for my Xbox. It might not be perfect, but what is?

So what i'm trying to say is, even if an anticipated game of yours doesn't get a 90% score or whatever, don't think it might not be worth picking up. Soul Reaver, a supposid 7/10 game was one of my favourite back on my Playstation. If it appeals to you, then surely thats all that matters.

Well that backfired big time didn't it. ;-)) Anyway, should have the review for Crash on the way soon. ;-)

If you say so :p

We could do with that as well anyway!

Hmmmmmmmmmmm, Azurik ! Its Azurik right !? :-)

Guess what im going to ask you to review next then ;)

Should come out just after my birthday then - excellent. :-) Hoping to pick up Gun Metal tomorrow too as long as the shops get it in. :-)

Oh and release date is 5th of July!

Not sure if you know but we have reviewed the Xbox UK version yesterday:

http://www.XboxRules.com

It scored quite highly with 41/50

Savatt1668 wrote:
> I'm still looking forward to Hunter too - especially for the co-op mode. ;-)

Same here, 4 player zombie slaying, cool.

I read the review of Hunter in OXM again and all the faults they highlighted seamed pretty irrelevent to me. If you check reviews from some Xbox websites they say that Hunter is a must have. My mind is pretty much made up that I want to get it regardless.

Any idea of a release date?

I don't really take mag reviews as gospel. A lot of mags even have pretty different views nowadays where they used to come to round about the same scores.

Gun Metal is a good example of this. Its a game I want and the first 2 reviews I saw gave it an overall of 8/10. I read another review recently and the game was given 5/10. As its all already been said - one mans crap is another mans gold. Personally if I like the look of a game - I'll read reviews, but I won't just dismiss a game I'm interested in because a reviewer didn't like it.

What gets me is that sometimes, they'll get someone to review a game that doesn't even like the genre so the games score is pretty much doomed from the start. Anyway, I'm still looking forward to Hunter too - especially for the co-op mode. ;-)

Most of my favourite games over the years have been games which I thought I wouldn't like when I bought them and which didn't get massively high review scores, so I try not not judge any game before I've played it.
Reviews can fill us in and give us an idea of what a game is like, but the proof is in the eating.